In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convetions of real media products?

Usually, hackers are stereotypically male. However, by making our hacker female, we took our inspiration from 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', giving it similar conventions.

We used a lot of technology in our film, which today is stereotypical of a thriller film but it is relevant and topical.

The violence shown in the sequence adheres to the conventions of a thriller film, in order to make it exciting and keep it fast paced.

The chase sequence is stereotypical of a thriller, particularly because it is a female being chased by a male, making her seem weak and vulnerable.

This scene subverts typical thriller films, because the female is attacking and killing the man, showing she is stronger than he is. Normally, in thriller films, the women are weaker than men.

The fact that the hacker is attractive upholds stereotype because usually in thrillers, women are attractive to appeal to the male audience.