Liam's media product challenges some conventions of post-apocalyptic films while also developing others. It uses a dull color grade and desolate landscape to match the genre's conventions. However, it challenges the lone survivor trope by featuring two protagonists working together. The opening chase scene also brings something new rather than a typical slow start. While titles usually appear at the start, Liam's appear at the end to fit with the aerial shot conclusion. Costumes also reference conventions by appearing worn to indicate the characters' experiences.

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2. Conventions are the aspects that go into the film, and are what you associate with
the genre. Each genre has different conventions, and as my chosen genre is post-
apocalyptic, this mean it has it own conventions.
Some of the conventions that are associated with this genre are:
Death
Survival
Desolation
Loneliness
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in post apocalyptic films, the camera usually has wide angled shot to show all the
landscape and so that the viewer can connect with everything in the shot. Colour
grading is usually very dull and greyscale to represent the events that have
happened/how the characters are feeling.

3. In my film opening, I try to stick to as many conventions of these as I can, but I
also didn’t want it to be yet another lone survivor camping out in the woods, and
so I also challenged some the conventions too.
One of the ways I kept the conventions is the colour grading on the final cut. It is
dull and more grey, to fit with conventions associated with post apocalyptic films.
For example:
These images are taken from my film opening and show the unsaturated colour
grade I decided to go for in the final edit.
Another way I decided to keep conventions in my film opening is desolation.
And the use of the landscape to give a more realistic ‘set’. For example:

4. Like I stated in the previous slide, I wanted to keep my opening original as much
as I could, and so I went with a chase scene at the beginning to make it attractive
to viewers, and to bring something new as most of the films I had studied have
slow openings, with majority.
A way I challenged the conventions of this genre , is to have two “protagonists”
instead the one “lone survivor” I know features like ‘the road’ have this aspect,
but mainly post apocalyptic films have one lone survivor.
I felt that this way I could develop a better storyline In that the two protagonist
work and cherish together to escape their chaser, hense the title “Evasion”

5. TITLES
From my research I found that titles usually come at the start in this
particular genre. However to fit the shots in my film I decided that the title
would come at the end, this was because it fit with my final aerial shot, and
concluded the opening nicely, to give the opening a sort of ‘short film’ feel
that comes before the main feature. Before we meet the main characters,
however, I decided to add their names at the start, so that the audience know
who they will be watching straight away.
Here are the titles I added at the end

6. Mise en scene
As you can see, this is a typical costume that is used for
post apocalyptic films…very basic and very worn to show
the different situations the characters have been through. I
tried to keep the costumes I used quite like this, with coats
and boots etc. this was to stay with the conventions that
are created by this genre, and to show, that the characters
have gone through a lot since the apocalypse.
As you can see from this shot, both characters have worn,
warm clothes on to show survival, and cooperate with the
conventions of this genre.

7. Mise en scene
As you can see, this is a typical costume that is used for
post apocalyptic films…very basic and very worn to show
the different situations the characters have been through. I
tried to keep the costumes I used quite like this, with coats
and boots etc. this was to stay with the conventions that
are created by this genre, and to show, that the characters
have gone through a lot since the apocalypse.
As you can see from this shot, both characters have worn,
warm clothes on to show survival, and cooperate with the
conventions of this genre.