Evaluation - Part 1

In the brief we were told that we had to produce a two minute opening sequence to film four for a BSR film targeted at 16-24 year olds. We had to conform to the typical conventions of BSR films and to meet film fours audience expectations while having to create everything from scratch to keep costs low.

I think that we met the brief quite well in terms of originality and trying to meet film fours audience expectations. We conformed to the BSR style in a lot of ways, for example BSR films are very gritty and due to a low budget aren't very polished in terms of camera language, ours followed the same style being that the entirety if the film was filmed handheld which gave that shaky effect to shots especially during the first  360 tracks between 00:07 - 00:24. Also I think that we met the brief in terms of the target audience because it was set to be shown to a target audience of 16-24 year olds and we looked to use characters who were clearly between those ages and make the production more relatable in that sense.

Our title is 'CLASS A' which instantly points in the direction of the connotation of drugs and ties in with our narrative quite well, our narrative is basically a boy who gets in with the wrong crowd, starts dealing drugs, he sees how drugs can effect people, he tries to get out of it and is willing to do anything to do so. So 'CLASS A' I think is a suitable title for this production because the narrative itself revolves around drugs.

I think that this opening would set up the rest of the film quite well due to the fact that we have used a smash mouth opening, this just means that we have created a few different possible outcomes for the rest of the film just based on the opening alone, also the coda after the title is like a red herring for the audience so continuing the rest of the narrative. For example in the coda two of the characters were two characters that were in the main part of the opening which means we could add a back story of how he got involved with drugs.

In terms of themes the opening clearly sets up a few such as; drugs, violence, corruption of youth. The drugs were clearly denoted when the boss character pulled out thee bags of cocaine, violence was implied with the gun and corruption of youth also ties in with the previous two themes because 16/17 year olds shouldn't be able to get around drugs and guns as easily as they are.