Location shots

Here is a slideshow of shots of the locations we are thinking of using for our short film:

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Compiling these shots will help us plan shot types while story boarding and also help us plan what types of creative techniques we can use for specific scenes.

Genre theory

There are several theories on the subject of media genre, which include:

John Fiske -

"Any one programme will bear the main characteristics of its genre, but is likely to include some others: ascribing it to one genre or another involves deciding which set of characteristics are most important" 

- Any texts main characteristics will be classed as that genre e.g. Lord of the Rings is considered fantasy as it mainly contains the icons of fantasy.

Richard Maltby and Ian Craven -

"The success of Hollywood is reliant on the combination of predictable elements with variation." - Hollywood is mainly successful because films that fit in specific genres have predicatble plot devices.

Edward Buscombe -

Edward Buscome felt that Iconography was the best way to achieve generic definitions.

- A films genre is defined by its icons e.g. A gangster film will contain guns, violence.

In stark contrast Rick Altman suggests:

• Genre theory presumes that viewers pre-read texts
• Viewers become passive voyeurs
• Genres are therefore restrictive
• Doesn't allow for hyrbids - the blending of genres

Film Log - Wednesday, 10th November

Today, we successfully managed to film a test sequence for the introduction of our film. Since the recent story change, it has been much easier to film as the locations haven't been nearly as demanding. We have uploaded our footage to the computer and have finished editing. So far, the shot types were mostly successful, however, at certain points we have had to edit it differently or even had to remove the entire clip so a re-shoot may be need to be scheduled in order to perfect the sequence.

We have lowered the saturation and brightness on each clip to give it a dingier, more urban look. Despite social-realist films not usually being edited drastically, we believe that we still fit within the conventions of it as the desaturated, grey look adds to the atmosphere of the film.

We have next planned to film the first flashback of the film, as we have decided to try and film it in a chronological order.