The document discusses the film "The Intimidation Game" and how it was inspired by and develops conventions from the films "Taken" and "Silence of the Lambs." Specifically: - The film combines the plotlines of a daughter being kidnapped, as in "Taken," and having a serial killer antagonist, as in "Silence of the Lambs." - The main character Michael Anderson is a detective, drawing from the character in "Taken." His daughter Sarah is also kidnapped, making her vulnerable like the daughter in "Taken." - Shots and lighting are used to obscure the killer Jacob Duffy's face, similar to techniques used to show the traffickers in "Taken."

1. EVALUATION - Question 1
1.In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

2. At the start of our production we
had different ideas on what type of
genre we should chose for our
film. This included movies such as
war and boxing but ultimately we
chose to go with the detective plot
as it was the most practical out of
all of our ideas which we put on
the table. This fell in the thriller
genre which was inspired by films
such as Taken and Silence of the
Lambs.

3. As inspired from both films such as
Taken and Silence of the Lambs, we
wanted to combine the two and offer a
mixture of both plotlines in one movie.
The Intimidation Game is the result of
this mixture because in the film Taken,
the daughter is kidnapped a mob which
run human trafficking. Whereas on
Silence of the Lambs, the main
antagonist is a serial killer. We liked the
idea of the daughter being kidnapped
so we did this but instead of the human
traffickers, we used a serial killer who’s
character in our film is Jacob Duffy. We
were also inspired by some of the shots
used in Silence of the Lambs, such as
the dark room scene.

4. ACTORS
For our characters, we chose to follow
the same principle as the character
which was in the film Taken because
both characters are detectives or ex
detectives. Both characters are also
Mariel Racaza as Sarah Anderson
fathers which are also both protective
to their young daughters. Sarah
Anderson however is portrayed as
vulnerable because of her young age
and still very dependent to her father
which is not the case in the film Taken
because the daughter is already in her
20’s. I think the younger age has a more
emotional impact on the viewers
because she is more vulnerable.
Romeo Racaza as Michael Anderson

5. Mise en Scene
For Mise en Scene, we wanted to get
Michael Anderson to wear the
stereotypical uniform which detectives
wear. This includes the suit, long-
sleeved shirt, tie and formal trousers.
We also considered him having facial
hair so that he would look older which
could suggest that he is on a higher
rank than his colleagues.

6. Mise en Scene
For the Jacob Duffy/ seria killer we had
to chose the Mise en Scene very
carefully to show that he still dresses
like a normal person but just to look
dated and out of style, this will connote
that he does not socialise very much
with other people. We also did not want
to show his face in the film to
emphasise mystery to the character.
These types of shots were also used in
Taken when the human traffickers had
kidnapped the girl and the kidnappers
were always behind the light where only
their silhouette was shown. We wanted
to have this effect in our first opening
sequence but have the viewers to still
be able some amount of details in
Jacob Duffy’s face/ body.

7. The Intimidation Game - 9 Shot

8. EVALUATION – Question 2
2. How does your media product represent
particular social groups?

9. We deliberately chose a dark toned skin
coloured person to play the role of
Jacob Duffy. This represents a group of
social people because it is a stereotype
to coloured people such as African
Americans or middle eastern people.
This relates to the film such as Taken,
because the antagonists in the film who
are the human traffickers are foreign
that were originally from countries in
the middle east as shown through their
dialogue and how they behave e.g. their
culture. The reason we used a dark
toned skinned person is because in
films, they usually use them as the
antagonists.