Conventions

Conventions,

As you can see through my film clip, I have used a variety of Conventions throughout my Film, but the ones I mostly focused on were the conventions of Film Noir and Thriller, with I hoped to of portrayed a gritty surreal atmosphere within.

From the Noire style, I wanted to take the heavy stylised look and take it more with a modern approach, as to having odd effects and very stark and bleak colours throughout giving it a ‘digital’ edge to it. Also taken from the Noire style, is the use of lighting, to portray what the intent of the person is, and to show the audience which character to focus on in the particular scene. For example when I have the interrogation scene taking place, during the shot reverse shots I have done, the light is most prominent on the characters who need to be observed the most, whilst characters who aren’t in the focus are slightly faded away within the shot.

As with the Thriller conventions, I have used a variety of shot styles from Thriller films.  Such as close ups and mediums shot, however in thriller films, they are usually erratic and fractured, something which I wanted to portray also, for example during the scene where I am walking into the room, the camera moves like a human being.  Leading to my next point of how I wanted some shots to be like personal accounts, in many thrillers, some shots are done in a Point of View, and in the flashback scenes I wanted to give a feeling of that personal account.