Evaluation Activity 4

With British Crime Thrillers such as our film that incorporate humour, I personally feel that there isn't a strict target audience. Although many may compare our film to a British film as the likes of Football Factory I would steer them to compare our films style to Lock Stock and Two Smocking Barrels.

However if a trailer was created for a film like ours the scenes that would be shown would probably give people the stereotypical impression that the film is for football fanatic southerners, who through about constant cockney banter, would enjoy an episode of 'Only Fools and Horses' or 'Two Pints of larger & a Packet Crisps' and would not skip an opportunity for a pint down the pub.

But with our film I think the audience is not as restricted as it would seem from first glance. I do believe that our target audience is working to middle class men and women from the ages of 18 - 40 who live in the UK. I say this because they can all relate to the characters and can get the humour and understand most if not all the banter.

The only thing that can be counted as a restriction for audience of our film is that people below the age of eighteen would enjoy and want to watch the film but due to their age are not legible.

Evaluation Activity 3 - Director's Commentary

Evaluation Activity 2

One of the key characters from our short film is Karsey Ken. He was dubbed with this nickname due to him having IBS and he's forever on the loo. The costume and style of the character was based on a character from the Guy Ritchie film 'Snatch', the character is Turkish, played by Jason Statham. Both characters wear shirts with blazers leaving out any sight of a tie. Also with the short haired, rough stubble look. The similarities of the characters continue in their ability to be very violent , examples of this is Turkish fending of his shop when the thugs are destroying the machines with baseball bats. We see Ken about to be violent in the end of my film taking the showing and lifting it to assault the mystery person in the cellar.

However the similarities pretty much end there this being because Karsey Ken is more of a sidekick with a violent side than the smart, strong 'protagonist' that Turkish is.

Evaluation Activity 1

 The Title of the film
The title of our film is not only punchy but is a pun on the ethnicity of one of our main characters. 'King Of  Spades'. The word 'spade' can be interpreted as a racist term towards black people. One of our main characters is half black and is high on hierarchy in his community and his hypothetical gang. Also because because they tend to beat their enemies with spades.

Setting/Location
With our film location I believe that we met that created a mise-en-scene that captures the genre of our film.   We used a bar Brixton and a gritty alleyway  next to the bar. We also used the cellar in the bar  to create an eerie, scary atmosphere to match what was happening in the scene.

Costumes and Props
The costumes that we have used for our characters match their identities in the film and are based on characters from similar films. For example our characters talk with a cockney dialect and are wearing clothes as if they are business-men but are actually dangerous men like 'Happy Harry' relating him to 'Rory Breaker' from 'Lock Stock'. The only prop we used was a green spade as Karsey Ken's choice of weapon.

 Title font and style

With the title sequence of our film we use a black background with white writing over it. The titles cut in and out of the opening scenes of the film. I would not really say that we challenged any conventions of film titles because black backgrounds have been used since the beginning of Films. I would say that we played with theme of our films genre in regards of the font of the text.

Story and how the opening sets it up
The beginning of the story sets up the feel of a gangster film that takes no enemies. The cockney banter and the light humour lets the audience know that it's not strictly a violent film but has some intelligence in between the lines from the script.

How characters are introduced
The characters are introduced using freeze frames with voices overs we were inspired for this from the film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Using these technique we were able to incorporate the banter associated with british crime thrillers.

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Titles Sequence

The Title Sequence in a film is very important and is sometimes confused with credits, but they are different. The Title Sequence is at the beginning of a film and is the time to present the key people in production, key cast members, also the title of the film. There are many things that can be done to make a title sequence different from another film and also to singular it out so that it is remembered for your film due to it relating to the theme of your film.

I think a fantastic example is the 2006 James Bond film 'Casino Royale', which uses Rotoscoping to make the title sequence match the casino theme of the film and this keeps the viewer engaged through out, thus remembering the key names.

In regards to the opening sequence of my film the techniques my group used were based on the title sequence styles of the british Guy Rihcie film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

The relation with Lock Stock and our film is the use of cross cutting from a black screen with text, including the essential cast and crew names along with the title of the film, to the film. We used this because it is a good way of introducing the key people of the film while maintaining the pace of the film and keeping the audience engaged with the film and not bored by simple monotonus white text on a black background.

Audience Research

The Genre of our film is British Crime Thriller. However even though we knew this we did some filmed research in our college with both students and teachers participating to see how our film would be received and also to see people's preferences in the 'world of cinema'.