Evaluation Question 1

In what way does your media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Before developing the idea for our trailer me and Elliot both looked into various crime thriller films and shows. After looking in to these films and shows be decided to base our idea from the film Sin City as it had a very similar plot and theme to what we wanted. The theme we were looking for was a mysterious and interesting murder plot to which we could base a trailer around. From this research we found out that many crime thrillers do not explain their plot either till the very end or near the end of the film, we took this into consideration as the trailer we were developing was going to twist the typical "good guy" "bad guy" plot to a more you the viewer do not relay know who is the murderer allowing viewer to make assumptions on who commuted the crime but we did not want to give away to much of the plot in the trailer as we wanted viewers to be lead towards their own conclusions of the trailer. This challenges the normal crime thriller theme as most crime thrillers have a obvious "good guy" and "bad guy". throughout the process of developing a story to base a trailer around we also had to think of how to portray each character as we did not want to give an obvious answer to who is the "good guy" so we had to try and add a level of mystery to our main character. to do this we filmed shots of him with the body and knife indicating that he had commuted the murder but at the same time had him looking shocked as if he just found her like this further confusing the  viewer. in conclusion I believe that we have both followed some media conventions but at the same time challenged some typical themes to the crime thriller genera.