2.Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our media product would be aimed at audiences from ages 15-21, there isnt a specific gender script our film is aimed at but it will appeal to males due to the male characters and the nature of the storyline which consists of moderate violence and drug offences. Our media product would also appeal to the male audience because most men are attracted to the gangster type storylines such as Guy Ritchies Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather Trilogy. On the other hand our media product would attract the female aundience aswell because not many females are against the gangster films many like a bit of action in films to keep them entertained and get rid of boredom. This short film would specifically be aimed at young black youths because of the black male dominence situated in our film and the specific area around inner city lower class areas in Manchester which not long ago was known for certain types of crimes and offences such gun crimes , thats how Manchester got its name 'Gun-Chester', which consisted of many black youths killing each other in order to survive themselves.
 


So our media product portrays what living in lower class inner city places is like , people having to resort to crime to survive and the consequences when something goes wrong in a certain type of situation as seen in our Short film.

Filming Shots

Location Shots

Location Shots

<<< This Location Shot is where the Story of our short film really took off, this is where Ramiel and John meet up to to switch the drugs and money but John doesnt comply and runs off this is very important to our blog to pinpoint to the visitors where the short film hits suspension.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film genre is Action Comedy Thriller. We chose to add comedy so people wont be put off by thinking "its just another drug movie and they're all the same". As teenagers, we are often stereotyped for drugs and violence. We fulfilled that stereotype to show people what happens in modern days for teenagers.. etc. Instead of all that, we added a bit of comedy to make audiences feel interested and make them laugh. We also added comedy at the start so people would get really interested. Our film consists of drug lord (Victor) and his employees meeting up with local druggie in the area (John). They both have agreed to the drug sale on the phone of £5000, but when they meet up; Ramiel vows to pass over the drugs but the local druggie doesn't co-operate and runs off with the money and the drugs; leaving (Ramiel) stranded with NOTHING to give back to the Drug lord. 

Our film would fit in perfectly in the cinema industry because its mostly targets 15-21 year old who spend their disposable income to come and watch films at the cinemas. We picked 15-21 year olds because their age group is suitable for our film genre. This age group are usually looking for something enjoyable and will put them at the edge of their seats in the cinema. 

This short film of ours would be a short snap shot of like British films such as the series of Kidulthood +Adulthood which concentrates on British teenagers lives and the hardships they go through to get through life.In our short film we used certain props to show the authority of each person. For example, the drug lord (Victor) was dressed in a suit with a RED tie which indicated danger also to show his importance and authority over Ramiel. This shows he expects respect from everyone, Whereas his Ramiel is dressed in black and casual with his hood up to blend in with the certain surroundings this follows the gangster conventions of the film Dead man running which is set in the the UK is a gangster based film where an exchange of drug for money is a huge part of the film... Furthermore the key props in our short film are the bags which contain the drugs and the money these are very significant because this starts of the story of our short film. As many films such as 'Dead man running' contains typical key props of money, drugs, guns etc our film will perfectly fit in with no problem.

Every film has a rating which categorizes the film according to the materials used in the film. Our film is rated and classified 15+ due to the material that has been presented in out film. In general, only people aged 15 and over will be permitted to watch our movie. This is due to our film Containing scenes of drug dealing and moderate violence/language

Final Shot list:

   Medium shot of Ramiel panting at the start.

Another medium shot of Ramiel on the phone talking to ‘the boss’.

  
 After the ellipse of time an extreme close-up of the door handle is show.     

  
4) Then a close up of Ramiel walking through the door.

                  

5) Medium shot of Ramiel sitting down.

                  

6) Point of view shot of Ramiel looking at Victor

7) Low angle shot of Victor telling Ramiel to pull hood down.

8) Shot reverse shot of Ramiel and victor conversation.    

9) Over the shoulder shots continue.

10) High angle shot of victor speaking.

11) Long shot of Ramiel leaving the room.  

Media Product Questions

How does your media product represent particular social group?

Our media product represents particular social groups such as groups that are into action, comedy genre films, and social groups that are inner city such as the film. our film as well as appeal to people of the comedy/action genre it will appeal to the youth of our society (15-21) as it is quite modern and has a urban feel to it. Our film will also appeal to the male gender simply because of the main genre of the film…

What kind of media institution would distribute your media product and why?

Universal is the kind of distributor that’ll distribute our film because it has distributed such films as ‘American Gangster’ because it has the same genre. Revolver is a low budget company that has distributed such films as ‘dead man running’ and would most likely be interested in distributing our film. revolver is more suitable to distribute our because they deal with more independent movies, also we would want to keep the film as british as possible.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for our film is 15+ years old. And we aim for a mass audience because the film genre will appeal to many teenagers and the inner city has many teenagers that will come and watch the film. but being a action film/drama/comedy it's genre it's self appeals to a mass audience. 

How did you attract/ address your audience?

The way we attracted our audience was mainly word of mouth. Word of mouth is good because it’s a free effective way of helping distribute of film. We attracted the audience because at the end of the trailer it makes you think what is going to happen next…

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The things I’ve learnt about using the cameras are the different shot, like close up’s, still shots, long shots etc…

From the preliminary task we learnt to do the 180-degree rule (over the shoulders) to show that there is a conversation going on…

Dealership (Action/Thriller/Comedy

The opening of a short film:  Dealership!  Genre: Action/thriller/comedy. (Main Task)

Duration: 2 MINUTES/2 1/2 MINUTES

Audience: 15-16+ includes limited strong language and drug dealing scenes

Resume: Opening scene: Starts off with Ramiel meeting up with the local ‘druggie’ (John). Sells  $5,000 worth of drugs to him. John runs off with the drugs, and keeps the money…

Ramiel runs after him persuing John through the Mancunian subway , but John is too fast and gets away…

Ramiel then receives a phone call from drug lord (Victor) The conversation carries on … Victor then meets up with Ramiel, Ramiel then explains to Victor that he has been robbed. Victor then threatens Ramiel and tells him he wants to meet up. Ramiel meets up with victor and they have a convosation ending in victor instructing Ramiel to bring him his money and he has 24 hours.

Suggested elements:

Performance (shown above)

Costume: John & Ramiel in ordinary black clothing,Victor dressed in a suit because he’s the drug lord and shows his Authority in the scene…
also the use of a bandana in the drug exchange would suggest † gang affiliation.
Victors red tie would suggest danger as he is a drug lord.

Props: Bag(with the fake drugs in) and a bag (with money in)  Phones to call each other. (Victor,John & Ramiel) 
Bin, used to scare Ramiel and show that Victor has a violent side.

Key locations: Mancuian Way subway

Title/Opening credits: Title ‘Dealership’

RECORDING DAYS: The approximate time that would be spent on the film, in one day. And editing would be used to cut, and make the ‘flashback’ effect in the scene…