Initial Idea of Target Audience

We thought about our target audience but came to the conclusion we wanted something that we would enjoy going to see. Therefore we needed to be the target audience the same age as ourselves. 



Which would mean a target audience of 15-24 which we thought would be appropriate as we also know this is the age group that visits the cinema the most, and this would also be the age that our characters would be in our film as we would find it harder getting younger or older actors as we are a micro budget production company and would have to pay for older and potentially younger actors which is something we don't want to be doing the the expense isn't necessary. 


Our genre choice also is popular amongst teenagers so we feel this helps anchor our choice too. We have also chosen to set our film in a school so therefore trying to attract an audience that is not at school is silly therefore the 15-24 will incorporate students at school, sixth form, college or university which keeps many 'doors' open. At the end of the day everyone has been to school so will be able to relate to our film in some way. However we took ideas and inspiration from films we had looked at in detail. 

We thought it would be easier to base our target audience on films we had already seen as if we are taking inspiration from them we feel it must be important to carry on the same target audience as it must be the same or close to theirs. Therefore it was important to look at the films we had looked at in detail therefore we chose ones that we liked and enjoyed and all roughly targeted the same age range for audience. 

ASFF - Note Taking

York Visit to - Film Festival

Talk Given By Barry Ryan

12-13 people work for warp (small company) 

southcliff - released august 2013 

warp x - made short films of 1 minute and under using digital material.

short films are used to demonstrate to financial personnel their skills

famous people used in marketing to promote films

warp's first feature film was Dead Mans Shoes (Shane Meadows,2004) - had 4 weeks to make a film and made it in 22 days 

17 films 

1 world record - most zombies used 

7 tv shows 

7 baftas 

shane meadows - most prolific short film maker - stone roses documentary 2013 

plans for next year:

'71 (Yann Demange 2014)  about a soldier separated from unit in a riot

Jessy Armstrong - wrote 4 lions, tracy beaker, peep show

why?

showreel

practice - shane meadows made many shorts for this

is it a story that has to be told 

fun/experimental purposes 

social aspect

building a showreel - shows skills 

budget

schedule 

negotiating deals and contracts 

project , technical manger 

human resources 

health and safety 

cashflow 

tax credit 

legals for closing film and tv 

things not used in indie films 

high budgets - indie films are on a tight budget

no night shots - due to lighting needed - expensive - exterior and natural light used 

no film set used surroundings only 

OpeningEG3: Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee

Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee

Shane Meadows,2009

Film Poster

Production:
Big Arty Productions Warp Films Budget: £48K; US box office: $3.5m

RottenTomatoes.com 86%

IMDB 6.2

SUMMARY/IDEAS I MIGHT USE:

using 'creative' idents or the use of the directors name going twice once at the start of the titles and once at the end. And maybe using the same theme with the idents as with the titles

Idents/Titles:

Idents:

Idents

the idents used have been adapted around the genre of the film - that being cartoon - jokes - and not serious giving it a 'silly' tone. Everything looks like it has been drawn with a black fine liner. This signifies artist and a creative person which we see when the film starts as they have shown a person who likes music and appears to like living on the road.

Titles:

same applies to the titles in connection with the idents however the director - Shane Meadows has been mentioned twice once at the start of the titles and once at the end of the titles. 
In order of apperance:
Starring Paddy Considine
Scor-zay-zee
Olivia Colman
Featuring Richard Graham
              Seamus O'Neil
With Arctic Monkeys
Set Designer Alex Collins
Sound Danny Crowley
Camera Dean Rogers
           Shane Meadows
Editor Richard Graham 
Line Producer Clare Slessor
Excecutive Producer Steve Beckett
Original Music By  Scor-zay-zee
Devised by Paddy Considine
                Shane Meadows 
Producer Mark Herbert
Director Shane Meadows
 
 

Sound:

Elements of the Sound Mix:

Opening Scene

Analysis:

Opening Scene: 

• The crowd is cheering - diegetic sound
• battered caravan - rubbish on the floor 
• Le D.I.P above the door of the caravan - duct tape with paper stuck above the door
• 'star' gets out - wearing trackies - baseball cap - which reads the slogan 'kids need pugs not drugs' - not typical or stereotypical celebrity
• the caravan is situated in the back of an industrial estate connoting its not 'hyped' 'classy' or 'upmarket' - lorries visible



Industrial park

• camera men shown like theyre being filmed - home video? - Band video?

Opening Scenes: 

Home video theme again 
outside one of the band members houses on his street 
not typical celebrity style home/area 

Walking on stage

the street has been shown as - rubbish on floor - working class - red bricked terrace housing - this being associated with cheaper housing and terrace housing being cheaper too - old cars not your stereotypical rich person with expensive cars outside - run down area maybe with abit of poverty - general weather appearance of dark clouds and grey sky and stance showing its not the wealthiest of areas because in typical britain especially in american films it is always shown as either pouring it down with thunder or sunny weather.
door gets jammed showing its not in the best quality showing its age
the paint on the door is shabby and chipping 
not a standard door handle - cheaper 
door opens - holds puppet scares audience - laughs - this showing a comical side to the film - comedy emerging 
talks about how he thought the film would be a big movie set - and therefore proving this film isnt worth millions - background noise created through passing lorries - not typical in a film - stating it is more documentary style than a film showing it is made on a cheaper budget

Mise-en-scene: 

house is messy - jackets slung over coat dummies - cardboard shoe boxes containing trainers probably due to the Adidas logo on one of them showing theyre not the typical celebrity with the louboutins and the jimmy choos on show. 
simple living area no fancy 'trinkets' - just the basics 
smoking in the house is a general trade of people who are not very well off and live in poor areas 
kitchen is a mess - food and drinks everywhere - rubbish everywhere - knives on the worktops 

the clothes are simplistic - t shirt - beanie - washing machine broken - dirty clothes shown - at one point one isnt wearing trousers 

scor - acts like a typical teenager - headphones on - unmade bed - stuff on the floor - hat on inside - wearing a tracksuit

Soundtrack:

Showing the musical talent of the singers in the band. showing the comical side as it contains humour within the rap - this is during the idents and titles using audio-bridge this all relates to the film and genre

TisEng: A Typical 'British' Film?

This is England 

Film Poster

Shane Meadows, 2006


Production Companies:

• Warp Films
• Film4
• Em Media
• Big Arty Productions
• Optimum Release 
• Screen Yorkshire
• UK Film Council

Also Directed:

• Small Time; 1996
• A Room for Romeo Brass
• Once Upon a Time in the Midlands; 2002
• Dead Mans Shoes; 2004
• Somers Town; 2008 
• Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee; 2009
• The Stone Roses: Made of Stone; 2013

Social Realism Definition: (As a genre) 

Film makers who draw attention to everyday conditions of the working classes and the poor. 

Social Realist Films I've Seen:

Kez

• Box Office Estimated at: £1,315,593
• Length of Run: 4 weeks 
• Starting Screen Number:62
• Highest Screen Number:151

Money US:

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• Box Office Estimated at: $320K
• Length of Run: 15 weeks 
• Starting Screen Number: 1 
• Highest Screen Number: 14

BoxOfficeMojo.com 

• UK Box Office: $3,144,754
• Sweeden: $1,375,066
• France: $1,408,593

Facts and Interesting Points: 

The learner car that combo drives has a 2005 tax disc displayed on the window screen.

The takeaway that shaun passes has a telephone number starting 0115 this area code did not come into effect until the early 1990s 10 years after the film is set. 

'Since Yesterday' by strawberry switchblade can be heard on the radio although it wasn't released until November 1984.

General Codes and Conventions

We have looked at the following films:
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
Bridget Jones' Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier, 2007)
Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (Shane Meadow, 2009)


we have seen that the order of the idents is often based upon the a budget

Often there is an audio bridge linking the idents to the opening scene, for examples we have looked at the audio bridge was only between the final ident and the opening scene. In three of our examples, Hot Fuzz, Bridget Jones' Diary, and The Warriors, there is an audio bridge between the shot in the opening sequence.

The titles would commonly start with "production company presents" and/or "a director's film".
The order of the next set of titles often starts with the main actor/actress, and then finishing with producer and director.

The titles will often be formatted to fit the genre. For example the titles for Le-Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, who's titles are cartoon-ish and not serious and have been adapted to fit the genre.

We have noticed that there is often an audio bridge between the final ident and the opening scene with non-diegetic music often fitting the genre, in Bolt we hear music-box like music that continues. Whereas in Bride of Chucky the music adds tension with it's stops and starts [EG]

The mis-en-scene provide exposition on the characters, the type of film and the setting. These are shown throughout our examples, in Le-Donk and Scor-Zay-Ze the mis-en-scene show us that the characters are messy and slobs. In The Truman show the shot is very basic and is cluttered with bottles along the bottom, showing the 'fly on the wall' type style of the film. In the Warriors the mis-en-scene shows the type of area that the film is set in, the graffiti and the grimey floors show that the film is set in a stereotypical downtown area.

In Now you see me a narrative enigma is introduced, with a mysterious figure in a hoodie standing at the end of each character's introduction. In Bridget Jones' Diary, binary opposites are introduced, Bridget's mum lives in the countryside, whereas Bridget herself lives in london. Throughout the opening of Hot fuzz equilibrium is introduced with simon pegg's character being introduced as being the superior cop and excelling at his job.