Conventions in teenage drama movies that are filmed in the UK take a very mainstream approach. For example, in the opening, the audience is highly likely to come across London red buses, the tube and the building in which surrounds the urban area. However, although we don't use any of these shots in Safeguard, we still know that its a teenager on the streets of London.
For example, as our production and distribution itent is introduced in our movie, there is absolutely no soundtrack. Pure silence is revealed as we wanted to draw the audience straight into the movie and theme of the movie; boxing.Whereas, if we look at the conventions and how its really done, well witness sound. In reference. 21st century Fox productions has a soundtrack that gets the audience ready for the movie, which is too mainstream, therefore we wanted to do the unexpected and put no sound.
The opening scene is pretty fast paste and striking in terms of editing. We would also witness a slow scene which will be the flashback scene. Therefore, we had many shots in a matter of 2 minutes with over 15 different shots. However, in other movies such as My Brother The Devil, we witness a slow paste opening that gives the audience a slow understanding and a more depth introduction of the characters.
The props used were pretty common with boxing movies; towel, mouth guard, boxing gloves, vest, boxing shorts, trainers, boxing bags, boxing ring. The reason why we identify the main character wearing a vest is to show that he is a amateur in the club fighting against the strongest in the club. As a result, we try to make the impression that no matter who you are, to be the greatest, you have to take out the greatest.
The amazing make-up work done by our makeup artist Buse Yilmaz, certainly states the fact that we wanted this opening to be great with the hours and effort we put in as a group. We used Vaseline to show sweat and ordinary female makeup for the bruises and cuts on the actors face after the beating.
Also, no use of weapons or drugs were experienced, this is because we wanted to show that for this to be a teenage movie, we don't need all of the equipment because not everyone's passed involves a knife attack etc.
Variety of teenagers would think of danger first, if they hear the word 'alleyway'. Therefore, in one of our flashbacks we used a alleyway in brick lane, London, to show how we could relate to a typical London youth. This is how its usually done through other movies as well. As a result we have followed the conventions of filming in alleyways in London.
As revealed above, we have challenged the conventions only through not possessing any weapons and few camera-shots of London, for example, tubes, buses and so on.
The opening scene is pretty fast paste and striking in terms of editing. We would also witness a slow scene which will be the flashback scene. Therefore, we had many shots in a matter of 2 minutes with over 15 different shots. However, in other movies such as My Brother The Devil, we witness a slow paste opening that gives the audience a slow understanding and a more depth introduction of the characters.
The props used were pretty common with boxing movies; towel, mouth guard, boxing gloves, vest, boxing shorts, trainers, boxing bags, boxing ring. The reason why we identify the main character wearing a vest is to show that he is a amateur in the club fighting against the strongest in the club. As a result, we try to make the impression that no matter who you are, to be the greatest, you have to take out the greatest.
The amazing make-up work done by our makeup artist Buse Yilmaz, certainly states the fact that we wanted this opening to be great with the hours and effort we put in as a group. We used Vaseline to show sweat and ordinary female makeup for the bruises and cuts on the actors face after the beating.
Also, no use of weapons or drugs were experienced, this is because we wanted to show that for this to be a teenage movie, we don't need all of the equipment because not everyone's passed involves a knife attack etc.
Variety of teenagers would think of danger first, if they hear the word 'alleyway'. Therefore, in one of our flashbacks we used a alleyway in brick lane, London, to show how we could relate to a typical London youth. This is how its usually done through other movies as well. As a result we have followed the conventions of filming in alleyways in London.
As revealed above, we have challenged the conventions only through not possessing any weapons and few camera-shots of London, for example, tubes, buses and so on.
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