Conventions of Walk the Line the story of Johnny Cash's hardships in life.
Key conventions we must take from this film:
- 1. Show the character healthy and free of addiction.
- 2. Show the oppisite with the character suffering from addiction.
- 3. Convey the fact that he onced had an incredible career but let it all out of his grasp for drugs and alcohol.
- 4. Use realistic locations that look like Western America (possibly hard to pull of but can be done).
- 5. Show love life interest slowly being ripped apart by addiction.
- 6. Convey sympathy that will provoke the viewer to feel for this mans struggle in life.
- 7. Put across that there is always hope in life no matter how bad the road ahead may seem.
- 8. Great music comes from a depressed mind, music must be a key elemant, music is his saviour and realise from the harshness of the world.
Are there any more technical conventions that you are looking to include? These might be stylistic features that you have identified in your influential films; camerawork or editing, for example.
ReplyDeleteTechnical conventions are very simple filming techniques, nothing fancy, a massive lack of computer generated stuff. The titles are white writing on a black back ground in a normal font. This shows a mature way of filming respecting the idustries old times. Something that luckily for us is very easy to achieve with a simple editing program.
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