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

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

Evaluation Question 5 from youngdez on Vimeo.

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

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

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

Audience feedback

This is the feedback that we have received after we have showed our finished our finished opening scene. The feedbacks give us opportunity to improve our opening scene and make it better.

Props List

This is a visual presentation on all the props which we used in our opening sequence. It also states the reasons why we used these props and how they link back to the genre of Thriller.

Behind the Scenes Videos

This is a video which shows the behind the scenes of our filming day for Des Dube's scene in our film "Interrogation". In the video, we say our roles and what did on that day.
Connor - Costume Designer
Des - Actor
Ryan - Camera Man
Darwin - Director

In this second behind the scene video, connor is showing Des how he thinks he should kick the door open.

Photographs of group planning

Here are photographs of our team working on planning for our opening sequence. 

This picture shows Darwin and Connor working on the storyboard together. 

Whilst these pictures shows Desmond and Ryan working on the blog.

These pictures are evidence that our group works well together. This is because we understand that we cant all work on the same task, which is why we figured out eachother's strengths and assigned each other task based on that. Ryan and Des are better at the computing therefore they are on the Mac. Darwin and Connor are good artist which is why they are doing the Storyboard.  

Filming and Editing Schedules

This is our filming schedule for our opening scene. The filming was all done during our media studies lessons.This process is done between 3rd of November to 1st of December.

This is our editing schedule for our opening scene. This process is done between the 3rd of November 2014 to the 19th of December 2014. After filming one person from the group has to place the video in the computer to render and ready for editing.
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Rycondeswin Logo

This is our logo which will be shown at the beginning of the opening scene.

Shot list

Here are the pictures of our storyboard for our Opening sequence along with the shot list and cinematography. 

This is our Shot list and Cinematography. It shows the Framing, Action and Mise-on-scene of our Opening sequence. We will use this as a guide on how we will film and things that we need to film.

Storyboard

We are using our storyboard as a guide on what and how we are going to film our Opening Sequence. We understand that some things may change due to various reasons therefore we do not expect our final film to be exactly the way that we expect.

Pitch Presentaiton

This video shows our presentation where we pitched our ideas and plans for our Opening sequence. We discussed the Cinematography, Setting, Characters, Narrative and Props which we are planning to use. The audience then gave us a feedback however, the footage is unfortunately lost and we are unable to find it. For this reason, it is not on our blog.