Research textual highlights

Double Indemnity

Director:

Billy Wilder 

Writers:

Billy Wilder (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (screenplay)

Stars:

Fred MacMurray,  Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Budget:

$927,262

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Runtime:

107 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller

Taglines:

You Can't Kiss Away A Murder!

Double Indemnity from Shadows on Vimeo.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY from TODAY IS BORING on Vimeo.

Ted Swede film

Ted swede from Sam SheepDawg-OEight on Vimeo.

conventions & stereotypes

i feel that we met the conventions of a sweded film, with the use of a hand-held camera and spontaneous camera angles. The script itself was planned to an extent, we studied the Ted trailer to use key points from the story to create our own trailer. I think that the key scenes that we used were relevant to recognition for the audience to gain the narrative of the storyline. Although the script was not film specific we tried to conform to the audience guidelines for the movie.

improvement & targets

We could of scripted the film better by using an accurate example. the same can be said for the camera angles, the film we made is hard for the audience to pick up a storyline from, i think that because we had all seen the film prior to the sweded film, we picked the wrong scenes to describe the story.

Conventions of a thriller opening from zubairkhan93


This slideshow identifies the basic conventions of a thriller opening well with detailed descriptions were needed. I think that the target audience would be GCSE Media class as the slideshow only shows a limited amount of knowledge applied and does not give enough information for higher students to analyse key points. The purpose of the slideshow is to inform students about thriller openings very loosely because there are no specialist words used in media, it uses very basic vocabulary to describe key events and points. the format is successful because it provides a simple clear background, with simple font and colour.

An Analysis Of The Opening Sequence Of Vertigo from Media Studies

Codes and conventions of opening sequences from kcasmedia

slideshow

Conventions of an opening sequence from emiliefreddie

sweded film conventions

sweded films

Be kind,rewind is what, really started sweded films. it takes the narrative and conventions of film genre's and uses hand-made props as well as diegetic sounds and no special effects. They are essentially a very low budget film made by a small number of people, however it'd be wrong to say they're amateur as they can be very creative and works of genius. Coined by it's own film, the charm of sweded film is the fact that anyone can do them.

Sweded video requirements

1. Must be based on an already produced film
2. Range 2-8 minutes in length
3. Must not contain computer generated graphics
4. Based on films less than 35 years old
5. Special effects must be limited to camera tricks
   and arts 'n crafts
6. Sound effects created by human means
7. Hilarious.

i acquired these video's from Georgia's blog (http://asmediageorgiasmith.blogspot.co.uk/)

The cast away swede film, included copyright music which is not typical of a sweded film. Although all other elements are conventional such as the hand made props and amateur acting.   The inception swede however has all the essential elements that meets the conventions of a swede film; homemade props and music etc.