1b)

1b ) Exam Practice, Audience, Representations and Media Language

At A2, Katie and I made a 5 minute short film called Malefaction with the genre crime/drama with the target audience being ______.

When creating our film, we attempted to use conventions of real crime/drama films to ensure our genre was clearly connoted, in order to attract our target audience of fans of that genre…most of the conventions out film opening uses and develops are seen in murder film we look at in our research. In terms of main stream cinema, our films mostly breaks and challenges a number of conventions but I think this makes out film more unique and suited to the target audience as many 16- 30 year olds are getting bored of the same old Hollywood formulas anyway. Having said this, we do borrow some things from Hollywood cinema conventions because straight away we are working in a genre, teen/coming of age, where the ideology of the genre is a very American concept. But, as we are not filming in America and want something that is also more social realist we do not follow the Hollywood style on stereotypically setting our film in or around a  Instead, to represent our target audience we set our film near a Cornish beach and base the narrative on a female surf instructor.