How we used form and conventions:
- Like all film openings, we put the production company titles first and let the very beginning of our footage flow from the last title. This is done through fading from black and sound continuing from the black between the transition.
- We used the conventions of a gangster film by including codes such as guns, cigars, whiskey, dark city setting, a seedy indoor setting
- We created a film noir appearance of the film, typical of gangster/crime films, by putting a black and white filter over the footage and heavily contrasting the light.
How we developed form and conventions:
- We created an enigma but kept diaglogue to a minimum so that we did not give away the context of what is to come in the film
- Like film openings, we did not give much away about the characters but we did introduce the main ones. The victim is the only who the audience mainly associates with but the main, sinister figures (the woman and the shooter) are not to be understood as that is what the film aims to explain. We therefore tried not to include much of their faces to keep this detachment from the audience.
How we challenged form and conventions:
- Most gangster films we looked at had more dialogue in the beginning, whether it be a voice over or a conversation between characters, but we felt it would create more of a suspense if we did not have much dialogue. Also, it means the audience can focus more of the visual aspect of the opening rather than focusing on what is being said.
- When a major event happens (like the exlposion in our opening), it usually leads onto the next scene or the main titles; we chose to continue to plot and film by showing the two character's feet in the same shot as we felt it put it more into context to help the audience understand the purpose of the characters and their relationship between one another.
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