Question One Analyses

Question one

Discuss convention of genre in film

 

We showed the conventions of crime in our film opening throughout the peice for instance I will firstly discuss The low key lighting, produced by us recording at dusk, we wanted the piece to be shrouded in a gritty tone to connote Xavier's gritty life.

 

 

To show the sub genre of drama we incorporated the realistic Side to the piece, as through the whole opening their isn't any action, its just following one man as goes about his corrupt lifestyle, apart from a lack of action me and my group showed this through the continuity and the slow pace, the shots are very simplistic and slow, to connote a greater feeling of naturalism, to keep the piece slow but still flowing interesting we used a series of tracking shots and panning shots, an example of this is at the start, the second shot is a panning shot that lasts for seven seconds.

 

Lastly some conventions in mis-en-scene props is the nice car which is expected in crime as it connotes wealth which is a commonly used theme in crime.

And also in response to conventions as also connoted in wealth is the suited Villon.
The only un-stereotypical theme we had in crime which was portrayed is the lack of criminal activity being used, me and my group thought however that if we did jump strait into some intense law breaking scenes that it would ruin the realism that is a convention of the sub genre of a drama.

 

Some films that heavily inspired the creation of out piece in regards to storyline was "The Wolf of Wallstreet" the idea of a millionaire upper-class breaking the law is rarely scene and makes for some very stylish scenes. Also me and my group was inspired by the acting of Leonardo Decaprio.

We was also inspired by the series breaking bad as we based our overall storyline on Walter White as our character was also clean cut but had to turn to crime when his business started breaking, allot like Walter White our character started off with good intentions but however ended up succumbing to the corrupt lifestyle.

Next on inspirational media our tracking scene was based off of Reservoir Dogs Tracking scene, we felt it had extremely cool connotations of crime within suited people walking in a big group, we however only had one.

Lastly Our title sequence being plane white on a black background was inspired by Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as we liked the stylistic simplistic juxtaposition of colours.