The Hurt Locker Questions

The Hurt locker

The hurt locker fits the conventions of an action adventure genre in many ways. One way the film fits these conventions is the characters that are included in the film, the main character that helps the man detach the bomb from his chest fits the genre as he looks like a strong leader and he knows how to control his group. His costume is a war suit which also fits the genre as a lot of action adventure films are set in a war.  Also the events that take place fit the action adventure genre. When the poor man walks up to the group of soldier’s suspense raises and the suicide bomb event showed the acting skills of the cast as the characters really had to act afraid and scared. The death of the man also fit the conventions of as there is always a surprise death when you begin to believe that they will be able to live but they do not.

Mise en scene:

• A man is stood in the middle of the set, people all around them with guns ready
• They talk and shout and make the man stay still
• It shoes you people in a window and on a roof above
• A man looks around and walks over to the guys ready to shoot the man
• The men talk to each other
• Man opens his shirt to see what’s inside
• Guys with gun move further back
• Bomb inside the man’s shirt
• Man gets on his knees and touches sky
• Men argue between them
• One of the army men puts a suit on and goes towards the guy in the middle
• Guns are pointed at him
• Man puts hands behind head
• Army man looks inside his shirt at the timer and wires in the bomb
• Man tries to cut off the wires
• Everyone else runs as the bomb is about to explode
• Man is left to die
• Bomb explodes

Camera Work:

• eye level shot
• camera pans to the right
• camera zooms in
• then keeps changing direction between left and right
• camera zooms out
• camera follows the man
• camera tracks in
• pans to the left
• eye level shot
• camera zooms in
• camera follows man again
• over the shoulder shot
• camera zooms in
• more eye level shots
• camera zooms out
• camera tilts down
• camera keeps following man
• camera flicks between people
• camera pans right
• camera tilts up
• camera zooms out
• eye level
• camera keeps on flicking between people
• camera zooms in quickly
• close in shot
• camera tilts down
• low shot
• camera zooms in
• camera tilts up
• camera tilts up again
• eye level shot