Genre

Research into genre

Before beginning our preliminary task we began the course by researching different opening sequences from films such as..

-Dirty harry

-usual suspects

-seven

We found that each of these had a police feel to i therefore influenceing our preliminary idea. We found that doing the piece in this way was an easier format and allowed us to expand the idea due to the relatively simple specification in which we could base our piece around. For our preliminary piece we decided on the concept of the dark room with the criminal on one side and the detective on the other, showing the classic battle between good and evil. We found that in these examples the director would use a variety of different camera angles in the interrogation scenes in order to give the audience a different dimension into what was going on, therefore we took this idea into our piece which is shown by the use of camera techniques such as long shot, high angle shot, low angle shot, close up and 2 shot. The use of costume was also very important in these examples as they would show the status difference and present to the audience a sense of authority in the scene which is what we tried to do when showing the criminal (Ryan Hayes) in a white vest showing lower class and the detective (Sam White) shown in regular clothing showing he is quite high up in the police, we did this because we found in each of the films above this use of costume was very deliberate.