Challenges

1. Evaluation QuestionQ#1In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?sHahzaibyasir

2. The genre of my film is action thriller. I have chosen Hollywood as my media industry and Warner Bros. as my media institution due to their experience and success in making the best action thriller movies. Some examples of action thriller movies that Warner Bros. have produced are Man of steel(2013), Batman: The dark knight(2008)etc.

3. The action genre can be described by combining fighting scenes, car chases, violence and stunts. The story line of an action movie will include a pursuit of the hero with a villain which will come to the conclusion where the hero is the victor. The suspense, excitement and tension of a film is known as the genre Thriller. The storyline of a thriller movie will be based on mysteries, cases and search missions. The sub-genre action thriller can be based on guns, explosions, race against time etc.

4. The props used for action thriller movies will include weapons, technology, costumes etc. These are very important for an action thriller as they will let the audience know about the heroes’ abilities. For example if the storyline is based on a boxer it will include boxing gloves, shorts, mouthpiece, punching bags etc.

5. Looking at the mis-en-scene of action movies , which include location, lighting and costumes. Action movies are shot mostly in the middle of a city where the villain can create a huge amount of destruction, or in places where fights are held like boxing rings, narrow streets. In most action sequences, the body language of fighters are shown so to make them prominent dim lighting is used. To show the muscularity of the fighters they wear tight costumes or no uppers at all.

6. The editing of an action movie is a difficult job. Action sequences are shot with several cameras so the editor has to be very careful, to avoid jump cuts. Special effects and animations are added to show the scenes more attractive to the audience. To add thrill in action films the editor distributes’ scenes to create suspense. The music used in action movies is very fast and with high base to give the fight scene an interesting view.

7. Titles of the action genre will depend on the theme of the film. If the film’s story is based on war the title can be very simple with a plain background or it can be written in old fonts with explosions. A superhero movie will have a title with glowing fonts with a superior shot of the lead actor.

8. Each character in an action film varies from one another, there are two main people, the hero and the villain. These two are the most important and it might include a girl also which becomes a support for the hero. Usually these characters have bulky and muscular bodies. The villain kills innocent people and it’s the duty of the hero to save them. The two main characters can have personal rivalry also in which one character will be on the good side and the other will have a negative role, the positive character will always get the girl.

9. Challenges My film is based on a low class drug addict (Bruce) who has a hidden talent of boxing but he is unable to train to become a good boxer due to his poverty and addiction to drugs. But he can be saved by a hot shot in the boxing world who saved my protagonist of the film and got him into a fight to check his abilities, because of no training Bruce failed in his first fight. This might be his only opportunity of becoming a good boxer or will he get more.. This will create some suspense for the audience.