In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
Frame 1- Title of the film:
For my first frame I chose our Title of our film trailer.
The title of our film is "Hunt" we chose this as it is short and snappy and memorable for our audience, this also reflectives our narrative as someone is being chased and hunted for a memory stick. We chose to have this title all in capitals as it follows the conventions of action/crime films and we saw the use of capitals a lot in the research we conducted on action films. Films like "TAKEN" and "PARKER" all follow this same rule.
The black and white contrasting theme follows the common coneventions of action/crime also as these are the main colours to attract our target audience of young males. The smoke, gun barrel and bullet are all use of iconography as these are common icons in action films and are seen in many film titles and regognised logos. Our tagline "Classified and Dangerous" is a play on words as firstly the audience believe they are seeing and knowing about governement information. But also the definition of a CAD is "A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable" this also reflects our narrative as agent blake is a corrupt agent and is therefor dishonorable.
Frame 2-Setting and Location
My second frame is showing our location of filming and setting of our film.
The location of our film was our local town centre of "St Neots" we chose to film during the day and during in the weekend as this would mean we get a busier town atmosphere. Big towns and busy cities are a convention of action/crime films as people can hide in the crowds and are therefor hidden and blend in with the crowds, this is what we were trying to achieve with the agent and the crowds in St Neots. We used various locations around the town centre and made the film look like it was filmed in a big busy city.
Frame 3- Costumes and props
Frame 3 shows one character in costume and using props.
In this frame we see "agent blake" hiding in a coffee shop and we ask the actor mr collins to wear a big jacket and leather if possible. This is because most of the "main protecter" characters we found during research wore a big bulky coat or a leather jacket like in the film "TAKEN" with Liam Neeson.
The props we used were very varied but always followed the conventions of the genre and also the setting of the frame we were filming. For example, in the coffee shop "Agent Blake" was filmed with a newspaper and coffee cup, these create the mise-en-scene of the scene and showed he was in the location and not just sat at a table anywhere. "Agent Blake" then later uses a hand held gun, this is a convention of action and crime films and connotes danger and death making the audience feel nervous and not knowing what to expect. The government agents used an Iphone as a prop to show the tracking device tracking the government information, this use of technology is seen in many action and mainly crime films, making them modern and almost in the future.
The two government agents wore shirts and jeans to "blend in" more with the crowds, we did not copy the classic black suits and sunglasses like in films like "Men In Black" as we felt this would be too cliche and also attract too much attention in town and cause people to act diffrently and stare, by keeping the agents casual it creates realism for the audience.
Also the props at the start of the film in "the MI5 office" help set up the story and also create realism for the film and make it more believable.
Frame 4- Camera work and Editing
Frame 4 shows a part of the film which we used a lot of camerawork and editing to get a steady and excellent panning shot. We used a headcam for a lot of the footage to make the audience feel as tho they are the eyes of the girl on the run. This is used a lot in action films and creates a sense of realism for the audience and sympathy for the girl on the run. We used editing a lot in our film trailer and used final cut pro to be able to slow down the footage to make "Slow Motion" parts of the trailer this builds suspense and keeps the audience anticipating what will be next. The whole film trailer is like a montage of footage and we used quick cuts and fade to blacks to make it appear quick and fast paced to the audience. This is also a common convention of the genre as mostly all action films are quick paced. We also used editing to alter the brightness of our footage as we filmed during daylight this did not give the right conntation to our film. As low key lighting and the dark connotes danger, and the unknown, Making the audience scared and unsure.
Frame 5- Storylines/ Plots
Frame 5 shows how our storyline and plot is introduced and explained to the audience. By using the props at the start of the film accompanied by the voiceover of a government radio, we set up our storyline and narrative to the audience. We thought of using intertitles to explain "Agent Blake" going missing in action and becoming corrupt, but this broke up the fast paced editing and we then decided on a voiceover over the top of the flashbacks of the files and throwing away his MI5 badge. This tells the storyline and plot to the audience and shows them at the same time, helping them to understand mroe and therfor want to see how the film ends. As although we introduce the storyline and narrative we do not tell the whole story only small sections of the action. This is just enough to make the audience want to see the film and therefor making the trailer a success.
Frame 6- How characters are introduced
In Frame 6 we show how we introduced our governement agents, this was by the use of an intertitle saying "2 agents on call" and includes information like there location and time also. This makes the audience introduce the characters as they can pair together the intertitle and the following footage of the government agents running to find "Agent Blake". Agent blake is introduced through the props and voiceover from frame 5 by showing him also after the voiceover sat in the cafe. The girl on the run is introduced also by voiceover and footage also as she sits down in the cafe picks up the memory stick and the voiceover says "what would you do if you found government information" this shows the audience she is a girl and seperates the charcaters.
Frame7 - Special Effects
Frame 7 shows the two goverment agents underneath a bridge. This shows the specail effects we used during the trailer as every peice of footage had to be edited and darkened. We chose to turn down the brightness so much that there was only a silohette of the two government agents as this keeps their identity as a mystery to the audience making them want to watch the film to be able to reveal their identitys. We also used this technique in the slow motion footage at the end of the film where the two agents walk towards the camera, this makes the audience feel unsteady as they are closer in the frame to the audience but they can still not see the faces of the agents. This is common for action and crime films and is seen films like "men in black" with the two sillohettes of the men.
Frame 8- Use of logo
In Frame 8 I have used our production company logo, this is because we used this logo throughout the three texts and also animated the logo within the trailer, by making the gun sight move this fits our genre of action and crime perfectly, and makes the audience feel as though someone is being targeted and shot. This then also reflects the narrative of the film as "Agent Blake" gets targeted and shot, which is why the voiceover shouts "agent down, man down" showing along with the gun shot sound effect that the genre of action/crime fits perfectly. The logo of the gun sight is in red, connoting danger and blood, showing that someone is going to be killed and making the audience scared. By making the O of Incognito a gun sight this turns the logo into iconography and fits the genre of crime.
Frame 9- Genre
The ninth frame shows the genre of our film, by showing the agents dragging away the girl but never finding out what happens to her this leaves the audience in suspense and the trailer at a cliffhanger this is very common in the genre of action and crime. Also all of the mise-en-scene, framing, camera work and editing, props and narrative all reflect the genre very well showing all the conventions of the genre. By using low key lighting, gun shots and guns, agents and radio voiceovers to create a sense of realsim for the audience as well as making the film believable.
The title of our film is "Hunt" we chose this as it is short and snappy and memorable for our audience, this also reflectives our narrative as someone is being chased and hunted for a memory stick. We chose to have this title all in capitals as it follows the conventions of action/crime films and we saw the use of capitals a lot in the research we conducted on action films. Films like "TAKEN" and "PARKER" all follow this same rule.
The black and white contrasting theme follows the common coneventions of action/crime also as these are the main colours to attract our target audience of young males. The smoke, gun barrel and bullet are all use of iconography as these are common icons in action films and are seen in many film titles and regognised logos. Our tagline "Classified and Dangerous" is a play on words as firstly the audience believe they are seeing and knowing about governement information. But also the definition of a CAD is "A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable" this also reflects our narrative as agent blake is a corrupt agent and is therefor dishonorable.
Frame 2-Setting and Location
My second frame is showing our location of filming and setting of our film.
The location of our film was our local town centre of "St Neots" we chose to film during the day and during in the weekend as this would mean we get a busier town atmosphere. Big towns and busy cities are a convention of action/crime films as people can hide in the crowds and are therefor hidden and blend in with the crowds, this is what we were trying to achieve with the agent and the crowds in St Neots. We used various locations around the town centre and made the film look like it was filmed in a big busy city.
Frame 3- Costumes and props
Frame 3 shows one character in costume and using props.
In this frame we see "agent blake" hiding in a coffee shop and we ask the actor mr collins to wear a big jacket and leather if possible. This is because most of the "main protecter" characters we found during research wore a big bulky coat or a leather jacket like in the film "TAKEN" with Liam Neeson.
The props we used were very varied but always followed the conventions of the genre and also the setting of the frame we were filming. For example, in the coffee shop "Agent Blake" was filmed with a newspaper and coffee cup, these create the mise-en-scene of the scene and showed he was in the location and not just sat at a table anywhere. "Agent Blake" then later uses a hand held gun, this is a convention of action and crime films and connotes danger and death making the audience feel nervous and not knowing what to expect. The government agents used an Iphone as a prop to show the tracking device tracking the government information, this use of technology is seen in many action and mainly crime films, making them modern and almost in the future.
The two government agents wore shirts and jeans to "blend in" more with the crowds, we did not copy the classic black suits and sunglasses like in films like "Men In Black" as we felt this would be too cliche and also attract too much attention in town and cause people to act diffrently and stare, by keeping the agents casual it creates realism for the audience.
Also the props at the start of the film in "the MI5 office" help set up the story and also create realism for the film and make it more believable.
Frame 4- Camera work and Editing
Frame 4 shows a part of the film which we used a lot of camerawork and editing to get a steady and excellent panning shot. We used a headcam for a lot of the footage to make the audience feel as tho they are the eyes of the girl on the run. This is used a lot in action films and creates a sense of realism for the audience and sympathy for the girl on the run. We used editing a lot in our film trailer and used final cut pro to be able to slow down the footage to make "Slow Motion" parts of the trailer this builds suspense and keeps the audience anticipating what will be next. The whole film trailer is like a montage of footage and we used quick cuts and fade to blacks to make it appear quick and fast paced to the audience. This is also a common convention of the genre as mostly all action films are quick paced. We also used editing to alter the brightness of our footage as we filmed during daylight this did not give the right conntation to our film. As low key lighting and the dark connotes danger, and the unknown, Making the audience scared and unsure.
Frame 5- Storylines/ Plots
Frame 5 shows how our storyline and plot is introduced and explained to the audience. By using the props at the start of the film accompanied by the voiceover of a government radio, we set up our storyline and narrative to the audience. We thought of using intertitles to explain "Agent Blake" going missing in action and becoming corrupt, but this broke up the fast paced editing and we then decided on a voiceover over the top of the flashbacks of the files and throwing away his MI5 badge. This tells the storyline and plot to the audience and shows them at the same time, helping them to understand mroe and therfor want to see how the film ends. As although we introduce the storyline and narrative we do not tell the whole story only small sections of the action. This is just enough to make the audience want to see the film and therefor making the trailer a success.
Frame 6- How characters are introduced
In Frame 6 we show how we introduced our governement agents, this was by the use of an intertitle saying "2 agents on call" and includes information like there location and time also. This makes the audience introduce the characters as they can pair together the intertitle and the following footage of the government agents running to find "Agent Blake". Agent blake is introduced through the props and voiceover from frame 5 by showing him also after the voiceover sat in the cafe. The girl on the run is introduced also by voiceover and footage also as she sits down in the cafe picks up the memory stick and the voiceover says "what would you do if you found government information" this shows the audience she is a girl and seperates the charcaters.
Frame7 - Special Effects
Frame 7 shows the two goverment agents underneath a bridge. This shows the specail effects we used during the trailer as every peice of footage had to be edited and darkened. We chose to turn down the brightness so much that there was only a silohette of the two government agents as this keeps their identity as a mystery to the audience making them want to watch the film to be able to reveal their identitys. We also used this technique in the slow motion footage at the end of the film where the two agents walk towards the camera, this makes the audience feel unsteady as they are closer in the frame to the audience but they can still not see the faces of the agents. This is common for action and crime films and is seen films like "men in black" with the two sillohettes of the men.
Frame 8- Use of logo
In Frame 8 I have used our production company logo, this is because we used this logo throughout the three texts and also animated the logo within the trailer, by making the gun sight move this fits our genre of action and crime perfectly, and makes the audience feel as though someone is being targeted and shot. This then also reflects the narrative of the film as "Agent Blake" gets targeted and shot, which is why the voiceover shouts "agent down, man down" showing along with the gun shot sound effect that the genre of action/crime fits perfectly. The logo of the gun sight is in red, connoting danger and blood, showing that someone is going to be killed and making the audience scared. By making the O of Incognito a gun sight this turns the logo into iconography and fits the genre of crime.
Frame 9- Genre
The ninth frame shows the genre of our film, by showing the agents dragging away the girl but never finding out what happens to her this leaves the audience in suspense and the trailer at a cliffhanger this is very common in the genre of action and crime. Also all of the mise-en-scene, framing, camera work and editing, props and narrative all reflect the genre very well showing all the conventions of the genre. By using low key lighting, gun shots and guns, agents and radio voiceovers to create a sense of realsim for the audience as well as making the film believable.
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