Ruby I've marked your rough draft. At present it's about a Cish grade. To strengthen you need to make more references to how you've used conventions of the genre whilst referencing research. For example:
Location - the city as a place if you like of history, glamour and dread! You've referenced Carol Reed's Vienna as a primary inspiration, but what about the shots of Bruges in "In Bruges" a film you've seen.
Lighting: Low key lighting is a generic convention of thriller fims reflecting treachery, nightmare and the moral landscape of the villain/s!
Also ambient low key lighting adds is a generic convention which adds realism to the mise-en-scene. This lighting style reflects criminal underbelly Essex in Winsor's gritty British thriller Essex Boys, Similar lighting effects are used in Mochod's "Animal Kingdom" which focuses on the criminal underbelly of Melbourne. This convention emphasises the sordid lives of J's grandmother and his Cody off the wall uncles. Peter Weir also uses harsh ambient lighting in the murder scene in Witness where Sam Lapp witnesses................from a cubicle in a railway station toilet..... Noir lighting, Thelma and Louise, the murder of Harlem by Louise in a seedy carpark - the darkness connoting the abusive and daqngerous nature of Harlem whilst anticipating T & L's fate.
Enigma - important in your film, the unseen face a convention used in Witness where the face of the murderer is hidden from Sam Lapp, Bil''s in the title sequence of Kill Bill 1.....and so on.
Voyeurism is another convention - Reference "Rear Window" a film you've seen which is strongly focused on voyeurism, and of course in Psycho where Norman Bates spies on Marion Crane when she's getting undressed before her fatal shower...
Re representation of gender and status and the way you've challenged stereotypes, keep for Question 2.
Re title of film,discuss in question 7. Will hand back hard copy next lesson.
Ruby I've marked your rough draft. At present it's about a Cish grade. To strengthen you need to make more references to how you've used conventions of the genre whilst referencing research. For example:
ReplyDeleteLocation - the city as a place if you like of history, glamour and dread!
You've referenced Carol Reed's Vienna as a primary inspiration, but what about the shots of Bruges in "In Bruges" a film you've seen.
Lighting: Low key lighting is a generic convention of thriller fims reflecting treachery, nightmare and the moral landscape of the villain/s!
Also ambient low key lighting adds is a generic convention which adds realism to the mise-en-scene. This lighting style reflects criminal underbelly Essex in Winsor's gritty British thriller Essex Boys, Similar lighting effects are used in Mochod's "Animal Kingdom" which focuses on the criminal underbelly of Melbourne. This convention emphasises the sordid lives of J's grandmother and his Cody off the wall uncles.
Peter Weir also uses harsh ambient lighting in the murder scene in Witness where Sam Lapp witnesses................from a cubicle in a railway station toilet.....
Noir lighting, Thelma and Louise, the murder of Harlem by Louise in a seedy carpark - the darkness connoting the abusive and daqngerous nature of Harlem whilst anticipating T & L's fate.
Enigma - important in your film, the unseen face a convention used in Witness where the face of the murderer is hidden from Sam Lapp, Bil''s in the title sequence of Kill Bill 1.....and so on.
Voyeurism is another convention - Reference "Rear Window" a film you've seen which is strongly focused on voyeurism, and of course in Psycho where Norman Bates spies on Marion Crane when she's getting undressed before her fatal shower...
Re representation of gender and status and the way you've challenged stereotypes, keep for Question 2.
Re title of film,discuss in question 7. Will hand back hard copy next lesson.