Initial Ideas

FINAL TASK

Synopsis

Young goon Louis is heir to the Crime Kingdom, he is invited unexpectedly to the Crimelords mansion in good faith. when he arrives the boss is busy dealing with his wife and she storms out of the room. 

The boss at this point already frustrated with his wife, gives Louis a job which he unwillingly accepts. To kill the child of the detective who is shutting down his operation. 

The boss then instructs his right hand man to keep an eye on Louis as he is the heir to him and 

to make sure he carries out this task to show he has the metal to be a kingpin.  it cuts to a dark hospital room with Louis pointing a gun at the sleeping mother and her child. Your hear the gun the silenced gun shot and a spar of feathers as he has shot the pillow instead of the child.

This was the idea for my preliminary task but it was not used. I liked the idea a lot and so I decided to reuse it and it was chosen for our final idea.

CRIME LORD HOUSE DISCUSSION

LOUIS

Hey Bobby

BOBBY

Hey Louis how ya doin?

LOUIS

 I'm good, the boss in there?

BOBBY

 Yeah he'll see ya shortly.

*muffled argument*

CRIME LORD

 *Karen I’ve had it with your crap, now get outta’ my* face *points to the door* before I get you outta’ my face.

*Karen exits crying*

LOUIS

You called me boss?

CRIME LORD

 (distracted) what? Yeah, sorry you had to hear that Louis, come in, take a seat son *gestures to the chair*, take a seat. I called you cause I need a job coin’ *clasps hands*.

LOUIS
 Well I got a lot on my hands boss with bringing in the shipment and all’.

CRIME LORD

 Sorry Louis, I must ‘ave implied you’ve got a choice in the matter. I need this job done. 

LOUIS

 Boss…

CRIME LORD

Now you listen here Louis, I ain’t got time for your sob story!*Goes to point at Louis but through frustration slams hands on the desk and Louis sits up straight* There’s this guy out there, a detective,*sits back in his chair with one arm on the desk* he keeps shutting down our warehouses and stopping our weapons supply. As of yet he has no evidence that links these weapons with me but…

LOUIS

 So…*resting his head on one arm*

CRIME LORD

*Finger pointed at Louis* BUT, and it’s a big but so you better be listening Louis, he’s getting very close. SO what I need from you is to persuade him a little.*gestures with open palms and then clasps his hands again.*

LOUIS

 What do you want me to do then? *slumped back in his chair*

CRIME LORD

 *pushes photo across the desk, Louis diverts his attention to the photo* His wife’s recently had a kid she's still in hospital. Give ‘em a little present on my behalf; you know to welcome the kid to the world. 

LOUIS

 Have you tried talkin’? *lifts his head*

CRIME LORD

 Yeah we have but he’s persistent.  You know I wouldn’t be askin’ ya if there were any other way. He threatens the whole operation everything. You're freedom, my freedom, our freedom. *stands up* You're all like sons to me, *puts his arm around Louis* that makes us family and family comes first. 

LOUIS

 What do you want me to do when it’s done?

CRIME LORD

 Nothin’ the paper will speak for itself.

LOUIS Exits

CRIME LORD

 Bobby, get in here.

BOBBY

 Yeah, boss? 

CRIME LORD

 Keep an eye on young Louis aight? *hands on hips* I’m not sure he understands the responsibility he has to this family. 

*Louis black balaclava pulled down revealing his mouth, stands over the detectives wife whilst she sleeps with her child, gun in his right hand, a small pillow on his left. He pulls the balaclava over his mouth, he places the pillow over the gun facing the child and pulls the trigger.*

Evaluation

when we began we had many ideas linked with many different genres such as; sic-fi, romcom, film noir, crime drama, thriller etc. we scratched off sci-fi and romcom as a sic-fi would be hard to film and neither of us had the material for a romcom. We split up our other ideas among the group. My responsibility was Mafia/Film Noir, i believed this was right up my street with my knowledge of the time and having watched many Al Capone films the type of speech wasn't too hard as well as this I had finalized my idea before we were set on the task. The idea is based around 1930s gangsters but it is set modern day. I had strong feedback telling me that my story was believable and i had created suspense with my conclusion. however, it was a running theme that the content that i would need to include maybe hard to film and so on a realistic level it maybe difficult.

  

Nabil's idea was a bank heist planning scene where all the crew meet in a pub to discuss how they are going to rob the bank. The three characters are Ash, Bobby and Clive. Ash is a woman that has a regular body build with sharp facial features. "One bullet" Bobby has an over fat body build and is generally seen with a beer in his hand with a cigarette. Clive is Chinese and has a very short body build affected by dwarfism and carries a banana is his pocket with a hammer tied on his belt. Ash brings a brief case with blueprints of the bank and entry points. When opened, Clive leans over and so does Bobby. Bobby's chair breaks due to his weight and the people around look in laughter. There is 1 person in particular that was made obvious due to his historical laughter. In Bobby's poor temper, he charges at the person hysterically laughing and bounces him off his stomach through the pubs window. The rest of the pub cheerer on and then resume to their own business. We decided against Nabil's idea as it would be hard for us to cast the characters and some of the shots are unrealistic.

Kundai's idea was a  high profile celebrity being held hostage and being tied up whilst the terrorist talks on the phone to the negotiator whilst making threats to the hostage in order to convince the negotiator to increase his offer from £250,000 to £500,000. The negotiators reluctance to increase the price causes the terrorist to become paranoid and belligerent. The setting will preferably be a small room with dim lighting. props such as rope and a weapon would also be appropriate.The developing shot will show the hostage tied up whilst the terrorist paces up and down whilst furiously conversing over the phone with the negotiator. The camera shots will switch between the hostage situation and the negotiator and his team discussing what to do and debating whether or not to ambush the robber. The role of the terrorist will have to be played with a lot of emotion and anger in order to create the suspense the movie is intended to have and they also will have to constantly pose the threat of executing the hostage.There will also be a back and forth conversation between the hostage and the terrorist which consists of the hostage pleading for his life. The terrorist will then receive a call from his getaway driver prompting him to come as the police look as if they're going to ambush him and and so the terrorist uses the hostage as a human shield. We decided against Kundai's idea as this very similar to our preliminary task idea and again like with Nabil's idea we would find it very difficult to film, however, this idea was thoroughly debated when choosing our final idea.

 Annabel's idea was a chase scene where a man is robbed and the robber was chased into a multistory car park where the robber is back up against the edge and falls to his death. It was thought that in theory Annabel's idea was a very good one as a variety of shots could be included but there seemed to be a running theme through our ideas as to the practicality of filming them. We could not possibly film someone falling of a multistory car park as we do not have the skills or equipment to do so. 

We chose my idea of the film noir as it was the most practical to film but also because in my own time I had prepared and written a full script and I had drawn up a full storyboard. This meant that we would save a lot of time which, we lost during the preliminary task pre-filming which will alow us to spend more time perfecting shots and making sure everything is in focus, a lesson learnt I feel.