Pre-lim task

This is my groups preliminary task. We decided to go with the genre of crime as we found that the crime genre had very distinctive features over the other possible genres we discussed.

Pre-lim research

Crime E.g: CSI

• Long black outs and transactions
• little colour
• change in music styles
• sudden happenings
• Mysterys
• Point of view shots

Romantic comedy E.g: 50 first dates

• Happy music
• Bright colours
• Bright,sunny weather
• filmed in daylight
• Break of 180 degree rule
• quick transaction changes

Horror E.g: the ring

• Little dialogue to build suspense
• Low key slow music
• sound effects
• little colour
• black transactions

Pre-lim influence

Before creating our preliminary task we had looked at how other films created suspense and a sense of character vulnerability in their films in order for our characters to portray the correct image. We also looked at the variety of shots used to create this sense of the unknown to our audience.

The film gladiator shows this sense of suspsense right at the end of the film. We took influences from the opening of the door scene shown above when Maximus slowly opens the door, this is used as a metaphor of death. This is reflected in our film also when the vulnerable character due to alochol slowly walking through the door and up the stairs.

We also looked at female dominance in films.

The film we looked at for reference to was Beauty shop the clip above shows the trailer but it shows the main prodominant female throughout. Gina is the dominant female through out the film. on the contrary she uses respect with her colleagues and customers to gain her dominance where as the character in our film uses violence in order to gain dominance.