In this part i shall analyse 9 stills from our group opening scene to our detective crime film as well as talk about possible conventions associated with those stills.
this is a still of our title to out film corruption. We decided to use that title because its related to the character of detective Sullivan who is corrupt himself. His corruption is shown because he decides to do his own independant detective work on a abondoned school site without authorisation from the police.
This still shows the setting of our opening sequence which is a abondoned school that has become a hotspot for criminal gang activity. As you can see there is a gang chase going on in the still below which is a convention of the crime genre
In the still shown below the costume and props are shown. The costume for the jab who are the gang on the left is budget hoodies which helps conceal their identity. Where as the gang member on the right ,Harold, is wearing more upper class posh clothes like the knitted jumper and designer white trousers giving the impression there is a clear rivalry between them. The convention of gang rivalry is clearly shown and supported by the knife prop one of the jab members is pulling out of his pocket.
This still shows the variety of camerawork we used. For this shot we required Josh Mugridge to get inside the dumpster and film from Harold's perspective looking up at detective Sullivan. This low angle shot makes Detective sullivan appear far more dominant and intimidating to the audience showing hes not a man to be messed with.
The still shown below is again the title of our film but now i will be focusing more on the title font and style. The font colour is red which has connotations of anger, blood and death. I blended this with the pure black background which also has connotations of death,mystery and generally the unknown. The font style is a scrathed and damaged one making it seem like the idea of corruption is unsafe and dangerous.
The still below shows Harold who is a single gang member representing the royals walking to the meeting place in the abandoned school which has become a hotspot for criminal activity. This gives the audience a idea that this film is going to be based around crime because Harold is acting nervously inside the isolated setting.
The still below shows Harold the upper class gang member hitting the knife out of Gaz's hand. The knife prop and the clear rivalry between the two gang members are conventions of the crime genre supported by the urban setting.
The character the opening sequence is most focused on is detective Sullivan who is the protagonist of the corruption. We have him wearing a long black coat with gloves and a old fashioned hat giving the idea that he is certainly a odd detective with different ways of inspecting the crime as can be shown by his magnifying glass. There is a mysterious blues rhythm type music that plays when we see his face for the first time supporting the idea that he is very unusual.
Here is a still of the transition special effect we used to portray flashfowards and flashbacks. Along with the white flash transition effect i managed to use a special sound effect which gives a sense of a change or shift in time.
A film which can be easily compared to this is Sherlock Holmes (2009) which has very similiar conventions. They both have fast paced action with the criminals as well as silent and subtle scenes during the detectives inspection. The setting is Urban in both films but corruption focuses more on the adondoned school and modern city settings where as Sherlock holmes focuses on victorian London.
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