I found out from this task, that opening credits can be very long, two minutes in total which is to lengthy because our opening scene is two minutes, and we wouldn't want to waste our whole scene on just credits. Another thing i have learnt is that the producer and directer are always shown first in the credits then the actors.. I also learnt a job within the film that where shown in the credits such as Director of photography which means "A cinematographer, is one photographing with a motion picture camera(the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image."
In my own production i will be using "director" and "starring roles" and "film editor", because the roles in the film are very simple and i wouldn't want to put in needless roles.
This week we learnt about the social realism conventions and codes, the conventions include themes, represenations of gender, class and ethnicity. The conventions such as the representations relate to the audience alot because them convetions are based around the realism of everyday life. I have also learnt that many social realism films are set around a theme, that follow the representations of class. An example of this is the film Fish tank that is based around class.
Learning about the conventions about social realism it has informed me that my production will have to involve an element of some realism, and after this week i will know how to apply this into my production.
Texts that have influenced me is lock stock and two smocking barrels which shows the representations of a white british working class men that turn to criminality.
I will conform to the foundations of the conventions in a social realism.
Conventions Of British Social Realism
Convention
Themes - This is used in social realism to center a topic around a film which often centers around the theme. An example of this is Bullet Boy the theme of the film was gang culture., and soo the film had to base the story around him and the gang he was envolved in.
Representation of Gender
Shows how the generation has changed in gender roles and also shows the differences between males and females and how they are portrayed in the society they live in.An example of this is looking for eric, the men are shown to be lazy, at the start of the film the main character had a negative portrayal of him, because they show him to be stuck in a rut.
Representation of Ethnicity
Stereotypical in what ethnicitys wear and socialise. This convention also shows tension between cultures. An example of this is east is east, where they show the stereotypical view of the asians becuase the white girl says, "I like curry" stating that all asians eat curry they also show how one of the asian boys trys to fit in with the white community becuase he wants them to call him tony. It also shows a negative view of a asian relationship.
Representation of Class
This convention normally relates around working class and under class this is because its a gritty view of real british life. They normallt set it around council estates and often involves crime and drugs. An example of this is the film Fish tank which envolves a very stereotypical view on working class.
At the start of our coursework we looked through the mark scheme and saw what we would have to include and what we would have to achieve to gain top marks which is a level four. When we looked through the mark scheme we saw how that there was not much distance between getting a level four and a level one, it was just down to the amount of detial you put in into the work. This has taught me that i must put alot of detail into my work so i can achieve a level four.
We also looked at past candiates papers and looked at one person that got an A in there coursework and one that got a D looking at these candiates i could tell that detail was just the reason why candiate two achieved a A. Lookiing at candiates two's production and his planing was very claer and orginised, i will emulate this to my production and planning. An example of this is his evaluation.
As for candiate one i will try and avoid not fully explianing myself as is shown in this video were he jsut doesnt have enough detail in his vlog.
This Is England
Shane meadows
Snatch
Guy Ritchie
Lock Stock and Two smocking Barrels
Guy Ritchie
28 Days Later
Danny Boyle
