Jas's Carlito's Way Research



Carlito's Way is a 1993 gangster film based on the novels Carlito's Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film adaptation was scripted by David Koepp and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars Al Pacino.

The target audience once again would be males aged 18- 30 as this is a gangster genre film, which contains violence and strong langusge. The film would most likely be broadcasted on Film $ and other channles such as sky movies or TCM, which is another films broadcasting channel. The reason i thibk this is because films such as the usual suspects has been broadcasted on these channels. It would be likely that the time for the film to be shown would be after 9 pm.

The special features that this scene uses is no dialogue for around 30 seconds as it is full on action. Additionally the director uses cleaver cinematography as he uses refelection in this scene, refelection is used on the guys glasses. This is a grat technique that can be used in our production. The clip has fast pace cuts and the sound is parallel also non diegetic and diegetic sound is used, this is to create the atmosphere full with suspense. The typical cnventions used are the leather coat worn by Al Pacino, also the setting is conventional as it is a bar. This is where most deals take place also a place of relaxation.