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1. EVALUATIONTASK1: IN WHAT WAYS DOESYOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?
By:Andrew Jensen

2. GENRE AND COMPARISONS
• The genre we created is thriller, within the sub—genre of action-thriller.
• Firstly, the films that my thriller gets some of its conventions are:
1) Gamer 2009, Lionsgate, directed by Neveldine &Taylor, Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall,
AmberValletta and Ludacris.
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g94xQmtHw
2) Lawnmower man (1&2) 1992, 1996, New Line Cinema, directed by Brett Leonard (1) and
Farhad Mann (2). Cast: Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNvXjb44-U
3)Virtuosity (1995), Paramount, directed by Brett Leonard. Cast: Denzel Washington and Russell
Crowe.
Full movie available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMa7qnT9Co&t=6164s
4)The Matrix franchise, 1999-2003,Warner Bros, directed byThe Wachowski Brothers, cast:
Keanu Reeves.
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8
5) Saving Private Ryan 1998, directed by: Steven Spielberg, cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon.

3. GAMER 2009

4. PLOTLINE
• Gamer’s plot-line follows main character John "Kable"Tillman, who
is a ‘player’ in a call-of-duty esque video game, except that the game
is in real life, and he is being controlled by a 17 year old gamer.
• ‘Kable,’ is a prisoner on death row. Should he survive 30 rounds of
“Slayer” (The name of the video game) he is freed from freedom.
• This is similar to our thriller, as our main character dies in direct
cause to the video game; he is ‘killed’ by the game, much like the
other prisoners in Gamer.

5. Gamer (2009) Our thriller
• Our thriller copies these conventions of a “real-life”
video game, but develops it further through
suggesting that physical death of the players, is
impossible- which of course is shattered by the end
of the opening sequence.

6. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

7. CAMERA
• We copied and developed the camera techniques used
in ‘Saving Private Ryan.’ We did this as we liked the
action-film genre conventions that it adhered to.
• For example, Saving Private Ryan uses a lot of shaky
handheld camera work. In addition to this, the shot
frames only a small amount. SPR ensures that the shots
have a large amount of ‘noise’ and have little headspace
to make the audience focus on the action in the shots.

8. Saving Private Ryan (1998) Our thriller
• We copied the various camera movements that
Saving Private Ryan used. For example, in the framing
of this shot, we deliberately only included a partial
amount of the character’s face, and made the shot
very narrow- only framing the affected area of the
character.

9. CALL OF DUTY (MW1)

10. MISE-EN-SCENE
• We used ‘Call of Duty’ as a muse for the mise-en-scene
choices for our thriller. This is because what we were trying
to make it look like, was a video game like Call of Duty.
• We copied the same guns the characters in the video game
used, the costumes they used, the location and sets and the
nationalities of the character:
• The main ‘bad guys,’ in Call of Duty are Russian. Due to this,
we used real Russian people, for most of our villains.

13. BLACK MIRROR

14. TITLE TYPE AND FONT
• ‘Black Mirror’, aTV show about the potential
malevolence of technology in the future, uses a
black background, with white text in full caps.
• Additionally, the title for black mirror flashes, our
thriller copies and develops this.

15. • Our title for our thriller copies this exactly, but
develops it further by implementing sound as well.
(The GIF of the our title can be found on the post-
production, editing post)

16. DEVELOPMENT AND
CHALLENGING OF CONVENTIONS
• The three types of media which have been copied and developed, holistically, help
develop and emphasize the conventions of real life media.
• I feel that the conventions of real life media shown in my above picked examples,
are shown, developed and to an extent, challenged in my thriller.
• I believe that our thriller challenges some narrative conventions that are shown in
Gamer. For example, Gamer instantly tells the audience that the main character is
in a video game. In our thriller, this is a plot twist, and only discovered at the end.
• However, a large amount of camera techniques, editing and mise-en-scene from
Gamer and Saving Private Ryan have been employed by our thriller. Due to this, I
believe that our thriller develops and follows conventions of real life media.