Encoding Our Text

For our film opening sequence we have thought of a few ways of which we will encode signifiers to help the audience identify which genre of film they are watching.
Our film is a British Crime film, and is heavily involved with gang scenarios and crime. By having this genre we speak out to quite a wide audience and this genre is quite easily noticed, but sometimes could be mistaken for a thriller. In order to make sure our audience wouldn't confuse this, we will include certain signifiers. One of these being the fonts used, for example 'West 10 LDN' uses graffitti fonts and urban backgrounds which to an audience will immediately let them know what type of film they are about to watch, it also gives the viewer an insight to the location of the film with estate blocks in the background and the actual text 'West 10 LDN' is another way in writing the postcode of an area. 


A few signifiers we will use in our opening sequence are; grime music so the audience can relate and recognise that our film has a street/grimey theme to it. The locations will play a big part in signifying the feel of the film- we will use underground tunnels with graffiti & shots of estate blocks so the audience know instantly that this is not some luxurious upper class film and that it tackles the issues that stand with youths today with stabbings & shootings in the deprived areas of London.