Evaluation Part 1 - Summary of Brief

The brief of the opening sequence stated that it must be under two minutes and if it was to not be at that exact time frame then it must be around to 10-15 seconds under or above the time frame. The brief also stated that it must be targeted to a British audience of 16-24 year olds from a social realist genre called BSR (British social realism)What was also stated was in the brief was the way we constructed our film such as the types of shots and angles and copyright free material that was used in post production such as music and everything must be original. My opening sequence 'Backwards' was within the time frame that was required and it was 2:10seconds long I also stayed true to the audience being British as the setting and locations were all recorded in a British setting, all the clothes and props used all fit the mise-en-scene that was realistic British setting. No gender was required but we only had males in our film as they were the only people we could use for filming during that time.

The main narrative and story line of our opening sequence is a slave being chased and pursued by two slave owners that are hunting him down. I believe this is a great and intriguing narrative for a BSR film as it shows that slavery is still around maybe not like how it was but in a different form and it denoted how the realism of what places in the Uk are like and how the media completely ignores it or doesn't cover it, it doesn't just only denote what places are like but it also is very engaging to watch for instance it is very tense and is considered a 'smash mouth' opening as the action happens right away and this also helps to relate to the audience because the teenagers would enjoy an action opening when compared to a slow paced one with just talking as they would find it boring when compared to this. The outfits we used also helps relate to the audience because the slave is wearing track suits.

In our treatment we feel like we have used most of the material from it in our opening sequence but there are differences such as the locations and maybe some other variables because of a filming incident that we had encountered. The fil called Adulthood also gave us a lot of inspiration for our film such as the language and slang that was used to represent the British society in a BSR film and this is helps depict the genre of realism in the film and the opening sequence helps create and depict realistic view of our story that would carry on throughout our film. The clothes in Adulthood and notified in our film as its a style that people would wear that suffer with poverty and suffering which is exactly where both our film and Adulthood are trying to achieve

Here at 0:22 seconds here and immediately we have set up the genre of a BSR film because of the setting depicting a typical British street and housing and I feel like we have definitely have established this by this one scene another thing at this clip is the use of audio, the audio is very ambient and not over the top and is the sound of distant cars in the background which also supports the BSR genre.

The next screenshot depicted is from Adulthood at 0:01seconds in and right away we see a person wearing clothes suited for the BSR genre to show poverty and suffering and this all links and relates tour film because we use very similar clothing such as hoddies and tracksuits which is used in Adulthood the first time we see a person in out opening sequence is at 0:24 seconds in and it denoted the slave being chased by the owners and we can see the clear similarities between the clothing and the setting too as both films have been set in east London and have very similar clothing styles.

So I think we have clearly depicted and established the BST genre instantly but we do have other themes such as slavery and violence but those aren't established until at least halfway through or towards the end of our film because it isn't clear right away what is happening as the guy at the beginning could be running from anything and the audience would have no idea what he would be running from. Another thing we wanted to include was lighting so we aimed to record during sunset as its was darker enough give themes of tension and mysteriousness but it was good that it wasn't too dark as the quality of the recording would be bad as the grin would be noticeable on the camera, the use of camera language had to be sued correctly and creative which is what we tried to aim for so it wasn't boring but not unnatural for the audience to watch as a BSR film wouldn't consist of really fast paced shots of a birds eye view as it isn't realistic so overall we followed what was specified in the brief and tried to be as creative as possible with out opening sequence