2. Question1
In what way does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My Film goes in the genre of being an action/ thriller. It contains similar
themes and ideas to films such as Taken, The Dark Knight and The
Bourne Identity.
My film shares ideas and themes of Taken as my film contains a
tortures scene in which the antagonist try’s to withdraw information
out of the victim.
The ideas that my film shares with The Dark Knight is the cruelness of
the antagonist having a pleasurable feeling from the items used with
the film. The protagonist shares the same creepy feelings for pain as
the character the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Bourne Identity and my film share similar themes as both of the films
create a feeling of suspense through the use of little dialogue and the
idea that actions speaking louder than words.
My film may share similar themes and
ideas to other but also challenges
conventions of other action/ thriller
films.
One big difference is that my
antagonist of my film is a female
compared to other films the
protagonist is typically of the male
gender.
Also the use of household items isn’t
common with a tortures scene. Within
typical torture scenes big rusty blades
are common or baseball bats.
However, within mine a psychological
fear is created through the sighting of
an iron, which is a very uncommon
torture device.
CHALLENGES!
DEVELOPMENT
3. Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
The Social Groups
My film opening firstly represents a female protagonist who has the strong attitude of achieving her
needed information. She strives and wont stop until she gains her much wanted information.
My film represents the CIA government and the way that they have retrieved information out of
their interrogation techniques. I looked into the recent outbreaks of CIA reports to learn that the
actual interrogation was “brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and
others.” - BBC 2014
Within my film, cruel and disturbing forms of torture are shown to create both a physical and
psychological attack on the male character. This shares the same recent effect that the CIA have
been doing to their victims.
My female antagonist also shows and represents a dark
sociable group that tend to keep to themselves. This is shown
through her clothing as she is dressed in all black and a baggy
jacket.
Other films that also have this sort of representation would be the
Clock Work Orange. This film shows a very dark and uncomfortable
form of ways of retrieving information through the use of torture
