Plan B's intentions were to show that teenagers who are seen as a nuisance and useless as vulnerable people who have no direction in their life as they have "nobody to show them love or put them in their right path" (Plan B). He wants to show the public the reasons why these teenagers behave the way they do. He wants people to 'feel something' whilst watching the film which is why he uses such graphic scenes such as filming in a crack den; the crack den used in the movie was and actual crack den as Drew wanted everything to look real and not staged(also he was on a low budget). He wants the audience to connect with the characters and feel what they're going through as for him it shows that they care and this is exactly the feeling he was trying to achieve.
When making the film ILL Manors Ben drew wanted to present how taking away opportunities for the youth will lead them to take part in drugs and violence as that is there only way out. Plan B gained a "clear sense" of what he wanted to promote and this was a clarification as to why the youth are seen as negative and this is down to the fact that society tends to alienate this group (by taking away opportunities). The photographer himself stated how Plan B himself wanted to provide two hours of "entertainment" as long as educating the youth.
2) What do we learn about the production process for Ill Manors?
The camera crew and the actors themselves faced a few problems as they were filming in Forest Gate where there a lot of people who think they "run the streets" meaning they came up to the crew and told them that they can't film there as they own the streets but eventually through retaliation and use of 'bigger gangsters' they were allowed to film in their selected location. As the production was low budget they didn't have much technical equipment such as back lighting to use in the dark etc. so they couldn't make the movie look very dramatic and do things like highlight certain features of the actors faces as they do in professional Hollywood films.
Plan B got his love for filming through having to help one of his friends in making a short film for the London Film Festival-he initially wrote a 20 page script but was told that it was way too long and they only had one night to shoot it and no money. So he cut the script to five pages and made it a music video featuring Ed Skrien who is one of the main characters in Ill manors. This is what started his love for filming and allowed him to make the film.
What can you tell about the possible target audience from this short documentary?
From Ed who is speaking in the documentary, we learn that the target audience is mainly the people who were not rioting, and the people who do not appreciate the presence of council housed children. This struck confusion to me firstly, as it thought the attempt to reinforce the stereotype actually overpowered the intention to subvert the stereotype. Similarly, as Plan B was once a council house child himself, the audience instantaneously assume that the target audience would be people like himself, which may have decreased the success rate that the film had. The main audience that Plan B aimed to target were the resigned and succeeder's, however, the audience had thought it was the opposite of struggler's and reformers. However, everyone agreed that the social class would be in the boundaries of ABC1.
The camera crew and the actors themselves faced a few problems as they were filming in Forest Gate where there a lot of people who think they "run the streets" meaning they came up to the crew and told them that they can't film there as they own the streets but eventually through retaliation and use of 'bigger gangsters' they were allowed to film in their selected location. As the production was low budget they didn't have much technical equipment such as back lighting to use in the dark etc. so they couldn't make the movie look very dramatic and do things like highlight certain features of the actors faces as they do in professional Hollywood films.
Plan B got his love for filming through having to help one of his friends in making a short film for the London Film Festival-he initially wrote a 20 page script but was told that it was way too long and they only had one night to shoot it and no money. So he cut the script to five pages and made it a music video featuring Ed Skrien who is one of the main characters in Ill manors. This is what started his love for filming and allowed him to make the film.
What can you tell about the possible target audience from this short documentary?
From Ed who is speaking in the documentary, we learn that the target audience is mainly the people who were not rioting, and the people who do not appreciate the presence of council housed children. This struck confusion to me firstly, as it thought the attempt to reinforce the stereotype actually overpowered the intention to subvert the stereotype. Similarly, as Plan B was once a council house child himself, the audience instantaneously assume that the target audience would be people like himself, which may have decreased the success rate that the film had. The main audience that Plan B aimed to target were the resigned and succeeder's, however, the audience had thought it was the opposite of struggler's and reformers. However, everyone agreed that the social class would be in the boundaries of ABC1.
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