Opening Sequence Treatment

Title: Queen Khan

The title denotes that the story will be of a muslim female and possibly a boxing character because Khan is a muslim surname and the title Queen is only given to women. The boxing relation comes from the boxing names King Khan. The title is conventional for a British Social Realist film because it's short and named after a character.

It appeals to my target audience by having a name of the muslim character and relates to an asian celebrity that my target audience my idolise like Amir Khan.

Target Audience:

My target audience is a lower/working class audience of British Asian male and females from 16-24 years. The film will appeal to them because the majority of the characters are Asian and within that age gap.

The themes the film deals with will also appeal to them because they're things that're common with this target audience such as peer pressure, aspiration, identity, religious stress, racism and gendre issues to name a few.

The film is inspired by an already existing documentry so it should already have an audience that it can appeal to:http://www.channel4.com/programmes/ambreen-the-girl-boxer

Technology: I will use handheld camera work and a mini DV to realise my production in addition to using flip cameras because of their small size and picture quality they're easy to manouvere in tight spaces and are easy to use on existing publci locations.

The few limitations there are don't affect my production badly because the poor picture quality gives a more documentary cinematography I would like.

The fact it picks up all sound may be seen as negative but in my opening there's very little sound other than the characters heart beat and the music so it's not much of a problem and I see the fact it picks up sound as a posotive because it helps increase verisimilitude.

Representations:

The protagonist is Noor Khan and the antogonist and rival are Salim Khan(Noor's father)and Joey Simpson. We can apply Propps character types to my characters although some subvert to the typical stereotypical version of that character type or are a mix of several like Hashaem.

We challenge typical representations of Muslims because we feel there are representations of real life muslims that aren't explored enough or realisticly in cinema.

Narrative:
We see the character of Noor Khan during a ten count in a boxing match. The scene occurs in reverse order with flashbacks to past events in the characters life that are explored later in the film.

We include key characters in the opening to show  how the characters are at the end of the film at the beginning to get the audience emotionally invested in their characters development over the course of the film.

Conventions of British Social Realist films we are going to use are the use of diagetic sound to increase verisimilitude.

Conventions:

We will use conventions such as crime, aspiration and bad father figures because we believe that they're large aspects of society at the moment and allow this film to become something as model for people to use who want to improve their lives much like the main character does by experiecing and over coming things our audience may have.

Hybrid elements are it's a semi biographical film and sport film which mean that we try to reference real life events and have certain scenes which conform to their genres such as training montages.

Style & Iconography:

Longtakes and  jump cuts are used because they'll grab the audiences attention in addition to having the scene occur in reverse order which makes the audience pay more attention to better undestand what's occurring.

The use of flashbacks in my editing is going to benefit me because it makes my audience question what's going on and begin to wonder why the characters are how they are, this allows me to make my audience become more emotionally invested sooner by showing them what their futures will be like.

The music will play a large role in my opening because of the absence of sound. The music will have cues to show certain dramatic and emotional scenes to enhance the emotions I want it to give off. The music will also benefit visual signifiers by making them more obvious to the audience with subtle changes in pace or pitch.

Institution:
Film4 affected my production by making me take a more stylistic approach because they like to use new ways of film making so it made me alter my linear narrative to a non-linear narrative.