Evaluation Part 1

Brief
Our brief that we were set states that we were to produce a British social realist film for a target audience of 16-24 year old and I feel we met this as the actors that were in the production were all young adults between 16 and 17 years of age. Also our brief stated that we were to "to produce the first two minutes of the film, providing a clear sense of the graphical, editing and musical style your film will use. To protect Film 4’s reputation as a leader in British cinema the film" and make it "aimed at British 16-24 year old". We kept to our brief, as you can see at 00:25, we have a 360 track which shows our characters conversing about drugs and money and we believe that this followed the brief as being aimed for 16-24 year old as the actors are all aged around 16-17 and the topic of conversation is relatable to a lot of young adults as they seem to have similar interests, for example money. Also at 1:01, we see a close up of an iconic item, being the LV belt which signifies wealth and power. the reason for how this meets the brief is that people in the target audience in this modern day and age like wearing expensive designer brands to show off and to see this on a drug boss shows how much money the lifestyle brings to you but it also shows the other side, where reality kicks in and shows the gritty hard life behind the drug dealers and consequences of wanting to give up that life.
Our production was given the name "CLASS A" which has multiple meanings. One is that the title connotes top quality drugs, of the highest standard so it is clear to the audience that is is based around the theme of drug experimentation and will show the positive and negative consequences of dealing with drugs. Also another meaning is that it denotes drugs, as the title clearly shows class a being the highest and most illegal drugs. Another connotation is that it represents top class drug dealers and it shows their lifestyle in comparison to the smaller drug time dealers and how much harder their lifestyle is. this relates to our narrative as in our opening minute, we show a drug deal that is going on between the drug dealers and the drug boss and through looking at the clothing and appearance, we see a clear contrast as the drug boss who lives the better lifestyle is wearing an LV belt and a Hugo boss watch which connotes wealth and power.
In our opening two minutes, we show a drug deal going on between the drug boss and the the drug dealers but one of the three drug dealers didn't sell any drugs and wants to get out of that lifestyle so when the psychotic drug boss comes, the two characters give the money and receive more drugs to sell but when it comes to Chas's turn, he has no drugs so he panics and runs away and then we hear a gunshot and the screen goes black and then we follow it up with a coda of the main character going to meet a friend which causes confusion and creates enigma for the audience with a red herring. Also just through our opening sequence, it sets up the rest of the movies with opening conventions such as a smash mouth opening where it goes straight into the action and doesn't bore the audience. Also this was used to create the enigma for the rest of the movie and what is to follow and i feel as thought his was a success as we got feedback from an individual saying they wanted to watch the rest of the film which shows that it created that enigma and was a success. We have shown our themes of violence, corruption of youth and drugs throughout our production. We showed our theme of violence at 1:50 where we show a scene of our drug dealer pointing a gun and firing it which represents youth of the modern day as thuggish and creates a bad spotlight on this social group. We show our theme of corruption of youth at 00:08 where we show our characters having a conversation about drugs and talking about money being made and this is an incorrect representation of youth as not every young adult sells or uses drugs but this representation misguides the audiences opinions. Our smash mouth opening can be compared to Adulthood where it opens with a flashback from the previous movie, but then at 00:43, we are shown a typical example of a smash mouth opening and it seems to be a success as it creates enigma and entices the audience. Also another example which contrast to our production is in Adulthood, at 00:50 and throughout the opening clip, there is music running throughout the scene and this is used to keep the tension and to focus on the realism of the situation and we did the same in our production and I feel as though it also worked well in our piece of work and we were able to keep the realism and tension there.