Evaluation Part 1

Brief

The brief is to create a new British Social Realist film that is aimed at British 16-24 year old's for Film4. I had to produce the first two minutes of the film to give a clear graphical, editing and musical style my film would use. In order to maintain Film4's reputation in British cinema, I must keep to the typical conventions used in their previous films in the Social Realist genre and meet all audience expectations. I must keep a low budget so all visual and audio material must be original. I believe i have met this brief, because I have targeted my film at teenagers and i have stuck to the usual themes and conventions that are normally present in Film4's productions. All camerawork I used are recorded myself and the music, which starts at 00:33, is originally created by a friend who allowed me to use it.

I chose this title "Hit List" because it connotes the themes and aspects I used in my film such as violence which represents the protagonists as his actions will lead to negative outcome. Another meaning of the title is that the protagonist has a list of people he wants to target for reasons like revenge.

In my opening sequence we denote a troubled teen is typing in a document inside a library, speaking his thoughts about life through a voice-over. In the next scene, we see the teenager rushing out of a house in anger and partly walking, partly running towards the park. He looks around frustrated as he strolls through before stopping by the lake and waits until the audience sees a mysterious hooded figure slowly approaching him. This creates an enigma as people are left wondering what happens between the two. This would have then led on to a fight between the pair and the protagonist takes out all his frustration. This opening foreshadows something bad is going to hit back on the character and this will lead to his eventual fate. My film establishes some of the themes used in BSR like loneliness which is exemplified during the first scene in the library, as the character is alone and talks very pessimist about his life. The theme of violence can be signified at the end of my opening sequence where a hooded figure walks up to another hooded figure, because teenagers in hoodies are stereotyped as part of gangs and bullying.