Dead Mans Shoes Notes

Who's the audience?
How do the production practices appeal to this audience?

Dead Mans Shoes
Budget: £723,00
Opening.
Casual acoustic lighthearted music, whole song.
relates to audience and laus you into a false sense of security as further on it becomes apparent that this is a complete contradiction of what the genre of the film actually is.

It then flicks between videos of people as children leaving unanswered questions and enigma codes for the audience but helps them relate to the story at the same time.
Point of view shot- two (unknown) characters walking down a long road.
the first bit of spoken text opens, "God will forgive them" this also work's on the build up to a climax of the storyline.

Followed with more memories and flashbacks of two men walking round a house this is a denotation of something that will be connoted further on into the film.

The next scene is the first time it becomes apparent that the film is of a different genre than what is first thought. We meet Herby a drug dealer and the scene turns violent when the man at the start is shot arguing with him, even thought the genre takes an unexpected turn at this point it has already attracted your attention and encourages you to want to know more this device is not a mistake and has been done on purpose to make a wider bulls eye and get a larger audience.

Adult audience- violence and sexual references. Later, thriller. Certificate 18 Working class men

Next it becomes apparent with the use of flashbacks that one of the men (shown at the start) seems to be simple and not as intelligent as the other, it also shows when they knew Herby and could explain why one of the men might feel the need to be violent towards him.

The special effect and editing used throughout are simple, there's an unsteady camera used throughout making the film seem more real. The actors seem very chilled out and appear to improvise alot this is a flexible way of working that gives a more laid back style to the film.

Setting- typical England, natural room lighting, reduce costs.