Thriller Evaluation

Improvements to the evaluation of 'In to White'
To create our thriller opening sequence 'In to White' we used different media texts for influence, helping us to challenge the media conventions and to develop our own further. From the way our final piece looks it is clear we used 'A mother's son' for inspiration, after studying this text we felt that the location of the sequence was hugely effective and felt our own thriller would benefit from this type of setting. For our piece we shot on a location similar to the one we studied, it was an isolated, rural setting on the coast which had a long single track that the boy could walk down. To challenge typical stereotypes of the thriller convention we decided to use a young boy as the main character instead of a young girl that is typically used in all the thrillers we studied. As reference to this we studied a film called 'Hide and Seek' where the main character is a young innocent girl, who finds herself in danger and to show our understanding of the convention we chose to cast a naive boy with similar characteristics as the girls character in Hide and Seek. Our other character in the sequence was cast as a threatening elder male, we chose this because in the film we studied it had an elder male as the antagonist and showed us that it fit with the typical thriller conventions and we felt it helped to develop our ideas of the convention further.
To add a sense of familiarity for our audience we used a young person as our victim and an elder person as the antagonist, this is a typical form for the thriller convention as proven through our case studies. We also dressed our victim in white to show purity however if given the chance again we would have dressed him in red to show danger.