Inspiration for the film: character profiles

Films outside the mainstream market both within the UK and the USA subvert a number of genre conventions in terms of editing and mise-en-scene and character profiles, hence inspiring particular features of our film: flashbacks and not conforming to particular social stereotypes of gendered conventions. 

One film in particular:  'Pandora' (translated into English) that is a south Korean catastrophe drama film directed by the award wining and Koreas most renowned director: Park Jung-Woo.The film was first released in south Korea on the 7th December 2016 and within November 2016, Netflix acquired international rights to the film for distribution in 190 countries worldwide. The film offers an emotional detailed scenario , to how society would react to a nuclear disaster. The film subverted stereotypical societal conventions in terms of how the film exploited the government for how they had handled and dealt with the situation but also showed how secrets had been kept from the Korean president at the time, worsening the situation. Many films tend to favour the government and political system. However in recent years films such as 'made in Dagenham' were able to show the historical sexist segregation that occurred within both societal and political institutions and how the patriarchal ideology was deeply rooted within. The film explicitly highlighted a change with society but also displayed how the film market is rapidly changing in terms of how creativity is able to not only entertain but inform i.e. how those within power may react and how they have done within the past.      This exploitation is what enforces social change due to the exposure of truth through films. 

Moreover it showed an emotional side to the male president, which stereotypically subverts gendered stereotypes within films as even though a male upheld an high status role, he was allowed to express both strength and an deep emotional side to his identity. This allowed the film to enhance emotional gratification; allowing the narrative to feel more human which was also established through the execution of the script! The script spoke to you on a psychological level especially within the scene of where a young male went on a suicide mission that would save millions of individuals lives and his own family and was granted tv time to say his final goodbyes.  Therefore the audience could connect both emotionally and psychologically. 

scene where protagonist was given tv time to say goodbye to his family and ask the government why it had come to this.

showing all the government(male orientated)

This transpired into our film 'Virago' in terms of how 'Edward' throughout never hides his human emotions and allows himself to feel the realness  of his body. Showing how males are able to connect on an emotional level and for this to be utterly natural! Rather than having to hide ones feelings in order to be socially accepted. The film also highlights the issue of how males also suffer from mental health issues. As stereotypically 'mental health' has been attached females in particular, segregating males to the outskirts and being dismissed. 

CU of Edward emotionally leaving his body: Highlighting mental health issues and how it is the reality and day-to-day living.  

highlighting how emotionally Edward feels lost within both understanding who he is and reality. The shot was to established how emotionally he is being 'swallowed' up within unknown guilt and confusion.