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This document analyzes the 1994 film Leon by Luc Besson in terms of its codes, conventions, and whether it conforms to or breaks from the action/thriller genre. It examines the setting of wealthy New York locations, the unconventional characters of Leon and the strong female characters, and how the inclusion of a 12-year-old girl breaks conventions. While the narrative and technical elements conform to genre in many ways, the representation of atypical heroes and relationships introduces narrative enigmas that break conformity.
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Conventions of Drama Films
Drama portrays realistic characters and situations to move audiences emotionally through conflict. It depicts inner and outer struggles and uses climaxes and resolutions to keep audiences engaged. While drama often shows hardships, it can combine with other genres and some films break conventions by having unpredictable endings, like comedy-drama Larry Crowne or the tragic conclusion of Titanic.
Drama Genre: Film
Drama films typically feature realistic narratives and settings that portray characters and conflicts audiences can relate to. They aim to emotionally engage viewers through portrayals of difficult life situations and character development. While dramas usually resolve conflicts with happy endings, some examples like Titanic and A Serious Man break conventions by ending tragically or using dramatic irony. Elements like mise-en-scene, lighting, color, and age ratings may vary depending on the specific hybrid genre and intended audience.
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Skins is a TV drama that depicts the lives of teenage students in college. It shows their experiences of enjoying their youth while getting into trouble with authorities. In one scene, the teenage characters enter a pub and are met with displeasing looks from older patrons, reflecting stereotypes around youth. A fight then breaks out between the teens and older patrons, highlighting how both age groups conform to negative behaviors. However, one teen hides from the fight, showing greater maturity and contradicting stereotypes. By portraying different characters with varying personalities and behaviors, Skins represents the diversity of adolescence.
Crime TV Drama
The document discusses common codes, conventions, stereotypes, and mise-en-scene elements of crime TV dramas. It notes that crime dramas typically involve elements like danger, breaking the law, weaponry, conspiracy, heroes and villains chasing each other. It describes common stereotypes for characters like gang members, detectives, solicitors, police, and villains. It also discusses the use of stock characters and how settings in crime dramas usually involve urban areas at night and locations like police stations and courts. The document stresses that believability, or verisimilitude, is important to make the audience feel involved in the realistic timelines and action.
Our target audience
The document discusses the target audience for film noir movies. It states that while film noir typically aims for an older audience aged 18 and up due to the complexity of narratives and themes, younger audiences aged 15 and up may also be attracted due to depictions of violence and action. The document goes on to say that the film will be rated 18+ due to its planned inclusion of strong violence, language, sexual content, and other mature themes. Additionally, while film noir traditionally targets male audiences, this film aims to appeal to both male and female viewers by featuring compelling female characters and balancing narrative and action.
Our Film pitch amended
This document outlines a film pitch for a thriller called Capital Cinema. The opening scene establishes a boyfriend and girlfriend and a gang of two members. The girlfriend overhears the gang discussing a crime and films them on her phone. When the gang discovers this, they chase her through the city. Though she escapes, she is later shot and killed by the gang. The police find the SD card from her phone, which contains evidence about the crime. The rest of the film will follow the police investigation to identify the gang members. Costumes, locations, themes, and other conventions are selected to appeal to the target thriller audience and align with genre conventions.
Our target audience
The document discusses the target audience for a film noir opening sequence. It analyzes that film noirs typically aim for older audiences aged 18+ due to the complexity of narratives. However, younger audiences aged 15+ may also be attracted due to violence and action. The opening sequence is rated 18 due to its planned inclusion of strong violence, language, sexual content, and discriminatory material. Both female and male audiences are targeted by focusing on stereotypical film noir elements like femme fatales that attract male viewers, and including a narrative and action that appeal to both genders. Suspense will be created through establishing a sense of uncertainty about future events.
Tv script analysis
The Peaky Blinders TV series follows a single plotline across episodes, though some scenes take place in different locations linked to the main storyline. While based on a real story from Birmingham, England, the show presents a fictionalized version of events. One scene depicts chaos after an explosion at a local structure, with kids running and police present. Tommy Shelby, the leader of the Peaky Blinders gang, immediately heads inside to assess the damage, showing his care and strategic thinking. His importance in the local community is demonstrated by the police allowing him through the scene.
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Drama Genre: Film
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Crime TV Drama
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The document discusses the target audience for film noir movies. It states that while film noir typically aims for an older audience aged 18 and up due to the complexity of narratives and themes, younger audiences aged 15 and up may also be attracted due to depictions of violence and action. The document goes on to say that the film will be rated 18+ due to its planned inclusion of strong violence, language, sexual content, and other mature themes. Additionally, while film noir traditionally targets male audiences, this film aims to appeal to both male and female viewers by featuring compelling female characters and balancing narrative and action.
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The Peaky Blinders TV series follows a single plotline across episodes, though some scenes take place in different locations linked to the main storyline. While based on a real story from Birmingham, England, the show presents a fictionalized version of events. One scene depicts chaos after an explosion at a local structure, with kids running and police present. Tommy Shelby, the leader of the Peaky Blinders gang, immediately heads inside to assess the damage, showing his care and strategic thinking. His importance in the local community is demonstrated by the police allowing him through the scene.
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Capital Cinema has created a film pitch for a thriller about a gang committing a crime that is witnessed and filmed by a girlfriend on her phone. The gang chases her and she is shot, but manages to hide an SD card with the video before dying. The police discover the SD card and begin investigating the crime and trying to take down the gang. The film aims to follow thriller genre conventions and target a male audience by including elements like the villain wearing black, an urban setting, and a tense musical score.
1. What Is a Cime Drama?
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Conventions of Thriller Genre
The document outlines several conventions of the thriller genre. It discusses how thrillers aim to create suspense and keep audiences engaged. Key conventions include fast pacing, action scenes, resourceful heroes vs more powerful villains. Plot devices like suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are commonly used. Thrillers also tend to involve stopping serial crimes, terrorism or government overthrows. Common character archetypes are ordinary heroes facing dangers and known villains. Iconography includes mirrors, weapons, and things that instill fear in victims. Mise-en-scene uses lighting, costumes, and camera angles to manipulate viewers' perspectives. Editing employs quick cuts, flashbacks, and merged shots to build confusion and tension.
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Thief Title sequence
The title sequence of the film "Thief" aims to attract a male audience aged 18-50. It sets a dark and ominous mood through the music, dark lighting, and lack of character introductions. This grim feeling introduces the audience to the crime and robbery themes of the film. The sound of raindrops and tense music further build suspense. Shots of a character getting into a foggy car without context, followed by a small robbery, provide just enough narrative to hint at the story to come without giving too much away. The dark representation of the criminal characters contrasts with how some other crime films have portrayed criminals in a brighter light.
Taken
This document provides a summary and analysis of the 2008 film Taken. It describes the plot, in which a retired CIA agent works to save his daughter after she is kidnapped while in Paris. Key details about the director, actors, budget, and box office gross are included. The narrative, cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene, editing, and our opinion of the film are then analyzed over several paragraphs.
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Genre analysis sheet - taken
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Thief Title Sequence analysis
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Codes and conventions teen drama
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Action codes and conventions
Action films are typically set in modern, busy places like cities and feature a succession of intense chase sequences. The hero will face life-threatening dangers and close calls throughout the film in an attempt to reach their goal before the antagonist. Action films aim to ramp up tension to a climactic ending where it is uncertain if the hero will survive. They feature fighting scenes, a young male targeted audience, and well-known stars to draw viewers in.
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Capital Cinema has created a film pitch for a thriller about a gang committing a crime that is witnessed and filmed by a girlfriend on her phone. The gang chases her and she is shot, but manages to hide an SD card with the video before dying. The police discover the SD card and begin investigating the crime and trying to take down the gang. The film aims to follow thriller genre conventions and target a male audience by including elements like the villain wearing black, an urban setting, and a tense musical score.
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Television crime drama is a genre that follows certain conventions including having a plot that centers around solving a crime through characters like detectives, criminals, and victims. Typical episodes also include mysteries, suspense, red herrings and personal drama to engage audiences as the crime is solved. Settings are often in cities or police stations to move the story forward.
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This document provides an overview and breakdown of the short film "The Culprit". The film is about two teenage girls who are questioned after a fatal incident at a party. During the interview, inconsistencies emerge in their stories and it's unclear if they are telling the truth or if something more sinister is going on. The film will be 5 minutes long and entered into short film festivals. It is in the crime thriller genre and compares to the film "The Hole" which also features contradictory teen stories during a police investigation. The document then outlines the film's 4 scenes and target 16-25 year old audience. It concludes with a proposed radio trailer featuring creepy music and film soundbites.
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Characters are crucial to TV dramas as they drive the narrative and audiences identify with the lead characters. Most teen dramas focus on adolescent concerns like relationships and individuality. Although characters seem real, they are constructed to play roles that often polarize them as "good" or "bad" to structure conflict and character development. This binary opposition is commonly used to set up conflicts that get resolved when good triumphs over bad. Audiences sympathize with some characters and are positioned against others to shape their attitudes and values through involvement with fictional narratives.
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Genre analysis sheet - taken
Taken is a 2008 action thriller directed by Pierre Morel. It tells the story of Bryan Mills, a former CIA operative, who uses his skills to find his daughter and her friend when they are kidnapped while on holiday in Paris. He tracks down and murders the men responsible. The film conforms to the action thriller genre through its car chase scenes, explosions, gun fights, and dark lighting that adds suspense. It follows a linear narrative of a father doing anything to rescue his daughter from sex traffickers.
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The document summarizes conventions commonly found in crime and thriller films. It discusses how Se7en features an intellectual and deceptive antagonist in the serial killer who targets victims based on the seven deadly sins. It also notes the film uses low key lighting and police props to add realism and suspense. Heat is described as featuring an action sequence shootout and use of various guns. Scarface depicts the rise and fall of Tony Montana from poverty to controlling the Miami drug trade, making use of costumes to represent his changing power and an isolated setting for his final stand.
Thief Title Sequence analysis
The title sequence of the film "Thief" aims to set a dark and tense mood through its use of music, dark lighting, and lack of character introductions. It draws a male audience aged 18-50 by portraying a grim view of crime through shots of a robbery in the opening. Sound design, like raindrops overlapping the title, helps establish this suspicious atmosphere and builds anticipation. The narrative provides clues like a character getting in a car and a hinted small robbery, but gives no explanations to maintain an ambiguous tone fitting for the crime thriller genre.
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The shallows trailer deconstruction
1) The trailer establishes the setting of a sunny beach where a surfer is seen in the distance. Dark shapes seen in the water foreshadow danger.
2) A shot shows someone gripping a surfboard before quickly cutting to the main character biting an apple, suggesting something may bite her hand in the water.
3) The trailer uses quick cuts between shots accompanied by loud music to build tension as various scenes from the movie are shown out of context, leaving the plot mysterious.
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- 2. New York Skyline, Yellow taxi’s, Twin Towers. Iconography Ideological message Mise en scene Yes