Audiance

The target demographic for our picture is males from aged 15 to 25 years and we did our best to promote interest to this specific demographic with actors of that age group making them more sympathetic and keeping the film fast paced.
The position in socio-economics status of our target audience would be between E and C1 as this is the class we are representing in our film.

Mainstreamers and reformers would be the type of consumers we appeal to as mainstreamers make up most of the population we want to get most of them interested in seeing our film, reformers are always looking for something new so our fresh approach to film noir would hopefully get their attention

Teenagers would get a sense of personal identification from our film as we use characters of their age group in the storyline as well as a bit of surveillance because of the extreme lifestyle of the characters make the teenage audience feel normal

Genre communities would be a good audience for our film as it would be of great interest to film noir enthusiasts who haven't seen any good new noir for a few years. Anyone who likes an intellectual puzzle would enjoy our film as the plot is based around a young man trying to get to the bottom of a mystery and proving his innocence.

group meetings notes

throughout all the stages of the production we got together to put forward ideas and make decisions, both in class and in our own time. We chose our roles and who was responsable foe certain tasks and completed them. Although we had our assigned roles we all had a say in all stages of production like which shot type to use, how to edit and shared research.

Final Edit of Vengence

Coursework Evaluation

1. How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our main plot line of our opening was the attack on Miller by his Partner Grimwood, it follows a basic noir-esque back stab and breech of trust that other noir films have used successfully and we have followed this convention, like Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder 1944) and although it is a somewhat cliqued and predictable plot device I think we managed to pull it off with an element of surprise. The iconology of the feme fetale is slightly challenged in our opening as we have represented Grimwood as a bit more regretful and reluctant in her betrayal. Like many action movie openings, our product is low fat and gets straight into the story and doesn’t waste any time while at the same time providing enigmas and provokes the audience’s curiosity (very much like Kill Bill ((Quentin Tarantino 2004))). It is not as atmospheric as other noirs like Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer 1945) or Blade Runner (Ridley Scott 1982) instead we get straight into the story and action like a more modern neo noir like Watchmen (Zack Snyder 2009)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our product represents young gangsters in urban settings (not necessarily all young people) and young adults. We have no ideology or messages to give when representing these characters. We have represented these characters as undercover police posing as young criminals so they reflect their style of hoodies and baggy jeans.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Channel four and five would air it from eight o’clock or nine at night because of the certificate PG13. I would expect this to be so as channel four and five air movies over the weekend. Most cinemas will show our movie as we would release it globally.



4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The main audience for our film would be male teenagers, young adults and people who like dark crime movies like sin city and blade runner (most persons over the age of
13)The audience we showed our opening to liked our product, they said the narrative was easy to follow and interesting, the music was well suited to the action and the monologue was good too. Overall it appealed to them, the young adults of the audience said it would appeal to other young people. We think any class of person would enjoy it so we aimed it towards all classes but we think working and middle classes would be more interested.



5. How do you address/attract your audience?
Using actors and characters that the audience can relate to and are interesting to them, it is a fact that we are more interested in stories involving people of our own age so our actors were meant to look like teenagers to appeal to a teenage audience. The dialogue contains popular slang and casual language to reflect the language of the audience and to make it clear that these characters are of a certain background and reflect their ideology. The themes and action that we chose to include in the opening are those that the audience are curious about, the gangster themes of drugs and violence. The cinematography, sound, editing and mise en scene were all chosen to represent these themes with modern music and clothes, interesting shots and seamless editing.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I had never started a blog before taking this course and had no idea how to navigate one, now I have a better understanding and full grasp on the concept. All of the team became better acquainted with the equipment and editing program although with more time we could have mastered Final Cut Pro but there were very few problems.I am now quite familiar wit the equipment involved in the filming process like the Cannon HV3ODV Camcorder, the YOGA Shotgun Microphone and VELBON Tripod. We should have checked all equipment was functional before leaving or setting up, especially sound equipment as we found it is the most unreliable, failing to do so led us to be forced into re-filming a scene.


7. Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product
The errors I made in the preliminary exercise were not repeated in our finished product, I didn’t put too much space around the characters or make any shot too long. The key concepts from the brief were fulfilled.

Vengence Script

Miller: (monologue) when you’ve been in this business as long as I have you find that nothing surprises you. The first thing you learn in undercover work is to learn fast, and trust no on, a few years ago yeas ago I never would have believed that a detective would conspire with criminals, but I was young and I trusted her.

Location: outskirts of Alexandra Park, Ipswich

Miller: where’ve you been? I’ve been trying to ring you

Grimwood: Look, I’ve been thinking, maybe I should go alone

Miller: no way, I’m the one who set this up, c’mon

Grimwood: Where is he?

Miller: I knew this would happen. There he is. Just let me do the talking. Your late

Levis: shut up

Grimwood: so, you got it yeah?

Levis: ‘course I have, why else would I be here? Where’s my money

Miller: you’ll get it just wait. It’s all there, now clear off

Levis: who you talking to

Miller : I’m talking to you blood, don’t worry I’ll be seeing you again real soon

Levis: yeah?

Miller: yeah

Grimwood: I just wasn’t going down for this one.

Miller (monologue) I suppose it’s never too late to learn a few new lessons I the end, but this isn’t the end, and it’s never too late for vengeance.
credit to Yaz Jamie Josh Caroline

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