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How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? Cryptic
Genre • We chose for our opening sequence to follow the conventions of a thriller genre to create a suspenseful and exciting experience for viewers.
Genre • We chose for our opening sequence to follow the conventions of a thriller genre to create a suspenseful and exciting experience for viewers. • Categorised by giving the viewer feelings of suspense, adrenaline, anxiety and excitement. • The protagonist chases leads.
Genre • We chose for our opening sequence to follow the conventions of a thriller genre to create a suspenseful and exciting experience for viewers. • It is common for the protagonist to become isolated from the people they once trusted and relied on. • Thrillers are usually fast paced with plot twists and high stakes. • There are lots of flight and conflict scenes. • The protagonist is typically a likeable character.
Genre • We chose for our opening sequence to follow the conventions of a thriller genre to create a suspenseful and exciting experience for viewers. • Some common features are: Quick cuts, shadows, tense music, flashbacks, montages, low-key lighting, binary opposition between good and bad and violence. • Some common themes are: Ransoms, captives, heists, revenge and kidnappings.
Mise-en-scene: Costuming Cryptic Extreme measures • Cryptic contrasts to other thriller medical dramas. • Other medical dramas are usually in professional and sterile conditions. • Our film subverts this shown by the costume differences. • This creates suspense and interest around our film as it is a countertype so seems unusual and mysterious.
Mise-en-scene: props Extreme measures Cryptic • Our film also subverts stereotypes with the surgeon drinking a glass of whiskey. • We can also see unprofessional themes from the bloodied box which is unusual for thriller films
Mise-en-scene • In cryptic we see the surgeon putting on gloves showing he has some care for the condition of the organ . • On the other hand, we see him wiping a scalpel on his dirty apron which goes against this idea.
Lighting, camera work and narrative Cryptic A cure for wellness • Similar shots in both films. • Mid shot showing the surgeon looking over the body in both • Close up shot of the victims face in both. • Similar camera work displays the similar narrative of a doctor abusing their power over someone. • Differences in lighting in both films. • A cure for wellness has an older by using desaturation. • Cryptic has modern LED lights to create low key lighting.
Sound: soundtrack and sound effects Cryptic The donor • Soundtrack is used to add tension in both. • Tension adheres to the thriller genre. • Soft beeping of a heart rate in the donor. • Heart rate monitor in Cryptic linking to conventions of a hospital film.
Titles Cryptic The donor • The donor titles last for a similar duration to make the text readable for all reading speeds. • The duration was 3x reading speed. • We made the name larger than the title. • Faded in and out the titles in both films. • Our film adheres to typical titles In the introduction to films.
Titles • We can see similarities in titles between the pictures based on the order and the text sizes. • We chose to put our title in the center to show it’s significance.
Editing The donor Cryptic • Other medical dramas use montages • If we were to develop our film further, we may add montages however instead we wanted to focus more on the narrative to hook people to the storyline. • We wanted to follow Barthes theory of enigma codes by showing themes and ideas relevant in the storyline to raise questions so viewers watch on.
Narrative 12 hour shift Cryptic • Narrative similarities • Both involve themes of kidney transplants. • Cryptic adheres to themes presented in other thrillers • Cooler boxes in both videos shown by close up shots however in 12 hour shift it is a clean box.
Camera work • Similar camera work • Close up shots of the organs and wide shots of the doctor over the body. Cryptic 12 hour shift
Surgeon Character introductions Businessman Victim
Social groups and representations within my opening title sequence • Gender roles • Status and power roles • Race
Gender • Male gaze shown through close up shots of the girls back and immobilized state. • The girl has significantly less screen time than the two male character. • The girl is lying on the table on her front. • She is wearing a pink top • The sound of the scalpel on the apron is threating. • Dynamic between the two men follows stereotypical views. • Girl on the table has links to modern themes • Long hair shown by wide and close up shots.
Status and class roles • Low angle shot on the businessman. • High angle on the surgeon. • The surgeon is wearing a hoodie and the businessman is wearing a suit. • Sound- music escalated when ted walks away from the window • Opposition in their actions • Businessman is shown using bitcoin by an over the shoulder mid shot. • Close up shots show a scalpel in the surgeons hand and a mouse in the businessman's hand.
Race • All the characters depicted in our films have a white ethnicity. • This subverts the typical representation within films that criminals have a black or eastern European representation. • We showed a countertype for this because we showed our criminals as white men.
