Media Essay

Im going to compare how Shane Meadow's 'This is England' and Edger Wrights 'Hot Fuzz' target a British audience. The directors for Hot Fuzz and This is England are both British and have used their own experences in their films. Hot Fuzz is a british film owned by Working Title which is a pert of a group of companies. Working Tiltle is owned by Universal and that is owned by Vivendi, which are considered to be a main stream company and has abroad apple however This is England is also a British film but is produced by a company called Warp Film. This company is indepentent. Which means they are self govened and have to rase heir own funding for the film because they are not owned by a bigger company unlike Working Tiltle.

The director both used their own experences in there life and put them in the film. Edger Wright used his own judgment based on personality and his children dreams. Edger Wright made the genra a spoot actor crime. The didn't want to do another horro because it wouldn't be as good compared to Shawn of the Dead because it was one of the best funny horros of all time. He made the film as himself as the target audience however some people would say that this is a very dangerous idea but is has worked for him. Wright picked on Bad Boys 2 and Point Break because it is easy whatching unlike some films. Bad Boys 2 is action packed with lots of humour in aswell this is called homoerotic, he gets the idea from Bad Boys 2 for his film Hot Fuzz. Wright also uses this methods called intertextualility, this means that he is using text from other text. Shane Meadows started his career in short films until the 90s he started proper films. But he did go back a step when he made a film called Dead Man's Shoes. Meadows also used his own experences in his life into his films like Egder Wright. When Meadows made This is England he wanted it to be a 15 , because his target audience  was for teenages but was made an 18. However some concils are over turning the film This is England as an 18 and changing it to a 15. Meadows makes the film a social realism film. The thing that makes it so real is that thing that happen in This is England happen all around the country. Wrights Hot Fuzz has alot has alot of well known actors such as Simon  Pegg and Nick Frost, which have done alot of things together. However Meadows This is England there is mostly non known actors that are not in Hollywood. For example  Stephen Graham, Perry Benson, Andrew Ellis and Thomas Turgoose. But Thomas Turgoose has a little story behind him. It was his first film role every and in the audition they took a liking to him stright the way.

The stock actors in Hot Fuzz are Jim Broard, Bill Nighty, Simon Pegg and Nick Forst. In This is England there are four stock actors Vicky McClare, Stephen  Graham, Jo hartley and Andrew Shion. The reason why Shane Meadows didn't want Hollywood actors was because it would seem more realistic but also it wasn't a high budget film. The stereotype in Hot Fuzz is that alot of police offices will do anything to look good and that they dont do anything but go in the pub also how the countryside is ment to be nice and carm.
In This is England the stereotype is that they are all skin heads which stereotyipicly means that they are hard and nonemotionable but one of them says that he 'feels bad now' when they were bullying Shane. The location Where Hot Fuzz is based is London and Shanford Glostershire which however is't a real place but they made it for the film. In This is England the film was based in Nottinhamshire but was filmed iin Gyrimbi. The camera work and editing in Hot Fuzz has alot of single shot and single close up for the audience to catch the effect of the film. But in This is England the camera work has alot of amachor shots and wiht the editing looks like the film was made in the 90s but was made in 2006. Shane Meadows did this to catch the effect of the film and make it look older unlike Edger Wright in Hot Fuzz whereas he didn't.

Both of the films Hot Fuzz by Edger Wright and This is England by Shane Meadows both target a british audience. Hot Fuzz relates to the British audience by using lots of British actors, British director and based in British. The way that This is England relates to a British audience is by it being basced and filmed in Britan. I think that they both target a British audience by both of the reling on the same age group and culture.