A2 Media Coursework

Common conventions of crime film...    - Fast pace  - Action  - Violence  - Protagonist  - Antagonist  - Enigma  - High intensity   - Quick cuts  What this film follows... - There is a fast pace sequence - Action - violence - protagonist - antagonist - Enigma - quick cuts  1 Unremarkable    Unremarkable is a short film, at 12 minuets long, on the website, short of the week. It involves a very distressed woman in her car getting out and falling down dead. This compelling short film then takes the audience on a journey into finding out what happened to her and how she died and the aftermath of her death. It was written and directed by Jared Anderson and has been nominated for an American Cinematographers Award. It was produced by American Film Institute and made in the USA.    The Genre for this film is drama with sub-genres of crime and live-action. This Connotes that the...

My team and I have decided to take inspiration from the short film, Unremarkable. We found this on the webpage, Short of the week. It is about a lady who dies at the start and we find out what happened to her through the course of the film. I really like the layout and how the film is directed in terms of the camera positioning and the suspense created by the lack of non dietetic music. All of this contributes to our idea. We also have looked at crime dramas and how they tackle the morgue scenes because we know we defiantly want a morgue scene in our film. To do this, we looked at sherlock (2009 - present). A BBC drama by Steven moffat and Mark Gattiss. Allthough Sherlock is a tv drama, the scenes within the morgue are very relevant. Here is a clip from the Tv show. -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaT7IYQgyqo In this clip, we see Sherlock and Molly Hooper in a morgue with a body. This is a good thing to compare because of the mise en scene and the lighting. I will look at...

BFI British Film Institute The British film institute is a British production company that charitably encourages film and television making to preserve the British film industry. The BFI holds the world's largest film archive. It was started in 1935 and was first called the national film archive and presently holds over 50,000 fiction films and 100,000 non fiction films. along with this there is over 625,000 television programmes and, although most of the films and productions are British, the film archive also holds many international titles. Income The income for the BFI comes from three main places. the largest of these three would be from the department for culture, media and sport which amounted to in ,2012, around £ 20 million. The secound largest funding source would be from comercial activity like selling tickets at their cinema in southbank, London. This grossed a £ 5 million in 2005. Thirdly, they are givien several differnt grants y many sources including The n...