Opening Sequence - Interrogation

Interrogation - Opening Sequence by darwinserrano

Key conventions of a gangster thriller: Desmond

Cinematography: close ups and extreme close ups of the protagonist character, this is often to show their inner emotions, also it can be used to focus on key props to aid the narrative.

quick shots to hide identity, low key shot or shadow of the character. 

Editing: jump cuts and cross cutting are key features which are essential to build suspense and mystery.

Sound: music is essential to understand the mood of characters or a hint at a significant part in the film. It also adds suspense and tension to make the shots more dramatic for the audience.

Mise en scene: the location is important for the film because it helps the audience establish the theme. 

lighting is often low key 

costumes - antagonist will be in dark clothing. Protagonist will be in ordinary everyday clothes 

Planning ideas

By writing these key notes it has helped us generate ideas for our opening sequence. For example, the conventions for our chosen genre and stereotypical ideas we could incorporate within our opening to portray a 'thriller' film. 

4 Types of narrative theories

i have discovered and researched 4 types of narrative theories, this will help me and group identify which narrative theory will be best suitable for our opening sequence plan. 

CONCLUSION: when deciding which theory was most suitable it was difficult because we wanted to engage the audience as most as possible but keep the our main plot to the opening scene. So as a conclusion we decided to use the 'Barthes theory' which creates an enigma code. This perfectly matches our film genre because it includes puzzle or mystery enabling us to adapt our opening sequence plan to the narrative theory.

Filming locations for our interrogation scene

These images below identify the location for our interrogation scene. This is perfect for our scene because it displays a rundown and abandoned looking area, it is also dark and beat-up which creates emphasis on the genre we have picked (Thriller). 

Evaluation Question 7 - What did you feel that you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to the full product? Desmond Dube

Evalution question 7 from Des Dube

Evaluation Question 7 - What did you feel that you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to the full product? Darwin Serrano

Evaluation Question 7: What did you feel that you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to the full product? Ryan Navarro

Evaluation question 7 from St Peters RC Comprehensive

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process if constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process if constructing this product? Darwin Serrano

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? - Ryan Navarro

Evaluation Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

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Evaluation Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience? Darwin Serrano

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Evaluation Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience? - Ryan Navarro

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Evaluation Question 4: who would be the audience for your media product

This video shows a group of individuals answering questions and giving feedback about our opening sequence.
Evaluation 4

Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product? - Ryan Navarro

Target Audince: 15+ male audience

The age of this person is around 17 years old which what we are targeting for.

This person is one of our target audience because he likes to watch thriller films and crime films like Batman, Equaliser and James Bond. This person could listen to rock music, hip-hop, soul.
His favourate tv show might be NCIS and Death in paradise - which are a crime tv series, Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes - a sci-fi thriller tv series.

The type of book this persom may read are sci-fi books like Doctor Who and adventure books like the Hobbit.

My group interviewed some of our targer audience on what they expect in a thiller genre and also show our opening scene and asked questions about it.

Evaluation 4

Evaluation Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product? Darwin Serrano

Target Audience: 15+ year olds who enjoy watching action and seek thrilling activities.

This is a member of my target audience. He is 32 years old but he is still a guy who is very active and enjoys things that are physical, thrilling and action-filled. His age is important because, even though our Film is rated 15, it still action filled. This is something that 20 - 35 year old make generally likes to watch. He is the type of person that would shop at very masculine shops such as the American version of Jacamo. He listens to rap, hip hop and EDM. This is important because rap and hip hop are very much related to Gangs and Gangster life. His favorite genre of movie is Thriller therefore he is someone which we try and aim for as our target audience. His ethnicity is American-Filipino, which we also target in our audience as there is an Asian gang in our opening sequence therefore audiences with the same ethnicity may be able to relate to our movie. .
Evaluation 4

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Darwin Serrano

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? - Ryan Navarro

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social group? Desmond Dube

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social group? Darwin Serrano

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social group? Ryan Navarro

Evaluation 2 (media studies) from St Peters RC Comprehensive

Evaluation Question 1: in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media

Evaluation Question 1 - In what way does your media product use. develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Darwin Serrano

Evaluation Question 1: In what way does your media product use. develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? - Ryan Navarro