Evaluation Question 1

I feel the title of our film is a good place to start. The title 'Reine Des Coeurs' is french for queen of hearts. We found this to be suiting as the movie will take on a french style and theme, most likely going to take place in France. The choice behind the name was the fact that the female villain left behind a playing card with the queen of hearts on it. also if the name is in french then it keeps the viewer confused about the going on of the film, this will start the viewers questioning about the movie before even the 1st advert has come on in the cinema. The name breaks genre convention in my opinion, as most names are the name of the main character 'James Bond', 'Bourne', 'Salt' to name a few and this isn't English its very rare you see a movie with a different language name.

This scene is a panning shot of the main area. It is used to show the viewer the area in which the scene takes place. We needed to do this as its not only a genre convention to set the scene but a movie convention. You will probably not find a movie in the world where it doesn't set the scene at least once. The point of setting the scene is to show the audience where the next clip of action is going to take place and its used to make the viewer feel welcomed into that environment with the characters. We believed this would be a good place to shoot our scene for two reasons, easily accessible from school so if we need to do two days worth of work then we were able to. Also the grassy area surrounded completely with buildings gives that kind of safe guard feel, that when one of the characters leaves he will die. All in all no Genre conventions were challenged.

The queen of hearts, the reason behind the title of our movie. This is a calling card for the main female villain. Most killers have a certain calling card. Such as in 'Saw' the killer cuts out a piece of jigsaw out of his victims to show that he is missing something. This shows that the card could mean something about her kills and why she is trying to obtain the case. This is used to show mystery of who this woman is and why she wants the case and why she leaves the card behind, is it just to show who finds the body who she is or is there a deeper meaning behind it such as her father killed her mother with a playing card and now shes messed up (random i know but it could happen)

This is another setting the scene shot, this time of a suburban road in the Bristol area. We had no money to make an action packed opening. so we wanted to keep it simple. This is the scene before the getting ready scene in the bedroom. Its setting the location and scene. The next scene is an indirect warning to the spy that danger lies ahead.

DEATH SCENE!!! This is the scene just after the over exaggerated gun shot sound. it shows the spy lying dead on the floor, and the legs of the queen of hearts who' head is also not seen in order to keep mystery of who she is. it will keep the audience guessing through out the movie until it is revealed who she is. The whole movie we want to keep mystery and suspense. To follow the convention of spy-thrillers we want a twist ending at the end obviously. like the queen of hearts turns out to be the main characters mum or something, we haven't looked into it to much. We feel the element of not showing the faces will worry people about the queens return and why she does what she did.

Over head shot used to show that even though the characters believe they know what they are doing that they are still vulnerable and only human and are able to die like everyone else. This still shows spy 1 moving out of shot away from the bench where the case is exchanged hands and that spy 2 is picking it up to see the content of the case. When we show spy 2 looking at whats in the case we don't show whats in the case, this too keeps the element of mystery under genre convention about whats in the case. This scene shows the viewers for the 1st time that they are spies using code words to transfer brief cases seems pretty spy like to me. This is the 1st instant that we know what genre the movie is going to be, if we went in not know anything.

    
Murder scene, yes some action entertaining  this is the scene where we watch beloved spy 2 kick the bucket, we don't know why hes dying we don't know who pulls the trigger we don't know anything really other than that he dies. this brings in the major mystery that will go throughout the movie and will keep the viewers hopefully on the edge of their seat. The death of dear spy 2 wasn't going to be through a major explosion or car crash, just your bog standard ally murder pretty boring, but don't worry action will come later. This death is meant to be low key so viewers don't get distracted by the pretty explosions and focus more on the unfolding of the story so they can focus on whats going on and when they grasp the who story add the cool stuff later

 
Scene from movie where spy 1 gets ready in his bedroom, he has a fireplace so we must be able to assume he must come of some money as low budget houses don't tend to have fancy fireplaces. Behind him is a radio which is emitting a broadcast about a fellow spies death and it shows the spy and the audience that there is danger ahead of him but he is persistent to carry on and not worry about it. This is the 1st scene where we can see a human but no head. this keeps the mystery on who he is and why we cant see his head. he must come in later in the movie after about 1 hour or so but his name may be spoken a few times before.

Overall we didn't break many conventions, we kept the protagonist two white middle class males that look pretty strong who will probably follow genre convention to beat up men and save women. The only convention we seemed to create was the slow opening. If you watch movies such as 'Salt', 'James Bond' and 'Bourne' the opening is mainly action packed with guns and explosions, while we did have a gun it wasn't used in a overly action packed style way. the opening is meant as a story setter.