The chosen genre behind our media product is crime with the sub genre of action. We have explored and represented this genre through themes, characters and conventions within our product. The themes our production include violence, heroism and mystery. These are all common conventional themes of a crime genre which are featured in widely known films such as the fast series. This is where a lot of inspiration and influences for our production came from especially when creating the characters that will feature in our film. The main protagonist is a male who according to Props 8 stock characters, would be classed as the hero. This is reinforces the male stereotype of being the hero who is the protector of the woman. We conveyed this through lower angle shots to give him power and an importance to the scene foreshadowing how vital his character will be. We avoided jump cuts and fast editing in our opening sequence as this prevents it from coming across as a trailer for our production.
For example in one of the films that i have studied which is called LUV, the opening sequence is very calm and simplistic yet still holds enigma so there would be none for jumpy editing. We have also created the narrative to be non linear causing the opening sequence to be the dis equilibrium in the storyline. This is common and conventional in crime films as it creates an enigma, enticing the audience in from an early stage so it causes them to watch on. An example of this would be Limitless which starts of with a man standing on the edge of a high building with non diegetic gun shots being heard in the back ground. This encourages the audience to engage and continue watching.
Barthes’ enigma code played a massive role in the narrative of our production. We used this theory as much as possible to create tension and mystery which are conventional themes of a crime genre. For example, the eerie, dietetic sound of the telephone ringing and the close up pan in to see ‘unknown’ written on the phone, gives an enigmatic effect on the narrative of the opening sequence and prompts questions such as who could be on the phone.Also we used a variety of hidden camera shots to represent the main protagonists being spied upon which foreshadows later events. This also creates an enigma as it connotes the ideology of new characters that introduce the dis equilibrium of the opening sequence. This theme of the main protagonists being watched is a convention of the crime genre so would be popular for our target audience of crime fans who watch films like taken which feature this theme.
By including conventional sounds in our production, it creates tension and suspense to the narrative which is stereotypical in crime films. A few examples of this would include the music we used and how the pace increased along with the narrative. When the narrative became intense and violent, the tempo of the music and volume would increase to add to the thrill factor and the intensity of the scene. Whereas during the equilibrium at the start we are greeted with calm, lighthearted, normal music to set the scene and give the impression that everything at that point is fine. This was inspired by many films but we many based our music and sounds from Taken. This is because they were successful in creating tension even from the simplest of sounds.
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