Music and Titles.

We have added the music and titles to our finished film. The music we used is 'still Dre' by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg which fits in with the gangster/ drug genre really well. The titles we used are from an internet font website and it is an easy-to-read graffiti style font called Toy Soldiers and this also works really well with this kind of genreThis is the font we are using.

Editing.

We have finished editing the final part of our film and it all looks better now that it has all what we wanted to put into it. we are in the process of adding music and titles to the film and have chosen a font from the internet which suits our genre really well. We also think that the song 'Still Dre' By Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg will work well with our genre.

Finished filming!

Last week we finished filming the last of the footage we needed. We managed to use all the locations we wanted and also managed to play around with camera angles and shots. In this part of the sequence, we had the main drug dealer meeting the 'Delivery Boy'. Their meeting involves the drug dealer refusing to give Billy the money and Billy being fatally stabbed. All of this was filmed in and around Redcliffe Hill underpass.

Films that influenced our choice of genre.

Shifty is a good example of a low budget drug/crime film and includes some of the conventions that we want to include.

More Editing.

We have completed editing our clips from our last session of filming and we are confident that we know exactly what we need to include when shooting our last few seconds of the sequence. After watching the sequence together we were able to take out more clips we decided didn't belong in the sequence. We have also played our choices of music with what we have and are still deciding which best suits our film. During our filming we took a wider range of shots and were able to pick some out of a variety that we could edit together and make them look continuous, then discard of the ones that didn't work with the rest of the film. Overall we are looking forward to editing in our last lot of filming and believe that so far it has been a success.

More Filming.

Last week we continued film our opening sequence. We completed the scenes where our main character skateboards to his destination. This is where he will hand over the drugs package and unfortunately be involved in a fatal stabbing. The stabbing will take place in a derelict underpass and we will film this part of the sequence in the next few days. During last weeks filming, we shot some of our clips from different angles so we were able to experiment more with editing, and also so that we could improve on our continuity skills and create a more fast pace piece of film. Some of the shots worked and some didn't, and the variety gave us more of a choice to choose the perfect clips to use.

Generic conventions of urban/drug related crime films.

Some of the conventions of our chosen genre are:

Urban Locations (dereliction and built up areas)

Youths,

Drugs/Alcohol,

Music related to the genre (rap/hip hop, metal)

Slang/ Expletive words or phrases,

Informal clothing,

A strong sense of masculinity.