Terror Plane Evaluation: Question 1

1. QUESTION 1
in what ways does your product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. THE TITLE OF THE FILM
The title of our short film ‘Terror
Plane’ sticks firmly to the
conventions of the thriller
genre. The title is very self
explanatory to the overall
scenario of the film and tells the
audience that there will in fact
be a disaster on the plane. We
have decided to follow the trend
of the similar flight based film
‘Flight’ in order to follow the
natural trend of other films. This
should make our film sound
professional and realistic.

3. SETTING AND LOCATION
There are several settings and locations for
our film. various locations are all based
around the same house but with the power of
cinematography, we have made the house
look middle eastern and we have also made it
look like two different settings in order to fit
the two different characters ‘Brian’ and
‘Susan’. In a way we have gone against the
normal conventions of media by having our
two characters starting in different settings
and then ending up in the same setting at the
final scene. Unlike other groups, we went out
of our way to contact places such as the
Bournemouth Aviation Museum to request
filming permission. We were later contacted
by the Aviation Museum and they authorised
our request for filming permission. We also
contacted Bournemouth Airport asking asking
for filming permission although they denied
our request and wished us well with our
project.

4. COSTUMES AND PROPS
In our film we went against the
conventions of stereotypical
terrorist apparel. This meant that
our radicalised character ‘Brian’
was to wear casual clothing
including a shirt, jeans, and
leather jacket. We decided upon
this in order to make him seem
less suspicious on the plane.
When it came to deciding upon
Susan’s outfit, we chose to stick
to middle class conventions and
therefore have her wearing
casual clothing, much the same
as ‘Brian’.

5. CINEMATOGRAPHY AND
EDITINGWhilst in the production stage of our project, we
used many different artistic shots with the
camera cinematography. We did this for two
reasons. The first reason was so that we could
showcase a range of different shots which we
had learned and secondly we decided to get
some abstract shots due to there being
obstacles within the scenes of which we had to
try and get rid of by using artistic camera
angles.
When it came to editing our film, we decided to
go against the natural convention and instead of
showing just one frame on the screen, we
decided to show two frames making our project
split-screen. We did this because we wanted to
show the audience that although there are two
very different characters on the screen, they are
both doing a mirror image of each other. This
process is unique to conventions and definitely
sets us apart from other films of the same
genre.

6. TITLE FONT AND STYLE
• The font that we used in Terror
Plane was ‘Roadway’ which is
displayed in the image to the
right. We chose this font due to
being the midpoint between
subtle, and and elaborate. The
font is more masculine than
feminine and sets our film apart
from other productions due to
the powerful look of the font.
The addition of Arabic
incorporated into the english
adds a foreign flare to our film
which merges into the
multicultural vibe of our film.

7. STORY AND SET UP
The story that our film opening sets up is
about a man called Brian and a woman
named Susan. Brian is a radicalised young
man who has been tasked with blowing up
the plane which he is going to board. Susan,
however, is a war correspondent in the
same place as Brian is based.
Brian and Susan used to have a relationship
before he joined a terrorist group in Iraq.
What neither of these characters realise is
that they are both getting the same flight
back to Gatwick, England.
The main plot of the story will be a struggle
of whether Brian will go forward with his
mission of blowing up the plane, or will
attempt to rekindle his love with Susan, who
has since moved on.

8. GENRE AND HOW THE
OPENING SUGGESTS IT
We have decided to go out of
the box with the genre for our
film. After much discussion, we
decided that Romantic Thriller
best suits our film premise.
The romantic side of our film is
portrayed by the dwelling
relationship between ‘Brian’ and
’Susan’. the thriller side of our
film opening however, is
suggested through the inclusion
of the bomb threats and
terrorist motives.

9. HOW CHARACTERS ARE
INTRODUCEDBoth ‘Susan’ and ‘Brian’ are
introduced at the same time due
to our projects split-screen
effect. The first shot that the
viewer gets of these characters
is a shot of ‘Brian’ shaving, and
a shot of ‘Susan’ using
mouthwash. As the film opening
progresses, the viewer will
begin to realise slight
differences in their preparations
for their flight. These differences
include the contrast of packing
clothes and toothbrushes, to
bombs and flip phones.

10. SPECIAL EFFECTS
Our film opening offers no 3D
special effects although it does
offer the unique utilisation of
split-screen. We wanted to keep
out our project very realistic and
clean and therefore didn't include
any outrageous three-
dimensional graphics which
would clutter the screen and take
away from the realism factor of
our production. By using split-
screen, we were able to show the
audience what both people are
doing with seamless integration.