Forms and Conventions

Whilst making my film, I shot it in the intention of it being a postmodern film, and one aspect that postmodern films have is to go against the Grand Narratives of conventional films. So straight away from the start my film was designed to go against the forms and conventions in several ways. One way it had done this was the plot behind the film 'slated' religion in a bad way which isn't the first time this has been done in the media, but it still went against normal conventions of god being the 'good' guy and religion being the 'absolute truth'. In the film the character 'governor' represents God & the Devil but ends up saying they where made up to control.

Another way that my film goes against conventions it the ending of the film which can be regarded as the climax in most ways because its a fight seen. But how does this go against conventions? Well the action scene at the end plays with time and space, another feature of postmodernism, because in this scene everything is played backwards and in slow-motion which of course is rarely seen in todays films.

My film goes against conventions, but my 2 ancillary tasks do not on the other hand; my Poster and Magazine Review. For both of these tasks I researched a lot into the conventions of how a standard magazine or poster is designed and made. So for my poster I looked at films like the Matrix, mainly because it also is a postmodern film but has a standard design to it. I also looked at the Casino Royale poster which is a action/thriller film so its the same genre, but also has a standard regular design.

As for my magazine review, I looked at lots of different 'Empire' magazines for inspiration and then based a lot of my design work around that, I also then looked at how to write a magazine review through research. So for both my poster and Magazine review I followed conventions, as for my Film I went against film conventions.