Research
Target audience
Car films have been a very popular product for a long time, appealing to a wide ranged audience. The earliest car film dates back to 1929 to a film called ‘speedway’. This was a silent movie about a racing driver who clashes with his father at the Indianapolis speedway.
These types of early films led onto more successful movie such as Bullitt, the vanishing point, and the Italian job. Many of the older films were strictly orientated around legal racing whereas nowadays most car films are known for illegal street racing, drugs and violence.
For example, grand prix from 1966, was set on a grand prix race circuit, but films such as ‘the fast and furious’ revolve around illegal street racing, violence and involve things such as romantic interests between characters and disputes between characters. Car films usually have women characters which attract a wider female audience but generally appeals more to a male audience. The way the female characters are dressed is debated as being degrading towards women but it is suitable for the parts they play in the movies.
The Classic car movies like Bullitt and Vanishing point all influenced the movies of the modern era. One of the most recent racing films to hit our screens is ‘Death race’. This movie shows all aspects of previous car movies like, racing, drug use, violence and women. ‘Duel’ directed by Steven Spielberg, is famous for its use of creating a character from a vehicle, as we do not see the identity of its driver. This creates a dark, menacing, mysterious character. This idea will be used in our teaser trailer as we will not show the drivers of the vehicles.
This idea has been used in other movies, notably Disney films like, ‘Herbie’ and ‘Cars’ whose characters are all cars.
Car films are targeted at both female and male audiences, but mainly aimed at males due to the masculine activity of car racing. They also aim the films at female by having female characters dressed in attractive attire. For example, one magazine described the female characters in the ‘fast and furious’ as ‘loose women, tight jeans’, this adds to the fact that some people think the way these women are dressed is degrading towards women. The age group that car movies are generally aimed at is 15 – 35 year old males and a smaller range of female viewers.
The cars that are shown in more modern movies are modified and performance enhanced to live up to the expectations of illegal street racing. The colours of the cars are usually bright and fluorescent to stand out in the films as the illegal races that are shown in the fast and furious franchise are set at night time. This is only the case in the first three films; the fourth film is more centred on disputes between the characters and drug movements rather than street racing.
Classic movies like ‘Bullitt’ and ‘Vanishing point’ are more revolved around law enforcers and catching criminals ‘Vanishing point’ involves an exploration beyond the social conventions associated with home, work and family.
A way of signifying the genres cinematic sensation of driving is an exuberant music track, usually rock n roll.
Reptoire of Elements
Action/Racing films are all a recently new genre and have only been around since the 90s. In the beginning when the films first came out the cars were modern for the time and many films from then onwards feature cars from the time period so it is easy identifiable when the film came out due to the type of cars that are used in the films. For example cars from ‘Fast and Furious 4’ are newer than the cars in the original ‘Fast and Furious.’ Other examples of these types of films are ‘Death Race’, ‘Redlined’ and ‘Streets of Legend.’ Some of these films are unhgeard of and don’t make it to the cinema screens. This is due to the low budget and new actors that haven’t been heard of. The films that have made it to the cinema screens are generally made and distributed by large companies with famous actors and high budgets.
These films have been generated by combining different genres and have developed over time from other films and combining different features and techniques to create this new genre. For example crime films from the 60s 70s and 80s include high speed chases and violence. For Stereotypical shots of a car chase.
The Mise en scène of these types of film set in urban areas with busy streets packed full of cars and people. The areas are packed full of business people and shops and stands selling things. The cars in these types of films are classical muscle cars with the villains in a dark car. This is stereotypical of car chases of this era and has been incorporated into modern day Action/Racing films. The hero of the film is in a high powered sporty muscle car which adds the heroism of the character. This also makes the audience want to be part of the film because the cars appeal to them.
The characters of these types of films are the heroes, which are usually undercover police or gangsters while the villains are usually criminals that are escaping the law for various reasons. The police are usually dressed in plain clothing, this relates to the audience by giving them the feeling that they are the officers because they are not in uniform.
These shots of the car speeding towards the camera then a shot of the back of the car speeding away are stereotypical of these types of chases. The camera also changes to shots of the interior of the car this is also used in a lot of other films including chase scenes and is incorporated into Action/Racing genre. These chase scenes are focused on when creating an Action/Racing film and is the core narrative basis of the film. The editing of these films has very quick editing of shots during high energy scenes. This is to create tension and excitement for the audience. This is common in many action/racing scenes, the editing is quick during high energy scence but slows down when the it becomes more relaxed.
The overall chase scenes of these types of film are usually very high energy and high speed with a lot of movement and different things happening in one shot. This is to keep the excitement and energy high to keep the interest of the audience.
Car films have been a very popular product for a long time, appealing to a wide ranged audience. The earliest car film dates back to 1929 to a film called ‘speedway’. This was a silent movie about a racing driver who clashes with his father at the Indianapolis speedway.
These types of early films led onto more successful movie such as Bullitt, the vanishing point, and the Italian job. Many of the older films were strictly orientated around legal racing whereas nowadays most car films are known for illegal street racing, drugs and violence.
For example, grand prix from 1966, was set on a grand prix race circuit, but films such as ‘the fast and furious’ revolve around illegal street racing, violence and involve things such as romantic interests between characters and disputes between characters. Car films usually have women characters which attract a wider female audience but generally appeals more to a male audience. The way the female characters are dressed is debated as being degrading towards women but it is suitable for the parts they play in the movies.
The Classic car movies like Bullitt and Vanishing point all influenced the movies of the modern era. One of the most recent racing films to hit our screens is ‘Death race’. This movie shows all aspects of previous car movies like, racing, drug use, violence and women. ‘Duel’ directed by Steven Spielberg, is famous for its use of creating a character from a vehicle, as we do not see the identity of its driver. This creates a dark, menacing, mysterious character. This idea will be used in our teaser trailer as we will not show the drivers of the vehicles.
This idea has been used in other movies, notably Disney films like, ‘Herbie’ and ‘Cars’ whose characters are all cars.
Car films are targeted at both female and male audiences, but mainly aimed at males due to the masculine activity of car racing. They also aim the films at female by having female characters dressed in attractive attire. For example, one magazine described the female characters in the ‘fast and furious’ as ‘loose women, tight jeans’, this adds to the fact that some people think the way these women are dressed is degrading towards women. The age group that car movies are generally aimed at is 15 – 35 year old males and a smaller range of female viewers.
The cars that are shown in more modern movies are modified and performance enhanced to live up to the expectations of illegal street racing. The colours of the cars are usually bright and fluorescent to stand out in the films as the illegal races that are shown in the fast and furious franchise are set at night time. This is only the case in the first three films; the fourth film is more centred on disputes between the characters and drug movements rather than street racing.
Classic movies like ‘Bullitt’ and ‘Vanishing point’ are more revolved around law enforcers and catching criminals ‘Vanishing point’ involves an exploration beyond the social conventions associated with home, work and family.
A way of signifying the genres cinematic sensation of driving is an exuberant music track, usually rock n roll.
Reptoire of Elements
Action/Racing films are all a recently new genre and have only been around since the 90s. In the beginning when the films first came out the cars were modern for the time and many films from then onwards feature cars from the time period so it is easy identifiable when the film came out due to the type of cars that are used in the films. For example cars from ‘Fast and Furious 4’ are newer than the cars in the original ‘Fast and Furious.’ Other examples of these types of films are ‘Death Race’, ‘Redlined’ and ‘Streets of Legend.’ Some of these films are unhgeard of and don’t make it to the cinema screens. This is due to the low budget and new actors that haven’t been heard of. The films that have made it to the cinema screens are generally made and distributed by large companies with famous actors and high budgets.
These films have been generated by combining different genres and have developed over time from other films and combining different features and techniques to create this new genre. For example crime films from the 60s 70s and 80s include high speed chases and violence. For Stereotypical shots of a car chase.
The Mise en scène of these types of film set in urban areas with busy streets packed full of cars and people. The areas are packed full of business people and shops and stands selling things. The cars in these types of films are classical muscle cars with the villains in a dark car. This is stereotypical of car chases of this era and has been incorporated into modern day Action/Racing films. The hero of the film is in a high powered sporty muscle car which adds the heroism of the character. This also makes the audience want to be part of the film because the cars appeal to them.
The characters of these types of films are the heroes, which are usually undercover police or gangsters while the villains are usually criminals that are escaping the law for various reasons. The police are usually dressed in plain clothing, this relates to the audience by giving them the feeling that they are the officers because they are not in uniform.
These shots of the car speeding towards the camera then a shot of the back of the car speeding away are stereotypical of these types of chases. The camera also changes to shots of the interior of the car this is also used in a lot of other films including chase scenes and is incorporated into Action/Racing genre. These chase scenes are focused on when creating an Action/Racing film and is the core narrative basis of the film. The editing of these films has very quick editing of shots during high energy scenes. This is to create tension and excitement for the audience. This is common in many action/racing scenes, the editing is quick during high energy scence but slows down when the it becomes more relaxed.
The overall chase scenes of these types of film are usually very high energy and high speed with a lot of movement and different things happening in one shot. This is to keep the excitement and energy high to keep the interest of the audience.
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