Convention and social issues

I believe my product challenges conventions and represents social issues. I believe that my product uses and challenges the conventions of a comedy. Normally a comedy's main emphasis is on humor. We do use several conventions of comedy because we designed the opening to make the Audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect. We show this throughout our movie opening like the scene in the elevator where we show the two men trying to get away from the elderly woman and then we show the elderly woman in a slow motion scene. But we also challenge it my adding many elements off an action. Like I said before a comedy's job is usually only too make the  Audience laugh. But in our comedy we want too add elements of violence, physical feats, and frantic chases. We showed these elements of action during our film opening with the several scenes of drugs and weapons in the beginning. We also showed it by using dark black colors and masks which automatically make the audience think of action.

Also the beat up man in the trunk shows the theme of violence that we want to show during our movie. We also challenge the convention of what a criminal or gang member is suppose to be. Usually criminals in the media are shown as scary, big, and heartless men who have very little education. They are usually portrayed as some type of animals who will do anything for money. But in my film opening we show that these two criminals are different and are not as scary but they are actually likable characters who the audience can build a connection with. It is also clear that these two men have a very deep connection with each other and are not as heartless as people think they are.

 Our film opening also demonstrates crime issues. Out film opening takes place in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit has been the most dangerous city in America for the past 4 years. This is because violent crimes such as murder rape robbery and assault occur here 5 times the national average. Most of these crimes come from gang related violence. Our two main characters are in a gang, and it is obvious that they are because after they finish getting ready they call their boss who pays them for their work. Although we did add a comedic twist to our film, gang related crime is a big issue that effects many cities in our country.

Bibliography:

Fisher, D. (2015, October 29). Detroit - pg.1. Retrieved April 07, 2018, from https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45jggj/1-detroit/