The audience that is mostly drawn to war movies I would say is boys/ men as this is the sort of violence that would appeal more to men than to women. Also the target audience’s age would be kids in their teenage years and adults from their 30’s upwards would enjoy and like them.
The typical context of war movies is mostly captured solders escaping from prisoner of war camps, tales of courage in war, combat and there settings is mostly- land based for example ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. This movie does not only show the world war in a realistic way but also shows it from a German soldier’s point of view. Though in some cases also from a comic perspective example of this is Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ in which he plays the character of a Jewish barber who gets mistaken for Hitler. The typical music/ sound track are intense, or there is no music and just have the sound of the war. e.g. mortar rounds, gunfire. The typical story used in this genre features mostly famous wars like the world wars and Vietnam, although mostly nowadays they are often modern warfare, futuristic warfare or rescue missions gone wrong and lost from his platoon and fight his way to freedom.
The characters used are mostly soldiers on rescue missions, lost or just fighting in the war. So the story is about R.A.F and Navy fight and are shot down and lost, how they coped. Other characters that would be seen are politicians organising the war, normal people are seen in the effects of the war. In most World War 2 films, the German army and Hitler are featured.
The camera shots used in this include dramatic, close up, camera shake (to show explosions), long shots over the battlefield and medium shots of soldiers fighting. An example of this is the beach scene in saving Private Ryan, a long shot over the beach.
The language that would normally be used in war movies would be dramatic. The typical type of language used would be shouting at other solders over a battlefield, swearing from warfare and also more bonding conversation between the solders as they would be the only people with them for long periods of time. I also think that the language that is used connects with the target audience as it would normally add to the tension that would be building during the film and would be language that the target audience uses and would hear on day to day basis.
