How ‘Music Box’ develops or challenges conventions:
Originally in our opening sequence we were going to have the antagonist be an older boy, the same age as the teenager protagonists, but when receiving feedback about our narrative being too predictable we decided to change the age of the antagonist to make the storyline a little more diverse and fickle. 

Doing this made us look at the theme of ‘Age’ and how this theme is represented in  our thriller opening and others. Stereotypically within thrillers younger characters are portrayed to be more vulnerable than older characters therefore less likely to be the once that are capable to cause harm compared to older characters. 

By looking at this we took the convention and challenged it by creating a situation where the antagonist, in our opening sequence, be a little boy instead of an older one to make the audience assume that there is nothing that the little boy can do to the older protagonists, because they are older. This will make the predictability of our thriller less obvious because as the opening develops we can see that the antagonist is in fact the little boy and if this were to be made into a film a harmful one, which is not predictable.