Identifying An Audience

Identifying An Audience:

People use media texts to gratify their needs for example when they watch Horror films it can be for a number of different reasons: they get a thrill and excitement out of watching them, to watch them with friends to see their reactions to see if they are scared,  the feel of adrenaline that they cause when you are scared, the feeling of vulnerability and to push their boundaries to see what the worst film they can allow themselves to watch is so they can say that they have watched it. They can sometimes relate to then if they have had a past experience that ha been very similar to the scenario in the film. Most people have a fear of 'the other' which is a fear/phobia of anyone who is different to you. 

Audience Reception:

There are different type of audience reception that people can want to expect they will receive from viewers watching their films...

Preferred reading - what the director wants.
Opposite reading - wrong reading of the film.
Negotiated reading - the person knows its not true/someone else's opinion.
Aberrant reading - Stuart Halls theory - the audience doesn't understand it. 

An example of this is the T- Mobile advert where the are lookalikes of the Royal family dancing at the 'Royal wedding'. The preferred reading is that the director of the advert wants the viewers to see the funny side of it and how it is praising the Royal family. The negotiated reading is that it is irrelevant to the company and to phones. The opposite reading is that people would believe that is it the actual Royal wedding which could be believed by the older generations such as 55+ and the aberrant reading is that people don't understand it.

Hypodermic Syringe Theory:

This is when an audience believe the first thing that they hear and don't leave any room for thinking otherwise or their own opinion. This happened a lot in 1957 because they had less choice of media so when they saw something they just believed it however, nowadays this happens less frequently because people are always making pranks and making things up as they go along. Audiences are active rather than being passive and believing everything they hear they will use their common sense and knowledge to know that it isn't true or they will ask someone else to get their opinion on the matter. 

A lot of viral advertising happens now too when you see something that is funny you are more likely to send and share it with your friends on different social media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and vine.

The Detective in Film Noir

The Detective in Film Noir:

What does representation mean?
The representation of something of how something is portrayed. When portraying a person these factors are tenderly used.
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Class and status
Sexuality
Physical ability /disability 

The Detective in Film noir is one of the main character which is very predictable character, he drinks, he smokes his age however NORMALLY is 40-50's. Its very uncommon to see young detective in Film noirs. The detective is wordly-wise. He knows what his talk about which gains him 'respect' or that what he thinks anyway. Really the detective is vulnerable, sly and patronising however this is because of the time period there wasn’t equality within genders so the detective often thought he was better than women which women (the Femme Fatale often uses this at her advantage) The detective shows this in the way which he speaks for example 'darling' and 'petel' which may come across as patronising for the women. Which in today's society this wouldn't acceptable because it would come across as 'creepy' ECT.


The detective in our Film Noir

Preliminary Task Analysis

For our preliminary task we had to film a series of shots based on a narrative we had been given. The narrative of this included two characters, the first one was the typical hero and the second being the generic villain. Our aims were to create a piece of film which followed the typical action film conventions whilst following continuity.

Our final product has some flaws but we had the general idea. If we were to do it again then we would change a few things. Including some continuity issues and music editing. The continuity issues are mainly with the dialogue as we followed the 180 degrees rule.

Overall we think our preliminary task was of good standard as we followed all instructions fully and met everything in the criteria allowing us to have a good quality final product.

Cast

CAST

Detective Lance Bullock – Callum Prendgast

Tony Slinger/ Maroni Falcone – Charlie Bell

Bobby Slinger – Reece Mountford

Lisa Statham – Georgia Turner

Ben Woodward - Thug

SCRIPT

Scene 1 – LB’s Intro ET: 35 seconds

*Throughout this scene “I don’t want to set the world on fire by the ink spots 1941 is playing, almost as an alarm. There is an establishing shot of a house at night; the only light source is lampposts in the shot and the shot will fade in from black and will last about 3 seconds. The shot will then cut to grass blowing in the wind, until finally a close up of an alarm/radio clock that is the source of the music. A hand reaches out and smacks it down, this stops the music. The room is dark, only a portion of light is reaching the room via blinds. A man (whose face you do not show during this opening scene) sits on the end of his bed rubbing his face. A narration begins:

Detective LB:  “Todays gonna be a helluva day, Head guy Phillip J House has made sure of that, he’s been busting my balls about this for a while now, he’s got it out for me I swear. See he’s got me inspectin’ some kind of college for a Maroni Falcone, see you wanna hear a funny story? 3 murders, one of them a cop and over 15 assaults and this guy is hiding in a school would’ya imagine? Me personally *pause* I think it’s a load of crap but like I said; House may be an ass, but it’s rare he’s wrong. and so that’s where I come in, me, Detective Lance Bullock, I gots to find this guy, if there even is a guy and take him out. Easier said than done when hiding in a hoity-toity school, and better yet, word is that his men already know that we’re catching up and planning this little undercover shindig, if Maroni really is there, he’s good, but I’m better”

*Throughout this scene there are different cuts of the detective. One stumbling to the blinds and peeking out, doing his top buttons up, lighting a cigarette with a match (shisha pens and vapour) and a shot of the smoke blowing out, and finally a shot of him doing his tie up and walking out of shot, this shot should be when he says “But I’m better”

Scene 2 – TS, PS and BS Intro ET: 

The shot then cuts to an EST shot of the school, until a OTS shot of Bobby walking down the main halls, past the stairs, then a mid-shot of him walking towards the camera (David Fincher style) with the camera on a dolly, he fixes up his tie. He pauses as he hears loud noises he looks around the corner and the camera does the same. Tony has Paddy Statham up the wall and Bobby is watching in intrigue

Lisa Statham: Please honey I'm sorry!

Tony: Just get out of my face damn it

Lisa runs off past Bobby crying.

 

Tony spots Bobby and Smiles. He’s wearing a different type of Tie to Tony.

Tony: Bobby my boy!

Bobby: Uncle Maroni!

Tony Slaps Bobby

Tony: Keep your god damn voice low, it’s Tony here, and will be till I can secure a way out to Mexico, none of this Maroni business, you get me?

Bobby: Yeah sure uncle…Tony

Tony: Good any questions?

Bobby: What was that about just?

Tony: Don’t you worry your pretty little mug about that said whilst gently slapping his face walk with me boy.

They walk down the corridor, the detective walks past the shot casually but the audience don’t know it’s him as you never see his face in the first shot

Tony and Bobby walk down the corridor dolly camera again.

Tony: Reece, you’re new, you’re my nephew but you’re not special, I don’t care if you’re my son, you don’t cross family understood?

Bobby: Understood boss

Tony: I like you already. 

As they walk off the camera pans to the detective watching from the second floor balcony. A high angle shot showing that he is superior and he has been watching

Film Noir Story Board

This is our storyboard for planning the film Noir.

Feedback November

You are working at level 2 for research and planning but can achieve level 4 if you publish all your posts as your group work is very promising.

 

To reach level you must publish your;

• Script
• Storyboard
• Maltese Falcon analysis
• Discuss the codes and conventions of film noir in more detail
• Preliminary task

Targets for November

Film

Risk assessment

Edit

Consider sound and titles to add meaning and atmosphere

Manage your time effectively

Ensure that the web-log reflects your planning and reserach fully