Originally during the construction and planning of our piece we considered a wide variety of ideas, quite a lot of these ideas were direct influences from films including roles, setting choices and style. Other ideas used were created by me and my partner to tailor the piece more to our own styles.
The most notable use of existing conventions we could find in our piece was the idea to set the story around the detectives as found in many films in the Crime/Thriller genre including more recent films like 'Red Dragon' (2002) but also extending back down the line to films like 'Donnie Brasco' (1997) and 'Serpico' (1973).
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Once we had decided on a concept fully however we decided that we would actually prefer to have two main detectives, the main inspiration of this of course being David Fincher's 'Se7en' (1995) because of the strong and always interesting conflicts and relations between the two characters and how the audience can get a sense of enjoyment in watching these two connect over time, witness the struggles they face as a team rather than being individuals and truly understand how this case stumps even the mind of an experienced official, never mind a new one. Essentially this is also the grounds for our choice of dialogue between the two as we thought that it would be important to ground in the fact that these two have a strong bond, hence the light humour found in lines such as "You must be Cross" "You would be too, sir".
Other Films that also inspired our choice for two detectives include films such as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The French Connection' for notable mentions, yet 'Se7en' had the strongest influence for this setup out of all of these choices.
However, while we may have taken the concept of having two detectives from 'Se7en' we deviated from it in some pretty strong ways. For Example, in 'Se7en' the two detectives meet together yet it is Brad Pitt's younger character that is seen first and indeed acts as the main character overall, Morgan Freeman's character tends to act more as an moral conscience to Pitt's actions. In our film we switched this concept to some degree as the first person we properly focus on is the older detective because we believed his role as an elder granted him much more respect. In this aspect we can express how the underlying theme of our film is the concept of Age and how being a young spry individual does not necessary make you more capable in matters of the mind. In addition to this the final use of 'Se7en' as an existing convention was the visuals, we really wanted to make our crime scene seem dark and dingy as well as having our victims on display to some degree though we left out the proper reveal of the body to the opening credits to make sure that the audience was really seeing what was happening.
The
Crime Scene itself was something that we really wanted to develop to make a
little more Realistic, with ample opportunities for the audience to really
understand what was happening, hence my partners suggestions of adding in a
series of shots of the crime scene to use as a title sequence, something that I
had already been fairly interested in doing from the start because of that
methods exceptionally interesting use in the film ‘Red Dragon’ which I had
researched closely before the films production. I felt that it really helped
establish the situation and also add additional context to the issue that
wasn’t necessarily found or shown in the piece prior to the credits.
Our Film generally likes to stick to the safe guide rails in terms of conventions to potentially follow a more safer and successful role amongst other product, However, we have still expressed some creativity through a wide variety of creative shot styles and little dialogue quirks to make it more stylized.
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