The document discusses the conventions of action thriller genre films. It describes key elements such as fighting scenes, car chases, violence and stunts in the action genre, and mysteries, cases and search missions in the thriller genre. When combined in an action thriller, the story involves a hero pursuing a villain. The summary discusses props, costumes, locations, lighting, editing, music and titles that are common in action thriller films. It also describes character archetypes of the hero and villain. The challenge presented is about a drug addict with hidden boxing talents who is given a chance to prove himself in a fight.

1. EVALUATION QUESTION
Q#1
IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,
DEVELOP AND CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL
MEDIA PRODUCTS?
SHAHZAIB YASIR

2. The genre of my film is action thriller. I have
chosen Hollywood as my media industry and
Warner Bros. as my media institution due to
their experience and success in making the best
action thriller movies. Some examples of action
thriller movies that Warner Bros. have produced
are Man of steel(2013), Batman:The dark
knight(2008)etc.

3. The action genre can be described
by combining fighting scenes, car
chases, violence and stunts.The
story line of an action movie will
include a pursuit of the hero with a
villain which will come to the
conclusion where the hero is the
victor. The suspense, excitement and
tension of a film is known as the
genreThriller.The storyline of a
thriller movie will be based on
mysteries, cases and search
missions.
The sub-genre action thriller can be
based on guns, explosions, race
against time etc.

4. The props used for action thriller movies will include
weapons, technology, costumes etc.These are very
important for an action thriller as they will let the
audience know about the heroes’ abilities. For example if
the storyline is based on a boxer it will include boxing
gloves, shorts, mouthpiece, punching bags etc.

5. Looking at the mis-en-scene of action movies , which
include location, lighting and costumes. Action movies
are shot mostly in the middle of a city where the villain
can create a huge amount of destruction, or in places
where fights are held like boxing rings, narrow streets. In
most action sequences, the body language of fighters are
shown so to make them prominent dim lighting is used.
To show the muscularity of the fighters they wear tight
costumes or no uppers at all.

6. The editing of an action movie is a difficult job.Action
sequences are shot with several cameras so the editor
has to be very careful, to avoid jump cuts. Special effects
and animations are added to show the scenes more
attractive to the audience.To add thrill in action films the
editor distributes’ scenes to create suspense.
The music used in action movies is very fast and with high
base to give the fight scene an interesting view.

7. Titles of the action genre will depend on the theme of
the film. If the film’s story is based on war the title can be
very simple with a plain background or it can be written
in old fonts with explosions.
A superhero movie will have a title with glowing fonts
with a superior shot of the lead actor.

8. Each character in an action film varies from one another,
there are two main people, the hero and the villain.
These two are the most important and it might include a
girl also which becomes a support for the hero. Usually
these characters have bulky and muscular bodies.The
villain kills innocent people and it’s the duty of the hero
to save them.The two main characters can have personal
rivalry also in which one character will be on the good
side and the other will have a negative role, the positive
character will always get the girl.

9. Challenges
My film is based on a low class drug addict (Bruce) who
has a hidden talent of boxing but he is unable to train to
become a good boxer due to his poverty and addiction to
drugs. But he can be saved by a hot shot in the boxing
world who saved my protagonist of the film and got him
into a fight to check his abilities, because of no training
Bruce failed in his first fight.This might be his only
opportunity of becoming a good boxer or will he get
more..
This will create some suspense for the audience.