To try and ensure that our film met the expectations of our target audience I showed the filmed to a large number of people and asked them to write down their feelings about the film;
We, as a group, understood fully that the credits could have been made more exuberant, however we decided to keep them very minimalistic to represent the nature of the film, and kept it dark to show the nature of thug life, the coldness of the main character when fighting and not afraid to be cold blooded. Lock, Stock had a similar opening when the film opened up, so we followed this convention.
We worked hard in trying to use different camera shots to follow many films in the genre. We used a tracking shot, which is used in Lock, Stock in the mini chase, which can be viewed above. We panned across setting when at the pub, which is similar to This is England. We tried to track the movements of the character in many ways, i.e filming only the feet, to give the audience a good look of who the main character is and how he may be watched upon as he is a very popular man within the film.
We did use the pub scene to try and convey the pace of his life to the audience, which is why we had it abit pacey and had many various angles. We also had the main character in the middle of the group of people to show his importance within the group. However, as the comments below proves, we did not want to spend too long within the pub scene because the audience's attention may sway.
The monologue was used as many films in the genre, such as Trainspotting and Rock 'n' Rolla, have a monologue to try and draw viewers into the film. We felt that without a monologue, the audience wouldn't have a good enough idea of what was going on, and we felt that it was powerful enough to show them the violence of the main character, linking back to his thug-life. However, some feedback below shows the monologue may not have been to the highest of quality which can be adressed.
