BRIEF - Summary
I have constructed media work to reflect the brief I was given. The task was to create an opening sequence for a fiction film which was the British social realism genre. This involved carrying out various research and planning and frequent production schedules to summarise my stages of progress.
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| Title of my film. |
One crucial stage was to produce a title for my film. Eventually, I came up with the title 'Black Arrow' because it is ambigious. This helps to set up the enigma for my audience. It can give many different connotations. For me, this made my film unique because the audience could come up with their own initial reading of the film. However, the title has an individual meaning. It has connotations of pain to reflect the protagonist's harsh experience of living. This consists of her attitude for her friends, her boyfriend and her life on social networking sites. In addition, these elements are represented as issue in my opening sequence. I explore the central character's grief of cyber-bullying and tough friendships/relationships.
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| Beginning of my opening sequence |
Many of these themes are brought across to my audience in a serious manner. This conforms within the British social realism genre. It meant that the conventions had to implemented. I gained this knowledge by researching other films within the genre. For example, Happy Go Lucky, Attack The Block & This Is England. From this, I recognised that I would need to use basic shots and editing which connotes the simplicity of everyday life. I also found out that the sound would use a mixture of non-diegetic and diegetic sounds. In my sequence, I used a dubstep soundtrack with a slow riff in a minor key to connote the profound grief the protagonist experiences. Overall though, it had to seem genuine and relatable to my audience who are teenagers aged 15-24.
