Screenplay draft 2

 wild wolf productions goes to black screen

 off screen voice: what are you doing  dirty little bugger get

                                                     out off my shop I'm calling the police get

                                                     out leave me

We will have an establishing shot of an off licence shop. The doors will swings open and a young guy will run through the doors. This guy better know as Chalky. Chalky is a local boy who lives in East london in the area Dagenham. Chalky will be wearing clothes like hoodies, trainers and batty jeans. Chalky is always arguing with mum about different thing his mum and they find it hard to get along after his dad went to prison.

There will be a slow motion of chalky as he runs down the street he will be dropping mars bars (chocolate). he will have his arms full with beers and mars bars he has just stolen from the off licence low angle tracking shot. 

Chalky: this is me, this is me doing what i do best ,its like an addiction, once its started you cant stop you crave it, the more you crave it the more you want it  the more you want it the more trouble it causes you, its not as easy as it looks always on the run from the coppers always having to look over your shoulder it gives you a thrill like no drug ever could, it get you buzzing gives you an Adrenalin rush 

runs into a lamppost get knocked clean out lies on the floor and don't move

 crosscuts to police officer running down a road a different road to were chalky just run down  

police officer: I'm in pursuit of the suspect heading down gale street 

keeps running down the street 

from the eyes off the chalky 

blinking coming round 

shot of police office looking down 

fuzzy fade to black fuzzy fade to black less fuzzy fade to black normal vision 

police office standing over chalky looking down 

chalky trys to get up and run 

police officer :and were do you think your going sunshine 

Montague of doors opening and shutting car door then gate the random door then interview room door buzzing every door apart from car 

shot of both police officer and chalky sitting in an interview room 

police officer: so chalky this is what the 3rd time this week 

chalky:no its not my falt you see what happened was 

police officer: i don't want to hear it (looking through notes)  your just like your farther excuse after excuse look were it got him

getting angry 

chalky: I'm nothing like my Father 

police officer: i remember when your Father used to do what you do your just like him like Father like son  (laughs)

chalky wipes his arm across the desk making everything fall off on to the floor 

through gritted teeth 

chalky: I'm nothing like him  

clenches fist 

swings for the police office, Office pushes button under the table 3 officers rush in and pin him to the floor 

chalky voice over : bad mistake 

flashes live by the street die by the street titles credits 

Screenplay: Live By The Street Die By The Street!!!

Music: by Temper T –"Next Hype" This song will be playing at the beginning of the opening sequence when the character chalky is running down the street out of the shop we stole from. This song has been used in a film of a similar genre to what we are doing as we (Shank) so this we help to set to tone and atmosphere of the film and will make the genre of the film easy to recognise

  o.s voice  what are you doing  dirty little bugger get
  out off my shop im calling the police get 
  out leave me  (voice over)
There will be an establishing shot of the shop the doors will swings open as Chalky a young white skinny boy will run through them .to also help give of the feeling of a crime, gangster film we will have chalky dressed in hoodies, low batty jeans and gangster clothing’s so that it can fit in with the genre of the film.

when chalky slow motion of chalky running down the street dropping mars bars which he has just stolen from the shop he has arms full beer and mars bars he has just stolen from the off licence low angle tracking shot. Mid shot gets to a corner runs round the corner to meet his mate. the song that was playing at the start is now playing on chalky’s friends phone both character do a devised hand shake

Chalky:yh boy i got us some mars bars fosters

init bruv that guy is bare stupid

Rascle: bruv you and your fucking mars bars your bare

fat and allow him man you rob him everyday

We will have a mid shoot for this part

Rascle is another white boy how is over weight also dressed up similar to chalky. Rascle is chalky's best friend there is one main difference between rascle and chalky that is that rascle always get caught because he cant run because of his weight.

Chalky: bruv me fat have you seen yourself

oh no wait you cant fit in the mirror

(Chalky laughs at his own joke )

Rascle and Chalky both open a can of beer see the can opening then close up of  Rascle/Chalky drinking it mid shot flat angle

chalky always is talking about him and his mums problems as him and his mum find it difficult to get along

Chalky: my mums a bitch.she kicked me out the other

night because the feds busted down my

mums door for me summink to do with

some next gang called the hoodwinked or

summink i told her i aint got nout to do with

it but she dont believe me .

Rascle: bruv dont say that about your mum you gotta love

your mum init and just give her time im sure shell

come round and whos this hoodwink ting

Chalky:have you met my mum and na bruv shes being bare otters

( Rascle nods asif to say he understands long shot low angle )

Rascle: anyways bruv i pulled this bird lovely she is i met 

her in spearmint rihano she was grinding on

me like this (shows how she was grinding on him )

and i was grinding on her like this bruv it was

well good been texting her she well onit

shes gagging for me thats what 56 this

year alone

Chalky: bruv you gotta learn to respect girls this is the

6th just this month you gotta sort it out

Rascle:at least i can get em unlike you

Chalky: bruv one day im gonna rule these streets and

have a proper bird one with big knockers 

(Rascle snickers and chops on a mars bar)

then will see who will be laughing

 Rascle:come lets go the park and drink what we got

both walk off down the street bumping arms and laughing really hard long shot

o.s: oit get back here

both look behind and then run for their lives then to black screen

Treatment Rewrite

Film title: Live By The Street, Die By The Street

Main characters:  Chalky & Rascal

A Wild Wolf Production

Storyline
Chalky is a local white boy who gets himself involved in the wrong crowd. Chalky starts to get himself involved in crimes at first he start of with petty crimes e.g. stealing from shops (shoplifting) and just being a general nuisance the story unfolds we see gradually see chalky progress from a small time offer to a fully fledge criminal. Chalky gets himself involved in even more heaver crimes and his mums begin to get worried about him. But every thing chances when he meets a girl. However this girl turns out to be an undercover police bent on bring justice back on the street by bring down the criminals. But Chalky doesn't know this piece of information and is unaware of her true purpose and her plan to betray him. Unfortunately the under cover cop dies during a feud with some gangs leaving chalky broken hearted so this makes him go on a revenge mission to get revenge on the person who killed is love. Unfortunately for chalky it all goes horribly wrong and chalky ends up dieing as well on the streets.

The Opening sequence
Our 2 minutes opening sequence will be showing the main characters Chalky and his best friend Rascal. First the will be a black out in the beginning of opening sequence and then it will go straight in to the footage, The first thing we well hear is a shop keeper shouting "What are you doing, come back here you dirty beggar" and then we will see an establishing shot of a shop from the shop we will see a young person running out of the store carrying bars of chocolate (mars bar) and a couple of drink his arms will be filled up with so many stolen goods that his going to be dropping them as his running a way from the shop. As he is running the will be a slow motion showing him running away from the store and him dropping some objects one by one then it will go back in to a fast past as he escapes the shop and the shopkeeper and he will go to a flat building (the Lego Tower) to meet this best friend Rascal how is a fat, chubby guy and he will sit down with him sharing the food and the drink chalky stole and talking about their day. We will also have a fast past gangster/ crime style music playing in background of the opening sequence so that the audience can easily identify was type of genre of film their watching and we will have a voice over of the chalky telling us his story of how he died later in the opening sequence and in the film and at the beginning when the shopkeeper is shouting at him we will have a voice over for that as well. We have also decided to have the characters wear costumes such as hoodies and track suites to make the film even more identifiable and to help create the scene and atmosphere of a crime driving community. We well use camera angles such as low shoot angle and high shoot angle, close ups and we will be using a lot of flat shoot angle as well.

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SWOT Analysis

Strength
Our strength was our pitch an our treatment

Weaknesses
One of our weakness is that we haven't done as much research as we need to do our assignment and we don't have a clear idea for our opening sequence or our genre for our film

Opportunity 
We had an opportunity when we where present the work to the class and to the teachers to get some feed back and evaluation of our work and if it would be a good idea to go ahead with our work.

Threat 
We haven't still decided what genre where going to do yet and we have problem with team members  being absent.

Y12 Pitch - Group 3

Audience Profile Questionaire

hello i am an a level  student studying media and part of my course is to make an opening sequence for a film of my choice. my choice is a crime  movie so from this questionaire we hope to find out what the british public are interested in and what you would like to see


1) how old are you ?
   
   ................................

2) what is your gender? (please tick)

 (male) (female)


3)what is your favourite film genre? (pleas circle )

 horror  action  thriller  comedy  crime  other please specify .................


4) how often do you go to the cinema? (please circle )

  always    most of the time    sometimes      rarely      never


5) what is the last film you watched ?

 .........................................


6) did you enjoy the last film you watched ?

  yes  no


7) why did you enjoy it ?

......................................


8)what conventions do you expect to see in a cop film ?  ( key features in a film  i.e handcuffs )

  ...............................................................................................


9) how much would you pay to see a film at the cinema  ?

........................................


10) what ethnicity do you expect to see represented  in a british crime film?

What worked well?
One thing that worked well was our pitch. this especially worked well because we managed to do our pitch and show our ideas and research across to the class when we had a member of the group missing.

What would make our initial idea even better?
i think to make our idea even better we need to make sure that we have a clear idea of what were doing e.g we are starting to have second thoughts of what gere of film to do this isn't good because we need time to make sure that we





What will we do next?

Genre Research Films (Crime)

Film : Hostage

Genre Crime Action

Year 2005

Director: Florent Emilio Siri

Main Cast Bruce Willis

The opening sequence of this film starts of with showing these buildings and soldiers and the look unrealistic like a drawing and the use a lot of editing and it looks like they are preparing to invade and area its also shows a lot of violent equipments like guns tanks and things you would use for destruction and it uses a lot of editing the film uses colours like black and red which connotes death , danger and blood and they also use dramatic music in the opening sequence to help create tension. I think that this film is mostly aimed at men this is because of the way the film portrays men, because the film has been masculinized so much it shows the men as the hero's this is shown by the main character bruce willis who is shown as a strong tough guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu5CNv2fVE

Film:  The Lookout

Genre: Crime Drama Thriller 

Year: 2007

Director: Scott Frank

Writer: Scott Frank 

In the opening sequence of this film we first denotes a place covered in snow in the middle of no way with a car parked in it and 3 men all in black and one one of them is searching for something for the other guys in a small cave the use of music is also interesting as the use dramatic, scary and almost  creepy music to create an atmosphere of danger and death. The characters in this film are mostly men so i think that this film is mostly aimed at men around the age of the main characters so 18+ 

Film: L A Confidential

Genre: Crime Drama Mystery

Year: 1997

Director: Curtis Hanson

The the opening sequence of the movie, the films starts of in black and white and it shows people in that time (1997 ) and how there lives where like and it show L.A and how its advertised and how the sell it to people telling them that it  like a paradise when its not. it has shows alot of people enjoying them slefs having as good time and it shows alot of families. I Think this film is aimed at young men it has a lot of action and fast pete movements they also use props like guns, cigarets, cigars etc that appealed to men at those times. 

Gangster Genre Films Power Point

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Target 2 - November

1) To learn and revise key terms for media studies
2) To give more specific examples when evaluating my work

Prelim Editing

1) I was absent during the editing

2) We made sure we meat the brief by demonstrating the two rules, which is the 180 degree rule and the match on action rule we done this by making sure that for the 180 degree rule we only shoot the scene from on side of the room (like a half circle) and also by using over the shoulder shoot to film the conversation in the scene and we also demonstrated the match on action rule by making sure that all of the filming went in a sequence like pulling out the chair in the scene before sitting on it, which is an example of match on action and as well as that we also stayed on the storyline and  used the story board sheet to help us to film the scene correctly.

3) I think that our group worked really well during the filming and planning process and thats what was one of the things that worked really well because we worked together and shared our ideas and we listened to each other and got on with the work. However we did have some problem with the camera’s sound and not having members of our team around for the filming and the editing but we all worked together as a group to solve those problems in the correct manner and we also worked really well during the plan and put a lot of work and detail in it which help us to avoid any silly mistakes

Target 1 - September

1)To go in to detail and depth when explain my work.

prelim group 3

Preilm filming

A) We decided to use our location because we need a place that looked formal and with good lighting so we decide to choose that location so that it meat our equipment.

b)we made sure to film the two rules by making sure we film on one side of the room and we also used a range of techniques like high angle shoots, flat angle birds view, establishing shoot, shot reverse shoot etc and we made dare that our scene was match on action as well for example when we were filming we released that we missed a bit and we had to film the police offer standing up before he sat down this was to help meat the rule of match on action.

c)we did this by changing a couple of the roles because we realised that one of the actors was better suited to be a police because of the way they were dressed and because they fitted the role better and we also discovered that the camera had no sound so we had to fix it a rework the scenes to make sure that it worked as well.

Half term homework – TV Drama Analysis

Gilmore Girls

1. Who made the show?
Gilmore girls were created by Amy Sherman-Palladino

2. What channel is it on?
Gilmore girls are on channel 4 and E4

3. What time is it on?
There is usually an episode of Gilmore girl showing in the morning at 10.20am and in the afternoon at around 3 o’clock.

4. What is the sub-genre?
The sub-genre of this program is comedy drama

5. Who is the target audience?

The target audience for Gilmore girls is women roughly around 15+ the show is mainly about the 2  girls “ Lorelei” and “Rory” and their families, friends relationships and romance and shows us there day to day life’s it also shows and explores the mother, daughter relationship between these two characters.

6. What was is the narrative?
The narrative of Gilmore girl is quite a complicated structure. Because it a continuous story being told from one episode to another and it always begins by following one of girls and watching what happened in there day to day life and all of the episodes go together to create a storyline for the show.

7. Who/what was being represented?
This show does represent the different group age and their relationships that they have with each other.

Script

(Two men enter the room)

(One man in hand cuffs the other with a police cap on)

(Both men cross room)

(Man in police cap pulls the chair out  this is our match on action shot because the next time we see him he  bangs the table )

(this is were we are going to use the over the shoulder shot we are going to have the man in cuffs in the chair with the camera looking up and the prision guard as he bangs the table the. the prison guard looking at the man in cuffs)

Prision officer:  I want some fucking answers steve

Steve : no comment

Prison officer: your facing a long time inside steve if you don’t talk

Steve: no comment

Prison officer: I know you done it steve

Steve: no comment

Prison officer: Think of that poor innocent child

Steve: no comment 

(Shows a photo of the child)

(See a tear roll down steves face)

Prison officer : come on steve we all know

(Steave stands up and shouts)

Steve:  I done it it was me alright.

(Steve breaks down and starts crying)

Prelim Task

a) What the prelim will entail?
The Prelim task that we did was of someone entering a room by using the door handle and coming in to sit down and one other person will already be in the room so the scene will be about the two characters and they will have a conversation around a table which will last about 30 seconds

b) What the two rules you must demonstrate means?
The two rules that we had to demonstrate were the 180 degree rule and the match on action rule. The 180 degree rule is that the camera can move anywhere within the half circle but shouldn't go across the other side of the circle as it could confuse the audience. The Match-on-action is a technique that helps to hide the cuts since the viewers are paying attention to the action rather than the editing so it means the viewers are not really aware of the editing.  

c) A summary of your initial idea?

Our idea was of a criminal and a police officer in a police interview interrogation and the police offer is trying to get information out of the criminal to prove that he is guilty of the crime. The criminal tries to refuse charges by saying no comment

Ruby and Armani

Armani and Ruby's Answer :-)

. The picture on the front over of the dvd case deonote six teenagers and the lighting is quite dark. This connotes that the film may be a bit scary and the genre of the film will be action with the sub-genre of adventure.

2. The teenagers on the cover are denoted in a triangle shape and they all have serous facial expressions. This connotes that they maybe mature for their age and have something very hard to slove.

3. The instition involved in the production of the film is Los hooligans productions which is denoted in the back cover on the left hand corner, which connotes they took part in the production process. The instition involved in the distribution is dimension which is denoted in a logo on the back cover on the right hand side.

4. The target audience of the film 'the faculty' is teenagers from where the teen R&B star Usher is denoted in the front cover with the other teenagers, also the characters are teenages. this connotes that most of the actors will be teenagers and the story will be based around teenagers, therefore giving a feel that the target audience are teenagers.