Genre Conventions

L/O: To explore genre codes & conventions

War

Genre Conventions

Guns
Explosions
Tanks
Helicopters
Jets
Men
Gun Sound Effects
Something Goes Wrong
People Die

Directors
Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
Peter Berg - Lone Survivor
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

Movie Stars
Tom Hardy
William Fichtner
Ewan McGregor

Movie Posters
Props: Gun, Helicopter.
Setting: Dark, Minimalistic
Setting: Shadow, Dark

Teen Appeals
I think teenagers would like Letters From Iwo Jima because it has a lot of story and action.

Five Ingredients
Guns
Explosions
Tanks
Men
Grenades

Social Issues
Black Hawk Down and Lone Survivor shows the truth of war and how it really is in modern day situation, covering areas like terrorism.

Recipe For War Trailer

Ingredients:

A Main Soldier Character

A Main Terrorist Villain Of Some Sort

Guns

Armoured Vehicles

Explosions

A Middle East Setting

A Problem

A Time Limit

Dramatic Music

Method:

Take some soldiers and the main soldier guy and send them on an operation to extract Osama Bin Laden from an apartment complex and then it turns out that Osama Bin Laden is hanging around in the sewers with the ninja turtles and attempts to nuke the apartment complex in the sahara desert.