Blog Directory

Throughout the time we've been working as a team to produce our actual OTS, we have also been working individually in different areas of research and development, which enabled each of us to focus on specific areas when we presented our ideas to the class. By working to our individual strengths, we were able to combine areas of speciality to create an informed and accurate film-noir OTS.

The delegation of research and development tasks can be seen in the work we have posted to our respective blogs.


As the member of the group with experience in Drama and an interest in English Literature, I took on responsibility for character development, the writing of the script, and storyboarding. I also researched semiotics and representation & stereotyping, explored The Changing Nature of Noir, and explained the title of our OTS.

Tom is much more experienced in the business and theoretical side of media, and so took on responsibility for explaining types of market research, methods of distribution, and quantitative and qualitative target audiences. Tom also looked at sound, classified our film as a 15, and explored new 3D technology.

James was clearly the most experienced in technical areas, and so handled the editing of our piece, the mise-en-scene, cinematography and lighting. He also went into more depth as to the problems we faced with our continuity task, and took care of any video uploading for our blogs.

Daniel had more of an active role in researching the practical side of productions, and so was responsible for posting about film roles, researching opening credits, explaining the titles of our OTS, and explaining camera techniques.


Although we did overlap on certain areas of research, such as Semiotics, film classification, continuity ideas and target audiences, the above links show which members took a main focus in these areas.