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

Our movie was set in two locations. The exterior setting of the movie, which is set in a park subverts with stereotypical setting of action movies which are in big city areas. We chose a park to create an effect of urban realism which is a prominent aspect of our film. The second location was an interior.  It was a flat in an estate which was influenced by the film District 13 which also was had an estate setting.

The protagonist is wearing clothes stereotypical to young people from an urban city which makes the situation more realistic and appeals to the target market. As well as this, The boy is wearing all black which can be associated with bad and mystery which adds to the suspense as the audience isn't sure how to feel about him. The costume of the protagonist; tracksuit, hat, trainers and a hat, suggests he’s from an inner city area which is where most action movies are set.

Our movie subverts from the traditional conventions of the action genre in view of the fact, as opposed to being set in congested big city, as the majority of action movies are, the opening scene is set in a park. However, our movie does conform to the genre in view of the fact, the movie cuts straight into the action with the initial shot being the protagonist running. The audience is invited to immediately feel suspense.

The sound of my movie opened with symphony that built increased in pitch to create anxiety. This was preceded by fast paced music that got quicker in pace as the movie went long to reflect the building of suspense and to invite the audience to feel tension. This is stereotypical to the action genre which uses music parallel to the scene.

Point of view shots are used on several instances during the movie with the intention of drawing the audience into the protagonists’ world and to make the audience emphasise with the situation so they can experience the emotions that character is feeling which creates tension. As well as this, there is a close up of his feet to emphasise the fact he’s running. Tracking shot of feet invites the audience to follow the protagonist on his journey. Shaky Camera was used to create an effect of realism and reflect his emotions. This decision was inspired by other action movies, such as District 13 and Bourne identity which incorporated urban realism in their films. Fast cuts were also used to represent the pace to represent pace of movie.

The font is block capitals to add emphasis to the words. As well as this, the font is very simple so the audiences’ attention is not subverted from the action. This title for our movie was chosen because this shade of Blue represents knowledge, power, integrity which our protagonist seeks and will find by the end of the film. More importantly blue is the colour of the law which is therefore appropriate to our film.  Alternatively, the colour blue may be used to broaden your perspective in learning new information or to seek solitude and peace. The title is written in bold capitals, on an all black background, to draw attention and add emphasis to the name. However, it can be argued that our movie subverted from the tradition conventions of this genre in view of the fact when inserting our credits we chose to slowly cut black screen whilst the action was happening to leave the audience on a cliff hanger which will build tension as they anticipate what will happen next. This was inspired by the movie Mr and Mrs Smith which also cut to black screens to build tension.

 

We decided not to add any special effects in our movie because it may have conflicted with the realism that we attempted to portray.

When choosing the name of our protagonist we was inspired by the sci-fi action film The Matrix, which decided to give their characters names with subliminal means for example, Morpheus
In Greek mythology, is the God of dreams. In the movie, he is the leader of the rebel forces who fight to awaken humans from a dreamlike reality called The Matrix. As well as this, the main character Thomas Anderson name is Neo which is an anagram for One, In the bible Thomas denied Jesus so the implication is that Thomas Anderson is in denial that he is the one. In our movie Son Of The Law, our main character is called Ryan Lawson. We chose the because Ryan means king and Lawson is a pun for son of Law so the implication is that as the rightful king he is going to liberate the law.