Evaluation Activity 1

 The Title of the film
The title of our film is not only punchy but is a pun on the ethnicity of one of our main characters. 'King Of  Spades'. The word 'spade' can be interpreted as a racist term towards black people. One of our main characters is half black and is high on hierarchy in his community and his hypothetical gang. Also because because they tend to beat their enemies with spades.

Setting/Location
With our film location I believe that we met that created a mise-en-scene that captures the genre of our film.   We used a bar Brixton and a gritty alleyway  next to the bar. We also used the cellar in the bar  to create an eerie, scary atmosphere to match what was happening in the scene.

Costumes and Props
The costumes that we have used for our characters match their identities in the film and are based on characters from similar films. For example our characters talk with a cockney dialect and are wearing clothes as if they are business-men but are actually dangerous men like 'Happy Harry' relating him to 'Rory Breaker' from 'Lock Stock'. The only prop we used was a green spade as Karsey Ken's choice of weapon.

 Title font and style

With the title sequence of our film we use a black background with white writing over it. The titles cut in and out of the opening scenes of the film. I would not really say that we challenged any conventions of film titles because black backgrounds have been used since the beginning of Films. I would say that we played with theme of our films genre in regards of the font of the text.

Story and how the opening sets it up
The beginning of the story sets up the feel of a gangster film that takes no enemies. The cockney banter and the light humour lets the audience know that it's not strictly a violent film but has some intelligence in between the lines from the script.

How characters are introduced
The characters are introduced using freeze frames with voices overs we were inspired for this from the film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Using these technique we were able to incorporate the banter associated with british crime thrillers.