Evaluation Question 1

Risk Assessment

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Characters in a Crime Media Product

Characters in a Crime Media Product from GeorgeJohnsonMedia

First 5 Minutes of a Crime Film

The film that I chose to look at was The Italian Job 1969. I chose this film as it is a crime film and it is based on a heist planned by the main star Michael Caine. Within the first few minuets of the film we see the title opening sequence where a man is driving his Lamborghini through the Alps Italy. Also there is non-diagetc music playing within the scene with the song Days Like These sang by Matt Monro playing over the car. Normally you would think that the music is the dialect sound in the scene but in fact it is the sound of the car which is a Lamborghini Miura we are able to hear the cars engine and at one point the music stops when he enters the tunnel where we hear the diabetic sound of the car and then the explosion at the end. In ways this is similar to our film as it starts off calm with Jacob walking down the street and then it goes to the action if him trying to rob a shop. which does happen in the Italian job as it goes from the scene in the alps to a tunnel where the man driving the Ferrari crashes and dies and his remains are removed. So in a way the begging of our film is similar to that of the Italian Job. 

Settings of Crime Films

Within many crime films and television shows, there are a variety of different settings present throughout the duration of the aforementioned media product, each of which have a specific purpose, in which they attempt to fulfil.
   Typically crime films would tend to take place in metropolitan city or otherwise crowded or affluent areas, such as in London, Las Vegas, Chicago, etc., with the criminal 'underbelly' of these cities being uncovered and explored throughout the film's span, as the seedy, corrupt or otherwise lawless nature of the setting is exposed by the presence of drug dealers, dark nightclubs and neon signs reading 'Girls, Girls, Girls'. However, we deemed this setting too inappropriate for our target audience, as our genre was that of a crime-comedy, and thus we wished to maintain a light-hearted approach to the criminal world.
   This light-hearted atmosphere was conveyed as we didn't shoot the film in a casino, bank or bookies, as it would be done in a major Hollywood blockbuster, as we didn't feel this truly replicated the nature of our film, and thus it was substituted for a corner shop in town. This setting, tranquil in comparison to that of Ocean's Eleven or The Untouchables, felt truer to the anglocentrism that we had hoped for pre-production.
   Within our second scene, the heist room is shown to be basic, it's not extravagant because why would it be? Our story is that of 3 moderately successful criminals, they aren't poor, but are certainly not rich, this room conveys this. Louie, Mitchell and Jacob can afford a living but just not an amazingly aesthetic 'epicentre of crime'; just the basics.

Evaluation Question 7

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Evaluation Question 7 from WilliamDalemedia

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