EVALUATION 1

1) How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social group and issues?

Challenging Conventions

     My film opening challenges conventions of a crime thriller in that we started off with there being a crime which is at a steady pace in parallel with the interrogation scene, it also shows the contrast between low key lighting and bright light of the interrogation room. We decided not to go for any dialogue as it's a film opening and it will over complicate the plot. Every crime thriller needed a death scene so we had the antagonist be dead by the end of the opening. We built up tension not through music until the fully until the interrogation sequence but before that we used the sound effect of the killer's foot step instead. The sound was really a solid thud every step that the killer takes, that make the audience felt the tension.

     There must obviously be an investigation scene, we were thinking of a police investigation on the body but decided in the planning phases that we were going to have an interrogation scene with the killer instead, partly because we must acquire more actors in the process which would be quite difficult regarding we must stay until 5PM after school on a Friday.

     From what is seen from the film opening, I can pick out a few shots which resembles media products done before either from video games or a film. Some of these were planned and some were just happen to be coincidences.

   The zoom out shot we used right at the beginning resembles the scene shown in the announcement trailer for the game Dead Island, reason we had gone with this shot in the beginning was because it gives the audience a feeling of  being confused of where they are but as the camera zooms out, the audience would be able to know what happen. This makes the film feel dark and mysterious.

The scene from the movie Se7en when we were first introduced to the killer, the slow movement of the feet help build up tension and helps symbolises the killer's personality which is a more cold and take more calculative personality

    This scene from the film "The Raid Redemption" is sorta similar in a way in that the victim are both trying to open the door but can't because it's locked and there is light from the other side which indicates that there is hope on the other side. The other thing that I found unexpected and funny is that even though we never looked at this clip until now, both of  them used canted angle. We use it because we wanted to try something new at the time, however in the film it is probably to show uneasiness or tension. 

This scene was from the movie The Fugitive when the protagonist is running away; the handheld tracking shot shows that he both Richy and the protagonist is panicking and in a hurry, the only thing that is different is that Richy is injured.

This shot shows a top down angle shot of the interrogation room; in Luther, they decided to place the camera next to the security camera but due to the fact that our classroom do not have a security camera, I decided that this camera angle would be the perspective of the security camera instead. This shows that the killer is in a contained big space with the interrogator/detective in the center of the room.

This scene was taken from the ongoing TV series Walking Dead series when Rick met with the governor with the antagonist sitting on the left and the protagonist on the right . Although we used this scene, Richy decided to swap things around by having all the props being on the left indicating that the killer knows everything and on the right we have the interrogator with nothing behind her, this shows that she has no knowledge of what happen. 

We took a shot from the film Luther when the detective is sorting out the paperwork; the interrogator in this film opening represents curiosity and the fidgeting of paperwork symbolizes confusion of whether the killer had done it or not.

This shot was also from the film Luther where we see a close up low angle but we ended up going for an eye level shot instead. Both of these shots show the stone cold face of the killer.

Social Group and Issues

     My film opening aimed to portray the social groups of government officials, and in this case, is the female detective. Even though the detective is not portrayed as the main protagonist, she is however, representative of the audience- where she is finding out as much as they know within the complicated plot of the film. The use of a detective correlates with the interest of the researched audiences in their political and governmental interest. Reading from an article, I highlighted one the conventional features that our detectives possess as stated.

https://aprilbradley.net/2013/05/18/the-conventional-character-traits-of-the-fictional-detective/

     My protagonist consisted of the highlighted traits of a detective. We can see this in some of these points through the micro elements of some shots in the film opening. E.g. The detective in our film was inspired by the detective in the TV series Luther; both of them are an outsider and also both of them dress formally. We even with further with the idea.

This shot shows that there is confusion and also this also meant that there are evidence provided to support that the killer did it.

The mis en scenes of boxes to the left of the scene meant that the killer knows everything but on the other hand on the right side which is where the detective is at, it is totally empty indicating that the detective knows nothing about the case.

     In this scene, the glass means that the detective has little knowledge of the murder case then the next shot it shows that the glass is full as long as paper works under the glass which indicate that the killer knows everything about the killing