2. How does your media represent particular social groups

Our media(our opening of our movie) represents many social groups in particular ways. When devising the media we aimed to be able to question the representations of these social groups. In most movies we noticed that assassins/ killers and generally the ‘bad guys’ then to be men. We decided we would questions this representation by having the assassin and the main ‘bad guy’ or villain as a woman. This represented women as evil and vengeful as that is the reason behind the women’s evil acts. We also represented the constantly questioned issues of what sex is stronger (which the men are usually) by having the women kill off men who due to stereotypes etc are supposed to be seen as stronger. This in turn questions those stereotypes as to whether the men really are the stronger sex.

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

Within our genre we studied, analysed and tried to pick out the main conventions of this specific genre (which was action/adventure). Specifically we focused on three main films studying any common trends of conventions they each shared. We studied Mission Impossible, Watchmen and Next. We noticed that the main conventions they shared was that they used music that was quite contrasting to the actual genre for their openings for example watchmen being an action movie you’d expect a fast paced music however it uses a slow romantic and calming song although it is a fight scene which leads to the death of one of the characters. Each and everyone of these movies studied also included some sort of fast paced action seen in their openings which varied from fight scenes to chase scenes which was a big convention used within their openings. And in addition they also used cross cutting to start the story at various stages and bring them together for one opening. In watchmen the story is a lot similar to ours in the sense that a murder sparks of this hunt for who is hunting down these retired superheroes and ours who is hunting down these retired agents. We chose this storyline because we found it very interesting and a storyline that we could see being a full movie. We also had the use of cross cutting to bring the two characters together the same way Next did in their chase scene and in addition we also had our story spark off with 3 murders (alike to Watchmen but only doesn’t have just one murder). We tried in most areas of our main task to stick to conventions however we did not want it to be to alike to our researched genre so we decided that we would choose specifically what conventions we used. One convention we knew we had no choice but to keep would have to be the action and fast paced scene which we decided would be a fight scene. We decided we had to do this as we knew that our audience would want an opening scene to be something that could keep them “glued to their seats”. As we did not want our main task to be alike to other movies of action genres we decided that it would be good to add some sort of “twist” in order to deviate from other movies of our researched genre. We decided that it would be good if we had a woman as an assassin and they “bad guys” to be woman as it is not something that is usually seen in movies and it also contradicts views on what woman are seen as.

Choosing the music

In our movie we decided that we'd want two songs to be within it. One would be for the beginning when all the murders took place and the second would be for the fight scene. For the opening sequence we thought it would be good to have a piano that had a sort of moody and serious melody whilst the murders took place. Then for the fight scene we were looking for something that was really fast and sped up the fight scene. for the opening murders i knew of an instrumental i heard when i was younger that started with a piano which i thought would work nicely for the murders(this was a song called cradle to the grave by flukes production). Finding a good song for the fight scene was more difficult as there were so many routes which it could go and so many songs which would give different affects. i gathered many songs from research i did considering many genres such as hip-hop rock and punk rock. Below were the list of songs i considered.
Linkin Park- In the end
Joe Budden-Pump it up
Linkin Park- Breaking the Habit
Linkin Park- Faint
Rob Dougan- Clubbed to death
Propeller Heads- Spybreak

shooting Schedule

Although due to many difficulties(such as changes in avalibility or cast) my proup and i were required to make alterations to this schedule but below was the intial planned schedule for us to do all our shooting.
Date Time INT/EXT Scene Cast
2nd December 2009 7.00pm EXT/INT 4 Jamie Lawes and Jessica Johnson
2nd December 2009 8.00pm INT 4 Frances Mcadams
9th December 2009 4.00pm INT 2 Scott Richardson
9th December 2009 6.00pm EXT 1 Connor Barry and Jessica Johnson
11th December 2009 4.00pm EXT 5 Jamie Lawes and Jessica Johnson
9th December 2009 3.30pm EXT 3 Mr White and Jessica Johnson