Exploring Our Genre

In our preliminary task we made sure that our genre for our film was very much an action movie, and we followed all the conventions so much, that looking back at it, our task was very cliché. We had the gun shot sounds, and the very action type music. But for our main task, we looked a bit more closer to the narrative, and the types of shots we could use. For our main task, we didn't really want to have a genre on it and restrict us from doing things that we thought didn't convey into one set genre that we chose. So the genre  for our piece is Action/Drama/Thriller. having an open genre meant that we could focus more on the narrative and not the conventions.

For exploring our genre we looked at a few films that we thought could help with types of shots, representing character, editing and just the whole feel of it as a whole. here are some of our inspirations for our opening movie.

The Hunger Games

We looked at the hunger games because we felt the narrative to our opening was similar of the narrative in this. We also felt that Catniss Everdeen was a good representation of our main protagonist Ariadne. They also casted a female lead in a male dominated genre which is similar to what we did in our film- going against the conventions. Catniss and Ariadne also have the same outlook on life.

The Bourne Series

We felt that the fast paced action is something that was included into our narrative, and the types of shots are the same, for instance the short snappy shots which we used in places in our film.

Inception

This film opening was playing on the idea of Propp's theory of using narrative in film.The most important scene is echoed at the start which builds a sense of enigma, and allows the audience to try and figure out what is going on which draws the audience in more. It also introduces the character and leaves it open so there are many different narratives that could take place. Inception is also very cinematic and has the type of shots we wanted to portray such as extreme close-ups, slow motion shots and the contrast between shaky and steady cam

Good Will Hunting

The shot above was inspired by the shot of Ariadne sitting down with the map at the train station we thought that this shot was very interesting and a different way to break up our other shots shown around the time that this one is

Love Actually

This inspired us to add our voice over into our opening of our film, because it's a very personal way to be speaking directly to the audience, and the visuals that match up with the voice over is very clever. We wanted to make sure we got the right balance of attention on the visuals and voice over, and this movie is a perfect example of that.