How teenagers are Represented in Action Adventure Film: The Maze Runner

In preparation for your film analysis essay, you need to find out about the film The Maze Runner. Use your knowledge about Media Theory to write about how the characters are being Represented to appeal to the film's Target Audience.

Task: 

1. Find images of the main characters in the film. Write about Representation by looking at:

• Clothing (costume)
• Pose or body language
• Facial expression
• Mise-en-scence (colours, lighting, props)

2. Find the Film Posters used to market the film. Deconstruct them - pick out the codes and conventions. How is Representation being used in the Key Image? Look at colour and font too; how are they used across all of the different posters to link them together as a marketing campaign?

3. Watch the Trailer. Try and look at what is included in terms of plot. Try to analyse the codes and conventions of moving image media products:

• lighting
• editing
• camera shots and movement
• sound
• mise-en-scene