Political Thriller Conventions

I decided to go back and revise the conventions of a political thriller as we have been so busy creating our storyboards and organising the shot lists that we have forgotten the conventions we must stick to in order to make our opening title sequence successful.

Conventions
-Usual conventions of a thriller but set against the backdrop of a political power struggle
-Either political corruption, welfare or terrorism is a main theme
-Innocent people are usually drawn into political world
-Different locations shown
-Different cultures/countries
-Deceit- false hero

Considering these conventions is not something we've done very carefully as we've got caught up in the storyline we created about a demented and unstable teacher wanting to assasinate the prime minister due to his strong views against the prime minister's views. However by choosing to do a montage of paperwork and newspaper articles on the prime minister alongside bottles of alcohol and prescription medication, we find ourselves going down the psychological route rather than political and this is something that we want to avoid.

To ensure we stay on the route of a political thriller we will need to add in a government crisis (political power struggle convention) which is why the teacher will want to assasinate the prime minister. We already have more than one location and I want to add in the teacher's wife and portray her as innocent, this is so she can be the innocent woman drawn into the political world. I think with these aspects we have made it more of a political thriller than it was before.