Our final product and media conventions
The music in our movie was quiet and goes against the conventions surrounding action/thriller movies. Instead of going for fast upbeat music we preferred slow-beat music that kept up the continuity effect of mystery surrounding our opening scene. For example the movie Transporter has fast upbeat music in almost every scene, but this movie would need fast beat music as a lot of action is seen in the movie, whereas our movie has a lot of mystery and a surprise element to it. We needed eerie music for this reason.
Our costumes were also very different to many main stream major action/thrillers. Going back to our example of 2 Fast 2 Furious where their characters had shirts and smart trousers on, our characters had hoodies and jeans on. This is something that is not usually seen in a torture scene, but our scene was not designed to be gruesome it was there to let the audience know that this movie is going to be full of twists and surprises in the story. We had the characters in hoodies and jeans to show that they are at the bottom of the hierarchy.
The characterization of our characters can go against action/thriller conventions as our characters don't look like the typical professional criminals that you get in action/thrillers. Our characters are not like the professional/crazy depicted characters like in the movie Casino. In our movie our characters are more like characters from the movie Adulthood. We have young characters that have been characterized to act as if they grew up on a rough estate, and that they didn't have much hope.
Our movie also didn't keep up with the film style conventions as we had problems with the lighting. We couldn't have much lighting in our scene as then too much of the mise en scene would be given away to the audience so we decided to have low key lighting with only POV, close-ups and mid-shots as our preferred camera shot. In the movie Casino Royal the lighting is similar as it is low-key but it is also has a wide range of camera shots in it's torture scene from close-ups to long-shots and over-head shots, they had a wide variety of different shots but then again, they had the budget for more and
better equipment.
Our costumes were also very different to many main stream major action/thrillers. Going back to our example of 2 Fast 2 Furious where their characters had shirts and smart trousers on, our characters had hoodies and jeans on. This is something that is not usually seen in a torture scene, but our scene was not designed to be gruesome it was there to let the audience know that this movie is going to be full of twists and surprises in the story. We had the characters in hoodies and jeans to show that they are at the bottom of the hierarchy.
The characterization of our characters can go against action/thriller conventions as our characters don't look like the typical professional criminals that you get in action/thrillers. Our characters are not like the professional/crazy depicted characters like in the movie Casino. In our movie our characters are more like characters from the movie Adulthood. We have young characters that have been characterized to act as if they grew up on a rough estate, and that they didn't have much hope.
Our movie also didn't keep up with the film style conventions as we had problems with the lighting. We couldn't have much lighting in our scene as then too much of the mise en scene would be given away to the audience so we decided to have low key lighting with only POV, close-ups and mid-shots as our preferred camera shot. In the movie Casino Royal the lighting is similar as it is low-key but it is also has a wide range of camera shots in it's torture scene from close-ups to long-shots and over-head shots, they had a wide variety of different shots but then again, they had the budget for more and
better equipment.
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