Hello all! Now it is officially the time to begin research on the four questions that I must answer as a reflection of what exactly I have done during the project. The first question I will be answering right now is how would my film opening either embrace or challenge genre conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
To answer the first part of my question, my film would work to embrace genre conventions because it embraces the suspense and tension that I convey in our film. Action/Crime films like ours often begin with some form of tense situation, and my staged drug deal is exactly what happens to make the tension rise in my film. Another common element of my film is the actual illegal exchange of drugs for money which supplements what I already have. This would not be possible without the props that we included in the opening that symbolized our conveying of the situation. One other element of my opening that shows how I embraced genre conventions is how the two main characters are ambiguous meaning both of the characters are not fully identified or not much is known them which adds to the tension by adding a mysterious element to the opening and it’s plot. Here is an image that should give you an idea of slightly more serious tone that our film tries to convey:
As for the second part of the question, our film represents social groups by demonstrating illegal activity and drug dealing which is evident of real life issues surrounding real life drug dealings. This also works to show that underground economies exist in secret and are only accessible to certain people. The dealing also shows situations can also turn dangerous which is a particularly important aspect of my opening as it also works to represent certain social groups surrounding the illegal activities environment. The young looking characters further develop the idea that these people became involved in crime at a young age which in turn, represents typical social groups again but this time, through the fact that young people are involved as many of real life situations like how I portrayed mine go on just like how I did mine.
Here is roughly what I will be saying during the part where I answer the first question during the first CCR video (this is the first part of the script for the first video):
BEGINNING:
Hello everyone, I’m Oliver and this is the first of two CCR videos where I will be answering four questions about my overall reflection relating to the film opening which has been going on for about eight weeks by now so there is a lot to discuss here.
But before I start answering the questions, I would like to give a big shoutout to my partner and his father. We had a great time working on this project together and without them, none of this would’ve been possible so if you’re watching this, thank you very much you two.
Now without further ado, let’s get started!
This video will answer two of the four questions with the first question being how the opening either embraced or challenged genre conventions and how it represented social groups or issues and the second question being how does the opening engage with audiences and how could it be distributed as a real media text.
Beginning with the 1st question, our opening would primarily embrace typical genre conventions as we keep aspects of a normal action or crime film in our opening. One big example of this is the use of tension. In the opening, we first establish it through the introduction of the drug deal and we maintain that tension through the use of props, editing techniques during the deal, and through our portrayal of the main characters as well. The main characters are very ambiguous meaning they are not fully identified or given any background information other than the current situation they are in which adds to the tension and works to give out a sense of mystery that is very supportive of the typical genre conventions of crime films specifically.
To answer the other part of the question, our opening represents the social groups and issues surrounding illegal activity and crime as what we show in the opening can be very evident in real life scenarios and that situations like ours are way deeper than what we show directly. They come to show that in real life, there are many illegal markets that involve the sale of illicit goods and services and that many people often get into crime at a young age, which is supported by how young our main characters look in the opening and also highlight an important issue that exists in real life as well.
END OF 1ST PART
Here are the sources that I used:
Sanyal, S. (2023). 10 crime movies with incredible opening scenes. Screen Rant.
https://screenrant.com/crime-movies-best-opening-scenes/
IMDb. (n.d.). No Country for Old Men (2007). IMDb.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/
Wikipedia contributors. (2024). A Clockwork Orange. Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)
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