Storyboard

 This is our new developed storyboard:

Treatment

The film will follow in a similar style to a Guy Ritchie film for example: ‘Lock Stock, Two Smoking Barrels (1998)’ and ‘Snatch (2000)’ for example, by including gangsters and being situated in the East End of London, with a dark feel to it. Our film opening lasts only 2 minutes, and  follows a modern day trend beginning with the ending of the story;  if we were to continue the story reversing back time to lead back up to this event, we would show how the plot came to fruition.

The film opens with a jet black car coming round a corner into camera ; the mise-en-scene is an industrial estate. Whilst the car drives down a single desolate road, the camera changes between shots providing different views of the car and the characters inside the car. During this point the credits will run and introduce the number actors playing the roles. A title sequence can be unimaginative and typical, so we wanted to create our own unique take on the introduction by introducing the characters of the crime/thriller in the form of tattoos on the body of each of the characters. For example, the shot will zoom in on the tattoo and will appear into focus with the actor’s name “Finbar Murray” (for example) written on the hand with patterns around the writing to reflect the uniqueness of our specific production style. Tattoos are icons that anchor the film as a thriller and create the dangerous gangland world.

 Once the car has come to a halt, the driver then gets out of the car with changing camera angles to support following him down the side of the car to the boot where he opens it and reveals a man inside taped up. More suspense will be built as a gun is pulled out. The camera then switches to the boss who has been introduced in the credits (sitting in the front passenger seat). The camera is pointed at him for a few seconds and then a loud gunshot goes off and the boss makes no kind of emotion as a result. The driver now enters back into the car and then the two backseat passengers get out of the car and lift the body from out of the boot and dump him on the ground. The camera then flicks to the front passenger who is still sitting there with an unchanging facial expression. This shows the hierarchy of the group: the leader in the passenger seat who doesn’t deal with the body. His right hand man is the driver and the two muscle men are there to do the dirty work.

During the entire opening a voice-over will be running throughout the opening explaining how the kidnapped man had ended up how he had, which gives the audience an insight into understanding the plot more clearly. As the film is set in East London the voice-over narration needs to be a stereotypical ‘East End cockney’ accent rather than a ‘Middle Class Surrey’ accent to help work alongside basis of our film.

Three Inspirational Thrillers

We have been researching across a number of thriller films and I believe we have found our three main inspirations: Snatch (2000), Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Reservoir Dogs (1992). Both Snatch and Lock Stock are directed by Guy Ritchie who is our main inspiration for our film, we hope build our thriller in the style of Guy Ritchie's.

Snatch (2000) is the follow up from 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', the film shares themes, ideas and motifs with Guy Ritchie's first film, 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features many of the same actors; the story follows a similar plot. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless gangster known as Brick Top.The film (similar to Lock Stock) begins by showing the situation near the end of the film but goes back over how the main central characters had drifted to the situation they were in.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is about Four Jack-the-lads who find themselves heavily in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our the good guys decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. The film ends on cliffhanger which gives two ideas to how the story might have finished.

 Reservoir Dogs (1992) is directed by Quentin Tarantino and  Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop. We have taken inspiration from the opening to this film.

Analysing Zen

 

• The line of guns shows action

 

•  The eye suggest mystery, once again relating to the genre of a crime/thriller.

     

•   The sliding blocks provide the colours of the Italian Flag 

•        The shots include areas of Rome which makes it clear to the audience where the thriller is located

Codes and conventions of the Thriller genre

How I Made My Interactive Poster

I taught myself how to make an interactive poster using Glogster in order to explain what I had learned about using magazine codes and conventions.

Click here to view my Glog

Equipment for our Filming

Nikon DSLR Camera-
I fortunately owne a camera which has the function to the film HD quality movies, so therefore this is the only technical equipment we will need to use in our filming. I find it is a real benefit because it is lightweight, easily manouverable and it can all be easily viewed straight after I have recorded.

Tripod- I also fortunately have a tripod, I feel this is an essential piece of equipment providing balance with the camera and it is a very stable way to capture footage. It will be very useful if we are to use panning and steady shots.

Secret Claremont

We began with an exercise to practise are skills on

photoshop and to make sure we were up for the  task. We started by going around the school and taking shots of 'Claremont' from there I chose my favourite photo's and manipulated them on Claremont to make the photographs

seem more interesting.