Evaluation Question 1

Question 1A)

For our film One Day we wanted to represent it as being a action packed film but with comedy. When doing our research we found that the majority of action/spy films focused mainly on male characters and a male audience. We wanted to make our film different in a way which would make the female audience more involved and likely to want to see this film. We thought it would be a good idea to focus a lot of the film on a female role and this is shown in the opening sequence.

When considering the type of things that we wanted to show in the opening we looked at various films such as The Bourne Identity. We focused on only the first few minutes of the film and this helped give us an understanding of what to include. We wanted to include some action in the opening but also leave it open and keep the audience wondering what would be coming next. This is used a lot in spy films and helped it seem like a film that was about spies as well as a good story line, instead of having a film which is mainly about the action involved and exciting scenes; we made sure our film included both of these features.

Because a chase scene is typical feature of an action film we thought it would be good to use this as soon as the film started, this basically threw the audience into the action part of the film immediately, making it more exciting and interesting.  But because we were aiming for a spoof style film we wanted to make it seem more amusing than serious, we did this by using a style of music which wouldn’t necessarily be used in a serious action film. We made sure that we didn’t introduce the characters in our opening scene and gave little information about what was about to happen in the rest of the film, this would ensure the audience would be more likely to want to know about the characters and what was the meaning of Louise’s character getting shot, and why.

Mise En Scene

During our opening sequence we made sure we used props such as a gun, this is a typical feature that the audience would expect to see in a spy/action film and it helped show our film was representing this.  We put Louise’s character that was a good in dark clothes, this is because we wanted to stay away from the stereotypes and keep the audience questioning what might be unravelled during the rest of the film.

Question 1B)

What we initially wanted to do was dress the bad character in dark clothing, and this would fit to the stereotypes of a typical young character. But instead we changed the idea around and instead of representing the typical stereotype of a young male being involved in trouble, we decided to dress the good character in dark clothing and having it be a female. This went against what most of the audience would think a good character would be seen as and helped make our film challenge the typical conventions of a real media product.