1. How did you use conventions of real media texts in your

production?

Well here's how it all began…

Influences

Action Thriller Conventions

Enigmas- Enigmas are found in thrillers as they keep the audience invested in the film, and create tension as the search for answers can lead to shocking consequences. In our film the Enigma is the identity of the caller.

Action- thrillers have action to keep the audience on the edge, will the hero survive? Who will die? In our film the action is created by the inclusion of haste, as the hero is racing against time to save his wife, the action also comes from the wife's struggle, as we see her attempting to escape from her captive. The inclusion of the “struggle” between the hero ad villain also has action, as the audience fear who is going to survive!

Conventions in our Plot. Our plot closely follows Propp’s Character theory, as we have 5 out of

the 7 charter types,

The villain – The caller

The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest) in this case it is the villain

The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative) Mikes wife, needs to be rescued

The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off) In this case once again it is the villain

The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess Mike, the hero who’s trying to save his wife

Because the villain has more than one role, it makes the film follow the conventions of the typical characters, but allows for a “twist” to be made, because the villain I also helping our hero reach his objectives for his own motives. Placing a twist on Propp's theory.

Conventions in the camera and Editing

With the camera work, we needed to use lots of shots, and used different angles to display different emotions, for example the villain has a lot of low angle shots, to make him took dominant, and powerful, and the use of a CCTV camera effect panning across creates uncertainty within the audience, as it shows that mike is being watched.

The music also hold key importance, as sound can create tension and improve scenes dramatically. For example in lord of the rings, the music during battles is loud and dramatic. But other films do not make such use with its musical score, for example the birds only uses sound effects, mainly of birds crowing, thus hat creates tension within the own right, by using carefully-calculated silence to increase the terror of an obviously far-fetched situation.

In our film, we did use music to sow the cruelty of the villain, and to make haste with the hero’s actions, as he needs to hurry up in order to save the day. We also have use of tragic music at the end, so show the upset and failure of our hero. The music hopefully will get a reaction from our audience to, leaving them with a empy feeling inside.

Mise en scene Mise en scene in our film had to reflect the conventions of a

action thriller, so for the shots od the building, we used a slick modern building, like most action films use, to show the modern “high tech” appearance the building creates.

We also made use of the lighting for the scene where the villain and the hero meat, as we the hero enters the room there is no light, apart from the low key lighting from his laptop screen, making the moment more tense as the audience cannot see anything else within the shot as it has lost of shadows and

How my poster used conventions

My poster used the typical features of a action thriller because it had a dark color scheme, that are found on most thriller posters, a dark colors suit the genre, as they create a action effect.

I also maid use of creating an enigma, by placing a shallot on the image, as it makes the audience curious about who