Critical Evaluation

1) In our film we made sure our film followed the conventions of continuity this was to enable our audience to easily follow the storyline of our film. In our title sequence we used quite fast paced editing as the shots were from a photo shoot. We also on the flash of the camera added a freeze frame which allowed us to add the name of our actors for the 2 seconds the edit occurred for. This was similar to the film Snatch, which enabled the audience to know who the characters where. We challenged the 180 degree rule on one occasion on purpose as it allowed us to get a varied angle of our main character trying to get out of his car with the press surrounding him. We purposely did this as to add to the effect of the media frenzy. We used linear editing where the film started beginning to end; this allowed us to ensure that the audience understood fully what was happening in the film and also in some ways understand how our main character is slowly unravelling.

Drama Films are serious presentations or stories with settings or life situations that portray realistic characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. Dramatic themes can be alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption, others, society and even natural phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film A dramatic film shows us human beings at their best, their worst, and everything in-between. That is why I would describe our film as a drama as it shows our main character at the beginning at his so called best and at the end his worst. We tried to stick to the main conventions of drama films on purpose as it would be the best way for our audience to understand our main characters situation. The sub-genre of our film is tragedy as our film shows “Connor’s” downfall which is caused by a flaw in his character and error in his judgement.

In our film we have used inspiration from the TV programme Dirt which showed a press frenzy which we took ideas from and incorporated it into our film. We also looked at the scene in Walk the Line where Johnny Cash is hounded by the press which helped us get inspiration as to what and how our press should be reacting in the presence of the so called “star”. We used mostly biopics as inspiration for our film as these showed big stars and the pressures they are under. Films like Ali, Walk the Line, I’m Not There and Milk proved to be very good films to help us shoot our film mainly because they were the type of film most similar to our own apart from our story is not about an actual famous person, but loosely around the many incidents where a celebrity has become overcome by fame.

In our film the kind of audience pleasure we wanted to try to provide is using Laura Mulvey’s visual pleasure & narrative cinema. We wanted our audience to have the feeling of scopophilia this is where the audience feel like they are looking at someone (voyeurism) and they cannot see them. We also wanted the audience to have the sense of identification with the main character and identify some of our main character traits especially at the height of “Connor’s” career.