Evaluation

Question 1:

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. 

Another element of film noirs is the generalization made toward women being deceitful in the form of a femme fatal. So in our film we decided to go against the very patriarchal views which most film noirs share, so instead of casting a woman as the victim reaching out we made them a male. This is due to male members of society not having to conform to gender roles as a man can play the role of a femme fatal with no questions being asked but if a woman was to play the role of the male protagonist this wouldn't sit right with a lot of male viewers. This shows the naivety of male audiences as they dont except gender equality in the film world. Another convention we challenged is the fact that in the film industry they try and hide violence to children so in our film when you explicitly see a child get shot, this will be controversial as it brings a dark issue to the forefront of the viewer's mind as they all understand that violence does happen to children but sometimes refuse to accept it. Therefore this shows that no matter your age you can accept responsibility. 

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 film
as 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.

 Troublemaker studios most popular releases which they've had a role in are the spy kid films which would help our distribution campaign as its another series of film which show children partaking in responsible tasks and promote a more positive view on children in films. Although the spy kids films are more innocent in comparison to our film they still try and carry through the same message.

Dimension films are a studio which seem to produce more dark films scream 4 and other horrors. Again this would be good as our film is quite dark and has underlying horror roots which appear in the film.






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. 

Our films target audience is quite broad due to the genre as many adults would want to see it as this could of been a very popular genre when they were of a younger age. The film also appeals to younger audiences because the film features younger actors, which give the audience something to aspire too and possibly relate to aspects of the character's personality. Our film would be mainly aimed at a male audience due to the gritty violent undertones that re occur through out the film. We feel this would be more appealing to a male audience rather than a female one. This is proven through many action films such as the die hard films having an established male following in comparison to the amount of women who would watch it. Our film would appeal to all ethnicities but would mainly have a white following due to the actors being of that ethnicity, meaning people of other ethnicities would struggle to make a connection with characters due to the lack of similarities they share with them. This doesn't mean that other ethnicities would watch the film because that would be a naïve thing to say, just that mainly people of a white British ethnicity would make up the main body of the audience. Another reason why it would mainly apply to this ethnicity is because of the fact that other ethnicities wouldn't of been able tow watch this particular genre when it was at its most popular in the golden age of Hollywood. Our film would be rated a 15 as it has strong language and violence on three different occasions. The general income bracket of the people watching this film would range from B-C2 (middle class to skilled working class), as well as there will most definitely be E class people (students) who will watch the film as well. Usually the film noir genre attracts C1 middle class but due to the upper class portrayal of the main character as well as the use of intellectual themes in the film we feel that may also attract C2 middle class so we expanded the target audience bracket further. 

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.

Final Edit for Blood Rose

We have now finished our final edit of the film and it is 1:23 seconds long. 

This is a screenshot of our edit and it shows the editing for the whole opening sequence. We are pleased with this final edit because none of our group have edited anything before other than the preliminary task which I think was a good help to get a good understanding of how to use all of the equipment.

The final film we have created has changed compared to our original ideas and our original timeline. We have kept the script the same and the only reason everything else changed was because we though of new ideas when filming Blood Rose. I am happier with our final film than our original ideas as the original ideas were very basic and the opening sequence would not have lasted as much time.