Tuesday 13 April 2010
Location report
The location we chose to film the beginning of our film in was local and public. As it was public it was easy to access and we didn’t have to ask permission to film. Most of the shots that we got were of the scenery and buildings in the location, we also have some shots of random people who were walking in the street although we kept this to a minimum, we wanted shots of people to create an atmosphere in our film. As we filmed locally we didn’t spend a lot of money.
Sunday 11 April 2010
Film summary
Our film is about five teenagers who sleep through a train journey and end up in a small, quiet town and have no way of getting home until another train comes which is a few days later. They stay in the local hostel and the owners who obviously has mental issues, torture and attempt to kill the teenagers. We don’t want our opening sequence to give too much away because we don’t want the audience to know what’s going to happen in the first two minutes, the audience should be intrigued to know what happens next. Our film fits into the crime genre because it has suspense and mystery. It has the typical conventions the sub-genre of crime which is horror. It is dark and scary and is typical to what you’d expect from a horror film, gore and violence.
Cast List
The main characters will be:
Emily (teenager
Lizzie (teenager)
Jack (teenager)
Adam (teenager)
Katie (teenager)
Our film is aimed at mainly teenagers because the film follows five teenagers and it is probably easier for them to relate the characters better that adults. Although adults will also be part of our target audience because I think they would enjoy the suspense and guessing what will happen next. Our film is a sub-genre of crime which is horror, so our target audience is anybody who enjoys horror films.
Our film is about five teenagers who sleep through a train journey and end up in a small, quiet town and have no way of getting home until another train comes which is a few days later. They stay in the local hostel and the owners who obviously has mental issues, torture and attempt to kill the teenagers. We don’t want our opening sequence to give too much away because we don’t want the audience to know what’s going to happen in the first two minutes, the audience should be intrigued to know what happens next. Our film fits into the crime genre because it has suspense and mystery. It has the typical conventions the sub-genre of crime which is horror. It is dark and scary and is typical to what you’d expect from a horror film, gore and violence.
Cast List
The main characters will be:
Emily (teenager
Lizzie (teenager)
Jack (teenager)
Adam (teenager)
Katie (teenager)
Our film is aimed at mainly teenagers because the film follows five teenagers and it is probably easier for them to relate the characters better that adults. Although adults will also be part of our target audience because I think they would enjoy the suspense and guessing what will happen next. Our film is a sub-genre of crime which is horror, so our target audience is anybody who enjoys horror films.
Target Audience- crime
I think most crime films intended target audience is teenagers and adults, mainly men. The main conventions of the genre will appeal more to men than women because its stereotypical for men to enjoy action and violence. Although as there are lots of sub-genres in crime films there may be certain types that might appeal more to teenagers, women and men. For example I think that maybe crime thrillers that bordering on the horror genre may appeal more to a younger audience and women. But films such as Memento and Se7en target a much more mature audience. But in general I think most crime films intended target audience are 16+ and mainly male.
I think most crime films intended target audience is teenagers and adults, mainly men. The main conventions of the genre will appeal more to men than women because its stereotypical for men to enjoy action and violence. Although as there are lots of sub-genres in crime films there may be certain types that might appeal more to teenagers, women and men. For example I think that maybe crime thrillers that bordering on the horror genre may appeal more to a younger audience and women. But films such as Memento and Se7en target a much more mature audience. But in general I think most crime films intended target audience are 16+ and mainly male.
Crime history
History of crime films
Crime films, such as Sherlock Holmes began to appear onscreen as early as 1900 or 1903. The arrival of synchronized sound in 1927 and the Great Depression in 1929 created an appetite for escapist entertainment and films to become more popular.
Lots of gangster films of the 1930s and long series of detective films were often based on novels. Film Noir was produced in America throughout the decade beginning in 1944 and the they were very popular during those times. Post-war crime films were shaped in America by cultural anxiety about the nuclear bomb (Kiss Me Deadly, 1955) and the nuclear family.
The decline of film noir after Touch of Evil (1958) was offset by a series of crime comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mobs (1951) and a series of Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thrillers.
James Bond films because popular in the 1960s, which headlined history’s most lucrative movie franchise in a long series beginning with Dr.No (1962). Films such as The Godfather (1972) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reinvented the crime for a hip young audience. The closing years of the century, marked by a heightened public of crime allowed crime films such as Traffic (2000) a remake of Traffik (1989) to become much more popular than the original version.
Crime films, such as Sherlock Holmes began to appear onscreen as early as 1900 or 1903. The arrival of synchronized sound in 1927 and the Great Depression in 1929 created an appetite for escapist entertainment and films to become more popular.
Lots of gangster films of the 1930s and long series of detective films were often based on novels. Film Noir was produced in America throughout the decade beginning in 1944 and the they were very popular during those times. Post-war crime films were shaped in America by cultural anxiety about the nuclear bomb (Kiss Me Deadly, 1955) and the nuclear family.
The decline of film noir after Touch of Evil (1958) was offset by a series of crime comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mobs (1951) and a series of Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thrillers.
James Bond films because popular in the 1960s, which headlined history’s most lucrative movie franchise in a long series beginning with Dr.No (1962). Films such as The Godfather (1972) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reinvented the crime for a hip young audience. The closing years of the century, marked by a heightened public of crime allowed crime films such as Traffic (2000) a remake of Traffik (1989) to become much more popular than the original version.
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