iLL Manors - Video

Ill Manors' Music video by Plan B includes many codes and conventions which reinforce this video being like other music videos. The fast pace of the clips align with the fast pace of the song in order to build up aggressiveness and adrenaline in the audience. Direct address is also used by Plan B as well as the other characters in the music video to suggest that he is talking to the viewer. He is telling them about what is occurring using the direct address and is portraying that if the government continue to isolate these individuals then this will never stop.

The London rioters are presented as being forced into commiting these riots. The government. The music video involves a few clips showing the movie main characters presumably before the actions in this movie occurred. The aggressiveness in the actors is as a result of the low amount of help people living in the areas they live receive. Rich people are getting all the support they don't need and individuals who are in need of help are getting no help. The music video show's any person in struggles thoughts and perceptions of the government. They are self-centred around their own rich individuals and are at no point bothered to help anyone else. 

All of these opinions would've been shown because Ben Drew may have been through a hard struggle in his past which he believes no one should go through. Throughout the music video clips of riots and members of parliament are included. It shows that if these individuals in the music video received help and support to maintain then none of this would happen. 
The riots are presented as being a way where people in this struggle can finally get payback for what the government has not been doing for years. They are presented as a violent protest at which the public's enemy is in the right and deserves acknowledgement for what is occurring.

This video shows us an insight of what we expect from the movie. The action, the drugs and the gangs. It will show us an insight of the lives of these victims and why this is occurring. At the beginning of the music video Plan B says 'let's all go on a urban safari'. Urban implies their whereabouts and safari suggests the inhabitants in that area being animal-like. It tells us that he's going to take us and show us the lives of these so-called 'animals' that the government has demonised. 

ILL MANORS FILM REVIEW

Key points	Evidence from movie	Justify
Director - Who is it and what else have they directed that you have heard of?	Ben Drew is the director of iLL Manors (better known by his stage name Plan B)	Ben Drew chose to direct this movie in a way where he, at the end, is driving Riz Ahmed away. This shows that he is the one who's leading Riz Ahmed off his old ways. Symbolises Ben Drew's main intentions to the audience.
Main Stars - Who are they? Will people be familiar with them already? What are they known for?	The main characters are Aaron (Riz Ahmed) and Ed (Ed Skrein). Riz Ahmed played one of the main roles in Four Lions which went on to gross £6.9 million which is just under 3 times their budget for the movie.	Ed Skrein was featured in small roles for programmes like Game Of Thrones and The Tunnel but big roles.  However, Riz Ahmed featured in a few movies over the course of the years. As a result of this, his recognition by the audience would be right away.
Plot - What is the film about?	The film is based in East London and focuses on the lives of 2 individuals who are involved in illegal activities. The narrative shows us the lives of many individuals who all come handy in different parts of the movie. The movie uses factors such as drugs, prositution, sex, gangs and violence to show the main narrative of the movie.	Ben Drew's intention of this narrative was to show the struggles and issues that young adults/young teens face nowadays.
Characters - Who are the main ones and which actors play them? Comment on the quality of the acting.	Main Characters Riz Ahmed (Aaron) Ed Skrein (Ed)  Keith Coggins (Kirby) Lee Allen (Chris)	The acting by each of these actors was highly professional as they stuck to their role.
Genre - What type of film is it? Does it fit your expectations for this type of film? How would you describe the mood?	The genre of iLL Manors is a crime/ drama.	The movie included a lot of violance and illegal activities which showed us the Crime bit of the movie. The movie also included a lot of dramatic scenes to fit into the category of drama.
Soundtrack - Did you notice/like/dislike it? How did it create atmosphere?	The soundtrack fit in with the opinions of most of the characters in the movie. Plan B created this song and also made a video for the song.	The song built sympathy in the audience for these people. To society individuals doing illegal activities such as sellign drugs etc. may only be doing it because they have no source of income, care or help. To the audience they seem helpless to their own life that they are living.
Audience - Who is it aimed at and do you recommend it? Why?	The movie is aimed towards young adults/teenagers.	I think this is because the movie would relate to a lot of people creating a kind of relationship between them.

Shotlist For Our Production

The end of our production is still being edited so this will be updated shortly.

iLL Manors Film Review

Ill Manors is a film directed by Ben Drew (also known by his stage name Plan B). Ben Drew is well known for his role in Adulthood as the good villain who returns in the end to kill the guy who forced Ben Drew's sister into commuting suicide from constant bullying. This movie was the sequel to Kidulthood and was a large success. Ben Drew gave the leading role to Riz Ahmed who featured in many movies before this role. These include a leading role in Four Lions and another role in Shifty. I myself have seen Four Lions and enjoyed it quite a bit but have never have seen Shifty. 

Ill Manors shows us the lifestyle of many characters who's lives all fit in together with one another through crime, prostitution, drugs etc.Riz Ahmed plays the leading role along side Ed Skrein who plays one of his close friends. Both of these characters play drug dealers in East London who have spent a lot of time and effort building up what they have. The movie begins with Riz Ahmed and Ed Skrein both standing outside a block waiting for their customers. A man approaches them and asks them what they have. Ed Skrein replies and as he does the police run around from the side. Both Ed Skrein and Riz Ahmed run towards a gate. Riz Ahmed manages to climb over but Ed Skrein is left and has no time to so he gives his drugs and phone to Riz Ahmed. This leaves Riz Ahmed to run away and hide for a day or so until it calms down. The main purpose of this is to show the audience how bad scenarios may become for them. 

The storyline continues and eventually Ed Skrein gets out of prison. He meets up with Riz Ahmed who left his phone in the house of one of his customers. Both these characters go to get the phone and they don't find it. They call up one of the girls who was at this house who tells them that she had it in her bag but she's lost. I think this was effective as it gave them a reason to become infuriated and do something bad about it which follows in the movie. They meet up with the girl and tell her to pay him for the phone. Ed Skrein gets tensed up and wants her to pay him right now. She says she doesn't have money so he makes her pay in a way she would've never wanted. He visits fast food restaurants and ask them if they want to buy her for an hour or so in order for Ed Skrein to get his money for his phone back.

This movie includes scenes of discomfort such as these for all audiences as a increase of sympathy is created for her. A few scenes later when she gets all the money back Riz Ahmed saves her from being killed by paying a man who wanted to kill her to not. She then leaves them and goes straight to a customer and asks if he wants her for an hour. This makes Riz Ahmed look like an idiot as Ed Skrein told him that she was not worth it and she does this for a living. This was effective as it showed that the only people who get through and survive are the ones who are solid and don't show sympathy to anyone.

Research and Planning (PRINT)

1. Title Of Publication:  The title of the magazine is 'Doctor Who'. It is located to the top left of the cover as studies suggest that our eyes are built to read from left to right. BBC have decided to follow this and use it to make their magazine effective in quickly portraying what their magazine is about right away.

2. Slogan: The slogan of this magazine is 'The celebrating 50 years of adventures in space and time!'. The effect of using a punchy slogan automatically advertises how big of a deal Doctor Who is now due to it being broadcasted for 50 years. This slogan sums up the whole narrative of the whole magazine and what it's going to be all about.

3. Central Image: The central image is located in the middle just above the half way line.  This is effective as this is perfect in eye-line of the audience.  The characters are looking into the camera with tension and aggressiveness in there face suggesting tension. The characters are placed so that there is one main character who is presumably the doctor and 2 other semi-main characters. 

4. Free offer: The magazine offers free gifts such as posters and anniversary art cards which you can download on the computer. These are effective in drawing a fair amount of customers towards the magazine. 

5.Colour Scheme: The colour scheme is really down to earth and limited. It includes brown in different forms, white and red. The creator of the magazine chose to stick this colour scheme because it was effective in keeping the magazine modern and not busy.

6. Language: The language used in this magazine is quite formal. It is breaking the lines here and there of falling into being non-formal but most of the magazine sticks to being formal. The words are briefed down into short and snappy quotes that will be effective.

7. Bar Code, Date and Price: It is vital that  magazines have a bar code, price and date so that the customer knows how much the product and so that the store can scan the magazine.

Research and planning Task #2: Institution Research

BBC THREE

BBC Three is an English television channel from the BBC broadcasting. The channel is only on air from  7pm to 4 am every night. This authentically means that during the day the channel is asleep and has nothing showing till 7pm. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16–34-year-old age group. This channel shows mostly drama and comedy for young adults. These programmes include Family Guy, EastEnders and Being Human.

E4

E4 is a British digital television channel that also targets the audience of 15-35 year olds. Unlike BBC Three, E4 broadcasts throughout the day and night. E4 programmes include Skins, Misfits, The Big Bang Theory and Shameless. E4 is the channel that broadcasted the world known, Inbetweeners. The Inbetweeners was E4’s most watched programme in this decade. The top 6 most watched programmes that were aired on E4 all were The Inbetweeners episodes. This suggests that E4 was the perfect show for E4's target audience by being a comedy about young teenagers.

When E4 begin to broadcast at 4pm they show cartoons and programmes of the same genre. As time goes on they begin to show programmes such as Hollyoaks and The Big Bang Theory at around 6pm. At approximately 9pm, after watershed, E4 begins to show programmes such as Skins, The Inbetweeners and Misfits as these programmes are ranged for young adults. These programmes would not be allowed to be shown before watershed as they include foul language and scenes of sex, drugs etc.

Focus Group

The focus group was a chance for me and my group partner to tell a group of about 8-10 people about our production. From this we were able to discuss and fix faults that may have been present in our presentation of our production. The focus group was effective as we members of our focus group were able to recognize mistakes that we never would've come across. Our idea was praised by many but also was criticised quite a bit. Some of the quotes that we received include

• What is different between your programme and Top Boy?
• Could you think of a much more effective beginning such as beginning it in a bar?

• Great idea, storyline is effective as it begins in-between a conversation.
• Good narrative. A lot going on so use flashbacks to show past moments.

All of this was effective as it moved us towards working harder on making our narrative the best possible. This includes taking the idea of beginning it in a bar and using flashbacks. Me and my partner thought heavily apon which steps we should take in our programme and we've come to a conclusion. Of course there are going to be minor adjustments during the filming process but our narrative and character list is going according to plan.

Target Audience:

Our production is aimed at young adults ranged from 17-25. This is because I believe that a large number will be most interested in this programme as it allows them to relate to it as well as people who've grown up with people with similar lives. The psychographic groups that our production is aimed at include the aspirers and the explorers. This is because the aspirers are known for being materialistic and care about their image and appearance. Also the explorers because they are known for exploring and finding new things such as brands and trends. The social class that we are aiming to attract are C2DE. This is because the content that we include in our production would not attract anyone of a high social status.

Our production ‘Reminiscence’ includes 2 male’s characters and a female character. The female character is the girlfriend of one of the males. This male works in WHSmith for a living and has recently caught up with one of his other friends who is the second main character. This other main character named ‘Nick’ used to be best friends with our other male character named ‘Donovan’. In high school they would work illegally for money and would do it on regular bases. Both wanted to pursue what they do and hopefully build their own empire. But as time got further they distant away because of Donovan’s girlfriend who didn't like what he was doing. The 2 minute opening will include short clips of Donovan agreeing to get back into the business in order to see more money than he is originally seeing.

Our production will be broadcasted on BBC3. This is because this channel already broadcasts to a large audience of young adults and has built this up over the past few years.

This production is based around the genre of a thriller/ documentary. 

ILL Manors Trailer Analysis

1.
The iLL Manors trailer consists of many enigma codes such as guns being put to peoples heads etc. This immediately leaves members of the audience feeling curious in what will be following up. Also the trailer consists of many reviews. These reviews sum up how the movie is to different corporations such as Q Magazine, Time Out and Men's health. The diverseness of the corporations suggests to the audience that this movie is also for a range of audiences suggesting that everyone will enjoy seeing the dark side of the ghetto. 

2.
In this decade, films are distributed through many key ways in order to target the best audience. Some of them include showing the trailers in cinemas before movies that are of the same genre or are targeted at the same audience.

3.
While the trailer is playing Plan B does a voice over telling us how he's gonna take us through time and tell us about this dark story. After this music begins to play at a fast pace as the clips flick through quickly. The movie reinforces the pace of the trailer. 

4.
The movie 'iLL Manors' is targeted towards young adults aged at roughly 16-25. This is because the audiences between these ages would be the same ages as the main characters in the movie. These individuals would watch this movie and see how different or similar their lives are to these characters. As well as this the editing would be another factor in the trailer that shows us that trailer is significantly directed at young adults. The fast pace and enthusiastic quick cut transition changes also reinforces that. When compared to a movie aimed at families the trailers would include music of a slow pace, good and happy moments and slow transition changes as a pose to the 'iLL Manors' which has a much different target audience with a much different trailer.

Also within the clips, the director chooses to signs and symbols of Barthes' theory such as objects which release curiosity and maybe misconception. These could include guns, bloody knives etc. which engage the audience into wanting to know what is about to follow up.

Similar programme to our production

Most similar programme to ours (Skins)

 

 At the beginning the opener contains all the characters and their hobbies. It shows them smoking weed, drinking alcohol with one another and having fun. It suggests to us the personality of the characters and how old they are all ranged around. The setting of this opener is located in town. The antagonist makes his way down town on his skateboard going past many shops in a crowded place. As he makes his way down he passes many situations that he just ignores also causing a lot of nuisance. These show that he the typical stereotype of a teenager, careless and clumsy.  This portrays to the audience straight away that if they enjoy the entertainment of teenagers mucking about this is the right programme for them. Then the student makes his way to the bottom of town to greet his friends. His friends are drinking alcohol and from the dialogue they say its 8 am and have college in 30 minutess. This suggests that they aren't taking anything serious and makes the audience want to watch on to see what they are going to do once they get into college.

Sounds

The sound includes diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. There is music playing in the background which is fast paced and further reinforces that the character is moving fast on his skateboard. The non-diegetic sounds are the sounds of car horns and dialogue.

Focus Group Task

The focus group was a chance for me and my group partner to tell a group of about 8-10 people about our production. From this we were able to discuss and fix faults that may have been present in our presentation of our production. The focus group was effective as we members of our focus group were able to recognize mistakes that we never would've come across. Our idea was praised by many but also was criticised quite a bit. Some of the quotes that we received include

• What is different between your programme and Top Boy?
• Could you think of a much more effective beginning such as beginning it in a bar?
• Great idea, storyline is effective as it begins in-between a conversation.

• Good narrative. A lot going on so use flashbacks to show past moments.

All of this was effective as it moved us towards working harder on making our narrative the best possible. This includes taking the idea of beginning it in a bar and using flashbacks. Me and my partner thought heavily apon which steps we should take in our programme and we’ve come to a conclusion. Of course there are going to be minor adjustments during the filming process but our narrative and character list is going according to plan.

Target Audience:

Our production is aimed at young adults ranged from 17-25. This is because I believe that a large number will be most interested in this programme as it allows them to relate to it as well as people who've grown up with people with similar lives. The psychographic groups that our production is aimed at include the aspirers and the explorers. This is because the aspirers are known for being materialistic and care about their image and appearance. Also the explorers because they are known for exploring and finding new things such as brands and trends. The social class that we are aiming to attract are C2DE. This is because the content that we include in our production would not attract anyone of a high social status.

Our production ‘Reminiscence’ includes 2 male’s characters and a female character. The female character is the girlfriend of one of the males. This male works in WHSmith for a living and has recently caught up with one of his other friends who is the second main character. This other main character named ‘Nick’ used to be best friends with our other male character named ‘Donovan’. In high school they would work illegally for money and would do it on regular bases. Both wanted to pursue what they do and hopefully build their own empire. But as time got further they distant away because of Donovan’s girlfriend who didn't like what he was doing. The 2 minute opening will include short clips of Donovan agreeing to get back into the business in order to see more money than he is originally seeing. Our production will be broadcasted on BBC3. This is because this channel already broadcasts to a large audience of young adults and has built this up over the past few years.

This production is based around the genre of a thriller/ documentary. 

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October 2014 > Media Language >  Lighting
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