In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products?
The narrative of our film follows two detectives trying to
solve a case which is a copy of one from the past which was solved by former detective
Jake Les-Strade. The storyline of our film follows Torodov’s Narrative Theory
of each film having an equilibrium, a disruption, realisation of the disruption,
an attempt to restore the order and then a new equilibrium.
We used typical settings and locations for our film. Including
an interview room/office, a corridor and a field/woodlands area these are
typically found in other detective/crime-drama films as they are easy to create
an atmosphere for example the film Prisoners uses woodlands and surrounding
areas as they are easily perceived as crime scenes due to the vast amount of
space in which there is to have to search for a murder victim. Because of the pre-existing
affiliation with the settings/locations and the genre this enables us to use
them as a key connotation of what genre our film is.
Throughout our film we use a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic
sound to create a fully immersive and thrilling experience for our audience. We
use non-diegetic sound for multiple scenes but most notably during the flashback
sequences as this denotes to the audience that the scenes that they are
watching are not happening in the present day and that they are the memories of
Les-Strade.
In our title sequence
we used non-diegetic music to accompany the onscreen footage. Whilst the use of
music is a convention of most title sequences we stray away from other
conventions of title sequences by just having the actors names flash up with
footage from the main film, this differs from other films of our genre such as
James Bond which have complex title sequences that stand alone from and do not
contain footage from the film.
Our film uses a multitude of complex shots such as a dolly
shot to show Les-Strade walking down the corridor and tracking shots showing
him searching for the murderer, in the flashback to 2002.
As in detective/ crime-drama films such as the Batman, in
which the villain (Penguin) wears black clothes, our villain wears a black coat
to connote to the audience that he is the villain of our film. The murderer in
our film, also has his hood up to create a mysterious atmosphere around the
character due to the audience can only see his face and no other part of his
head, this also enables the audience to connote that he is going to be the
villain as the dark colours will connote danger . the way the murderer uses his
tone of voice to denote his traits as the villain by arrogantly saying “This doesn’t
end with me” to Les-Strade.
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