Audience Targeting is very important to achieve an aesthetically pleasing opening sequence to my film, if you get your audience wrong you are likely to make an unsuccessful film which will be enjoyed by no one. I have to make a British Crime film, this has a quite specific audience, with this audience you need to get right when you are filming and producing because otherwise your target audience will not enjoy it.
I have chosen to produce our British Crime film for predominately male people, this is because there will be quite alot of violence in my film which females may not appreciate. There might also be some sexism which may upset some females, on the other hand the cast of my film will be mostly male so this may appeal to females. This film is mostly targeted at males but that's not to say that females will not enjoy it.
I have chosen to aim my film at teenagers and young adults, this is because adults may not like such strong violence and such strong language. Young adults and teenagers may know more about gang culture and may even have been involved in it, some adults wont understand it. If the teenagers and young adult know about gangs and street crime they are more likely to understand the film and even relate to it. Some older adults may really enjoy the film but my arget audience is teenagers and young adults.
I have chosen to to aim my film at C2DE, this ranges from the skilled working class to the unemployed. I have chosen this because many of the people being played in my film will be from a lower class background, this means the people who watch it will be able to relate to the people on the screen and this will make the film more appealing. Other people may watch my film from different socials classes, for example ABC1, but my film will appeal to more people in C2DE than ABC1.
This is my story board, we created this to help us decide what happens in our opening sequence of our film. This story board will also help us film the opening because it will save us time, we will know what we are doing and not guessing what shot to do next. Consequently if we save time on our film we will have more time to spend on our blogs adding details.
When we created by working together, we started by bouncing ideas off each other and making notes on what we wanted to happen. Once we had decided what we wanted to happen we stared to draw up ideas using a variety of shots to create different moods and emotions, after each shot we wrote what shot it was and specific details about it like the music behind it and what was happening in it. this will definitely help us create our final film.
Shot 1 is the production shot, there is no dialogue and there is no camera movement. The shot fades out into darkness then the next shot appears.
Shot 2 is a close up of "Doyle", he is looking past the camera and off into the distance.
Shot 3 is still off "Doyle" but it is a mid shot and a freeze frame of him. The shot will freeze and the name "Doyle" will appear.
Shot 4 Is a change of scene, it is an establishing shot. It shows a group of lads all sat around drinking and smoking inside a house, the camera is still.
Shot 5 is a two shot, it show two people drinking and chatting to each other, it is a still camera shot.
Shot 6 is introducing another main character, "Murph". This shot is a close and a freeze frame, it come up with the name "Murph" so that we know who he is. This shot is of him drinking a shot of spirits.
Shot 7 show "Murph" slamming the shot glass onto the table after he has drank the shot. The emphasis of this shot is on his hand and the shot glass.
Shot 8 shows "Murph" after he has done the shot, this hot is a close up.
Shot 9 is a change of scene, it shows "Doyle" and a drug dealer walking towards each other, it a long shot and there is no camera movement.
Shot 10 is a close up of their hands as they exchange money and drugs, this is a still shot with no camera movement.
Shot 11 is the same shot as shot 9 except instead of walking towards each other, they are walking away after they have done the drug deal. This shot is a long shot with no camera movement.
Shot 12 shows "Doyles" mates standing around chatting and having a laugh, this shot is a long shot with 3 characters. This is a still shot with no camera movement.
Shot 13 is a over the shoulder shot of one of "Doyles" mates talking to him.
Shot 14 is of "Doyle" greeting and saying hi to all of his mates, this is long shot.
Shot 15 is of "Doyle" say "lets go", this intrigues the audience on where they are going and what is going to happen. This is a close up with no camera movement.
Shot 16 is of all of them walking off, this is a long shot of them walking away purposefully and at a fast pace.
Shot 17 goes back to "Murph" and all of his friends drinking in the house, " Murph" say "lets go!", this intrigues the viewer further because you want to know whats going to happen. This shot is a long shot showing the group of friends.
Shot 18 shows the two groups of friends walking towards each other shouting abuse. This is an establishing shot and an extreme long shot. By this point the viewer has a rough idea what is going to happen.
Shot 19 is a closer shot of the two groups, they are still shouting at each other and swearing at each other. It is very obvious that they are from two different crews and that they don't like each other. This is a long shot, it is a still shot with no camera movement.
Shot 20 is an over the shoulder shot looking at "Murph" and his gang. You can see all the people in the background.
Shot 21 is an over the shoulder shot looking at "Doyle" and his gang. You can see all the people the background still shouting and swearing at each other.
Shot 22 is of "Murph" and "Doyle" walking towards each other and squaring up to each other. This shot is a long shot.
Shot 23 is a close up of the two guys squaring up to each other, "Doyle" throws punch an "Murph" and the screen goes blank when he makes contact.
Shot 24 is a black screen, but you can still hear the shouting of the two gangs in the background, the shouting gets louder once the first punch was thrown.
Shot 25 is still a black screen but the words "Two Weeks Earlier..." fade in, the words are in bold print and they are white so that they contrast with the background.
Shot 26 is the title shot, we haven't yet decided what our film will be called so that is why it doesn't say in our story board.
We have chosen to have music all the way through to show that it is only the opening of the film and to emphasise the introduction of the main characters and the clues of the plot lines. The music will rise and fall in volume in different part of the opening but will stay roughly the same volume all the way through. We have chosen to use the song "Kano - Ps and Qs" because it fits with the codes and conventions of the genre and id also a song that you would expect the characters in the film to listen to.
I am going to complete a textual analysis of the film Snatch, I am going to do this using screen shots. I am going to watch the opening sequence to this film over and over again until I am very familiar with it so that I can complete a detailed and useful textual analysis. I am going to analyse what makes up each shot, the music, the type of shot, the characters and the setting. This exercise will help me design my storyboard and might give me some valid ideas which might inspire my final opening movie sequence.
The opening shot shows a group of men in the back of a van taking off their disguises. It is a long shot, these things make us want to know what they have just stolen and what they are doing.
This shot is very important, It firstly shows us what the first screen shot left us wondering, they stole a diamond and it must be a very valuable diamond. It also shows us the title of the film, the writing is in bold and underlined implying that it is important. This shot is a close up.
After the establishing shot it goes onto showing the main characters in the film doing something significant about them, this is a medium close up shot.
After it shows the character it stops in a freeze frame and comes up with their name and a picture of them. The picture show the characters in contrasting colours which adds emphasis to them.
When they are showing the characters they link them together by similar things in the shot like gambling or in this case, throwing stolen goods to each other. This is also a medium close up.
Sometimes it even does strange thing like turn the shot upside down, they have done this link the shots together, in this shot he gets turned upside down and the things in his bag fall out and onto the next shot which is a poker table.
This shot shows some of the things which the film is centered around, this shot shows some illegal gambling.
This shot shows some of the people you are going to see in the film, there is a lot of fighting in the film and this supports this. This also gives us clues on the plot lines of the film.
This shot shows a man loading a shotgun, this gives us an idea of the kind of weapons we will see in the film and also some plot lines and the type of violence we will see.
This shows someone torturing someone else, we know that the film is going to be violent but this gives us an idea of how violent it will be.
In one of the final shots we see the diamond again, this means all the main characters have been introduced and now the real plot lines will start.
Now all the mean at the start of the film are reintroduced, they are all still in the van but out of their discuses and seem to be discussing business.
This close up shot is showing one of the men holding a gun, these men seem to be foreign because they have an accent. The man holding the gun reminds us how dangerous they all are.
A lot of close up sots have been used in this opening sequence, they have done this to make sure we recognise and understand who all of the main characters are and gives us a clue what they do to make a living. I believe that this is a very successful opening to the film, it uses a range of techniques to achieve an entertaining beginning to the film. The music used in this extract of the film is very upbeat and runs throughout apart from the beginning and end where dialogue is used. Doing to textual analysis of this film has definitely helped me and inspired me to make a successful and entertaining film opening. It has helped me realise that I need to use a range of shots to convince the viewer that it is real and make them achieve escapism.
Crime and gangster film revolve around nasty and sinister poeple doing things which are below the law, such as murders, robberies, gang crime and illegal gambling. These nasty charachters and events make the film fits with the codes and conventions of a crime/gangster film.
In Crime films there are normally some stock characters, there will always be a boss, he will be a big time drug or weapons dealer. There will also be some small time criminals who are "sucking up" to the Boss, these characters are often poor and desperate for money. In a Crime film you expect to see alot of tense and scary scenes, these scenes will often be edited together with sinister music and very fast cuts to add to the suspense. The audience expect to see a a mainly male cast film, these males will be very violent which makes good veiwing. There will also be female characters but they will treated quite sexistly, but these females will also be quite violent.
There are many sub genres from crime/ ganste films:
- Hiest films
- Crime Thrillers
- Detective films
- Crime Horrors
- True Crime
- Crime Comedies
- Mob
- Hood
From a Crime or Ganster film you expect to see alot of brutal violence using weapons and guns, you may also expect to see gang crime and petty thieves on the street. But depending on the film and where it is set you may see different things, for example if it was set in inner city London you would expect to see alot of knife crime and small time criminals. Whereas if it was set in Italy, you would expect to see some big time gangsters who dress very smartly and deal in weapons and drugs but never "get their hands dirty". You will often see two oposing gangs attacking eachother or stealing drugs or weapons from one another
