Bill - Genre Evaluation

Bill - Genre Evaluation

This evaluation I am going to be talking how we incorporate different technique to make our short drama a parody and contemporary western genre. We called our genre 'Mexican Stand Off' because it is based on a westernise version of a mexican stand off. The Mexican Stand Off is about a 'drug' dealer (Josue) who show a friend (Jazz) where his drug stash was then Jazz ends up telling the rival 'drug' dealer (Barney) where the drugs are. They take the drugs and Josue finds out about it and they have a Mexican stand off outside of the college, at the end they all end up dying and Tyree comes and take the drugs.

The first scene starts of with a pan shot from the sky to ground where we see everybody died on the floor then did a flashback to where it all started. We started off doing the scene like this because it shows what the storyline is going to be building up too and also makes the audience interested in what happened for this happen. The next scene is of Josue showing Jazz his 'secret stash'. In this seen we used exaggerated acting for example when Josue was leaving the room he turned around and warn Jazz not to tell anyone by shaking his finger, which gives us a bit of the parody aspect. The next scene also shows the audience that this is a parody is when Jazz called Barney on the phone to tell him where the stash and when they hang up you see Barney pop up from nowhere and you hear a non diegetic whistle sound which we got from 90s cartoon shows. We thought that it would be quite a funny aspect to put in out short drama. The scene cuts to Josue going back to the stash and finding his 'drugs' missing he goes looking for Jazz and spots him playing rock, paper scissors with Barney. When Josue gets to the car park to pulls out a spoon (replacement for a gun) and then Barney pulls out his fork. We had a wide of Jazz throwing the drugs on the floor and then it cuts to a close up shot of the drugs aka skittles on the floor. Barney throws his weapon and use his guns (fingers) to point at both Jazz and Josue then Jazz pulls out his gun on Barney and Josue. This is when the mexican stand off is shown. The next shot we did a 360 shot of the three people in the mexican stand off then it cuts to an extreme close up of their eyes which is another convention in a mexican stand off. It goes black and shoots goes off and we see everybody dead on the floor and Tyree comes and steals the drugs aka skittles.

My role in this film was camera operator and also director. I filmed most of the shots alongside Tyree. I also made sure that we were following the storyboard and that we had every shot we intended to do. We receive positive feedback saying they like the storyline and that it made them laugh especially our ending which was a tribute to a fellow member of our class who left. If I was to doing something different for next time I would have record the audio of our drama on a microphone and then sync it in because when we use the camera microphone it was unclear and it didn't sync in properly when we upload it up on the desktop.