Tutorial targets - 17/12/12

• Existing product research X5 texts
  - Docudramas; Google search
     e.g. top boy.
• Progress & SOMETHING
• Action plans
• Christmas schedule - except 5
• Of-com code; research work-shed '
   - Summarise
• Institutional research
   - Channel 4/E4
   - Demographic, typical programs
• Costing/location research
   - SOMETHING institutions
• Embed preliminary production on Blog . 
• Include image/locations

ILL MANORS RESEARCH - MS RODDEN

1. Research all the Institutions involved in the production of Ill Manors. List them with a summary of what their contribution to the film was.Revolver Entertainment and BBC Films. 
2. How much Ill Manors cost to produce (its budget)
   To produce it costed £100,000 but they made £453,570 from the Box Office in the first eight weeks. 
3. How was Ill Manors funded?The film was  funded through Film London Microwave, BBC Films, Creative Skillset, Aim image Production and Gunslinger Film (Co-Production). 
4. What is the target audience for Ill Manors?
   The film contains a lot of violence, sex scenes and swearing therefore I think the target audience for 'Ill manors' is teenagers and young adults between the age of 18-26. Also the age certificate for this movie is 18+ therefore it is not suitable for children younger than 18.
5. Who is the main distributor of Ill Manors?
   Revolver entertainment.
6. How was Ill Manors promoted?
   Plan B promoted his movie 'Ill Manors' through his musical career. He began releasing and singing songs from his sound track, these first appeared on BBC Radio 1. Also ill manors got further promoted through other music stars such as Labrinth as he commented on one of plan B's locations in which he was singing saying that its like the dungeons however it goes well with the whole concept of 'ill manors' this therefore got more and more people interested.
7. Compare this with a big budget blockbuster. What are the main similarities and differences?
   Illmanors compared to the movie Taken. Acton/Thriller film, budget of $25million and made $226,830,568 in the box office.
   Similarities: they both contain violence, enigma codes used to draw in the audience, both use real life experiences or relate to real life situations.
   Differences: Taken has actors/actresses who are known and people have seen in other movies as well where as in Ill Manors there are random actors/actresses who no one has ever seen before. Taken is better equipped as thee makers of the movie had a high budget to work with where as Ill Manors had to be made at a low costing budget. Ill Manors is more inappropriate as it has got much more swearing, sexual scenes, drug taking and violence.
8. How does the trailer for Ill Manors hook audiences into the narrative and pose questions that the film will answer? Identify 3 ways/techniques.
   The trailer for Ill Manors hook audiences into the narrative and prose questions that the film will answer as the trailer clearly shows the lives on ordinary people who have been brought up and living in a deprived area and are having to do all sorts just to make a living for themselves. This helps audience members have an realistic insight on peoples lives in deprived areas and how they are coping with it. Also Plan B as the voice over is not telling the story by just using words he is rapping this is very effective on the audience, this is because it could show that the story line of Ill Manors could also relate to his life as he grew up in a council estate also it make the target audience for the movie much more clearer as older people to not listen to rap. 
9. How does the trailer for Ill Manors balance plot and spectacle?
   The trailer for ill Manors balance plot and spectacle as it interests and draws in the audience members to find out more and wanting to know what is going to happen further into the movie.  Also as the trailer uses flashbacks which are effective as it gives the audience a view of what they were like and instantly going to how they are now. this makes audience member want to watch the actual movie in order for them to find out why they are how they are and what had changed them.
10. Think about the certificate of Ill Manors (18 certificate). Research film certification and outline what is deemed acceptable for this certificate. What is the difference between a 15 certificate and an 18 certificate?
    18 certificate can have drugs, sexual scenes, detailed swearing and violence where as with a 15 certificate all these things are allowed but must not be promoted or seen as a positive thing, also sexual scenes must not be detailed and it all should be appropriate. 

MEDIA FORMS ANALYSIS - RODDEN

Cinema poster and NME poster

Similarities: The narratives to both of these are shown through the characters body language and actions therefore also relates to how the characters are presented. In the cinema poster the character are puking on the word manors or puking the word manors out this could connote two things which are that all character do not have manors or have lost their manors or this could mean that they do not respect the 'manor' in which they may live in. In similarity the characters also portray the narrative in the NME poster as Plan B would is the director of the movie ill manors is shown in a close up on the middle of the poster. Also he has got his middle finger up therefore showing no respect at all as he is swearing. He has also got a hat on along with a unlit cigarette in his mouth therefore showing that he is careless and has a lack of manors. The settings of both the posters leaves the audience wondering why they are doing the things that they are and why they are presented in these sorts of settings. The cinema poster leaves audiences wanted to know why there is such a disgust towards the word manors and the NME poster leave the audience members wondering on why the character is being presented in such as way in the setting of cigarettes and swearing and what the story behind it may be. 

Differences: The settings are shown very differently in both of these posters as in the cinema poster the backing is blood red therefore presenting blood violence and also portraying the possible narrative. However, in the NME poster the background setting is black and plain with some writing therefore this has more of a magazine cover setting and also this does not give as much of the narrative as well therefore leaving audience members wondering more than what the cinema would leave them as. Also iconography is very different as in the cinema poster the iconography is the vomit which is over the word manors where as with the NME poster there is iconography of a cigarette, hat and writing.therefore both posters are showing the lack of manors however this is done in completely different ways. 

Research and planning

Complete the following as an extended blog post or a selection of five blog posts:

1. Find five programmes similar to the idea or genre you want to produce.
2. Write an analysis of a two-minute opening sequence using everything you have learned about film language (camera work, sound, mise-en-scene etc.) for each of the five.
3. Research the target audience for each show and produce your own assessment of who each show appeals to and why.

My first program that is similar to the idea/genre that we are choosing to produce is dispatches. This is similar to out idea as we are choosing to do a docu-drama on gang crime. Although dispatches is shown after 9 pm therefore is not water shared  the way in which it is presented is how we are deciding to. Dispatches focuses mainly on the importance of what happens in everyday life around the world, as of what we are planning to do by visiting youth offenders etc.
Dispatches is shown on channel 4 usually at 9 pm, this shows that it is for the older target audience around the age of 16-25. Therefore the target audience is different from ours as ours must be water shared we are not allowed to use swearing or any violent scenes.

My second program is Crime watch  the genre of this is crime and justice as well as  this is similar to our plan as it shows currents affairs of the outside world and what is happening. However it is different as crime watch tries catching criminals and gives detail numbers which we are not doing as we are trying to just inform people of gang crime and the dangers of it. Also the genre's are similar as ours is also factual as we are also showing the effects of crime and having people to talk about how the feel and what they have been through. The target audience for this show is 28-45 this is because it is not water shared and is shown after 9 pm, also violence is shown as well as swearing and crimes scenes.

The third program that I will analysis is top boy. This is because Top Boy is shown on channel 4 or E4, which is what my group are planning to show our production on. This show focuses on teenagers and gangs in estates. Although top boy  is different from our idea and it shows bad sides of crimes and the consequences. We are aiming to show some bad sides however putting it into a docudrama we are planning to show how lives have changed and people have reformed them selves after hitting rock bottom, e.g. going prison. Ours will be watershed therefore must be appropriate for children, where as top boy is not watershed and usually comes on after 9 pm. The target audience for this show is  older teenagers and young adults, 16-25. The reason for this is that it is not watershed also it has got a great deal of drug use, violence, sexual reference and swearing (inappropriate for under 16s). 

Media production analysis

WWW: What i feel went well in our production were things such as the camera angles and cuts we used, we placed the camera in strategic places to allow the audience to view the production from the line of sight we required them too. The use of cuts to provide a dramatic scenes and the movement of the camera with pans/tilts allowed views to really feel they had interaction with the clip. The sudden involvement of extreme close ups added a sense of realism to the clip allowing viewers to notice facial reactions and lips moving when talking. Also the dialogue is short but snappy, leaving the audience on edge about what is going to happen next.

EBI: We noticed while editing that clips were cut too quickly whilst filming allowing less footage to work with, this was a downfall as the final video looked sketchy as clips cut off too soon. A fly on the wall angle would have been effective for clips where both charicters were required to talk and be in the frame as it would have added tension to the plot

MOCK EXAM, LEARNER RESPONSE - MR BUSH

WWW: Some excellent points in the second question, Rajneet.
EBI/LR: Try to include reference to theory: enigma/action codes; props, character roles ect.
              Always mention stereotypes/values in the representation question.

There are enigma codes through out the scene, giving us idea's of what is to happen next. For example, the audience get a close up shot view of the foreign actors which as most commonly  recognized in movies as 'terrorist'. As they were seated in the airplane which the scene was focused on, the watchers instantly realize that these are the 'terrorist' and main characters in which the scene will be focusing on.

There is also an representation of stereotypes throughout the scene. There is a typical stereotype of 'terrorist'. This stereotype relates to the 9/11 incident, therefore helping to connote realism. This scene also shows the values of the air traffic controllers. Their target is to stop air traffic and to spot any faults in the flying planes. This is shown in the scene as they receive a odd voice message from a plane above and therefore instantly begin to act on it.