Evaluation

Atrocity

Luke Davies
Sam Felton
Scott Evans
Alex Leeson
Crime Genre...

Atrocity is similar to real life crime films because it contains a few sub-themes leaving the audience entertained on several levels, additionally making it appeal to a wider audience. In suspense thriller style a killer is run down by a vigilante as the killer tries to escape from a quiet hillside location.
Our film follows the basic crime codes and conventions where someone down on their luck either involved in or turning to a life of crime where possessions are a measure of power, they typically strive to better themselves. In our film, it is the vigilante who is trying to do the right thing, not following a moral or partially law abiding life, he is trying to do the right thing, hunting down this killer.
It is similar to the film “Catch me if you can”, the 2002 hit by Steven Spielberg where quite similarly it involves very much a chase based crime genre.
Before producing our film we did some research into the codes and conventions of the crime genre and this is how we developed our own codes and conventions so that our film would be something new and exciting, different to real life crimes.Using our research we looked into the typical appearance of the characters In a crime film, using this research we tried to display both the killer and the vigilante to not appear to be of pure hearted nature but we wanted the killer to look more menacing and I think we achieved this.
I think both groups are portrayed in a negative way, although you could argue that in chasing a killer, the vigilante may be seen in a good light.
The audience are meant to sympathise with both characters. You feel sorry for the killer having no choice but to kill, trapped in a life of crime but you want him to be caught, and you feel for the vigilante chasing him to right the wrongs he has done in his life.Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE) isn't choosy when it comes to an entertainment medium producing all genres of films through five studios (Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation), and makes television shows primarily for the FOX network (24, The Simpsons). Fox Home Entertainment releases more than 1,000 film and television titles each year to the worldwide home video market. FFE also licenses its content to third parties for use on pay television (HBO, Starz) and pay per-view cable and satellite systems.
I think a media institution like Fox would distribute our film and It would be shown in a big multiplex cinema

Audience
Men
15-40 (Certificate 15)
Using research we did on the typical audience of a crime film we then used this to assess the audience of our film.
Using a questionnaire as research we asked our target audience what they liked about crime films and what they would want to see. We then used this information in conjunction with the production of Atrocity.
The storyline of atrocity is both similar and different to real crime films, this is what makes it appealing. It has a familiar feel that the audience knows and loves but also additional originality which keeps them watching.

From this product I have learnt the value of the internet for my research, I found “Google” and “Wikipedia” to be most useful in researching crime films.
Blogger was quite straight forward to use after you get a feel for it, my blog is located at: http://lukedaviesasmediaportfolio.blogspot.com
Having already been familiar with Digital cameras and final cut the filming and editing was quite easy, if I were to make another crime film, I would use these technologies again as they were easy to use and very useful in the production of Atrocity.The preliminary task we carried out gave us a basic idea of how the cameras work, gave us a feel for the editing software and we played around with ideas for different shots and locations and discussed the effect they had
We used ideas about the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on match to plan out several shots for our film, we used some shots more than others but that was due to the fast pace of the film.

Conclusion
For our research we analyses film posters, cuts of crime films, did internet research into the codes and conventions of the crime genre amongst other research such as different shots.
For the filming, we all went to a hillside using our research to plan some shots, we did some filming, went back and editing then went out to do more more
The editing process was carried out with input from all of our team, we wanted to have lots of cuts to make the chase seem fast paced and dramatic. Hence we chose some dramatic and I think very fitting backing music.
I feel overall our research was very sufficient. I’m happy with the amount of filming we did although I would have liked to spend more time editing so we could ass some of the many effects available in Final Cut, although we looked at them I wished we had taken better advantage of them.