Comparing conventions of my film with real life examples.

Screenshots comparison of 'Catalyst' with 'Welcome to the Punch' [WTTP]

When developing my idea into a film, I took the opportunity to look into art-house stylised films and see if I could use any of the conventions within them. I especially focused on 'Welcome to the Punch', a crime/drama with elements of mystery. In the opening sequence the protagonist is shown as separate from the antagonist even as he chases the other down. Long wide angled shots show the protagonist in complete isolation. This was something I wanted to push forward into our film, especially with the park and tunnel scenes. Doing this meant I matched the conventions of the genre.

Although we ended up editing this shot down to less than a second, I wanted to have the three main characters of our film placed in a similar way to in 'WTTP'. I found that this was a convention in which the protagonist would be place in an uncomfortable situation before being left. In our film I tried to merge this idea by placing this shot in the climax of the film.

When choosing a design for my poster, I continued to look at the film 'WTTP' especially the mystery fuelled opening sequence, for inspiration. I liked the idea of our protagonist running down a tunnel and found that in our final location I had the perfect opportunity to use this. There is a similarity between my final poster and the sceenshot below although I switched the placement of light, and had our protagonist lit up, whilst where he is walking to is dark.