Thursday 10 March 2011

Evaluation Task 1

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

Our thriller opening sequence "Evasion" showed many forms and conventions that are normally seen in real media products. As our genre was a crime/man-on-the-run thriller we decided that we were going to have a Boss figure who commands the henchman, and most importantly as chase scene. The inspiration for the chase scene came from other crime/man-on-the-run thrillers such as "Italian Job", where the thieves get away with the safe on the motor boat, we changed this to one man running through the streets of Stratfield Road and trying to get away from 3 henchman. As well as a chase scene, the use of props also added to the atmosphere of the crime/man-on-the-run thriller, we had a fake gun and a car which added to the genre crime/man-on-the-run thriller. 

An aspect that would challenge the forms and conventions of a real thriller media product is that our man-on-the-run was identified at the beginning of the movie, this somewhat sets the scene for the rest of the movie as the audience will be aware that the henchman and the Boss are searching for this particular man. As the man almost got caught in the opening sequence it may be possible that he actually gets captured later on the the movie. 
Another aspect that challenges the convention of a real thriller is that the good character was being chased by the bad characters, normally it is the bad characters that are on the run from people such as the police. The would add mystery to the movie as the audience are unaware as to why the criminals are chasing this man. 
Due to this conventions in our opening sequence that challenge the conventions in real media thrillers, this makes Evasion a hybrid, however it is also similar to other movies, such as the fact that their is a chase scene, and in the beginning the man-on-the-run gets away. The mise-en-scene was influenced by movies such as Kidulthood and Adulthood as these movies have crime and man-on-the-run aspects. 

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