Evaluation: Directors chair interview part 1

 1). In what ways does your media product use or challenge conventions of real media products?

Our media product uses, develops, challenges forms and conventions of real media products in our action thriller genre. We first used real media products in our teaser to portray what genre our trailer is. In an action thriller trailer the pace of the teaser trailer usually starts off slow and gets quicker to build suspense and excitement just like the trailer for the film Taken. We started our trailer off by opening the scene with an establishing shot then a location shot to show what country and city our film is set in. After this there are 3 or 4 shots were the audience may not quite understand what is happening, these are slow paced. We then introduce fast paced action scenes to keep the audience in excitement and thrill, another action thriller genre trailer this is seen in is James Bond films, Casino Royale and Skyfall. We use title slides with specific words like 'Emperor' to go with our film name Seizer. Seize means to take, and our film name Seizer comes from Ceaser which was the emperor of Rome. Instead of using dialogue which is common in action thriller genre's we used title slides instead to tell a story. We broke conventions by having the hero portrayed as the villain. This creates confusion and keeps suspense as the audience believe they know who the character is, when they dont. We wanted to make a conventional film consisting of different films and add our own spin. Our main film focuses we used on our film were Hitman, Bourne identity, Taken and Skyfall.

This shot was important because in our teaser we wanted to create the same darkness.
The lamp seen in this shot was used to make it seem as if it was dark outside. Although the lighting from the blind shows a silhouette of James Bond, we decided to not use that but instead close the curtains to make it more dark. We used a torch on half of my face which created a silhouette like figure of the person behind.

   This was the shot used influenced by Skyfall to try and create a silhouette of the person behind the main protagonist.