Immorality

Evaluation of Immorality.

Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our thriller, immorality we decided to not have a woman as the main character or during the opening because like in Sin City, The Third Man, Essex Boys and Layer Cake the openings, of these films mainly focus on the Males in the shot. We followed the stereo typical of Thriller films only being about men and their hierarchy. Males seem to have more power in thrillers due to them being the lead role and the storyline being based around them and their lives. Women are commonly used in Thrillers as Femme Fatale's because of their sexual appeal. We did not want this in the opening because we wanted the audience to question why he had lost everything then thinking it was because of women and assuming he was pulled into sex, drugs and gambling. This was not the affect we wanted the audience to have in the beginning of the opening. In society it is more commonly publicised about men loosing everything they have lived and worked for then women. So following this we stuck with having a male as the lead character.

We used the stereotypical British business man for the main protagonist, where as the debt collector the antagonist is dressed like a typical man on the hunt. We gave the impression that both characters are from a background with money. The audience will assume the debt collector got this money from doing peoples dirty work because the antagonist is a typical stereotype of a debt collector. Where as the audience doesn't know alot about the protagonist this cause the audience to be drawn deeper in as they would wonder why his job was so bad that he lost everything.

Evaluation of Immorality

Question 1

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

Many different types of thriller films influenced our thriller 'Immorality'. Essex boys influenced our thriller because Essex boys like Immorality is a gangster film. We thought that doing a British Gangster film would be the most possible choice as to the location of the opening being in Britain. The bleakness and greyness of Essex boys helped towards coming up with our second location for the opening. The reason that this shot helped us create the shot from our thriller is because we wanted the same dead end work house feel that the Essex Boys opening had. We had to make the scene darker to fit in with the impression we wanted to have so we used a grey filter to make the sky and scene seem more depressing.







We tried to like the debt collector to have many similarities as the main character in Sin City for example he had a packet of cigarettes. So we had the debt collector smoke a cigarette in the opening this would help him seem more mysterious.
The wild track in Immorality was also inspired by the wild track in Sin City. We thought using the sounds of cars passing by would help the audience to understand that even though this one thing is happening other things are going on as well.

Layer Cake inspired the soundtrack genre in Immorality this was because we wanted a soundtrack that was smooth but mysterious and that would flow with the editing of the thriller opening. The main character in Layer Cake inspired the main character in Immortality he inspired us to make him more business man like who had seemed to have taken a wrong turn in his life to make a living. We thought that the use of a nice neighbourhood in Layer Cake would be a great effect to have in Immorality because it would show that the main character was from a well rounded community and had a respectable job.

In Essex Boys, Layer Cake, Sin City and The Third Man all contain voice overs this helped to influence having a voice over in our thriller opening. We thought we should have a voice over to describe what was happening and to make the time laps more obvious.

Continuity Task Questions

1. What planning did you do for your filming task, and how did this planning aid in the filming?

We had to find a location that would invole the things needed in the task. The task had to include

• Walking through a door
• sitting down
• exchanging 2 or more lines of dialogue

Once we had decsided on the situiation we choose that the actors would be Sarah and Dan while Miriam and myself would do the camera work and the setting. We all drawed out our own storyboards how we thought it should be shot. This included : camera angles and where the cast was ment to sit and how. This made the filming and direction alot easier because we just had to follow what we had decsided to do.

2. What is the 180 degree rule, and how is this rule important to your filming task?

The 180 degree rule is having the shot the same side as the actors. This means that you can not go from filming from the left hand side of the actors and the filming on the right hand side. For the continuity task Dan was on the right hand side of the camera and Sarah was always on the left hand side of the camera this is how we kept to the 180 degree rule. This makes it easier for the audience to understand. If you kept on fliping the shot of the actors from left to right.

3.What shot type and camera angles did you use in your filming task, and to what effect?

Engima

Enigma is when the audience asks questions for example in The Third Man the audience maybe thinking when the voice over starts 'Who is the man that is talking' 'Why does he know so much about this place?' 'Who is Harry Lime?' 'Why are the Americans called "poor chap"?'.

Enigma creates a reason to watch the film. They leave you thinking about why this is happening and who it is happening to. Enigma alows the audience to feel a part of the film, its also makes the audience have certian expectations of the film because they would hope that the questions that they ask will be answeredduring the film. For example they would expect to find out who the man is that is talking and who Harry Lime is.

Enigma was used in or thriller by the business man suddenly becoming homeless. The audience would wonder why this had happened to him? What happened to his family from th beginning?Who did this. What caused it to happen? This will hopefully draw the audience deeper into the opening in hope to find out during the rest of the film.

Binary opposites

Binary Opposites is oftern used in film noir (eg black and white, good and evil) it helps create drama and intest in the film. The types of binary opposites most commanly used in Thrillers are. ; Black and white (colour contrast), good and evil, male and female, life and death, turth and lies, justice and crouption, crime and punishment, light and dark, power and powerless.

Binary opposites in Thriller films I have watched.
The Thrid man

• religion (churches) and crime (dead body in water and items being sold that might not be legal)
• War (buildings blown up shown in the quick shots in the begining of the opening) and Peace (Main characters friend had died and he visits his grave. Graveyards-we think of death as finally resting in peace .)

Sin City

• Black and white (with only a few things in colour)
• Female and male. (female = femme fatal)

I have used binary opposites in my thriller opening by staring the opening in what seems to be a good and perfect life living in a clean comfortable home, but then leading to the man living a a dirty run down home. We hope that this will make the audience see the contrasts in his life and make that it will make a bigger impression and it will hopefully be something that the audience would remember when they go away. I hope that the contract between clean and dirty would leave the audience with the impression that life can change fast if you make the wrong decision.

L.A Noir

L.A Confidential is a perfect example of a L.A noir film. L.A noir is similar to film noir because they have exactly the same themes but the difference is that L.A noir is more bright and cheerful like L.A compare to film noir which is dark and mysterious. L.A noir being so bright doesn't give the impression of it being a noir film that is why when the characters are inside a house or building the windows are normally covered by barley open blinds that let in small amounts of light but enough to see in. Film noir films don't do this as it is already dark in the place the filming is set in. Film noir consists of dark unnatural lighting caused by night or bad weather.

L.A noir maybe the most realistic use of lighting and this should make people feel more comfortable watching the film but because of the genre contrastion with the lighting people will feel uneasy due to it not being a typical noir film.