Task 2.6 (Single Sequence Analysis)

The genre that my group aims to develop is Sport Violence- in particular football hooliganism. The movie that gave us the the inspiration to do this is The Football Factory, here is the opening; watch until 8:20.





The first thing you notice is the music to accompany the opening credits, its electronic with a fast tempo, something that can reflect the mood and pace of the movie, on our film sequence we aim to reproduce this by using Garage Band on the computer and creating something to set up a fast tone with a slight retro feel, because the 7o's and 80's were the main hooligan activity years so a retro sound could relate to the former violence.

After the subtitles are finished, there is an introduction to the main protagonist Tommy Johnson, he is the typical football cockney criminal. he has the accent and the the clothes typical of a football hooligan i.e the Stone Island jumper, white trainers and he has a very laid back approach to life, in his opening voice-over he describes has life so far saying his love for "heavily cut drugs", "casual sex" and "lager."from the outset he his the traits of an antagonist, without the voice-over i think the audience would view him as an antagonist, what the voice-over does is to bond him with the audience so that they look on him favourably. This is very important for this genre that you can give the audience a feel of who is the protagonist. We had already had the idea in our group that we was also going to use a voiceover in a similar way to Tommy Johnson. However in terms of costume, as our film focuses on violence at grass roots we want to have some variance so when the trouble after the game occurs the next day we want the hooligans to be suited up.

As a film of violence in a working class area The Football Factory has a lot of bad language and swear words to stereotypically reflect how a football hooligan may speak, the bad language is apparent in the voiceover and in the dialogue amongst the fans on the way to the pub, also something that stereotypically would be a place where you would expect to find football hooligans, in our own film we regrettably will have to include some bad language to keep up with the conventions of the genre and also the protagonists will be filmed around a pub represented as a place where they spend time.

You will notice in The Football Factory that the initial action scenes and preparation for the fight occur in alleyways and small roads, this is a convention of the genre because the violence cannot happen in a place where the police (often seen as an agent of disruption in the genre) will not be able to interfere, as in a densely populated area the sheer number of fans will lead to suspicion, this also happens later on in the film with the end fight scene, and also other movies from this genre such as the fights in "Green Street" and "AwayDays." One problem we have encountered in the making of our film is that we do not have the amount of numbers of actors to recrete the large numbers of fans perfectly, however, again, our film is based on grassroots football so there are not as many fans to the firm size is smaller, however we feel we have the perfect setting; in a working class town of Dover and we have a short fight film in alleyways.

From a fight scene in this genre you would expect to see violence, gore and blood, when the Tommy Johnson and the other Chelsea fans reach the pub at Tottenham and the fight ensues, it is quite graphic with proper punches and blood, similar to the scene of Tommy being beaten up right at the beginning of the movie where he has visible head wounds with blood leaking from these wounds, we also wanted to include this generic convention so we therefore have two fight scenes, in the second of these we have a injury using blood, from a fake blood capsule.