Synopsis

The movie begins with a song playing, we see the overly confident Guy McKenzie running around his house getting ready, looking at himself in the mirror, kissing it himself. The idea behind this is that we see a comedic side to the character, helping us to get drawn in, before we see a dark side of his world, were he is attacked by the police.
The next sequence is shown to us through non diagetic text to be in 1997, he is in the cinema watching L.A Confidential, through a voice over we hear the character aspiring to be a police officer one day. This scene then cuts to a scene in a bar, we see Guy holding a glass of martini, he is downing them so quickly the bartender makes comments under his breath. The bell above the door rings and in walks Stella Artiana who sits the table directly opposite to him. She looks at him strongly and through montage we see them get to know each other.
We are taken into Stella life, she talks him to a pub and they go the long way, almost like a maze, once they get inside it is cabaret dancers and this time drinking wine with Stella. We see them both leaving the club only for Guy to see one of the men he once put in prison. The man pushes Stella to the ground and puts Guy in his car.
The car journey is very long, all we see is Guy over the shoulder of a gangster, with two body guards either side of him. They reveal to him that one of the 'boys from downtown has got into some trouble' they need a bit of help been left of murder charges and need Guy to pull a few strings. Guy is then thrown out of the car onto the curb, hitting his head violently.
The next scene is Guy in the hospital bed, with Stella by his side, he has lost his memory from the night before and when asked to give a statement to the police, he tells them he remembers nothing apart from the bar.
A week of recovery passes and he gets a call from an unknown number telling him that Stella has been taken away, and he won't see her again because he never did as he said he would do. I.E. help out a friend. He gets there and he recieves another phone call saying "have you done it yet." Guy walks up to Stella with his knife to untie her hands. She is still unconscious so he calls an ambulance.
Stella refuses to give her statement to the police telling anybody what happens, meaning that the antagonist gets away with his crimes.

Film Studies Schedule

Aims and Context - Completed 11/09/2012, ammended 6/11/2012

Synopsis - Completed 15/09/2012, still needs ammended

Genre Essay - Completed 20/09/2012, ammended 10/10/2012

Audience - Completed 06/11/2012

Purpose - Completed 08/11/2012

Prop List - Completed 08/11/2012

Narrative

Locations - Completed 29/10/2012

Characters - Completed 13/10/2012

Story Type - Completed 9/10/2012

Todarov Structure - Completed 05/11/2012

Screenplay

Storyboard

Health & Safety Considerations - Completed 15/11/2012


Animatic

Production Schedule

Filming

Rushes

Editing

Target Audience

Drug Squad target audience by Bethany Hirons on GoAnimate

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Definition of Target Audience: a target audience, is a specific group of people within the target market at which a product or the marketing message of a product is aimed at.  (taken from Wikipedia)

My audience is mainly male, this is due to the heavy violence what is implicated through the sequence, within my monologue there will be makeup used to indicate bruising to the face.
The particular age I am looking to apply to is men aged 18-24, those with a taste for violence and crime, but with a love for a happy ending at the same time.

I have based my story around the theory of Roland Barthes, using enigma to lead the narrative, in the introduction I have made, the audience is unaware of what has happened or is going to happen through a montage sequence, I felt that the male audience, when studying films such as 'pulp fiction' and 'Resevior Dogs' it tends to be the male audience that prefers an enigma that implicates violence.

Aims & Context

A short sequence from my imagined film; ‘Drug Squad.’ I will be applying the genre conventions of Neo Noir whilst using elements of Thriller. My target audience is therefore males aged 18 and over with love of violence, sex and drugs.

My aim will be to explore my knowledge gained from FM1 research of cinematography and also to explore the codes and conventions of Neo Noir and Thrillers. The influences of my imagined sequence are the use of cinematography in ‘Blade Runners’ but the violence of ‘L.A Confidential.’ In order to complete this I am going to write, direct and edit my sequence.