Applying Conventions

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Equipment

Storyboard

Shooting Script

1.Establishing shot panning down a residential suburban street

2.Slow zoom in on front window of house where film is set

3.Extreme close up of detective’s hand, holding a pen and clicking

4.Extreme close up of hand of the dead body sticking out from under a sheet, slowly zooming in (match on action)

5.Panning across (left to right) of objects on mantle, one out of place

6.Mid shot of forehead/hair sticking out of sheet

7.Close up of ceiling light, slowly zooming out

8.Shot of feet sticking out of sheet, pull focus from one foot to the other

9.Slow zoom out of pictures on the wall, one is skewed 

10.Extreme close up of hand of detective, clicking pen

11.Shot of chair on its side

12.Slow zoom out of hair to reveal more of scene, including face and sheet

13.Extreme close up of hand clicking pen

14.Extreme close up of eyes, suddenly darting sideways

15.Close up of mouth/bottom half of face, smirking

16.Close up of head, turns towards door

17.Over the shoulder shot of detective’s sidekick entering the room

18.Fade to black

19.Fade to titles

Treatment

Our film opening starts with an establishing shot panning down a residential suburban street. It cuts to a slow zoom in on the front window of the house where film is set. An extreme close up of the detective’s hand, holding and clicking a pen is shown, followed by an extreme close up of the hand of the dead body sticking out from under a sheet. It slowly zooms in (match on action).

The next shot is of objects on mantle, one out of place, panning across from left to right. This is going to be followed by a mid shot of the body's forehead/hair sticking out of the sheet then a close up of the ceiling light, slowly zooming out. The next shot is of feet sticking out of the sheet, pull focus from one foot to the other. Followed by a slow zoom out of the painted pictures on the wall of which one is skewed. The shots are a little bit random which add to the overall effect of our piece.

Another extreme close up of the detective's hand, clicking a pen. Next there will be a slow zoom out of the bodies hair to reveal more of the scene, including the face and sheet. Another extreme close up of the hand clicking the pen will be next, showing the detective stopping mid click followed by an extreme close up of the detectives eyes, suddenly darting sideways.

The sound of footsteps will be heard which is what caught his attention. We see a close up of his mouth/the bottom half of face, smirking and then his head turns towards the door. An over the shoulder shot of detective’s sidekick entering the room is the final shot then it cuts to the titles.

Risk Assessment

I made a risk assessment form to show all the risks we may encounter during the production of our film opening. I included a colour coded risk scale to rate the risks in terms of their likelihood and severity. I can conclude that our filming fas very few risks. The risks that are present are relatively low and can easily be managed and avoided

Location Recce

We plan to film our film opening in the front room of a typical suburban house in South London. We have chosen this because it is a place that we can easily film in as it is inside and therefore not affected by weather.

We can easily bring in extra equipment such as lights and tripods if the weather affects the natural lighting. We also chose this location because the audience can easily relate to suburban streets, as well as cities, which are seen as busy and more dangerous than quaint countryside environments. It also fits in well with the convention of crime mysteries taking place in normal houses.

The room we have chosen to film in has large windows and light coloured walls, which will allow us to film in natural light, and make our film opening seem of a higher quality. Despite the use of only one setting, we will use a wide range of camera angles and shot types in order to make sure that our film opening is interesting and engaging, and creates an appropriate mise-en scene for the genre.

Crime Mystery Moodboard

Conventions of a Crime Mystery

Questionnaire Results and Analysis

Questionnaire Questions

Target Audience Profile

Sherlock Holmes (2009) Film Opening Analysis

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James Bond: Quantum of Solace Opening Analysis

Fingersmith - Extract Analysis

Preliminary Task

We filmed a preliminary task following the brief:

"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue."

This task demonstrates match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Response to Brief

 

"The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes."

Our group plans to create a film opening of a genre that is completely down to us to decide and developinto a product. We plan to research and plan effectively to make the production of our opening run smoothly and efficiently. We have decided to choose the genre 'Crime mystery' because as a team it is a genre we enjoy and have background knowledge on it.



Introduction

Hello my name is Winnie Sunday Dacosta and welcome to my AS Media Studies Blog. In this blog I will be uploading all my Media Studies coursework. Every step of my journey through to process of creating a film product will be posted here from my planning and research to my production and evaluation. The aim of my group is to create the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. We want our product to be of a high quality and for it to appeal to our target audience.