This is a video explaining how we used conventions in our Sequence
In this video, I highlight the use of techniques to make genre evident in our sequence
I highlight the narrative structures and techniques used in the sequence
I analyse the form and the success of the function of a trailer
And I analyse the style of the trailer
Themes in our sequence are very conventional of the action genre as our most obvious theme is that of Good VS Evil. This is a commonly used theme in many films from Iron man, right down to Toy Story.
Our film also included some challenges to the traditional conventions of Action films.
One of the characters in our scene, is Asian, in conventional Hollywood action productions, such characters are not seen, however, as our film is set in London, this reflects the multicultural demographics of the city and isn't very unconventional of British productions. Famous low budget British productions such as Bride and Prejudice have Asian characters as main characters and as our film comes from the same type of industry, it isn't actually too unconventional to include an Asian character. Also, our character takes the role of a typical Hollywood agent with a very macho, finger on the trigger attitude. It can be said that our film infuses the best of big budget Hollywood action, with the multicultural quirkiness of British based productions.
In Conclusion
Our media product uses the following conventions of action/sci-fi films:
High Tech Weaponry------> Developed to allow victims use of High Tech tools
Iconography- Guns and Suits
3 Part narrative structure-----> Developed to have a cliffhanger to keep the audience interested and wanting to find out what happened
Fast paced editing
The conventions we challenged were:
The typical Hollywood convention of having White male characters- In our sequence we included an asian male character, that was more representative of the demographics of London, where the film is set.
The shot types we used were quite unconventional of Action/Sci-Fi films, as voyeuristic shots are usually not included in such movies. However, we challenged this convention in order for our agents to make a more dramatic entrance, as well as raise enigma in the audience's minds as to who the characters are.
