We have come up with the idea of focusing our media product at males aged from fifteen to fourty years; we thought that this was suitable for our project as we had based the story line on a M16 agent named Carlson and three terrorists trying to kidnap agent Carlson’s daughter. Carlson is a smart looking character but also has a good sense of humour. We show that Carlson is a normal type of guy as he has his shirt un-tucked throughout the film and also wears glasses. Throughout the opening seqeunces Carlson is calm and keeps good composure. Carlson is the main character of our film and is targeted at middle aged people as this is the type of character that Carlson would be seen by the public audience, this is because Carlson has a daughter and also lives in a house of his own. In the film Carlson is a genuine guy getting ready for work, this indicates that he is of an older generation as he has a full time job and is prepared to get ready for work.
To compare the characters in our opening sequence I have selected AL Pacino from the film 'Scarface' and James Bond from one of his films 'Casino Royale'.
I chose ‘Scarface’ as a comparable film to our opening sequence not only because it’s action and thriller but because AL Pacino is comparable to agent Carlson although slightly less voilent. When looking at the screen grabs from Scarface you can see that the main character Al Pacino is suited and looks like a secret agent. We also thought between out group that Al Pacino from Scarface would suit our film very well as we scripted Carlson as a middle aged man who works for M16.
We also looked at many of the Bond films but Casino Royale being the most appropriate to help us choose what our main character was going to look like, we agreed that James Bond would be great for our film as he is an agent for 007 and tests out new equipment. Looking at the James bond films it also gave us an idea of what would need to be expected from a secret agent, we didn’t really have an idea of what education and style a secret agent would have. By watching these examples for our chosen character it made us think about Carlson and how he has become an agent for M16 and what his life was like.
When researching what our terrorist would need to look like a few example images gave us a idea of what size and build our actor would need to be, I also researched the most common type of terrorist as I needed to see visually what a terrorist would need to include on what they are wearing. I also needed to take a note of how much facial hair they have and if they would wear anything on there head, for example balaclavas are usually used to keep the identity of the terrorist to a minimal. When carrying out research we all agreed which would be the most appropriate clothing for our terrorist actor. We did not want to go over the top by giving the terrorist to much dramatic features that are visible. For example the features that we could have included to make the film look more realistic such as facial hair as when researching we found statistics that told us that 1 out of 4 terrorists would have had facial hair. We did not desuise our character to look like a foreign terrorist as we did not want to take it that far, we made the actor look very simple by using dark clothing, steel toe cap boots and a balaclava. The clothing used was suitable for what we were trying to ahceive as the actors looked intimidating and this is what we were trying to acheive.
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