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Hot Fuzz
Introduction/Plot:
From the beginning, Hot Fuzz subverts the audience's expectations. It begins not with a bang but a long shot of Pegg's character Sergeant Nicholas Angel slowly walking towards the camera. Then comes a montage about what a splendid constable he is. However his hard work and awards for the most arrests record did not have the best outcome or the one he presumed so. Nicholas Angel had to be relocated from the great city of London where crimes took place on every corner, to a quite community village in Sandford. What makes this story engaging from start to finish, even if it’s filled with every major action trope you can think of, is just how comically-oblivious the rest of the force is to the village’s secrets. Every gruesome death that happens, and every crime scene that is so clearly a cold-blooded murder, is simply written off as an accident by every cop, except for Nicholas Angle. It’s just as frustrating as it is funny, and makes for a satisfying finale when their suspicions begin to come true.
Target Audience
Codes of convention:
They have targeted this audience by conforming to the codes and conventions laid down.
One convention is getting characters to act and say things that their real life counterparts won't. Codes and convention are present in all films that belong to a genre. A code is either physical or visible and is therefore labelled to its genre. For example the code to an action film could include (Guns, cars, chases...) A technical code called hybrid genre (mixed action, comedy) is used in this film and to determine this, props such as police uniforms are used to pursue the telling of the film.
Purpose:
The structure is based on the dramatic change to Sergeant Nicholas's life and to fulfil the purpose it's broken down into parts of. It's explaining the mood setting throughout the film. And via this the purpose is achieved and our audience are engaged and attracted. As the goal is to entertain the viewers. The film follows police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), the very best on the force, who is relocated to a small and seemingly quaint village on the English countryside of Sandford.
The central goal to the film was to entertain the audience as the genre is comedy. However this is where mise-en-scene kicks in, a lot of props such as (police uniforms and firearms) and terminology is used and vivid camera movements such as (tracking/dolly) to capture movements of vehicles while the actors engage in conversations during shots play a great roll in this particular film. Hot Fuzz entertains their audience by constantly changing shots where as seen in the beginning, a collection of medium shots are taken in the format of, a second every while to inform the audience of the long journey Nicholas Angle must take from London to Sandford. The impression the film gave of was one of a kind. This is because you'd expect police officers to be professional and meet high standards in their work, however... this was not the case. As the Sanford police where a little more than corrupt. Committing murders, ignoring seriousness of crimes and not to mention eating ice cream and cake all day. As this film unravels itself were taught that the Inspector (high ranking officer) whom is defined as responsible for the county police in fact is aware of the goings' and orders them... There’s an amazing extended sequence during the third-act finale, after the secrets of the village have been revealed, in which a massive, sprawling gun fight between the police officers and the conspirators breaks out. For the majority of it, Pegg’s voice is obviously overdubbed to sound comically-gritty and intense. It’s how this movie gleefully embraces genre tropes that make this such a hilarious work of comedy and parody. This film also has a over voice over the top of it at the beginning, this is to give the audience the character's back story and further establish the genre.
Direction:
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film. Direct by Edgar Wright. and written by Simon Pegg. The director chose to write the story in a fictional setting where mysterious deaths and crimes occurred. I'm sure that's why it gained so much attention and popularity as its rated 4/5 and earned more than £80 million on the box office on a budget of £8 million in the making of the film. This is a fast paced film. This is suggested when
Lighting:
It became available on DVD so it was accessible in stores and supermarkets, but it was originally aired in cinema.
Target Audience
The target audience for this film are those who enjoy comedy with mixed genre of action. More specifically people of working class, middle age group. People who enjoy watching gory films without watching a fully blown horror, show interest in Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz has an age rating of 15 and above.
Codes of convention:
They have targeted this audience by conforming to the codes and conventions laid down.
One convention is getting characters to act and say things that their real life counterparts won't. Codes and convention are present in all films that belong to a genre. A code is either physical or visible and is therefore labelled to its genre. For example the code to an action film could include (Guns, cars, chases...) A technical code called hybrid genre (mixed action, comedy) is used in this film and to determine this, props such as police uniforms are used to pursue the telling of the film.
Purpose:
The structure is based on the dramatic change to Sergeant Nicholas's life and to fulfil the purpose it's broken down into parts of. It's explaining the mood setting throughout the film. And via this the purpose is achieved and our audience are engaged and attracted. As the goal is to entertain the viewers. The film follows police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), the very best on the force, who is relocated to a small and seemingly quaint village on the English countryside of Sandford.
Themes and tones/Mise-en-scene:
The central goal to the film was to entertain the audience as the genre is comedy. However this is where mise-en-scene kicks in, a lot of props such as (police uniforms and firearms) and terminology is used and vivid camera movements such as (tracking/dolly) to capture movements of vehicles while the actors engage in conversations during shots play a great roll in this particular film. Hot Fuzz entertains their audience by constantly changing shots where as seen in the beginning, a collection of medium shots are taken in the format of, a second every while to inform the audience of the long journey Nicholas Angle must take from London to Sandford. The impression the film gave of was one of a kind. This is because you'd expect police officers to be professional and meet high standards in their work, however... this was not the case. As the Sanford police where a little more than corrupt. Committing murders, ignoring seriousness of crimes and not to mention eating ice cream and cake all day. As this film unravels itself were taught that the Inspector (high ranking officer) whom is defined as responsible for the county police in fact is aware of the goings' and orders them... There’s an amazing extended sequence during the third-act finale, after the secrets of the village have been revealed, in which a massive, sprawling gun fight between the police officers and the conspirators breaks out. For the majority of it, Pegg’s voice is obviously overdubbed to sound comically-gritty and intense. It’s how this movie gleefully embraces genre tropes that make this such a hilarious work of comedy and parody. This film also has a over voice over the top of it at the beginning, this is to give the audience the character's back story and further establish the genre.
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film. Direct by Edgar Wright. and written by Simon Pegg. The director chose to write the story in a fictional setting where mysterious deaths and crimes occurred. I'm sure that's why it gained so much attention and popularity as its rated 4/5 and earned more than £80 million on the box office on a budget of £8 million in the making of the film. This is a fast paced film. This is suggested when
Lighting:
Natural lighting is used more than occasionally, almost in every scene except for those at night where street and housing lighting is used to give of effects of ethicise and shadows. Flashing lights are used as this film links to the police and spotlights are used to ethicise on a selected character.
Camerawork:
The audience are first stuck by the fast and hectic editing pace. In a simple exchange of dialogue they change shots about 10 times in 20 seconds and this keeps the audience engaged as they are trying to keep track of everything that's going on. A number of different close-ups are used throughout the film of the main character Nicholas Angel. One reason close-ups are used is to portray to the audience how Nicholas is feeling through facial expressions in the development of the scene. In the close-up below their showing the audience the determination and concentration in Nicholas's face, they do this in order to add comedy as his facial expression amuses the audience when the two detectives beside him laugh and tell him to (Piss of) This connotes to the audience that the director wants to incorporate both comedic moments as well as action and seriousness throughout the whole film.
Camerawork (carried on)
Birds eye view shots are used to show the power of locations throughout the film. Birds eye shot is a camera shot from above a building or object looking down on the subject of focus which makes large buildings / objects looks much smaller than they would be at ground level. This allows us to see more of the surroundings.
Platform for broadcast:
- Online streaming
- TV
- On demand
Online streaming: You can practically find this film anywhere on the web providing you're searching in the correct area. For example, you're able to view this film on the more bigger and known website like Netflix or EmpireOnline.
It became available on DVD so it was accessible in stores and supermarkets, but it was originally aired in cinema.
TV: Rarely but every now and then its aired on national television via BBC or Film 4.
This is a detailed and mainly well written analysis. You do need to do some proof reading for careless mistakes, as your writing is potentially very good. You don't follow all elements of the structure on the assignment brief, but you still touch on all the areas, which is particularly impressive given that this work was set before you started on the course. Vanessa
ReplyDeleteAlright Mrs I will proof read and fix any spelling mistakes.
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