Representation Conventions

When planning our film opening, it is important to consider the representation of it through the costume, setting, lighting, camerawork and mise-en-scene.

Costumes

The dealers of the package will wear dark suits to suggest that they are professional and know what they are doing. However, the dark colour of the suits will suggest that they are shady characters.

The protagonist will wear a white hoodie which will create enigma around the character and make the audience want to know what their true identity is. In addition, the colour white will suggest that they are innocent and a good character.

Setting

The main location of our film is going to be a car park building in Banbury town centre and the area surrounding it. We consider this to be the best setting as most of our target audience will relate to it. This is because most of our audience probably live in towns and use their town centre regularly. Therefore, this will make our audience think that our film opening could happen in a real-life situation as they can relate to our setting because they probably live in towns.

The exchange is going to happen in a car park because it creates an element of privacy and ensures that the public and authorities won't see it happen. Furthermore, the exchange is going to be hijacked so it will result in a car chase. Therefore, it makes sense to have the exchange set in a car park building.

Lighting

In our film opening, we will use high-level lighting for parts of our opening scene that are not inside the car park building. This is because we want the lighting in our film to seem as realistic as possible and we want the audience to see lighting that is realistic. However, if we get all the filming done in a single day, we can just use natural lighting for the parts of our film opening as the lighting won't change drastically. If it isn't possible to do this, we will definitely use high-level lighting to ensure that the lighting for the outside parts of our opening scene is consistent. This is because we want our audience to know that our opening was professionally made.

For the parts of our opening that are in the car park building, we will use some low-key lighting. This because we want to create a shady effect around the dealers in order to create enigma and mystery surrounding them. In addition, we want the audience to suspect the dealers as possibly shady characters and keep them intrigued in our film opening as they would want to find out more about them and what dodgy business or crimes they are going to commit.

Camerawork

In our film opening, we will mostly use tracking shots, especially during the car chase. This is because we want our audience to be able to keep up with the fast-paced parts of our film opening and be entertained at the same time. We will also use match-on-action during the car chase in order to maintain continuity in our film opening. This will also make it easier for our audience to understand that the car chase is quite lengthy and fast-paced as the cars won't be in frame for that long. Furthermore, we also use an establishing shot to display the outside of the car park and then we will pan the camera upwards towards the part of the building in which the exchange. This will make our audience understand that that is were the exchange is taking place.

We also use low-angle shots of the dealers to make them seem more powerful than the recipient of the package. In addition, a lot of close-ups will be used to effectively capture the tension happening in our film opening. Some of the close ups will be of the characters changing gears, applying brakes and pressing accelerator pedals and clutches to truly capture the high tension and emotion of our opening scene.

Mise-en-scene

Firstly, we will have an expensive sedan car (like a BMW or Mercedes) which will be used by the dealers. This is because we want the audience to know that it is a relatively fast car, therefore, it will be suitable for a fast-paced car chase. It will also suggest that the dealers are relatively rich and infer that they have done previous deals which they received good money for doing.

The dealers will also have guns to show that they are capable of killing other people and that they seem more in power and control over people that do not have firearms. The protagonist in our film will wear casual clothing because we want him to represent an average teenager. We also feel that this will empower teenagers watching our film to do something that seems impossible but can be done.