Wednesday 29 September 2010

I Am Legend

Conventions;
-Exposing of story (cure for cancer)
-Enigma established (what happened to the city in which will smith is in)
-Different aspect ratio (from TV to widescreen)
-Runs audio without footage (news story)
-Establishing shot, setting location (America + city + yellow cab = New York)
-Amplifies Enigma (why is the city overgrown, where are the people, why has this happened, etc)
-Creating diageses (world of fictional place)
-Hook (why is Will Smith still alive)
-Tension building (silence when about to shoot antelope)
-Synchronous music (suggestion of sound)
-Silence amplifies contrast (antelope shooting)
-Realistic Aesthetic (trying to recreate actual experiences; news story)

Non-Conventions;
-Takes a while to expose the story
-No non-digetic sound track
-Nothing to interrupt audience attention

1 comment:

  1. you need to start to add images to support your analyses: eg screen grabs, stills, hyperlinks to relevant pages to evidence your atatements. you can embedd these in your post of add a gadget box to the site - if you are not sure how let me know and i can go through it with you

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