I can't believe we're already on CCR's, but there's no time to waste so I'm starting to gather all my research and start my presentations.
The first question that I will be researching is:
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
So, our film won%, follows drama conventions. Our main character Alea Punter, struggles with an internal and external conflict, which is very common in dramas. Our film opening also uses low-key lighting, which follows the drama conventions for technique.
Our reasoning for following these conventions is because of the emotion and message we wanted to send, but also because we liked the plot and idea. Through her struggle of keeping up with bills and her gambling addiction, her situation represents a small percentage of the American population (unemployed with a gambling problem). Unlike most people living in poverty, they are hardworking and didn’t grow up with a middle class family, Alea was just lazy, she never listened to her parents, and would always rather take advice from other people (like the random Reddit person..).
I think this would make a great film to send a message to people who take for granted what they have. I always hear my classmates talk about how they will just Chat GPT all the classwork, even the simplest things, like a 12 word vocabulary assignment, or putting a news article in order. I also hear about how they would use AI for all their assignments the previous year, and only start studying right before the end of year exams… I don’t mean to be rude, but it’s always the people who want a professional career, like a doctor or something, and I’m always wondering how would they survive? I also think of my future doctors, hoping they didn’t cheat their way through med school somehow…
Anyways, another technique we use in our film opening is pacing and rhythm to build tension and using close-ups. There is a specific scene in the beginning of the film where Alea is on the edge of her seat and you start to see the panic in her face because the team she has bet on and rooting for might be losing, but suddenly the microwave beeps and she needs to go get her popcorn!
Sources:
University at Buffalo. (2014). In areas with the highest poverty, the death rate is 27 percent higher than in those in the top fifth of economic advantage.
- FarjanaTahmin. (n.d.). *Conventions of drama films* [SlideShare presentation]. SlideShare. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/conventions-of-drama-films/9837149
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