Final Product - You've Been Ninja'd!

New: Style

To achieve an action comedy feel we have attempted to replicate (in our own way) the same directing style of Edgar Wright. This involves using mostly a quick succession of close up shots to portray the action taking place. As well as using many visual gags (e.g. We have a shot wherein a banana is placed in a bag, for no apparent reason).

Here is an example of his work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVmKEycyUg

Of course we didn't have the budget to achieve this, but we made an honest go at it.

Connor, Molly, Sam

NEW: Audience

So using our "action comedy" genre we have aimed our film at a teenage/ young adult type of audience because this is the type of people who appreciate this genre the most. It's also important to mention that we know this wont appeal to everyone, the more sophisticated, high class people wont understand the humor as much and wont acquire to their taste.We also decided to aim our film at teenagers because we ourselves are teenagers, therefore we know what our age group likes, and also it would make logical sense to aim it at teenagers as they are the age group which visits the cinema’s the most and watch movies. We are using the idea of "Social misfits" to draw in our audience; mainly because this is appealing to teenagers today, because of new TV arrivals of "loser comedy" shows such as The Inbetweeners. Another main point is that the audience for these films isn't huge yet, but is increasing rapidly and therefore i think now is a good time to make this sort of film. 

NEW: representation

Basically we are trying to represent the fact that British people, can't do "hard-man" assassins, as a sort of stereotype; and that this sort of image really belongs to America. So we are representing both Britain and America in one go. America is always sort of associated as "thuggish" and a reckless place where people are so barbaric they will just do as they please and wont take any trouble from anyone. This sort of thing has come through American films and literature throughout history. By putting an Englishman in the position of the "hit-man assassin" which as we know is an American thing, and we see him fail and make himself look stupid we are reinforcing the fact that is it an American thing and not British. We not only are doing this but we are using satire to mock these high class assassins which is effective as assassins are dangerous people who are there to be scared of, so nobody really has a laugh about them, but when you make them look silly and mock them, there is a much funnier side to them. This is similar to the recent film "Kick Ass" which takes superheros, who are all brave and mighty, and mocks them making them funny. Brits are not associated with this kind of thing at all, we are more known for intelligence and posh tea parties, so to make an assassin British is just asking for trouble and opens a huge window for comical opportunities. And finally i think we are mocking the Brits and trying to say that they just cant pull off the stealthy assassin thing.

NEW: Genre

We have used a new type of genre which has only recently become popular, its a twist on action films, put together with spoofs to make "action comedy" This style mainly focuses on satirical comedy, which is popular now days within teens because they like to see higher social groups mocked, such as the police. In a conventional action film there would always be set characters, "alpha male" "lovable rogue" "mr. evil" and so forth, now, our genre basically takes the "alpha male" type character and turns him into a character who is much easier to relate to by making him look foolish, very much like the film "Johnny English". Nearly all films base around the conventional "Narrative structure" of balance, conflict, and attempts at resolution. Now obviously we have only made an opening sequence but i feel we have done it so the rest of the film can go along to these conventions but yet at the same time, if needed we could alter the conventions to make an uncontroversial film.

NEW: Institutions

Okay so we have looked at films of a similar genre and have such as "Hot Fuzz" "kiss Ass" and "Shaun Of The Dead" and have decided that the right industry to distribute our product would be "Big Talk" Production" We think this because not only do they produce similar films but they use actors that would fit in ideal for our piece, such as Simon Pegg, the typical "lovable loser" which is based on a subversion of the classic "Alpha Male" character seen in action films. As well as this, they have worked with Edgar Wright, a director who has directed the films previously mentioned and therefore would be perfect to direct our film. Not only this but they are a British based company, revolving around the comedy genre, perfect for our product, a British action comedy; we want our film to have a British comical tone mainly driven by satire.

Representation

Hi,

So we've had a little think about representation in our project. We wanted to show how the way we represent teenagers in our piece can be perceived in different ways. For example, we've decided to make our teenage characters look quite wreckless by getting drunk and suchlike, which may seem appealing (yet a bad influence) to the younger audience, and just plain stupid to the more mature audience.

We would also like to represent the present day image of nihilistic, anarchic teenagers who enjoy drinking and being generally antisocial (such as the teenagers portrayed in the 'Skins' TV series). 

To achieve this effect we can use our set which will take the form of a wrecked house after a party, this use of mis en scene alone will give the impression we are looking for.

Molly, Connor and Sam