One way in which our group challenged the conventions was by making the main character, firstly a woman and secondly by the characteristics she has.
She's not your average, stereotypical woman. She's a specially trained agent that is no longer in the line of work. She lives on her own, works 9-5 and regularly goes to the gym to work out. This challenges the conventions because she is the opposite of a traditional woman. Her independence would come through ore if we produced a longer length film.
A traditional convention of an action films, that I've noticed from watching previous ones, is that the very first shot is normally an establishing shot where you can figure out the location and see the scene. It might introduce a few characters or sometimes none at all.In ours, however, we jump straight in to the action. This engages the audience automatically. They'd want to know what is happening and why. We did this because it makes a change to the traditional conventions. We wanted to do something different that the audience might not expect.
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