1. IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP
OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
By Albert Marealle and
Shane Fitzpatrick

2. GENRE
The genre of our film is a Crime Thriller, We have been inspired by
films like 4.3.2.1. The way that we used inspiration from this film
would be how the mcguffin (money in this case) is hidden away from
the antagonists. This is also the same the film 4.3.2.1 as the
diamonds were hidden away by one of the girls. In addition to that, it
has made the use of gangs and their violent culture.

3. CAMERA SHOTS AND ANGLES
In our film, we have used many camera shots and angles. The ones
that our group has been using was the close-ups which has been
inspired by The Godfather. This camera shot was to focus on dialog,
crime thrillers need dialog mostly because the viewers need to know
what the story is between the two rivals. Another camera shot that
we’ve been using was the POV shot from Rear Window, we gave our
movie a sense of what it would feel like to be the one doing the
crime.

4. SOUNDS
We have included the use of intense music when our antagonist takes
the money from the protagonist. Another sound that we have used
was from the dialog scene, which was a depressing orchestra piece to
portray the loss of something important to them. On the intro scene,
we have added humble music to slowly get into the film, we wouldn’t
want to start the chase straight away. At the chase scene, we have
used 2 Fast 2 Furious as an inspiration because of the similarity of
the scenes.

5. LOCATION
When it comes to the movie Ruthless Russians, it challenges the
forms and convention of real products particularly the location of the
film. This is due to the fact that most crime thrillers are set in urban,
grime areas such as Peckham (South London), New York City and Los
Angeles. An example would be from the movie Kidulthood which is
mainly set in inner West London. However, Ruthless Russians is set in
rural East London (in particular Mark’s Gate) where there is barely any
evidence of the human condition.