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Question 1 Draft

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We have quite a few conventions of film noirs in our film but we have also went out for our noir to be unique but have enough conventions to show that our film is a noir just a little different. Film Noir’s were most popular in the years of 1940s and 50s when film and television were in black and white and as we wanted our film to be a classic noir rather than a neo noir, we when editing made our film black and white to add to the classic ways of film noirs. In many film noirs, someone is murdered in the opening sequence which we were sure to follow suit to, for example in the film Destination murder in which an old man is killed with a gun and in our film Donald is murdered in the opening scene. Guns are the most conventional weapons in film noirs but we went against conventions and used a big heavy rock, as we did not have a gun available so we used what was available in the mise en scene. Due to the time periods of film noirs the music tends to be quite jazzy and in our opening scene we used some jazzy music to follow along with the conventions and to set the scene of the films genre. Typical costumes worn in film noirs are fedora hats and suits, we followed this to some extent as in the interview scene our detective is wearing a fedora that we obtained from the college, we could not get our hands on a suit that was nt a prom suit so we tried our best with a shirt and trousers. Trench coats are big in film noirs and we managed to get some for two of our actors so we followed the conventions of costume pretty well apart from the character Rex who wore pretty modern clothing, which was a definite fault. In our opening scene we did not introduce the femme fatale as the femme fatale more as the killer who later would have been discovered to be the femme fatale and the audience not knowing she was the killer at the beginning, this fits into the conventions that the femme fatale is the killer/bad guy but is not shown as the femme fatale so our film did not fit into the conventions. Flashbacks are a very conventional in film noirs for example in the film The Walking Hills a flashback is used to show what had happened when a game of poker got violent and one of them ended up dead, in our film a flash back is used to show and argument over the treatment of Donalds wife which turns violent and we find out that Donald has ended up dead. The setting of our film is supposed to be an alleyway type scene as it conventional for film noirs for scenes to be set in alleyways but we could not find a alleyway so we had to make do with the back of the cinema which looks a bit like an alley way so we followed the conventions to some extent and it looks quite believable that it is what it is supposed to be.

  

Question 2 draft

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We challenge the gender stereotypes of the men being dominant and the women being the passive gender. We do this as although we do not get to see the killer we do however get to see that she is a woman. It is also shown by the woman killer holds a heavy rock above her head before smacking Donald over the head with it, which woman stereotypically do not lift heavy objects. Although the characters Rex and Donald followed the conventions of the men being dominant as they were arguing and being all boisterous and aggressive. Stereotypically both genders used to smoke heavily and everyone did it, in our film because not a single person smoked so we did not have anyone smoking in our film which went against conventions and stereotypes.

This links to the target audience of middle aged to elderly men as they can remember the olden days when men were the more dominant and how they grew up watching film noirs as a child and more generally when they were younger. The target audience will be able to relate to the film as they have seen and experienced how the people in the film act and their personality as that is what the audience would have been like or the people they knew would have been like.

We did not show the representation of race due to us only knowing white people who were willing to act. All of our characters are represented as middle class due to the costumes of them being shirts and ties and we find out that one of the characters is a detective which is regarded to be quite a middle class and respectable job. Although we went against stereotypes that the middle class are well spoken and well mannered as in one of the scenes we had some of the characters arguing and shouting, the character Rex then swore which is a lower class manner of speech.

We represented sexuality with the use of heterosexual relationships which also links into gender as stereotypically the men are the more dominant partner and this is shown with the use of narrative as we learn Donald was an abuse man who beat and abused his fiancee Kathy, and the woman partner tend to be the more passive partner and would let this abuse happen. Although the tables turn and Kathy becomes the dominant character and murders Donald.

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Evaluation

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Shooting schedule

Shooting schedule from jacobegan

This is our shooting schedule which features a few of the camera shots which will be used in our sequence, this explains what happens in the scene along with the attire and props used in the scene. Giving an idea of what the scene will look like before seeing the actual sequence itself.

Record of meetings

Record of Meetings

Meeting #1 – 24^th January

Started the storyboard for our film, discussed before hand the ideas for our film.

Meeting #2 – 6^th February

Discussed our initial ideas, what exactly we wanted to happen in our film and how we would shoot it.

Meeting #3 – 1^st March

Completed the props list so we knew who needed what in the scenes.

Meeting #4 – 6^th March

Discussed the call sheet, where we would shoot our film and at what time. Also what props would be needed for each character present.

Meeting #5 – 7^th March

Filmed our rough cut, edited it down to a 1:12 clip.

Meeting #6 – 20^th March

Filmed our final cut, edited it down to be the right amount of time for a sequence.

This shows how our work developed, with different stages illustrating how far along we were with our sequence. Step by step method of getting to the final product.