Target Audience for a crime film
I think that the target audience is male teenager to adult age because males usually enjoy watching movies that have crime, murder, explosions and violence. But woman more like to watch movies that have love stories and calmer movies than crime films. This is why I think males are more likely to watch a crime movie because there is a lot more action and a lot to keep there eyes busy on the screen. I don’t think young children should watch crime movies because they would get scared and all the violence would upset them, same as for most of the elderly. So I think that a teenage to adult male is perfect for a crime movie.

Carry out a detailed textual analysis of at least three films in the genre, discuss style and conventions. Also discuss the opening scene.

Seven
Seven is a crime film in which is based on two detectives having to work out a series of murders. They are challenged to work out who the murder is given the fact that he continues to kill while leaving hint messages at each murder scene as to who he may be. This all then leads to the bad guy (the murder) to then be the seventh sin to be killed at the end. The codes and conventions used in this film are typical for a crime film. There is a red herring where one of the victims is used as one of the culprits due to but his fact that the killer uses his fingerprints. The bad guy is control whereas the police think they are but actually aren’t. The hero has to pay a price at the end as the killer kills the wife. This shows that in this typical crime movie the bad guy wins. The opening scene consists of credits and a number of captured shots which indicate that film is a crime film. The whole setting of the film is created by the tense music within the opening sequence.
Phone booth
A story leading a man trapped in a phone booth with his life on the line between confronting his affair with another woman. He is trapped in a phone booth while being threatened by the antagonist who will shoot him if her try’s to escape from the booth. This is a typical crime film given the same snare that the bad guy wins in the end. The common weapon used within this film phone booth and the guns.

Hot fuzz
Hot fuzz is a crime comedy. It overloads a series of grotesque murders. Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumbles upon a series of suspicious accidents and events. The common weapons used in this film. The comedy scenes in the film are shown by the two actors ‘Simon peg’ and ‘nick frost’