Evaluation

I used the internet to research crime films before I started planning mine, I found this very useful as I could find lots of different types of crime films, ratings, dates and pictures for them. I used google the most as this led me to finding more websites. It brought me to Wikipedia which had loads of information on each film, film descriptions, dates and a little bit about the type of film it was. Wikipedia also helped me to define the different types of crime films, this is where I found the pictures for analyzing crime film posters and where I checked to see if the firms id chosen were classed as ‘crime films’.
I found www.blogger.com easy to use, the layout was simple and so I got on with it well. I had slight problems with uploading my preliminary but after being shown how to upload it I was fine and uploaded my crime film without any help.
In my group we gave different parts to each of us, this meant that the person who was best at a particular skill would do that bit for our film. We all used the digital camera to see how it worked and so that we could say we’d tried but in the end we gave this job to Lauren. This worked well as Lauren didn't appear in the film. I found that the camera was quite easy to use however I struggled keeping it still so the tripod came in handy.
Again for editing everybody had a go but some of us found it easier than others. I edited all of my preliminary myself however I did find final cut hard to get used to, eventually I did start to learn with it and think that it looked well. However I didn't do as much editing as my other group members. I found that final cut was good for cutting parts out and piecing new bits together, for changing out film to black and white at parts and it was also good for slowing down parts. The only problem I had with final cut was that it wasn’t easy to use and I found it very hard to do things.
If I was to do my film again I would try to do more of the editing. I would ask for more help on how to use final cut rather than sitting back and watching. I think the filming of the film couldn’t have gone any better so I wouldn’t change that, all parts joined well, were filmed well and the camera worked well with us. I also found the internet easy and so I wouldn’t change anything about that as I got all the research that I needed.
Our crime was similar to other film noir films as it features a wife poisoning her husband for his money. She does this in a simple way by putting tablets in his drink. The filming of the film is also like a film noir as it brings in the black and white and the main characters in our film are both females, which is an obvious factor of a film noir to have ‘femme fetal’. However our film is a modern film noir so it differs slightly to other film noirs.
In our film we used lots of codes and conventions of a crime film. The film itself features a crime taking place- a murder of a husband and the storyline is of the mans sister trying to prove that the wife was responsible for his murder which again is crime related. The props used in the film were ‘criminal’ as he gets poisoned and so we had to use tablets and a bottle of alcohol.
In our film we portrayed characters differently, our male is the victim, which is unusual for a crime film to have a female as the criminal and the male as the victim as the male is usually seen as the ‘stronger and more dominant gender’. Our victim is not seen in the rest of the film as he is killed in the first three minutes, he’s seen as the weak and innocent party as he has no idea his murder is going to take place.