Our preliminary task lacked planning and had poor quality, so for this task we conducted extensive research and planning in 10 areas. This included researching genre conventions and history to understand what makes a good film noir. We analyzed title sequences and screened films to inform our ideas and understand institutions. Audience research found fans of art and filmmaking would enjoy the genre. Finally, we created a pitch, call sheet, and storyboard with animatic to plan our improved film noir media product.

1. What we have learnt from the preliminary task Evaluation Question 7

2. Preliminary task When we filmed our preliminary task we did not do much planning and the overall product was of poor quality, so for this task we done a lot more research and planning.

3. Planning We decided that we would make the media product film noir. We looked at 10 areas of research, all of the research types were put onto our blogs to help us keep track of them: Genre conventions Genre History Initial ideas Institution research Audience research Title sequence time line Nine screen analysis of an opening sequence (Sin City) Pitch Call sheet Storyboard and animatic

4. Genre conventions We listed on a word document all the different types genre conventions for example: visual style and settings. In all there are 5 categories in which we did research on the conventions which all helped us to create our media product because it gave us a detailed view point and background of what makes a good film noir product.

5. Genre History When researching the film noir genre a good thing to do is watch old films. They give a first hand and classic view of Film Noir which gives us inspiration but also a guide line of what works and what doesn’t work as a film noir genre

6. Initial ideas

7. Institutional research We researched the institutions by watching classic film noirs such as ‘the big combo’ and ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ to get experience needed and the information to learn about the film noir institution. We found out about the famous producers such as Joel Silver who made the company Silver productions, another production company which is associated with film noir is Dark Castle which produced films such as ‘RocknRoller’ which in the UK produced a total gross profit of £25.7 million in the UK alone

8. Audience research Using various websites we found out the main target audience for film noir products. We found that people who are fans of art and people who want to make their own films. This is because of the artistic talent, cinematography and stylishness of the film. We found that most film certificates are 15+ such as ‘se7en’ and ‘V for vendetta’

9. Title sequence time line By evaluating the title sequence for ‘Sin City’ we could develop the knowledge of how to incorporate a good title sequence into our film noir media product. This would make the film more gripping and give a more professional image to the film.

11. The Pitch for Final Target

12. Call Sheet

13. The Story board http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul5IevnePRc This link provides the animatic of our storyboard. It explains the rough outline of how we want our media product to be based on.