1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
THE EX-AGENT
Our media production uses forms and conventions
of real media products, such as stock characters.
Our first character, “The Ex-Agent” is an
important character and personality in a secret
agent, action film (Not necessarily being an EX-
Agent). Our character, “Will” (Played by Philip
Martin) may not look that part in this opening
scene, but we have targeted the cliché personas of
a secret agent and somewhat based him on them.
For example, he is a very clever man, picking out
what he hears and quickly coming to conclusions.
He is also confident about his views and abilities, as
best seen in the conversation scene when he does
not cower from the confrontation from the agent
but rather rises to his challenge and fights his point.
We decided to give Will a strong British
accent to indicate that he is a stereotypical British
agent, who fought for his country in MI5 (until
mistakenly blamed for a failed mission). It also says
a lot about the character, the British stereotype of
being reserved is a goal we aimed to portray in our
film, carried out by showing him spending his time
alone around the house doing not a lot.

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
THE AGENT
Our next (And only other) character is the current
agent. This character is portrayed in the opening
scene as almost the “Bad Guy”. This isn’t however
the case later on in the narrative, but with the
opening scene portrayed from Will’s point of
view, we decided it was important for our audience
to view him like this as Will currently does.
We targeted some of the stock
characteristics of secret agents from other films
such as the “Bourne” or “Mission Impossible”
trilogies. As his character is intended to be a
dedicated and trusted agency worker, we portrayed
him with little emotion and feeling. We wanted the
affect that he had been sent by someone at the
agency with a mission, so to achieve this we tried to
make his lines sound more scripted than Will’s.
We dressed him in a smart suit and some
stereotypical sunglasses so that the character didn’t
need much introduction, as the audience would
assume this characters position in the storyline. It
also highlights the difference between an agent
currently working and Will, our ex-agent.

3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
THE HOUSE
One way we challenged the stock setting of an
action film was moving away from the inter city
settings and moved to an average suburban
household, away from much action.
We chose to do this because it
successfully juxtaposes what an audience would
expect to see in an action movie. We wanted to
oppose this expectation because we were using the
character of Will to challenge the stereotypical view
of a secret agent. In other words, because Will is no
longer a secret agent, we wanted to show that he
was living a normal life where he can relax.
Combined with the short scene from the park, we
think we successfully showed Will living his private
and now boring life outside of the agency.