This document discusses how lighting, camera angles, and characterization were used to portray stereotypes in a film. The Suit character was shot with low-key and chiaroscuro lighting to make him seem ominous and mysterious as the main villain. Irish Tommy was shot in daylight settings to seem less intimidating. Camera angles were also used differently for the characters, with low angles used for Irish Tommy initially and then a close-up when he is revealed to be foolish. The characters were designed to fit crime genre stereotypes, with Irish Tommy portrayed as lower class and less intelligent and The Suit as higher class and intimidating.

1. By Adam Wilton

2. ● The characters in this film are meant to follow the basic stereotypes
of the given genre, and we have tried to achieve this using a number
of different techniques.
● The three I shall go over in this presentation are:
- Lighting
- Camera angles/shots
- Characterisation

3. ● For the character of The Suit
I wanted there to be an
ominous or mysterious quality
about him, to achieve this his
scenes were shot in a low-key
lighting and at times using a
chiaroscuro lighting effect.
The nature of this type of
lighting adds to the drama and mystery of the character and situation, as we
are trying to show that “the suit” is the main villain of the film and the dark
tones help personify that.

4. ● In contrast to The Suit we have the character of Irish Tommy has all
of his scenes shot in daylight, giving a less intimidating and
mysterious setting, which ties in to the character of Irish Tommy
being a very obvious and non-mysterious character. It is also
noteworthy that all of our media product was filmed using entirely
natural lighting, to help with the film portraying a real environment.
The all natural lighting helped in the editing process as we did not
need to alter much to get the look we wanted from the characters.

5. ● A lot of Irish Tommy's shots tend to be low angle, as to show his physicality
and look more intimidating, however once we get to the phone call sequence
and realise Irish Tommy is a bit of a fool then the camera swaps to being
level to his face in a close up. The Suit only has one shot type which is a
medium close up, this was
primarily used so we could
keep his suit in shot at all
times he was on screen, but
also as to show his full upper
body. I also have to note that
the product did have a limited
number of shot types used
in the final product, and could have used a larger variety to get out point
across to the viewer, and we did not make full use of the technology we had
available for this.

6. ● The character of Irish Tommy
plays on some of the stereotypes
present in the British Crime
genre, he is a character of lowly
intelligence and is simply used
for brute force. Irish Tommy
represents a lower class citizen
in Britain who is involved in crime, as seen by his attire and job. In
opposition with Irish Tommy is the portray of The Suit, who is even
from first glance an obviously higher class or more sophisticated
character, evident by the suit and a general better appearance. He follows
general stereotypes for a boss style character; mysterious, short tempered
and intimidating.