Question 1In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Inspirations For Our Movie

Sherlock HolmesReasons inspiring from this movie:

The protagonist couple solving a crime and the relationship between one another.

Sherlock Holmes gave us the idea of hiding the identity of the antagonist.

Also, the chasing idea within our movie with the antagonist and a victim.

Reservoir DogsReasons inspiring from this movie:

We took interest from Reservoir Dogs as they had really nice shots, framing and lighting within some scenes.

Reservoir Dogs also uses props such as guns to show how lives can be taken away within a split second.

Bourne IdentityReasons inspiring from this movie:

Bourne Identity gave us the idea of a nation conflict plot as in Bourne Identity there is multiple countries involved and there is a secret government plan.

The film also included a nice steel blue color effect throughout, making it seem more like a crime film.

How our inspiration movies linked to our Movie & Poster

This shot was done from the inspiration from the Reservoir Dogs movie as it captures the facial expression of the protagonists and gives a hint to where and what was in that specific shot.

Also gives an interesting perspective and shot to the audience and not only just behind his back.

Concealment Of Identity

The concealment of the antagonists identity comes from the inspiration of Sherlock Holmes. It also made us relate to the crime genre to how the protagonists were going to find out who is the killer / antagonist.We also used blurry shots to shield the identity of the killer.

We also challenged this by never revealing the identity at the end to leave a cliff hanger / opposite ending to generic crime films.

Chase SceneWe evolved our chase scene around the Bourne Identity car chase. As most crime movies and action movies they include a chase scene where it leads to another problem or a minute of peace.

However, from this we went against it and included a small on foot chase scene, using fast cuts and panning, handheld movement with the camera to exaggerate the running and chasing with the protagonist and the antagonist.

Our film also feels and acts in the same way other crime films behave. For fast movements in certain scenes there are fast cuts and movements with the camera shots.

Props

Our movie also uses the props of a crime genre as we have used generic props and situations in crime films. We used guns to show that there is a killing in films as in Reservoir Dogs they use a lot of guns to represent the conflict between one another.

In our film however, we chose that the antagonist to use the gun to clearly verify that he is the killer. Our film is also different to other movies as the there is no heavy gun fight but only one shot to kill one victim.

Visual Effects

Our movie shows our crime genre as we used a color effect of the steel cold blue to give off the impression that it’s a crime film, we got that inspiration from the ‘Bourne’ film trilogy.

This gave the movie a more dusty, agent styled secret operation look. The color visual effect also made some scenes more cold blooded and serious.

PosterPoster inspired from GTA posters. Multiple screen grabs of montages shows different scenes of the movie.

It also gives a stylish look than other posters. It gives fast glimpses within the film, characters and what a crime film has to offer.

Poster 2

The poster also represents a contrast between two nations as two flags are within the texts of the title, make it feel link with the film and feel like it’s a professional and a big budget film.

It also gives a hint of the plot as the old world war flags of the Soviet Union, presenting and referencing the cold war in a modern film.