Target Audience

From doing this I learnt that when filming we know what language to use and what specifications to add to our film to make them suited to our target audience. It also gives us an outline of what the limit is of alcohol and drug abuse to make sure that it doesn't go too far and turn into an 18 as it is going to be mainly targeted to a mid teen audience.

Target audience

We think our video would appeal to a young/ student type audience (late teens to mid twenties). This is mainly down to the genre and content of the film.

The style

The style of our film is generalised as crime and gangster. The majority of the watchers are young and modern.  Crime and gangster films are  notoriously known for its fights and drug use. The genre was originally formed with just specific attributes such as crime and drug use.  This allowing the audience to sit back knowing what type of things they will see in the film. This would not narrow down the target audience as many people originally enjoyed the thought of thrillers and crime, Whereas now adults/old people may find these circumstances of film intimidating and dangerous.

The video

The video is based in a city, during both day and night, capturing what type of environment they are in to set the scene. As we set the scene we will create a set target audience as people who live in cities and busy towns will feel more intrigued to watch thinking that it could happen in there area. Our main character will be a modern town boy, who dresses as a modern supposive 'gangster'. Appealing to a late teen audience.

Initial Textual Analysis

Momento- 2 Minutes.

·        Sound- String, Negative mood, minor key, adagio, double bass/cello, bit of major, Polaroid flash, bullet hitting the floor (in reverse), gun shot. These are all to set the scene and to give a dark, gloomy mood.

·        Camera Shots-  Close up of undeveloping photo,  mid close-up of man with photo going back into his camera, close-up of dead man, close up of shell rolling back towards the dead mans body, close-up of blood, as the rewinding speeds up the shots speed up, cutting between the dead man and the murderer (Makes the audience worried and wondering why this has all happened?)

·        Characters- Central protagonist (well dressed, suit), dead man (casual jacket, suit trousers). Both well dressed so they look like they are in the well paid band of criminals. I estimate them to be around 30-40.

·        Plot- Starts with a Polaroid picture losing the pixels other than gaining them, photo goes back into Polaroid camera, blood starts to go back into the dead mans body, shell goes back into body and then into gun, dead man becomes alive and shouts.

·        Other- Black screen with Blue credits (symbolises a cold and sinister beginning, gives a feeling that something bad is going to happen.) The opening shots are of a photo that he has just taken of the dead body (to show that he has to prove his death, maybe symbolises that he is working for someone)

·        Genre- We can tell that this is a psychological thriller because of the way of which it pans out for the first 2 minutes.

Snatch- 2 minutes

·        Sound- Commentary of Jason Statham (Giving a brief outline of the plot and who two of the characters are in the shot.)

·        Camera Shots- Close up of back of head, followed by panning upwards to show a mid shot of the two main characters. Close up of the two main characters, switching between them both. Switched to new setting, a close up of security camera screen.

·        Characters- Turkish- boxing promoter (more dominant off the pair), Tommy (partners, known each other since they were young.). Turkish helps to keep Tommy out of trouble. Tommy likes to think that he is a lot better than what he is, this is known by what Turkish was telling us about the lie of which he tells people about him being named after a gun. Two security guards and some imposters dressed as Jewish people.

·        Plot- Turkish starts to go off on a tangent about diamonds and how much he knows about diamonds. Gives us an idea about the plot being about stealing diamonds.        

• Genre- Crime and gangster genre shown by attire and voices

·        Other- Fades into first shot.

From this I have learnt many different camera shots and effects I can use in my own film opening. All of the effects used in these well-known crime and gangster films come together to create a great way to keep the audience intrigued, if i use some of the effects used by them my opening could be formed very well.

Synopsis

Synopsis

Donald (Don) and Emmanuel (Mani) are smoking illegal substances, whilst unknowingly getting into a lot of illegal deals. Undercover cop Roger has a vendetta against the pair as they are leading youngsters into a criminal lifestyle with the pair’s extensive drug and alcohol abuse. It won’t take long before they entail in clashes and gunfights. Will Rodger ever get Mani and Don off the streets?

Beginning: Don and Mani are two general G’s that are known by everyone in the hood but especially by Rodger, the head officer of the neighbourhood. He already wants to put the two boys away in prison and is sure they are up to something.

Don and Mani have been doing a lot of little crimes and Rodger can guess it’s them.

Middle: Don and Mani get more confident with themselves but they begin to lose trust with everyone around them. They end up getting into a big fight and killing someone. Rodger hears about a murder and knows that it will be the two boys so sets out how to get them.

End: The boys and Rodger have a confrontation and a gun fight between the boys and Rodger kicks off. The boys hit Rodger with one of the shots and wounds but don’t kill him. They then kill Rodger.

The end.

Codes and Conventions of the Genre

From researching this i learnt what the typical attributes crime and gangster & comedy film genres include. It gave me ideas of what to include in my film as it tells me what the genres include. When researching examples of the film genres we watched the openings of the films to see how they create a mood for the rest of the film, this was great for us as many of the effects they use are available to us and will help to make our film the best it can be.