Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Evaluation Question 1

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

we took inspiration from films such as green street, rise of the footsoldier and the business. we tried to use some of their conventions in our opening sequence. They

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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Final logo



Initially we had the idea of a quirky logo, however we then added a serious edge to this, with the use of animatics and sound.

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009



We had an original idea for our logo as a lightening bolt, however we discovered that another group was using a similar idea for theirs, so we then decided to create a more original and unique logo , this is when we came up with the idea of 'Wheelchair Films'. We were going for a more quirky and fun idea for our logo and steered away for the more serious idea of 'bolt productions'.

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Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Snatch Opening Sequence






We have chosen to analyse this film because it is an iconic British film and it is written and directed by a British man- Guy Ritchie. We have chosen to do a British social drama for our project.

Camera Work
A lot of the sequence is of television screens with CCTV footage of the characters going into the building and up to the room. Once they are in the room and get their guns out the camera starts to move and is freehand.

Editing
Very fast pace once they get the guns out and steal the diamonds. it slows down when they are in the van but speeds up again after that. It freezes to show the names of each character and has a coloured background each time with the image played with. Transitions used as well.

Sound
Jewish music as the footage is shown of them in the building. In the van the music is light and builds up to the fast paced music afterwards. At the start when they are in the building you hear them talking.

Mise-En-Scene
They are dressed up as Jews at start with fake beards etc. The CCTV is black and white at this stage. It goes to full screen and colour when they get in the room. They have guns as props, and also the diamonds when they get them. After the title is shown the light is darker and the characters are introduced.

Titles
Some titles in black rectangles on the CCTV and screen when they are getting the diamonds. 'SNATCH' in white in front of diamond, which spins round 360 degrees. Characters' names are in white with different coloured backgrounds and an image of their face.

Conventions
  • The audience assumes all of the people working in the office are Jewish. The men are all involved in crime, as we see early on. They are given different roles such as the older one and the hard one.
  • The first location is in what is presumably a Jewish-run bank with a Jewish community, which the men are pretending to be involved in.
    The men are shown after that in a a warehouse and then a pub- showing they probably like drinking.
  • There is a cultural reference to the Jewish community, and they are also talking about the bible.
  • The genre is crime.





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