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

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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

Edit conventions 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. For example it films such as THE BOOK of ELI, where there is hardly and colour at all.

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:

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”

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

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.