AIMS AND CONTEXT SHEET

AIMS AND CONTEXT SHEET This handout is designed to get you to commit to your Creative Project idea. Successful Creative Projects are characterised by having thorough pre-production planning. This includes character development and motivation, integration of generic features and codes and conventions (which can be in the form of a parody or pastiche of established generic features e.g. Scary Movie and Scream) and detailed consideration of the key MICRO features of film and how they can be best applied to your Creative Project.

Please fill out the table below for your FM1 Creative Project: Name of Film Genre of Film BBFC Rating Short Film or Film Extract?

If Film Extract are you making the opening scene or another important sequence from the film? Please be specific.

Target Audience (DON'T JUST WRITE EVERYBODY WILL ENJOY THE FILM! BE SPECIFIC) Key stylistic elements of the film (cinematography, editing etc.)

Short outline of your Creative Project Name of people in your group (if applicable) Specific responsibilities of people in your group (e.g. Director, Editor, Sound)

EXAMPLE

Name of Film Genre of Film

Farewell from Shanghai – film/video production for FM1 Film noir short.

BBFC Rating

18

Short Film or Film Extract?

Short film

If Film Extract are you making the opening scene or another important sequence from the film? Please be specific.

N/a

Target Audience

Target audience of 18-year-old, middle-class males, knowledgeable about film Key stylistic elements of Apply cinematography techniques developed in FM1.

Apply mise-en-scene techniques (especially lighting and the film costume) developed in FM1. I want to explore the codes and (cinematography, conventions of Film Noir genre, especially the way it treats editing etc.) women. I want to create a pastiche of the Film Noir genre Short outline of your Creative Project

I want to create a short film. I am really interested in Film Noir and I want to try to recreate the tone and atmosphere of films like Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) in my Creative Project. My target audience will recognise the MICRO codes and conventions I will employ in my film. However I want to adopt a postmodern stance, by offering a pastiche of Film Noir. Instead of the traditional femme-fatale, my film will have a male-fatale and a homoerotic storyline that will subvert established Film Noir conventions.

Name of people in your David group (if applicable) Jess Eric Specific responsibilities of people in your group (e.g. Director, Editor, Sound)

David will be responsible for costume, lighting and mise-enscene Jess is responsible for cinematography Eric is responsible for sound and sound effects We will all help to edit the film using Adobe Premier CS6