Our genre is a mix of Action and Thriller, inspired by this style of Guy Ritchie's ‘Snatch (2000)’. Our thriller is a heist/bank robbery that has gone wrong, which is a common theme throughout thrillers. Our thriller opening titles sequence takes the audience on a journey, through the style of editing. The fast paced cutting, quickly comes to a halt when there is the realization of the severity of one of the characters wounds. This pulls the audience into our piece, as they are being led into the story. Additionally, at the end of the opening sequence we get a glimpse of a mysterious ‘Boss’ character that is standing in a power stance, this represents his dominance and confidence of his status. Although we get a small peek of this character, it leaves the audience in suspense, curiosity and will leave them questioning the character. Our film has a bunch of swearing, assuming that it will be rated 15+ or an 18. It also begins with a conversational voiceover with breaks in between the characters before the actual incident. We chose to not use any moving picture as it gives the chance for the audience to assume what is going on. This also allows the audience to believe it is not a day to day conversation because of the language they used, as well as the tone.
We have an aggressive female character because of the amount of power/dominance and superiority she reveals within herself. This subverts the stereotype of an average woman because of the aggression of her tone when talking, also she is part of a crew made up of middle aged men. The characters themselves would attract a male based audience. Expanding to the point of the female character, this may potentially expand the range of our audience within the age group. We also have a diversity of characters, we have our main male character (Adam), he is from Liverpool, we used the average Liverpudlian stereotype because of their high percentage rate of crime around the UK. We had a diverse group of people within the UK, such as Dave (Wounded) is Welsh/Portuguese. We believe it wouldn’t matter about the age of our characters, even if they were elderly robbers, our target audience would think to themselves that ‘Oh.. thats cool!’. A very recent example of this can be seen in the make-up of the Hatton Garden robbery gang.
Most of our sounds were non-diegetic and simply added during our editing process, such as the Sirens and the van’s engine, it might sound real, but in reality it was all but just an edit. We however did shake the van and made some indoor van noises with different props swinging around and bashing around the van. Dialogues were all natural, none were dubbed in, we also decided not to add anything during the James scene (basically the guy takes the briefcase), we instead left it and let the diegetic sound take over. The sound wasn’t the most significant area we had to work on, however it did make our thriller stand out much more. The heightened and aggressive tone of the argument between the robbers adds tension to the scene which again is a key element of thrillers which would appeal to our audience.
We simply used LED lights for the indoor of the van, by hanging the light on to the side of the van. This was simple a practical necessity as without these lights we would not have been able to see anything. However, we realized that the lighting doesn’t fit the theme from outside the van, so we used color grading via Adobe Premier Pro CC.
No comments:
Post a Comment