Our media product challenges other real media products as it is in black and white which is the theme of a noir film. There really aren't many black and white noir films today, however one of the most significant is Sin City which is known for it's use of noir cinematography along with it's voice overs. A lot of noir films today are mainly known as 'Neo-Noirs', they are still in colour and are often very dark in the form of a thriller. In a lot of ways, we used a lot of ideas from Sin City by using a voice over of the main character explaining some of the main parts in her life in order to make an enigma. Voice overs are important parts of Noir films, they're are one of the most iconic parts of them. They're usually in a dark and gritty way, and we hoped that at the end of her narration it would sound dangerous or threatening and the audience would worry about what she's going to do next.
We wanted to challenge modern day thrillers and see how it would do against them. As they are all in colour, we thought it would be good to challenge other thriller films with making this black and white and show how people would still be interested despite the lack of colour. However, the titles had some colour with the beginning of every word being red. We did this because we still want people to feel some colour and it also links with Sin City when they sometimes show colour despite it being black and white. Sin City was a huge inspiration for our media product as it seems to be the only modern day film in black and white as was ours.
Other conventions we used are from the film 'Taken'. The last line of our introduction is 'I will find you' and the famous catch phrase from Taken is 'I will find you, and I will kill you'. This phrase is used a lot in lots of thriller films as it makes the main character sound powerful and threatening, so we thought it would be good to put this into our product as it would work with the story.
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