HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA

PRODUCT REPRESENT

PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

GRITTY LONDON CRIME DRAMAS ARE USUALLY AIMED AT GENERALLY MALE AUDIENCES. THE CERTIFICATE OF HIGH END CRIME DRAMAS ARE USUALLY CERTIFICATED 18 DUE TO THE EXPLICIT NATURE AND HARD DRUG USE IN MOST OF THEM THEREFORE THAT IS WHERE THE TARGET AUDIENCES AGE RANGE BEGINS AND NORMALLY CRIME DRAMAS INTEREST GENERALLY JUST MALES FROM THE AGE OF 40. SO THE AGE RANGE IS NORMALLY 18-40 YEAR OLDS.

THE TYPE OF SOCIAL CLASS THAT I WOULD AIM AT MY GRITTY LONDON FILM WOULD BE C2,D,E. THE REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE THE LOCATION WHERE MY FILM OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE IS A PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING IS HEADING TOWARDS LOWER CLASS BECAUSE IT IS SET IN THE BACKSTREETS OF LONDON WHERE MOST THINGS ARE DONE ILLEGALLY.

My characters right from the start look like they are upper middle classed people with guns due to the way that they are dressed, but also with masks. These are generally like sophisticated criminals that look organised and know what they are doing.

I wanted to have violence straight from the start because men genuinely have lower attention span when compared with females, so I wanted to draw them in with conflict because this would have the most chance of my audience liking the film. I also went for the type of film that the end of the film is at the start and as you go through the film, they would realise why, how and what they have done because in my film analysis, looking at the films that are closely orientated to mine, these were the type of films that was really successful (Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock, Adulthood etc..), so I wanted to include this into my film because this is what my target audience enjoy from previous research.

For my film I decided to have an all-male cast because men are stereotypically seen in the eyes of the media, as more violent and gritty, so I wanted to have this because I wanted it to back up the fact that it is aimed at men, it is about violence and I wanted my film to have a connection with my audience and because it’s a male audience, I thought if I had females in it, they wouldn’t have that true connection but if I had all male, it would have a closer connection, making them hopefully to understand why they did what they did. This has worked for Lock Stock, Green Street 2, My Brother The Devil, Sham69 and more.

Throughout the film my actors up held a cockney accent because the films that I had looked at are mainly gritty London lad films and they all had very heavy cockney accents, and I wanted to have that sort of feeling with my film because the genre of mine was very close net to the other films.

I chose to have the names of my characters they way that they are because typically, in east London, they have words to describe them that has the same first letter of their name so I chose to have this with mine as well (‘ard ‘arry, dodgy dave) I also decided to have the name soap because in the areas where my film is located, they also have nicknames that describes their personality (soap, because he likes to keep his hands clean in the work that he does) so I thought I was important to add this factor to it.