Development on ideas

After discussion in class, we progressed further on our ideas for our media project. We delved further into traditional crime and gangster conventions, and tried to base our film ideas upon a particular criminal activity that could be highlighted in the trailer. We decided that we should have one main boss with two gangster 'sidekicks', followed by focusing upon the following crimes:

• Armed robbery
  
• Importing prohibited weapons


• Handling stolen goods


• Witness intimidation
  
• Threat to kill
  

We focused on these ideas, even considering shots we could use within the trailer from them. These included:

1. The trailer concluding with the three main characters walking away from a bank, holding bags of money (therefore having just committed robbery) we thought techno music would be suitable for the trailer, which would begin to fade alongside this shot. We would be edited in slow motion in order to add tension and shock to the audience



2. In relation to importing weapons, we thought we could show a aerial shot of a row of weapons e.g. fake guns, whilst the camera panned along them, whilst a hand is seen displaying them out in a row quickly. We could fast-pace this shot in order to add a rushed atmosphere that is seen in teaser trailers.


3. In relation to witness intimidation/threats to kill, we thought we could tie a 'policeman' to a chair (which one of us may dress up as, with our face not shown but the typical white shirt/police badge highlighted. We have already looked into buying a fake police badge from the toy store 'Dominoes' and possibly a police hat

From these starting ideas, we felt it would be ideal to focus upon a plot of a crime and gangster film first of all. From this, the following features our initial ideas upon this:

• START: shows the Boss' as important/talking/committing various crimes
  
• MIDDLE: A range of criminal activities will be committed. The group discuss wanting more money, so they feel they need to commit a large crime. From this, they kidnap a police officer (as inspired from Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs' police scene) who would be integrated and punished until they released the needed information. This information would be of a high millionaire fraudster, to who has deviant inside corrupt police officers helping contribute to his acts against the law. The policeman being questioned would be avoidance and a 'good guy', but due to violence would in finale give information. This policeman would then secretly bring the 'gang' along to a party hosted by the fraudsters
  
• END: the trio and police officer would arrive at the party, and fit in by drinking and dressing formally. However, the two side-kicks would escape upstairs inside the fraudsters house, and therefore look for information/a safe, etc... to steal money from the fraudsters. However, the police officer deceives the boss' and informs the corrupt police upon their acts. Therefore, the police arrive to take them down. The Boss is still downstairs, however, and escapes in time, whilst the sidekicks are taken away in a dramatic ending. The Boss may then be shown to carry on their criminal deeds, and this concludes the film