Genre - character types

My protagonist will be:

• Strong
• Female
• 17-18
• Independent
• Indie

She will not convene to Laura Mulvey's 'Male Gaze Theory' in which there is explicit evidence of examples of women being presented as sexual objects in the media, through the use of camera movement and shot types. The main focus' are 

• How men look at women
• How women view themselves 
• How women see other women

I want to not have the protagonist to be part of the male gaze theory and not to be seen as a sexual object, like in most other media products for example the trailer for sex tape, in which camera angles, shots and movement are used to show the female protagonist as a sexual object. 

In my media product my protagonist will follow the conventions of a male instead of a female, in which the the female will have male protagonist characteristics of bravery, mental strength and power over the other characters in the media product. Although the male will also portray this just not as shown as much as the female protagonist.

Genre - Narrative Structure

Stereotypically in horror films there is a male protagonist who will save the damsel in distress. Usually the narrative goes:

1. Protagonist ‘hero’ male and femalego out somewhere e.g. camping trip

 2.
Antagonistic murderer usuallywearing a mask or something to cover their face (also usually male)captures/ tries to kill/trapsprotagonist characters

 3.
Protagonists escape or die.

Stereotypically in zombie films the narrative usually goes:

1.
Out break on the news – people panic 

2.
Introduced to characters
(stereotypically male protagonist)

3.
Kill some zombies and travel 

4.
Either die or survive and left inconclusive

Although, these stereotypes can be broken:

Zombieland: 

My narrative structure:My narrative structure will not follow the conventional narrative of structures, mine will be shown in reverse slow motion in which it will follow te conventions of a zombie film but in reverse in which it will make my media product unconventional but conventional at the same time. I think this will make my product unique.

Genre - Iconography



In my media product:

My location
- Abandoned buildings
- A town centre type place
I am only using two locations for my media product because the two locations in use are for the flash back and the 'present day'

Treatment.

A teenage brother and sister's story of surviving the hardest task of their lives, surviving alone in a world ridden with flesh eating monsters, living in an abandoned house there story will be told in reverse.