1. Film title Speed
Director Jan De Bont
Year 1994
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Area of Analysis Example Technical feature (Camera/sound/mise en scene/
editing)
Conforms to genre? Y/N Breaks conformity? Y/N
If yes, how?
Codes and conventions
It is an action thriller film. The movie includes bombs gunfights and
fighting scenes as you see in the screen when
you watch the film. There are sounds such as
screaming noise from the passengers on the
bus there are also gun shots and explosions.
In the film there are a lot of quick cuts to be
honest I am not surprised because most
action movies out there use quick cuts to
make the movie look fast and be suitable for
the genre and that’s why they actually use it.
yes It breaks conformity because
it is an action thriller movie
and it does live up to that
genre.
Setting
In the city and a airport
runway
There are many sounds in this film such as
screaming noise explosions and gunshots it
will have to have these sounds to fit in with
the genre you’re not going to not have loud
sounds in an action movie. In an action movie
if you watch it carefully you will have all
types of shots in the movies not just angle
shots you will have quick cuts to speed up
the movie to make it look fast and to be
suitable for the movie; action’. The movie is
held in America in a busy city then ends up
on an airport runway.
yes Setting wise it breaks
conformity because it was
the perfect location to be
shot there were wide roads
runways etc.
Character
The main character is young
who Is a cop.
He uses a lot of profanity and shouts a lot he
is slim ripped up hero good cop etc. he is a
good cop who protects the civilians in the bus
yes Characteristic wise they
chosen the perfect person to
play the part he is young

2. from having it explode with the passengers
inside it.
healthy looking, and brave.
That’s why I think it breaks
conformity.
Themes
Crime, violence, and death The hero survives at the end and the villain
dies with a server injury
yes It breaks conformity because
there were a lot of
explosions, gunshots,
damage and death so I think
it does conform.
Narrative
Narrative structure The cop stops a robbery beforehand and
later on, the same man who robbery did not
go to plan puts a bomb on a bus and the
same cop who bust the robbery which is john
travern stops the bus from blowing up
yes It breaks conformity because
I have watched the movie
and this is what exactly
happens in the film.
Iconography
Left hand drive and the
accent also the big roads.
Everything within the screen in other words
mise en scene looked American the reason
why I think this is first of all the weather is
amazing and the big wide roads and in the
bus the driver is on the left side if it was in
the UK then the driver should be in the right
hand side
yes By watching the movie I
knew straight away that the
film was shot in America
because of the roads and
accent so if I found that out
by watching the movie then it
does break conformity and
that’s what I think.
Ideological message
The message they are
trying to give out is ‘Be
safe and cautious ’
The reason why I think this is because
throughout the movie there was
danger everywhere, and people did
not even know it so as I was watching
it I thought to myself they need to be
safe and have to caution everywhere
they turn.
Yes This breaks conformity
because it does give that
message out and how it
does is, there are a lot of
destructions going on in
the film and the only
way from preventing
that is by being safe and
cautious thts the

3. Film title Speed
Director Jan De Bont
Year 1994
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
message I got from
watching and analysing
it.