How has my film matched or challenged the conventions of a thriller

          The shot of the policeman stopping the car as shown below, subverts the usual stereotype of a policeman stopping a person for the right and good reasons. Also it subverts the usual opinion of a policeman because you would normally be on the side of the policeman and not thinking that he is the bad guy.

             The shot of the dad reassuring the girls can be seen likewise in the film Taken, it is almost the same as the main character reassures his daughters that everything will be ok, when it won't.

           The main actor being taken out the car is another example of a subversion of common opinion of policeman and fathers, up until this point in the thriller the audience has been on the side of the policeman, but now we see that he is the bad guy and that the father has done nothing wrong and is being taken out of the car for no reason.

           The long haired policeman with the rifle shot is a lot like an Expendables type of shot, showing the rifle and making it look like the main focus of the shot, as all of the audiences attention will often be focused on it because it is a weapon.

           

           The killer at the end shooting the blonde girl can be compared to various different shots from the film Shooter and in the latest James Bond film Skyfall, showing a sniper lying down looking at his target through the sight of his sniper from a distance, and then firing and killing his target. We wanted our sniper scene to look a lot like these examples because we think its looks good and effective for a end to the sequence and also its a good looking way to kill someone.

           

            The policeman hitting Simon completely goes against what we would usually think of a policeman doing, normally policemen dont hit normal people for no reason, it makes the audience realise that something it definitely very wrong and a bit abnormal. 

         

          The main actor on the phone looks like various shots of Colin Farrell in the movie Phonebooth, showing him on the phone looking worried and slightly scared. We wanted to get our actor to look scared like in the photo of Phonebooth. Because normally you see people on the phone and they are smiling and happy, however we subvert the stereotype of a friendly phonecall, into one of tension, worry, and suspense when you see the look on his face.