I am starting to plan for my Creative Critical Reflection, the first question is, "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?"
Genre Conventions:
-Post-apocalyptic world
-Caused by natural causes
-May be centered around society after disaster
-Survival
-Non-human creatures
My conventions:
-Post-apocalyptic
-Zombies
-Female protagonist
-Teen protagonist
Protagonist representation:
-Female
-Young
-Resourceful
Based on this research I created a script:
"Productions within the apocalyptic genre typically follow a protagonist who is trying to survive during, or after a disastrous event. Apocalypses are caused by pandemics, natural catastrophes, nuclear war, or alien invasions. Post-apocalyptic films are extremely common in this genre, post-apocalyptic films focus mainly on the collapse of society after the event has happened. Humans are typically antagonists in these films even though the apocalypse may be caused by non-humans. I notice in most apocalypse media, the protagonist is often a middle-aged man. In my opening, I wanted to strive away from that convention and have a teenage female as my main character. A convention that I used in my project is the idea of a post-apocalyptic society, my film takes place after a zombie apocalypse. I wanted my protagonist to break the traditional stereotype of a teenage girl which is typically viewed as incapable or dramatic. The main character in my film breaks these stereotypes because she has been able to survive alone for weeks and is resourceful. I had her use a switchblade in the last scene because I wanted to show just how capable of survival she is."
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