The Scene Tish Will Direct

In the scene the lights will be off, you’ll hear noises of someone panicking, heavy breathing, maybe some speech for example “Hello, where am I?”

The lights will be turned off then on, a quick shot of the light then moving the camera angle down to focus on a man with his head covered by something a bag maybe. Close shot but also getting in a bit of the chair that he’s sitting on to show that he is tied up. In the background, there is a well built man looking intimidating. Then the bag is removed from the man’s head to show that it is Joel.

The setting will be a small room which will look cramped to symbolise Joel being suffocated or just plain panic in this situation. There will be nothing but a chair and obviously the people in the room. There will be someone holding a fire arm to intimidate Joel.

Idea for the scene when another crime boss approaches Joel

This is just an idea of the scene where Joel is approached by a crime boss in order to be recruited, then leading into the final scene which will be Tisha's Scene.

In the middle of a “job” Joel is running away from something or someone with a bag of (something valuable maybe money), and he is intercepted by one of the crime bosses, (probably me) and he goes on to say that
“You don’t do what you’ve done in this business without getting noticed.. how would you like to work for me? I’ll pay you double what (cousin’s name) is paying you”


Joel is a bit hesitant and then he smiles and approaches the crime boss you only see the two of them face off kinda just staring each other down then the scene will cut to Joel shaking the crime bosses hand.
Soundtrack gets louder,

Something bad happens to Joel, like he’s attacked when working on a job or is just snatched from the street, this is to set up Tisha’s scene of him being captured and interrogated with the potato sack over his head.

Planning; Poker Scene

The Poker Scene:

Need any number between 4 and 10 players for the poker scene including the protagonist.

Have a couple clips of them playing Poker

Have the main character winning most of the hands

The have him get cocky and go all in with one hand

He has a straight Flush,

As he goes to take the money

Someone else has a Royal Flush

Through the transitions have breaks between the clips and also have text going through such as…

*Clip 1*

(Black Screen)

*Text: What happens*

*Clip 2*

(Black Screen)

*Text: When you bet it all*

*Clip 3*

(Black Screen)

*Text: And lose?*

Mise En Scene:

The lighting will have to be as dark as I can make it to represent all the crime bosses and unsavoury characters that do dark deeds regularly. Also I will have empty bottles of Jack Daniels (if possible) also with bottles of vodka (if possible) around the table.  If not a substitute would be apple juice in clear glasses, a couple small bags of flour to give the illusion of drug abuse. Finally cigars or cigarettes.

Sound will just be them laughing at talking or alternatively depending on the camera at hand we’ll just have the soundtrack dubbed over.

Skip to next scene which will most probably be the confrontation between the protagonist and his Cousin.

This is the storyboard of the Poker Scene. I thought since most of the sequences happen at the same time just drawing one large picture for the storyboard and making notes about the camera angles and shots would be better than drawing loads of different shots of essetnailly the same thing.

This is the set we were using to the poker scene. In the image we were currently getting it ready so there were still bits and pieces to take away and add but this was the overall feel we were going for in the whole scene.

Proposal For Film Trailer

For our film trailer we decided if we came up with the idea for a film it would make the process of making the trailer much easier. We came up with an idea for the plot of the film which basically is that an 18 year old who just finished Sixth Form/College wants to go to University but he can’t get the money for the tuition fees so he goes to his cousin we’ll call him Jay. Jay is crime boss and is well known in the criminal underworld but he is also mentally unstable. Jay decides to enter the protagonist (we’ll call him Joel) in a Poker game that a few of his crime boss associates will be playing; he even gives him the entry fee. Once Joel is in the poker game he does well for himself and earns enough money to pay off his tuition fees and pay back his cousin but he doesn’t know when to stop and gambles it all away and loses it. Joel goes back to Jay to tell him that he lost all of his money and Jay threatens to kill him if he doesn’t get his money back in 48 hours. Joel tries to get the money but in the process botches a bank robbery and goes further in debt and eventually he ends up working for Jay to try and pay off his debt in the long run. Joel becomes well known criminal and other crime boss start to hire out his services and obviously Jay in his unstable mental state doesn’t like this and tries to get Joel killed. That is the basic idea behind our film.

We will then be making our trailer based on this plot and film enough to give the audience the basic idea we are trying to get across. For this trailer we will be using a lot of props which we will get ourselves and we need these props mainly to set the scene and make what we are trying to portray more believable and realistic.

The genre we are trying to portray with our film trailer is action-crime, the key genre employed will be crime. The distribution methods we will use will most likely be multiplex cinemas having the trailer shown before similar films or films of the same age range. We will be aiming the film to a more mature audience because of the use of violence, guns and illegal narcotics so the age range will most likely be 18+. There will be various key points in the trailer, such as the poker game the crimes and the last shot where the protagonist is captured and tied up. The film studio we chose to produce our film will be Universal Studio or Paramount Pictures, because they are both well known and recognised companies. Finally the marketing points we will use will be the stars and the director, we will be making up names and give them achievements to make them seem successful. For example, “ From the Director of ‘Raindrops’ “ This is a fake film name we came up with for the film trailer.