New script

Detective Lance Bullock – Callum Prendgast

Tony Slinger/ Maroni Falcone – Charlie Bell

Lisa- Darcy Reid

SCRIPT

Scene 1 – LB’s Intro ET: 35 seconds

 There is an establishing shot of a house at night; the only light source is lampposts in the shot and the shot will fade in from black and will last about 3 seconds. The shot will then cut to grass blowing in the wind, until finally a close up of an alarm/radio clock that is the source of the music. A hand reaches out and smacks it down, this stops the music. The room is dark, only a portion of light is reaching the room via blinds. A man (whose face you do not show during this opening scene) sits on the end of his bed rubbing his face. A narration begins:

Detective LB:  “Todays gonna be a helluva day, Head guy Phillip J House has made sure of that, he’s been busting my balls about this for a while now, he’s got it out for me I swear. See he’s got me inspectin’ some kind of college for a Maroni Falcone, see you wanna hear a funny story? 3 murders, one of them a cop and over 15 assaults and this guy is hiding in a school would’ya imagine? Me personally *pause* I think it’s a load of crap but like I said; House may be an ass, but it’s rare he’s wrong. and so that’s where I come in, me, Detective Lance Bullock, I gots to find this guy, if there even is a guy and take him out. Easier said than done when hiding in a hoity-toity school, and better yet, word is that his men already know that we’re catching up and planning this little undercover shindig, if Maroni really is there, he’s good, but I’m better”

*Throughout this scene there are different cuts of the detective.  doing his top buttons up, lighting a cigarette with a match (shisha pens and vapour) and a shot of the smoke blowing out, and finally a shot of him doing his tie up and walking out of shot, this shot should be when he says “But I’m better”

Scene 2 – TS, PS and BS Intro ET: 

The shot then cuts to an EST shot of the school, The scene cuts to Maroni looking shifty, he's standing in a alcove and keeps looking at his watch. He looks and sees someone out of sight to the camera.
MF: "finally! you're here"
He is handed a brown envelope, which the camera has a close up of. all you can see is his hand and the envelope, throughout the camera doesn't focus on the person who is handing him the envelope.  Maroni open the envelope and inside is a picture of a man.
MF: "Ah, okay, I understand the secrecy now. Good."

Identifying an audience

People use texts to gratify their needs. For example when you watch a horror it would be for social reasons e.g watching it with friends, for the fear of being chased or jut generally the fear, thrill, excitement and adrenaline rush you get from being scared. These types of films also push boundaries which usually attract teenagers as they can relate to these types of situations. They are also watched for the fear of the other- the fear of anybody different to you. 

Audience reception
Most audiences receive things differently, many have different opinions on film plots and contexts. Stuart Hall's encoding theory shows how a reading is viewed differently, according to him there are 4 different types of readings:

Preferred reading- what the director intends the viewer to think.
Opposite reading- the opposite view to what the intention  of the reading was.
Negotiated reading- when he viewer understands the preferred reading but has a differing opinion. 
Aberrant reading- when what the viewer thinks the reading is about is completely wrong and different to the intention.

An example of this is in the T-mobile advert where it shows a recreation of the royal wedding in modern times with the royal family dancing down the aisle. 

A preferred reading would be that it was funny and praising the royal family. 
A negotiated reading would probably be 60+ viewers who understand the meaning but thought the advert was disrespectful towards the royal family. 
A opposite reading would be someone that doesn't really understand it and think it is the real royal wedding. 
A aberrant reading would be someone that thought it was something completely different like someones real wedding video.

Hypodermic syringe theory

This theory is the idea that a passive audience will believe anything that the media tells them, the information is pumped into the person and they always think it true. In the 1930's the main media was newspapers and some radios meaning that many believed everything in these were true as there was little knowledge that some reports could be hoaxes or jokes. An example of this is when a radio play was introduced, there was a reading through the radio of an alien invasion- it was an extract taken from a book, but because it as on the radio many believed in to be true and there was a panic. In more recent times audiences are more active as there is the chance to be part of some TV shows by voting, there is also more awareness with respect to media and many understand that news stories are often distorted and changed allowing this generation to be a lot more vary of things in the media.

A lot of viral advertising happens through social media, for example if someone sees something interesting they can share it on facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram, tumblr ect. this allows more people to see an item and therefore allows more people to see advertisements.

The detective in film noir and representation

The Detective in Film Noir:

What does representation mean?
The representation of something of how something is portrayed. When portraying a person these factors are tenderly used.
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Class and status
Sexuality
Physical ability /disability 

The Detective in Film noir is one of the main character which is very predictable character, he drinks, he smokes his age however normally is 40-50's. Its very uncommon to see young detective in Film noirs. The detective is wordy-wise. He knows what his talk about which gains him 'respect' or that what he thinks anyway. Really the detective is vulnerable, sly and patronizing however this is because of the time period there wasn’t equality within genders so the detective often thought he was better than women which women (the Femme Fatale often uses this at her advantage) The detective shows this in the way which he speaks for example 'darling' and 'petal' which may come across as patronising for the women. Which in today's society this wouldn't acceptable because it would come across as 'creepy' ect.


The detective in our Film Noir defies certain expectations as he is quite sullen and not as charming as expected. He smokes but doesn't drink and is quite young. He isn't very high class but is quite physically fit.

Preliminary task analysis

For our preliminary task we had to film a series of shots based on a narrative we had been given. The narrative of this included two characters, the first one was the typical hero and the second being the generic villain. Our aims were to create a piece of film which followed the typical action film conventions whilst following continuity.

Our final product has some flaws but we had the general idea. If we were to do it again then we would change a few things. Including some continuity issues and music editing. The continuity issues are mainly with the dialogue as we followed the 180 degrees rule.

Overall we think our preliminary task was of good standard as we followed all instructions fully and met everything in the criteria allowing us to have a good quality final product.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard for planning the film noir.

Feedback November

I enjoyed your script which shows a good understanding of the codes and conventions of film noir.

You are working at level 3 for research and planning but can achieve level 4 if you publish all your posts as your group work is very promising.

 

To reach level you must publish your;

• Storyboard
• Maltese Falcon analysis
• Preliminary task

Targets for November

Film

Risk assessment

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