Aim and Context

Context:
For my creative project, I will be creating a short sequence taken from my imagined film ‘Lay By’. The sequence will be the opening to the film and show the characters going to their destination (Holiday). The sequence will be in the genre of Found Footage.

Aim:
My aim will be to allow the audience to identify the genre but also create a feeling of realism within the sequence with the aid of the conventions of the genre (Found Footage) and the use of method taken for French New Wave Cinema, to install the feeling that the film Is real footage rather then a film. I will look at the use of jump cuts taken from French New Wave cinema from films such as Breathless, (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) whilst combining this with the use of found footage genre conventions by looking at films from this genre such as Blair Witch Project, (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999). Alongside this I will also look at the other stylistics I can apply with the aid of the conentions from this genre such as isolation created for the use of mise-en-scene.