The research phase was pretty extensive. I really had no idea that so much thought and planning went into the genre conventions and representations of a film. This information was pretty difficult to find and we had to dig deep for it, but as we started to find more information, the process became a lot easier and we felt more confident about planning our film. The research went fairly well and we have to soon start planning out the script and the business aspect of the film industry. I am slightly worried about this part of research because we haven’t discussed too much about this, so hopefully the research of this is not too difficult. Our plan is to just keep analyzing more movies within our genre because this really is the basis and inspiration for our title sequence. Watching other films in our genre allows us to make similar choices about the production, distribution, and exhibition of our title sequence.
Blog posts are kind of difficult to keep up on. There is just so much information that we have to have on here and it is a little overwhelming having to constantly update on this blog website about the process of our filmmaking. While the research is going fairly decent, it has been a struggle to find the right information that we need in order to film the movie, which is a little worrisome because we don’t know for sure how this is going to go.
We had an original idea about this film when proposing it to Cambridge, but after researching about different genre conventions and analyzing other movies within the crime, mystery, drama and thriller genres, we have pretty much changed the whole idea except for the fact that it involves detectives and murder. We haven’t fully developed the idea yet but as we keep continuing with the next stage of research we should have our fully thought-out plan.
Into the Truth 