Background research #2- Representation of characters

Characters have different representations in different genre's.

In the spy genre the genre convention of the hero is that he reacts to the donner (saves the day).They are alo usally a male.

The Villan's convention of a spy film is that he will eventually meet the hero in some form.

The Donner gives the hero something that will help him/her in some way.

In the spy genre men usally portray the villan and the hero and are also usally with males. They are also convayed as being more important that female characters and are 'brave.'
Women in the spy genre are usally portrayed being week, vulnerable, emotional, dependant, pretty, have a sexsual appeal and are innocent.

Class is also represented in genre as the upper class are portrayed as rich, snobby, well mannerd, intelligent.Wheras the lower class are workers and live in the inner city.









This will be uselful to me and my group as we know how to represent characters in our film as we can make them act a certain way depending on there class and we can also challeng the genre conventions to intreege our audience.

Background research #1- Narrative and Cinema

I have researched our genre (spy films) by watching the opening scenes to films such a James Bond: Specter, Mission Impossible and many others. I have also looked up the genre conventions of these films and have found that they usually follow a linear narrative and are Classic Hollywood Cinema. This is because the villain is almost always defeated by the hero at the end of the film and it is not intellectually challenging for the most part, as well as the fact that the film is mostly in chronological order. Which is helpful as we can use these ideas for our films so that it will suit the genre and therefor please our target audience.
 Me and my group have made a questionnaire for people to fill in as well which will help us to find out what people like and don't like in a Spy film, this will be helpful for us to develop and plan our opening scene as these are both spy films.

Description of our opening scene

In this video I describe how the opening scene of our film will go. It will be a spy film.

Experiance on editing

To edit my course work I will use final cut pro which is the same softwere which I used to edit my KitKat chunky and drinking a cup of tea work. It was my first time really editing however I think that I understand how to use the softweare to edit my footage as I can cut clips, insert them into the sequence, add music/sound effects and do many other things. I did all of these things in my KitKat and tea work so the softwear will be useful when I am editing my course work.

Me My group and I

In our group we have me (Oliver Kelsey), Bayley Flinn, Alex Grandage and Matt Gallagher.

Our Genre

We have decided that we will do a spy adventure genre for our opening scene and title sequence for our course work. We do not yet have the full idea for the title sequence but have the general idea for what we will do.