Evaluation(Part 1)- Brief

The brief that we had worked to was;
"You have been approached by Film4 to make a new British Social Realist film aimed at British 16-24 year olds. To give Film4 an idea of how your film will develop they have asked you to produce the first two minutes of the film, providing a clear sense of the graphical, editing, and musical style of your film will use. To protect Film4's reputation as a leader in British cinema the film must conform to the conventions of the Social Realist genre, and meet all audience expectations for this type of film. Finally, to keep costs low, all visual and audio material used in the film must be entirely original, with the exception of stock sound effects."

Our title was "Framed", clearly this relates to an event set up, that will put them on the wrong side of the law, another meaning that the title has is that physically a frame consists of four boarders, and this could symbolise a prison cell, connoting that this character is trapped and the picture is already painted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG89tcElrN4
In our opening sequence (0.11) we see Jay (our protagonist , who is played by an actor who is 17 years of age- so that he relates to our 16-24 year old target audience, working delivering packages, we see him looking slightly puzzled about where he is going, he walks down some stairs (0.21) into a dirty, dark, empty, enclosed room where he delivers the package (1.02), he then receives a phone call from his anonymous boss (1.20), where he is told to "run", instantly a undercover police officer bursts through the door (1.29) and finds Jay with a box full of drugs (1.42). We then see Jay though a CCTV camera in a interview room... (1.43)

We had met the brief as we had conformed to the conventions of a BSR movie, we did this as we had kept it low budget, as we had used a unknown actors, we had used locations that were locally available to us and we had used themes that personally relate to British 16-24 year olds, such as poverty and drugs.

Our film "Framed" contrasts to the film "Ill manors", as the main theme is poverty and drugs, here we have a similar shot where the main theme is established, the theme being drugs, but we had decided to show it from a different perspective, that being, people who are indirectly involved with drugs and face the consequences of someone elses actions.