Question 1:
The events in the scene fit the action adventure film genre
because of the violence used in the clip between the clear protagonist (Simon
peg) and the antagonists (the elderly residents). This fits the action
adventure genre because there is a clear difference between the hero and the
enemy.
Another way in which the character or events fit the action
adventure genre is that the protagonist is shown as a one man army which is
usually the case in action adventure films in our modern day. Through the
shootout you can clearly see that he is outnumbered which gives the feel of the
heroic one man army.
Question 2:
Soundtrack- the soundtrack they use in the clip is sort of a
heroic background tune, there is also the flute sounds which you hear in a
western film. You can hear throughout the first part of the clip when he enters
the area that they are trying to mimic the sound from a western stand-off. Then
once the violence kicks in the soundtrack changes to a more modern cop show
fight seen soundtrack with the techno feel of modern warfare. Also in the
soundtrack you can hear the mechanical sounds of the gun shooting and the
reloading which is loud to sound realistic, also you get the sound of clunking
cans when the kids are grabbing the spray cans. They also use a sort of wind
flow sound which gets gradually louder to build suspension, also to build
suspension they add the sound of bass getting slowly louder and faster until
the violence breaks out.
Editing- during the clip there is not much editing feature
in the start of the clip. But as you get further into the clip the editing
picks up pace and continually gets faster until the ending of the clip. There
is a lot of quick edits in this clip to snap the action from one enemy to the
hero and again and again. There is also a lot of muzzle flashes added into the
clip to give the gunshots more of a feel.
Mise en scene- The clip is set in an average country town,
in the clip it is set out just to look like a normal day with no expected fight
scene with elderly residents walking around minding their own business. The
costumes of the residents are just normal but suspicious for instance the old
man which wears the long cost which looks suspicious because he may be hiding
something to the public eye. There is also the main characters costume which is
loaded with weapons and protection, this gives off the look of a one man army
which represents him being the one true hero in the clip.
Camerawork- during the clip there is some over the shoulder
shots when the woman is shooting out of the window from her house. There is
also some panning shots when the kids are running away to spray the cameras at
the start of the clip. There is also a
dolly zoom in the action scene it is quick and short but quick and effective to
highlight enemies in the clip.
Question 3:
There are a few stereotypes in the extract; the hero is
represented as a stereotypical hero in an old country western type film where
the protagonist enters the scene on a white horse looking heroic and powerful.
At the start of the extract the residents are represented as stereotypical
residents in an old country town with the mass variety of the population of the
town look like pensioners. The children in the extract are represented as
typical youths with their hoods up covering their faces like a typical teenager
and using spray paint to vandalise the local area as kids would when they’re
not at school. Also the local vicar is represented as a stereotypical vicar
where he is just kindly talking to the local residents and is wearing his vicar
collar band as all vicars would. Also the police officer in the car is
represented very stereotypically as a common police officer where they just sit
in their car all day doing nothing because they’ve chosen the job as possibly a
low maintenance job in a country town like the one in this extract. Later on in
the extract you get the stereotype of the enemy where in the back of the elderly
man’s rover he has an array of weapons which would usually be seen from a drug
dealer in a action adventure film but instead we have elderly people shooting
very heavy weapons at the protagonist. also in the extract you can see the
stereotypical CCTV operator where they do not actually look at the cameras and
just sit there and watch it.
