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I have a list of FOUR questions that I will have to respond to in 2 videos by creatively and critically reflecting on the portfolio project I've been working on with my team as a whole.
The first question I have to answer is: "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?"
Our product uses conventions to its advantage. We wanted to create a fun Action Comedy Spy movie and there are a plethora of great movies that fall into each of those separate genres for us to take inspiration and learn from. The structure, for example, looks a lot like it could fit the opening of a Bond film, having a cold open showing the main character in a situation that has less importance to the rest of the plot but showcases their skills as a spy. The comedy is very similar to movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy or Bullet Train which is very situational and interlaced even into serious scenes. And the action is similar to the Bourne or, again, James Bond movies. These conventions all helped us to create a film that is worthy of the genres it is placed under.
Our story opening is based around a girl, Agent Vienna, who is a superspy on a task to take a dangerous case from a male villain character and take it back to her base. She is driven afterwards by her assistant, Jolly who is also a girl. Vienna's character is a mix between James Bond and Tony Stark, both male characters. Vienna breaks the gender conventions of this genre as most of the "cool secret agent" characters are played by men. In most spy films, women play either a sexualized twist villain, a love interest, or a secretary from a spy agency but never the main character. Vienna coming in and tricking a villain into giving her the case shows how the main spy role can be played by a woman and be just as amazing, believable, and intriguing as if it were played by a male.
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