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Storyboards

 This is the first of our storyboards which is the first 20 seconds of our film, the drawings in this are very crude but we were not going for detail in the pictures, they are only to give the idea of whats going on, they are not worked down to exactly what the shots are going to be like but our film will look very similar to this.



Character Profiles

Age 24

Bio: Jacob is a hardworking individual who will always succeed in what he is doing and get what he wants. Jacob hasn’t realised yet in his adult life that crime does not pay, and will find out soon enough. Jacob is a top get away driver who has serviced the top criminals and has been very successful in his line of criminal work but this will all change after the next job.

Appearance: Jacob is always looking smart and professional wearing a suit and always well shaven.


Personality: Cool, calm and collected, but serious when it comes to business.

Age 32

Bio: The “Don” is a business man. He likes little involvement with his illegal activities; he prefers to play the “supervisor” role as it keeps his hands clean. He is a well organised man who always looks the part by wearing smart and expensive shirts and suits.

The Don is a newly married man however he refuses to wear a wedding ring as he doesn’t want the criminals that he works with to know that he is a married man as this is his weakness and being married has caused him to change his perspective of life hence the “one last job” that will be featured in the film.

Appearance: Clean shaven and serious looking male, always sharp dressed with expensive designer shirts and suits.

Personality: nobody that works with him knows Dons true character. He is a mysterious but serious character that likes to get jobs done quickly and move onto the next one.




Age 21

Bio: Chris is the youngest of all the members, he's the baby of the group but despite this is has a big mouth and he isn't afraid to say what is on his mind and he also isn't afraid to pull the trigger. Chris became who he is today through his uncle, Ben Clayton who was a famous
gunman from the 80's. Chris adored his uncle and whilst on a trip away when he was 12 witnessed his1 first murder and because anxious to start
his own body count and follow in his uncles footsteps.

Appearance: Although Chris has money and a large selection of expensive and designer suits, he is very unorganised and often is late to appointments because of this he is often wearing odd suit jackets with trousers and non matching shoes.

Personality: Chris talks a lot when he is tense and nervous, this often leads to people getting annoyed with him as other members from the crew like to be in quiet and think about what's going to happen next. He is a
kind person but also a gun wielding killer.

Age 25

Bio: Matthew is the safe cracker, without him there is no point in the

whole operation, even though all of the members of the crew play a large part each, all of the members rely on Matthew to be able to open the safe quickly so they can make a get away before the police arrive. He fools people into thinking that he isn't smart though his slow speech and slurred words although this was only caused by his armature boxing career in his teens when he because the 4th best teenager in the country. Matthew gave up the boxing and turned to a life of crime when he broke his arm in a motorbike accident and realised that he could use his fighting skills to earn respect so he joined a gang.

Appearance: Mathew is similar to the other characters, he wears smart sophisticated clothes everywhere he goes to make sure people know he means business.

Personality: Matthew is down to earth and realises the effect that his actions have on people however he refuses to give up the life of crime as he knows there is no other way to make the amount of money that he does legitimately. 

Movie script

Setting: Large room that is well lit with a desk, with a laptop on it.

DON is in his hideout alone on his mobile phone, he is calling up people that he knows through previous “jobs” to try and sort out a meet point to organise a bank robbery.

DON

(Low angle shot from the floor. See the DON walk past the camera and into a room and sit down where there will be a match on action)

Don picks up a pile of paper which is CV type document with bank robber’s skills, abilities and pictures on with a phone number at the bottom.

He picks up the phone and dials a telephone number. After this you hear the sound of a phone ringing.

Each time they talk it cuts to a different person Talking.

JACOB GREEN

“Hello”

DON

(Pause…) I have a job for you

CHRIS JENNINGS

“Where do I need to go?”

DON

“Go to

29 Union Street, West Plymouth

at 19 hundred hours tomorrow.”

MATHEW BENTON

“Who do I ask for?”

DON

“Ask for Ronnie Vendetta” (Pause… Phone boop)

Cuts to sped up shot of the sun coming up to symbolise over night.

JACOB is making his way to the rendezvous to meet RONNIE VENDETTA (Driving)

Cuts to a shot of JACOB driving to Meet RONNIE, whilst JACOB is inside with RONNIE, the film shows CHRIS & MATHEW having a conversation outside.

CHRIS

Check out my new piece man.

MATHEW

That must have cost you a ton?

CHRIS

You should know by now man, i don’t pay for my guns.

MATHEW

If someone took my gun when I died I would be pissed.

CHRIS

I aim to please.

After JACOB has been inside meeting Ronnie, he walks out with and envelope. CHRIS & MATHEW are still waiting outside and talking

JACOB GREEN

Stop chit chattin’ ladies, let’s go.

Shot shows JACOB, CHRIS & MATHEW getting in the car and then speeding away.

 

This is our script that we are using for the film, it is not the longest film  so this is not the longest script, but this script includes lots of stage directions and all the dialogue which will be used in our footage/ film, We plan on putting names on PERSON A, B and C but for the moment they are known as that.

We have made this to tell the actors exactly what to say so they are not confused about whats going on, so we seem professional and were not making what were doing on the spot.

This script is quite detailed and productive which just shows that we know what were doing and the scenes that are to come.

Regulation Research

We have decided that our film is going to be a 15 certificate, this is because of the content that it includes and the amount of the content used in the whole idea of our film not just the first 2 minutes


I have got the next 9 paragraphs from the BBFC website for the age 15 rating guidelines because i wanted to get all the facts for my certificate right

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory

language or behaviour.

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not

promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily

accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example,

aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic

or sexualised.

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and

self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be

copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

There may be frequent use of strong language (for example,

‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be

acceptable if justified by the context.Aggressive or repeated

use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without

strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a

non-sexual or educational context.

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour,

but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable

unless justified by context.


Works whose primary purpose is

sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is

appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence

Discrimination

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction

of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to

be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also

unlikely to be acceptable.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence

but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and

have a strong contextual justification.


There are some things which have to be cut from every movie that the BBFC gets submitted, they will have to either reshoot this part of the film or the whole film.

• material which may promote

illegal activity

• material which is obscene or

otherwise illegal

• material created by means of the

commission of a criminal offence

• portrayals of children in a

sexualised or abusive context

• sexual violence or sexualised

violence which endorses or

eroticises the behaviour

• sadistic violence or torture which

invites the viewer to identify with

the perpetrator in a way which

raises a risk of harm

• graphic images of real injury,

violence or death presented in a

salacious or sensationalist manner

which risks harm by encouraging

callous or sadistic attitudes


From this research that i have done on regulations in film i have realised what i should do to keep our film in the right age certification, most films that are 15's contain violence and swearing, with sex and nudity. Our film will be based around violence robbery and crime.

Our film will be in the age 15 catagory because it has many of the features that 15 certificate films have such as:

• Swearing strong words such as fuck may be used frequently on occassion.
• Minor sex scenes will be included in the film.
• Violence will be included, with close ups of someone that has been shot. 

These are our initial ideas which our group thought of when we first started planning our film,

Very basic  ideas which may be put into the film.

We definitely planning on using the ideas about the different men (A B C D)

Many of the ideas in this picture we will use

Were not planning on using some of our ideas, such as balaclavas and the actual running into the bank with guns and doing the heist.

Having this discussion with our group has made it easier to pin point what we want to do and how to do it, when we make our film we will reefer back to this sheet to make sure we have the basic ideas of what we wanted to do.

Preliminary Film Task


FILM TEST 01 from Tim Langton on Vimeo.

This task was to test out different filming techniques which will be used in our actual film, the techniques include: Match on actions, Jump cuts, Shot reverse shots and not breaking the 180 degree rule.
I will use what I've learnt doing this task and apply it too the film that is going to be created by our group learnt the importance how long it takes to make a good film.

Reservoir Dogs Textual Analysis

This film starts with showing a black screen with gold writing showing the production company and the producer, the dialogue comes in with one of the characters talking about one of Madonna’s song like a virgin. The shot cuts to a pan around the table of all the main characters discussing this song, using the darkness of the back of their suits to mask the cuts in the shots. They are all sat in an all American diner with all the characters eating and drinking coffee and many of them smoking. All of them are engaged in the conversation apart from one who is reading an address book out loud to himself.

All of the characters are wearing suits apart from 2 who are wearing normal clothes, we instantly know who the characters to focus on are, they look professional and we know that they part of a group or gang who are planning on doing something together, so far we don’t know what that is, it could be anything. From the characters involved in the conversation we can guess that it is not on the up and up.

The scene that they are in is a diner which all the characters that are shown, it is a small place there are only a few other characters there who are ignored and not mentioned or shown much, these people are sitting by the back door of this diner in a corner so they would not be disturbed or over heard if they did talk about some sort of job they might talk about.

The start of this film is not like a classic heist film because they have not even mentioned the job or what is going on, for the first 2 minutes of the film. Someone who is watching this without knowing what it’s about would not know what these people are doing or why their doing it.


The sound effects in this scene are very overemphasized such as the sound of the coffee being poured, clinking of the mugs and knives on plates. These sounds may be heightened because Tarantino wanted to make it sure that it was clear the characters were in a quiet place where it would be easy to hear these sorts of sounds so it is believable to the viewer.


There is no music in this particular scene, this again may be to highlight that it is a quiet place and the conversation they are having could be heard throughout the coffee bar. In the whole scene it is all digetic sound and no non digetic. 

The mood of this scene suggests that they are getting brekfast before this group of men get ready to do something but we dont know what is could be. Suggested by the type of  people the characters seem to be it is probably something that isnt socially acceptable, the director wants us to read these people like a book and judge them accordingly.

Target audience

This poster is showing what audiences are attracted to Heist films and what brings them too watch these films, the sort of people that generally watch a heist film are guys who are in their 20s, also older people may be interested in these movies because of the complex story twists and story lines. The Socio-economic classification we have targeted in this film is a very broad spectrum, B C1 C2 D E, we chose this many because most people like heist films because of certain things about them.

The style of this film will attract the audience were looking for because of the certain characteristics such as  of a Heist film which define it and make it unique.

Story Synopsis from Tim Langton on Vimeo.

Codes and Conventions of the Genre

 Heist film is intricate film plot which is based around a big job or 'heist' which a group of criminals or people try to pull off stealing something, they were often called Caper movies if they have comic elements. Typically these movies have many plot twists to confuse and surprise the audience, the film generally focuses around the group of people preparing to steal something, them formulating the plan, how they will steal the thing, how they will escape and stay out of sight. There is often a nemesis or rival that will be trying to prevent what the criminals are doing, who will make various attempts to stop them or to try and steal what they are trying to steal.


The Archetypical Plot


The heist film will usually have a 3 act plot: The first act will usually be preparations fro the 'heist', gathering people that will help with the heist, learning about the location of the place there robbing, learning about the alarm system, what technology will be used and the escape of their heist, and setting up the plot twists for later on in the movie.


The Second act will be the actual heist, it will usually be successful with a few problems along the way.


The Third act will be unravelling the plot and the characters of the film may be turned against each other, or a character may have made arrangements with the police or another outsider to intercept the 'heist', normally in Heist films most of the characters become captured or killed.


All Star Crew of Criminals 


A team of experts in there own field who all group together for a job, usually in the film the speciality each of them gets used in the job making them essential.


These conventions are commonly used in Heist films.