Discussion 21/10/08 - Dividing up the tasks

Outside of the classroom, jack, mitch and I decided that we needed to divide up the different tasks that needed to be done. We came to the conclusion that the treatment would be completed by Mitch as he is the one who would read it in the style of a British Gangster from cockney London. We also came to the conclusion that we needed a questionnaire to be handed out for audience research. This will be done by jack and handed out ready for our pitch to the class on friday. I shall do the storyboarding as i also do art, so have some sense of being able to draw and present it well.

Feedback #2

Your preliminary task shows real promise for the construction and from your discussion posts I can see that you are working creatively to put your pitch together. However, the film analysis needs some work - Mitch and Jonny, your contributions are incomplete. All of you need to look at ideological discourse and rework these sections of your analysis for a level 4.

Music??!

we had various discussions about what music we are going to use for the soundtrack of our film. automatically me & jonny refereed the term gangster, to modern day, gangster rap. something like below:



But then Jack pointed out to us that that genre of music, will not confrom to the genre of our film, as our film is a
British Gangster film, not an urban american gangster genre. so we had a think about the expected type of music that would conform and
agree with our genre, and we got into thinking about light rock. maybe something form the ''mods & rocker'' days.
maybe something like this:



but it stil did not completely fit in with our film, and so none of us could think about a specific piece of music to fit. but then I remembered a piece of music i heard, which was sort of light rock, with a modern day upbeat kick to it.we reviewd the piece and agreed it could be very successful intwined with our opening images. unofrtunately the piece is not available on youtube. but it is called Guns and roses by Lenny Kravitz & Jay-Z.

Costumes

we have had various discussions about the type of costumes that we want our characters to be wearing. We have all agreed that the costumes that our characters are required to wear are all very similar. as our genre is british gangster, the generic expectations are very formally dressed, smart looking characters. for our main characters there for we are going to wear suits and shirts without a tie, we think that this is appropriate for the time phase of which our film is set. we also want to give the impression that our characters are in some way successful, to cause an enigma for the audience, so they wonder how they have become wealthy.
in resevoir dogs for example the characters wear suits, with ties. but ewe think for our film, this is a little too formal, so we are going to exclude the ties.