Codes and conventions of crime dramas

Codes and Conventions of a Crime/Drama

Typical codes and conventions of a crime/drama film would be:
- A chase scene
- Involvement of props that can be harmful such as knifes or guns.
- The villain would usually have some unidentified problems that will be revealed at the very end of the film.
- The hero who saves everyone will have a partner.

- Characters will usually include someone vulnerable and gangs.
- Crimes will usually be murder/dramas will usually be to do with family of the protagonist.

- Drugs
- Conflicts due to difference in policing.
- Betrayal.

high rise production logo

richard Morrison presentation

Richard Morrison 

twist of fate pitch

Twist of fate pitch

Napoleon dynamite title sequence analysis

 Napoleon Dynamite

In the title sequence of napoleon dynamite begins with a plate being placed on the table from a high angle shot on the plate is the name of the production company, in the background we hear bird tweets all of this could possibly connote a light hearted film.
some of the props in the film suggest a comedy genre, a prime example of this is the U.F.O abduction insurance card kept in Napoleon's wallet also suggesting that he is a nerd and possibly a social reject each of the carpets that the food is placed on suggests on a film set in the the 80's but as we get to see Napoleon's high school ID we find that the film is set in modern America 2004 also in this scene we are shown are first look at the main characters face.after this we are shown more plates of food, they are all quite simple meals that your mother would cook connoting that napoleon is a typical teenager that lives with his mum and goes to school.In the next shot we are shown a handmade nina star made out of tinfoil, this seems like the type of behaviour of a bored student enforcing the fact that Napoleon still attends school, after this is thrown away we are shown two library books as the sequence continues we are shown the books names "big foot and me" and "science and centaurs" again telling us that Napoleon likes and belives in the supernatural. 
in the next shot we are shown some collectible cars placed away neatly possibly connoting that napoleon hasn't grown up much as he still plays with toy cars in the next shot we are shown pencils laid out neatly suggesting that napoleon is a neat person as these are swept away the background carpet changes to a burger with the directors name on it after this the scene fades to black. 

Saul Bass

This week we looked at title sequence designer Saul Bass and his unique style we looked at such title sequences such as the man with the golden arm which uses his trademark style of using simple lines and shapes to create very stylised artistic sequences, below is a catalogue of his work.

after researching saul bass i was told to research another title sequence designer called Richard Morrison (which is on my blog as an entirely separate post)

Saul Bass's style of work uses a simplistic style of combining abstract shapes and bright colours it is used particularly well in the west side story title sequence in which the background changes colours and faint lines, eventually the lines disappear to reveal the lines are skyscrapers of new york.






This is the title sequence for made by Saul Bass you can tell this as it has his iconic style of simple shapes moving around a plain background of single colours. The sequence begins on a grey background with body parts appear with the title written on them in white writing as the sequence continues we see body parts get cut into smaller pieces this is a style typical of Saul Bass as it is a very simple, artistic sequence which doesn't follow a plot-line this doesn't really help me with any ideas for my groups title sequence at the moment, we may be able to borrow some elements of Saul Bass's work to create our title sequence.

Group breifing

Group breifing

today we were given the task to split into groups to create a title sequence for a film of our creation, the groups were pre chosen i am working in a three with Michael and Ben.

Next we had to decide what type of film to make so our group decided to make a social realist film with a twist of action and revenge after this we began to plan the title sequence for it here we began to talk about locations and props that we would need for our film idea.

When we had a brief outline of what props we would need (we still need to look around for locations) we began to research films that are similar to ours such as Adulthood, Green street hooligans and bullet boy we looked at the actors, budget and box office profit we discovered that if we were to make this film professionally we stood to make in the region of £1million we placed all of this information in a powerpoint and are pitching on the 8th, for the title we chose Twists of fate (hopefully that name will change over the next few weeks)  

Continuity Sequence