Bad boys 2 textual analysis (action)

Bad Boys 2

As we see the titles of the films, in the background is pills there is loads of them they are drug pills, this lets us know that the film is going to have crime etc in it, this kind of tells us the genre of the film but not fully.

As the clip goes on we see they bag up the drugs and put them into coffins, and this is their way of smuggling them, we witness this is a drug deal. The camera goes over the sea and then into a close up of a man on the phone, just by looking at this man we can see he's going to be a main character and also we can tell he has some sort of link to the drugs we saw earlier. He then mentions theres $150m dollars worth of drugs.

we next see a close up of a man taking a gun out of a draw, by seeing a gun we know that their is going to be violence which indicates the genre of the film is action/crime.

The mechanic textual analysis (Action)

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At the start of the clip you see the titles and then you see a airplane and some nice cars on either side of it, you then see people whom look like business men come out of the plane and get into one of the cars. There is five cars all behind one another, they look as if they are body guards for the guy and they are following him to make sure nothing happens to him, this tells the audience he is going to be an important character.

The clip cuts from the nice area they're driving in to another area which looks more broken down and tatty, the men jump out the car with guns and one of the guys hit an innocent man, by seeing guns we see that the genre of the film may be action. While all of this happens the main guy stays in the car, this tells us as the audience that he's a powerful character and the other guys are working for him.

Once thats over they all drive into a very big mansion where there is servants waiting outside, this emphasises how powerful this man is. The guy walks through his out and gets into his swimming pool, again showing us that he is rich and if you think back to the gun scene it indicates maybe hes a criminal of some sort maybe a drug dealer.

As the guy is swimming he goes under water to get something and another guy is under there and attacks him until hes dead, the fact someone has killed him tells us he has done things to make people want to get revenge, all of this establishes the genre which is action.

Our chosen genre

our chosen genre is horror, we chose this genre because we found that we came up with alot more ideas for that genre oppose to others. We also decided it would be more realistic as the props we would need are more reasonable and easier to get, whereas props for action may be harder to get. With locations we found more places that suit horror, places like broken down buildings, forests and other places that would look quite scary when its dark. We also needed to be able to establish the genre within the first 2 minutes, so with the right music we would be able to do this easily whereas another genre like comedy would be harder to establish within two minutes. We considered doing action and we watched many action openings and did textual analysis' on the but we couldnt come up with a story line that wasnt mpossible to pull of with just two minutes, we came up with a lot more ideas for horror and thats why we chose horror as our genre.

Possible locations 2

Possible locations for filming

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Here is a number of photos that i've went out and taken, these photos are possible locations where we could film. The locations all suit the horror genre and they will near enough instantly establish the genre of our clip, which is horror. we took the photos to get a sense of where we want to film and what it needs to look like, also while taking pictures it helped us develop our ideas and come up with possible story lines for our clip.

Voki

This is my voki, he briefly describes his interests and what genre of movies he likes best. This is our target audience.

Scream Textual Analysis

The clip starts with quite scary sounds, then when it says scream in text you can hear quiet screaming behind the music, this suggests to the audience the film is a horror. We then hear a phone ringing and it cuts from the text saying 'scream' to a girl picking up the phone to answer it.

When she answers the phone we hear quite a low pitched voice which is quite scary and we can see this by the close up of the girls face. she looks worried so she puts the phone down and when she turns around the phone rings again,

Introduction Titles

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Introduction Titles

http://.vidmeup.com/view?q=4f39b393ca5d7.flv Here is the introduction credits, these will be shown at the very start of the clip before any evidence of acting. The clip is really good because it matches our chosen genre which is horror.

Preliminary Task

Freddy VS Jason Textual Analysis

The clip starts with the colour red in the titles, red is the colour for caution, indicating death or danger. We start to hear music, the music indicates the genre of the movie which is horror. From the titles the camera goes in to a close up of somebody putting a childs doll into a fire, the fire emphasises the genre of the film and also gets the audiece engaged.

Next we see a long shot of a little girl, she looks like shes hiding, we almost straight away see a man using a machine to sharpen a knife, this lets the audience know there may be some violence in the movie. By having this in the scene it lets us know the audience for the movie is aimed at older people, possibl 18 +.

We see the male character and he has photos of people and sticks to them to a photo album, the way he does this looks evil which is creating the sense of horror again , this keeps the audience engaged in the movie and gets them scared.

we next see a group of adults holding fire sticks, these people look angry, we see them throw the fire sticks through the window where the man we see as evil is, the screen then goes back and we see a close up of half of his face, he no longer looks like a human he looks more like a monster, again creating a sense of horror.

The whole clips is a traditioal representation of men and how they are more involved in doing things like crime and abnormal things oppose to women doing it.

Location images

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Here is a few images taken off a camera, the images are of possible locations where we could film our 2 minute opening. these locations are based aroud our school site so its easy access. we will also go out and look for other locations in other areas as their may be other places with more suitable locations.

Questionnaire

Questionaire

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Here we designed a questionnaire in order to find out things our audience see when they watch horrors and what they expect when they watch horrors. By doing this it allows us to come up wih ideas that fits in with what our audience want to see. Also the questionnaire helped us to come up with ideas for our 2 minute opening and also what we can change in order to get the best results for a horror movie. From the results of my questionnaire i have leart that lots of people like horror movies, this helps me because i know that people would watch my clip because it is horror, whereas if it was a differet genre they may not have watched it. I also learnt that more people like violent horrors oppose to psychological horrors, again this helps me because i know that the audiece would like my horror to be violent instead of psychological. I asked some people if they like to see something dramatic happen in the first 2 minutes of a horror, and majority said yes they do. This shows me that i should try to create something to happen within the first 2 minutes to entertain the audience. I asked if the audience are able to establish the genre within the first 2 minutes and the results i got back were balaced, this tells me some people can establish the genre and others cant, to me i think its important to give hints of what genre the clip is.

Gantt chart

Gantt chart

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Character profile

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-Horror Actors

Characters

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