Task 2 script

Four Lions

1.) Purpose- The purpose of the product is to entertain the audience and make a profit. The purpose of Four Lions could also be seen to be informing the audience about terrorism in a way.

2.) Genre- The genre of Four Lions is Comedy / Crime / Drama.

3.) Form- The form of this is a feature film, the run time of Four lions is 97 minutes. The film is not advertised to a mass audience instead it is advertised and distributed to a 'niche' audience.

4.)Style- The style of the film is social realist because the way it has been made creates verisimilitude in the eyes of the audience. This is done through the locations used in the film, they are various locations in Sheffield and London with a brief part in Pakistan these locations are used to reinforce the social realist aspect of the film and create verisimilitude for the audience.It is also done through the props, one prop used is the video camera used by one of the characters, the cameras viewpoint is shown a lot throughout the film for example in a scene it is used to denote the facial expressions of a specific character (1:00 to 1:03) to make it feel more homemade which connotes  terrorism.   

5.)Content-The narrative of the film is that a group of British Muslims who aspire to be terrorists. In terms of Todorov's narrative structure the films starts with equilibrium of the men planning to be terrorists, the disruption is the fact that the men believe that what they plan to do is right. The new equilibrium is brought about after the group of men end up blowing themselves up at the end of the film.

Camera work - in one clip from the film it shows an example of a shot reverse shot when it shows two of the characters talking to each other and it jumps between shots of their faces and then back to the wide shot of the back of one of the characters and and he front of the other character.

In another clip a POV shot is used the point of view is from the police officers rifle scope

6.)Meaning-This film talks a lot about terrorism since the main characters are terrorists, but it also talks about the friendship and comradery between the characters. An editing technique used in the film is a shot reverse shot which is used a lot in conversations to make it seem more natural by cutting between shots of the people talking and a wide shot of both the people talking. An example of this from the film is the scene where two of the characters are talking about buying liquid peroxide and a shot reverse shot is used during the conversation(0:46 - 0:55) . Another editing technique is a Match-on-action shot in the clip where the police marksman are arguing over which runner is the target. The snipers that are on the roof is the movement within the shot and it is carried over several camera shots until they are aiming at the runners and looking for their target.

7.) Production process- The production process of four lions include things like the locations used, one of these locations is Sheffield this location was decided in pre-production by location scouts.
The costumes which are for the most part normal clothes such as hoodies and jeans some of the characters also wear a head scarf. The costumes are decided in pre-production. The lighting used in the film is natural light and there are no colour filters used in the film. The use of colour filters is   also decided in pre-production.