QUESTION 1)

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR

CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?

The forms and conventions

of my media product, Jack
Stone, are the features and
characteristics of an action
film. My production uses,
challenges and develops
many of these ideas.

The forms and conventions of an action film.

THE NARRATIVE

Usually in the opening sequence (THE EQUIIBRIUM) a sense of mystery is

established. Followed by the DISRUPTION where something goes wrong, the
RECOGNITION where the good guy/main character in the film finds out what
is wrong and then moves on to the RESTORATION aspect of the narrative
and finally finds a RESOLUTION and saves the day.

THE CHARACTERS

There is a good guy in typical action films this character is a secret agent,
police man, some sort of law enforcement.
There is a villain in most existing media texts this person is evil, has a
motive against human morals and is quite often foreign.

STEREOTYPICAL CONVENTIONS

Props guns, weapons, mystery bags, hi-tech etc

Costumes Smart suits, blacked out sunglasses (sense of professionalism
or mystery)

Laid back, casual

persona.

CHALLENGES

Jack
Stone
JUXTAPOSITION

Alaric
Husted
Slick and straight
suited bad guy.

Laid back, casual

persona.

CHALLENGES
The characters personalities and the
ways in which they come across to
the audience are a juxtaposition to
each other. In other existing media
texts like mine these personas would
be on the opposite characters.

Jack
Stone

JUXTAPOSITION
Usually in action films, the generic
conventions of the characters are that
the secret agent (the main character,
good guy.) is the one who is well
dressed, smart looking, and has a clean,
crisp attitude. However my production
challenges this idea as the bad guy in
my film has this characterisation,
whereas, Jack Stone has the cool and
confident swagger.

Alaric
Husted
Slick and straight
suited bad guy.

CHALLENGES
The female in the opening scene
is called Rolanda Witz,
throughout the film the plot
unfolds that she in fact was in a
relationship with Alaric Husted,
brother to Kristof Husted the
German enemy. In the opening
scene she is part of the bag
swap. The fact that she is a
woman challenges the idea that
women are sensitive and caring
to others because this character
is involved in the criminal acts of
the villains in the film.

REINFORCEMENTS
!!! IN THE OPENING
SCENE THE AUDIENCE IS
UNAWARE THAT ALARIC
AND ROLANDA ARE
FOREIGN !!!

Conventional of an
action film.

Makes the
audience
suspicious of
the characters.

Foreign
Villains

The fact that the audience do not

know who these people are and
what their motives are makes
them suspicious of the
characters.

In existing media
texts characters
would be
introduced to the
audience when
the actor is
speaking in
another
language

REINFORCEMENTS
The Black Bag
The MacGuffin

Typical generic
convention of an action
film.

If the bag was brightly coloured this

would challenge the stereotypes of
these ideas. In existing texts e.g. The
Expatriate, the bag used in the swap
is also black. In my production I
wanted to use the bag swap as a
typical action generic convention
because it would help tell the
audience the type of film Jack Stone
is.