For this task in the single camera drama we have to chose a genre (mine being noir/thriller) and show that is was that drama in an opening scene to a film and or television series and show the audience that is was the genre I chose I done this by using a number of different elements and filming techniques.
Firstly I concentrated on the lighting of filming so for a most noir films the settings are dark with not much light and have to create a dark mood towards what the audience is watching so they know it's not a comedy but also doing it so you don't let them think it's a horror, to make sure the audience didn't think it was a horror I gave light at the right parts of filming and also expressed it through the music. I find when filming the music is one of the most key things to really think hard about so for the music I used very tense music from the "Breaking Bad" soundtrack to line up with the thriller genre and to also try keep the audience on the edge of there seats by also keeping the mood at a darker one but leaving the audience following the music right to the end to find out what it is leading too.
Secondly I had to take into consideration the right actor, originally my script was a bit different and did have a bit of dialogue and three scenes altogether but due to not everybody being free I went back and re-wrote some of the script but I feel like with choosing the right actor being one of my friends who is a very talented actor (Robin). In this I felt like he got into the character of Frank and explored different ways in how to portray his hurt and angry without using any dialogue, i felt like with the great chose of actor this is something that really portrayed the idea and genre too the audience and i feel like it came down to the right actor.
Thirdly the different types of camera angles I used was a way for me to let the audience only see and let them know what I wanted them to know i feel like this is one of the key things I used to leave mystery so the audience would want to carry on watching too see things they didn't see for example; Who was the person behind the door?, Why did Frank want to kill him? Who was the other person turned up? and why was he trying to stop him? I feel like things like this would make people be interested too the genre and story and keep there attention.
