Conventions of my Film

Here is one of the very few videos I could find of the inside of the tyne and wear metro.  This is more of a setting inspiration that anything else as the layout of a train is quite simple and at non - peak times should be quite easy to film as the trains have lots of space. I chose the metro because it allows so many different scenarios to happen, not least someone getting a hand stuck in one of the doors, or a rather unhappy passenger. I apologize for the poor quality but as I say there really is a shortage of these videos.

My inspiration is probably reality shows that give a look int the lives of people who are in some way different to ourselves. One of the most popular and best examples of this is probably Benefits Street, a show based around a street in Birmingham where most of the residents are on benefits from the government.

This show is comparable to my short film because both are designed to showcase real events that have happened to people, just reconstructed in a safe environment rather than being filmed live. On that note of reconstruction, one show i know does this almost each and every episode, in order to re-live past events. Crimewatch. This is a show that attempts to take down all types of criminals through a range of methods, one of those being reconstructions. In this case they are used to re-create the scene of a crime as perfectly as possible, to not only give the audience an idea of what happened at the time, but also to try and jogg the memory of anyone who witnessed the incident happen and has not come forward with evidence.This is loosely the type of thing I would like the 'dreams' of my bored train passenger to be based on, and I feel with the right people I could really pull something like this off. I'm using Crimewatch as an example, because the type of things that happen on the show such as a handbag being stolen or an attack on an old lady are the type of things I would like to show. The basis is that the main character falls asleep and dreams things that they either have seen or have happened on the metro. The things the company doesn't want you to know. Of core crime will only be   a small part of my film, as overall the metro is a good service and it would be unfair to make something that would damage the company.