Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Treatment of main task







Duration


Title: High Rise Fast Fall: 2mins


Audience


Our target audience mainly is targeted at males targeted around the age 18-25 mainly due to its story line, plot and location.


Resume


Our film is based around the idea of a man that had gone to prison money laundering and being gang affiliated. Coming out of prison to be met by a couple of his old friends (gang member and business associates of money laundering but fortunately he never got caught and Biggy the main character took the blame). He is dropped at his house where he spends the day trying get back to his life again to find his girlfriend currently not in the house. During the night the house is broken into and 3 masked men run into the bedroom. The man try’s to fight them but ends up being shot and becomes helpless as the men try to look for Biggie's money. The story moves on 2 days at which point the man wakes up in hospital and realizes his fiancée is gone he gets up and rushes out the hospital. To then receive a phone call from an unknown man who tells him he has his fiancée and laughs.


Props


Bag




· Letter (Note from Biggies girlfriend) this prop because handy because this gave us a chance to add a voice over the scene when Biggie finds the letter.




· Grey or black jogging track suit this prop we used because of modern stereotypes of people in hoodies are usually up to no good.




· Car (FIAT GRANDE PUNTO SOUND). We used this car because it was the only car available and we didn't have no other vehicles available but we are the only group who most likely thought of a prop such as a car so overall it was a good idea.




· Suits we used this clothing because most of our research ideas about 'Gangster Movies' and the props (the clothing) they seem to mainly use suits the idea of smart dressing not only promote intelligence but also respect .










Suggested elements


Filmed strange ways prison unfortunately we wasn't allowed to film in the prison of get them to open the door of our establishing shot due to the short notice so we had to work around it, so Fidel walked outside the prison toward the car were Clive and Dominic were stading


· A house this seemed like a typical location and place an ex-convict would go to after he's been released from prison we used Fidel house since it's usually empty this gave us an advantaged from recording and filming whenever time or day.


· Typical street


Women a key element within the film this element was thrown away since we couldn't find any willing actresses we found a way around it by make a letter from Fidel's gilfriend in the movie saying 'I have gone to my sisters'


Costumes suits and track suits image is important in our production because we wanted to achieve an effect of looking like gangsters I thought using the using the suits worked quite effectively most movies what contains gangsters wear suits. 'American Gangster' and the iconic movie 'Godfather' both use suits clothes are an important factor in gang culture and in life in general the better you are dressed you're assumed to be better off financially.


Recording days


The number of days it will take to film is roughly around 6 or 7 depending on when we can meet and editing we will estimate will take about 2 to 3 days. It took two days to film however many shots had to be retaken or removed thorugh editing using the program 'Final Cut Pro' on the Apple Mac's
















Friday, 4 March 2011

Research for ideas on genres for our film



Gone in 60 Seconds (2001)


The movie is a thriller, action, crime but it’s mainly a thriller the beginning for this movie immediately know that is focused on cars because the opening title scenes are built around cars through the image of car parts and cars also we know it’s a thriller because their a stopwatch during the opening credits this means their a rush of time, feel of rush in some cases. The main character ‘Randall "Memphis" Raines’ has to return home to help his younger brother out ‘Kip’ due to him failing a job of car stealing that Raymond Calitri offered to his younger brother. This is a typical synopsis of a thriller genre it usually involves a hero/heroin (Randall "Memphis" Raines) a victim (Kip) and a villain (Raymond Calitri).



The dark natural lighting at the first few minutes when Kip and his crew are robbing the Porsche from the car dealers give the movie a thriller feel the high speed chase gives it a introduction to what the movie is about which is stealing cars. When they stop the car at their lair there is a sense of panic because police are after the car thieves, police are a common factor of thriller genre movies.



Our first idea of genre for our movie was a comedy however we realised it's hard to achieve a comedy due to what type of comedy the audience finds funny the research we done our research on the movie 'Friday'.



Friday(1995)



The movie focuses on a Friday of two friends Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker) the movie in set in LA (Los Angeles). Craig has been fired from his job, due to him being accused of stealing cardboxes from UPS however Craig says he's innocent. As the day goes on people from his neighbourhood pass through the movie these characters are harmless but have weird personalities.


As the movie goes on we find out that Smokey owes a Drug Dealer money he's ordered by the Drug Dealer to pay him $200 dollars by 10:00 pm on the same day. From this the two main characters embark on crazy situation and methods in order to pay the money back.




Another movie we used to get and ideas on thriller based movie was 'Body of Lies'




Body of Lies (2008)



The plot is about an CIA officer in Iraq Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) trying to track a terrorist down called Al-Saleem. He finds a member of the terrorist organisation who is willing to talk and give Roger information if he's able to get asylum in America. However the CIA officer's boss strongly rejects to this, Roger offers him shelter the terrorist. Nizar(the terrorist who's willing to talk is used as a pawn in order to draw out the rest of the terorists.



This movie is good because of the plot, casting and special effects but it didn't relate to our film due to location and budget.