Interviews with Cory & Connor about "Viet-Con"

Film "Viet-Con" Unfinished

 

I still have a few scenes to edit and tidy up the way it cuts to each scene, I also have to add music to the chase scene and a few sound effects and this will all be completed ASAP. Some scenes are hard to see but this links with the sinister type we were hoping for, however some scenes, like the ending scene, will be edited more to get the best effect possible.

Documenting of Influences on production

In our film we used a vast amount of extreme (high and low) and dynamic camera angles because of the incitement it can bring to our target audience, for example during the start of the chase scene we set up a low angle shot of Connor (Main protagonist), Patrick Cowley and Graham Burgess (Henchman) running towards the corner of the wall where the camera was looking up. As soon as the characters have reached the camera it pans quickly to show clearly how far they have run. This gives a greater interactive aspect to the audience by feeling as if they were in on the action.

The Last camera angle I am going to express is our over the shoulder scene of me (Agent Banks) looking down on the main antagonist(James Hill) and his henchman (Graham Burgess and Patrick Cowley) from a balcony. We had the over the shoulder shot to create a tense atmosphere as it lets the audience know that the characters are being watched but are not yet sure who it is.

Audience Research

Our target audience would be mainly men because our film is from the action genre and follows the typical conventions of an action film.

The audience would be men aged 15+ and this is because we certified our film as a 15; this is due to violence and bad language. Our audiences enjoy action thrillers and we know this from our questionnaire.Our film will mainly appeal to the male audience because of our use of low lighting and unadulterated stand off action; this will attract the male audience by using scenes such as the chase and by having a low lighting sinister atmosphere throughout the film attracting an older male audience. We know this as our questionnaire results show the popularity of the categories.

Our film aims to appeal to all older audiences that enjoy the content of crime action films. Other films that appeal to similar audiences are Sin City for its low lighting dynamic feel. Another is Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (which is directed by Guy Richie) for its very similar unadulterated extreme close up take on action which symbolises what our film is trying to achieve through the target audience. Other similar films could include The Dark Knight Rises which is similar by its sinister criminalise look on a film and Kick Ass for the films constant aspect of merging comedy with crime-action.

These are the reasons we have given a specific target audience of older males.

Animatic Storyboard

These pictures create our animatic storyboard to show our opening 2 minuites.