Question 2:
Our film challenges the generic look of a male protagonist in a film noir which is shown as this intellectual male adult with a comb over and all the women falling at his feet, rather than use this pre-conceived image of the character we decided to use a male teenager. This is because we chose to dispute codes and conventions of our respective genre to show that everyone can do something great regardless of their class, ethnicity and economical background. 
The majority of film noirs today only ever represent adults as doing something so we decided that using a teenager in our film will not only appeal to a wider audience, but actually get more exposure. It has been proven in recent times that using such young protagonists and antagonists is a successful formula through films such as the 'Hunger Games' series and the 'Divergent' series, both of which are now extremely popular and have a cult following of young people who find them easy to relate to.
This film is aimed at children and adults, its aimed at children to inspire them to do something adult like and accept responsibility from a younger age. Its aimed at adults to change the preconceived ideas they have about children doing noting other than being a menace to society. People talk about how our generation will be the ones ruling the country in years to come but why not start early and show that we are more mature and can act like adults? This looks at teenagers, and represents them in a completely different way and allows audiences to view them in a positive manner rather than negative.
Question 3:
Our film would be distributed by dimension films and troublemaker studios as they were the companies that worked together to produce the sin city films. This company would produce our filmas sin city is similar to our film in the sense that it features some traditional film noir conventions yet has a post modern spin on the classical genre as does our film. This shows they have an interest in a modernistic contemporary view on a genre that's been around since the golden age of Hollywood.
Its hard to say what production company are stereotypically associated with film noir in modern times as these films aren't seen as very popular anymore so therefore aren't released as much as other genres which production companies know will be a huge success. Our film would be more of an independent film as with a smaller budget it allows for a bigger profit to be made and due to the genre of which it is there isn't a huge production value again in comparison to other genres such as the action genre.
Question 4 and 5:
Audience profiling:
Age: 18-29
Gender: Male
Political Stance: Left wing
Hobbies: Video Games
General Interests: Movies, Music, Entertainment.
Most likely pet: Cat
Describes themselves as: Clever, Intellectual, Interesting
Favourite Films: Maltese Falcon, From Dusk Till Dawn
Media: Read the Empire and the Guardian
Film noir has always debated who their target audience is, many people would say that film noir is focused towards 40-80 year olds because this is the age group that would have grown up with film noir movies, however other people may say that film noirs interest the younger generations because they are interested in the 1940s and how crime has developed since then. However it can be argued that recent film noir films are not suitable for the younger audiences because of their age rating of 18+, mainly because of the large amounts of violence and sexual content. The target gender audience for film noir is male, this is shown by the history of film noir and how film noirs have been made over the years, this has been achieved by introducing an attractive femme fatal who generally falls in love with the main protagonist in the film, however sometimes this may be the other way round. This attracts a male audience in the same way a bond girl attracts a male audience. So we chose to not use a femme fatal as we feel women were used in these films in a very patriarchal way. Our film would be aimed at a teenage to adult audience as we have incorporated modernistic aspects which make the film more appealing to the younger audiences.
Question 6:
The different settings that we could use on the camera
allowed us to take advantage of this and make it fit our film genre in a better
way. This meant that we also could use a tripod to make our footage steady
instead of the camera moving around and not being stable. Therefore this helped
make the film improve its quality. For the editing aspect we used adobe premiere
and this allowed us to learn new techniques for improving the film. An example
of this was when we turned the flashback scenes into black and white. We also
used the green screen to add in gunshots to make the film look more realistic
to engage the audience more. We have used blogger on Google throughout all of
the coursework to show our research before carrying out our final piece. This
shows our progress throughout and it enabled us to embed videos and pictures as
evidence for our work.
Question 7:
From the preliminary task, we have learned many techniques
with editing as the preliminary task was only a basic edit as it was the first
time editing a piece. Also, we have learned and used many more shots than we
did in the preliminary task as we gained a better understanding of how to use
the camera as it was also shaky in the first preliminary task. We also learned
about advertising our product and to what audience so that we could base the
film around them. Sound plays a big part of every film and from the preliminary
task we learned how to make the sound either louder or quieter and we learned
how to add music in so that we could add to the atmosphere of the film.
