Survey Questions Draft

These will be the draft questions for when I create my survey to identify what my audience would expect from my film, this will be me conducting primary research to apply to my script. The questions need to be generated for a close in-depth analysis of how the script and film should be laid out and what to be expected.

Draft Questions

1. What, in your own opinion, are main key factors for an action and crime film and why?
2. Would a bank robbery be a smart way to open the film as it pans out?
3. The film would be set in the late 1940's - 1950's, who would be ideal actors for main roles out of these already selected?
4. In your opinion, would you prefer the characters being highlighted or their actions?
5. Is language a huge part of an action film, is it needed?
6. "http://asmediascarratt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/intertextuality.html" After reading the simple plot analysis, is this good enough for an opening scene? If any, what would you change?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXCZVQT

Intertextuality

Intertextuality

• Intertextuality is the way in which texts refer to other media texts that producers assume that their target audiences will recognise. 
• One of pleasures that audiences experience is the joy of recognition. 
• One form of this pleasure comes in recognising the reference in one media text to other media texts. 
• This process of referencing is called intertextuality.

Parody

The word parody means making a joke out of something that takes itself too seriously, or to joke about and mess with a serious film, song, person. 

Parody - 'an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.'

Pastiche
Recycling other media texts, using things and putting them together to make something completely new. For example, Kill Bill is a film by Quentin Tarantino which is is a mixture of Japanese samurai, french new wave, Hong Kong kung fu.

Pastiche - 'an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.'

Task:

• Analyse the following videos and make comparisons. 
• How would you categorise the different features of intertextuality? Pastiche or Parody? 
• Are there any other intertextual considerations? 
• Check out who directed this and what else did he directed?

1. Michael Jackson's Thriller

Thriller is a smart, new modification to the current generation of songs at this time. It tried something completely new by mixing it with other genres, this makes it a pastiche production. It's mixed 80's music with 50's zombie horror and slight comedy. This is a new technique and a smart initiative by the producers to mix these categories together.

It was cleverly directed by John Landis who also directed Blues Brothers, Oscar and An American Werewolf in London. 

Film Plot Research

As a start for my new research I will be investigating plot summaries that are similar to the film script in which I want to write. The type of genre I will be investigating is gangster films which is what I want to base mine around.

Top grossing gangster films:
- Goodfellas*
- The Godfather*
- The Departed
- Scarface (?)
- Once Upon a Time In America
- Reservoir Dogs*
- Carlito's Way
- Inside Man*
- Pulp Fiction*

* = most applicable to my script.

My basic plot summary for the first scenes will be set around a bank robbery, a well known established bank in the middle of New York. The time of year will be around the 1950's but with a modern approach to the film, following the steps of two modern films set in late times such as Lawless and Gangster Squad. It will be a very calm and smart start to the script, with scenic views of a busy New York main street. The group of 5 men will be walking calmly down the street in very smart attire*. They will enter the bank calmly without making any fuss or bother and approach the cashier desks and draw their guns towards the bank workers but keeping control of the situation as two of the men control the security guards. The men keep on top of the situation as the scene ends. - This would be the end if the first scene.

Traditional Gangster Attire*

These are, or similar to, the clothes worn by Ryan Gosling in the film Gangster Squad. A very smart identified Gangster film.

From top left to right: Smartcare traditional Fit Dress Shirt; Vincero Light Gray Three-Piece Suit; Stitch to Size Box Patterned Maroon Tie; Borsalino Cashmere Fedora; Allen Edmonds Strand Cap-toe Lace-up Oxford Men’s Shoes.