media

Media conventions

Our movie seems to challenge the media conventions of other movies that have torture scenes in them. Our movie deosn't have a crazed redneck in a denim outfit with a chainsaw cutting someones body parts off. Neither do we have a professional hitman dressed in a suit and black leather gloves performing his 'business' on the victim. Our movie has two amateur looking teenagers who are trying to learn the trade by being given an order to torture a captured enemy of their gang.

 

This is an example of a crazed torturer/murderer who is out their to get what he desires, in this case death. Our movie wasn't based on this wasnt looking for a character that could suit being crazy and unpredictable, we wanted two characters that looked as if they weren't meant to be doing what they are doing, but the 'thuglife chose them'. I belive by breaking the conventions of a torture movie we managed to put our movie in a context that would suit our budgets. However, we do keep up with conventions as we have weapons in our movie. We have a gun and pen kife that has many other tools that can be used for torture. In this way our movie has similarities with the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Our movie also keeps up with conventions as we shot our movie in a very creepy looking movie. 

These two are our characters, they look young and innocent, but their ambitions are to reach the top of the underworld. I believe they suited this context very well. They have all the stereotypes of young and ambitious criminals. They are willing to do the dirty workin order to be respected by their bosses.  With the clothes they have on the audience will be able to judge on their backgrounds in this case our audience would believe the two characters are childhood friends who grew up on a council estate.

In our movie we decided that we shouldnt have dialogue as it would add to the intensity of the scenes. With the audience having to read the body language of our characters then we could add to the suspense of our scenes. We have a major twist in our movie as the character with the gun decides that only one worker can reach the top and decides to kill his closest friend and then deal with the victim himself in order to get more respect in the gang.