Music

Royalty Free:
-Prelude Action
-Cut and Run
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Royalty Music:
-Set You Free - The Black Keys
This song has has an upbeat tempo that would suit the running in the opening shot and then steadier beat that would mirror the walking to location.
-Skin And Bones - Foo Fighters
This song has a quite start and remains reserved throughout the song, with a steady tempo which would be suitable as it could reflect the the quite before the action.
-Lonely Souls - Unkle
Lonely souls has a similar theme to Skin and Bones, but the lyrics could offer interpretations from the viewer about how the people involved in the drug deal live alone.
-Loose Yot Self - Eminem

-In the Fade - Queens of the stone age

Actors and Mise-en-scene

Roles:
-Con Artist/Gangster/ Leader - Me (joe) (Confirmed)
-Police Man No.1 - Sam Pearson  (Confirmed)
-Police Man No.2 - Steve Wise (Confirmed)
-Con Artist Affiliate - Alex Perkins (Confirmed)
-Con Artist Affiliate - April Mathews (Confirmed)
-Con Artist Affiliate- Nestor Bigwood (Confirmed)
-Extras - Kez Barry

Mise-en-scene:
-Car (Mini Cooper/Skoda)
These were the only cars available to use, but despite this, both cars suit the genre as they are brand new cars that look fairly smart and business looking.
-Drugs (Flour/baking soda)
We chose flour because it was a cheap, realistic looking substitute for real cocaine, which is of course also illegal.
-Blood (Fake Blood)
Joke blood was a more realistic substitute than lipstick, tomato sauce or ink and also was a non-stain alternative.
-Cigarettes
We chose to include cigarettes, fit the convention that criminals aren't exactly 'healthy', and to add to the overall effect, that the film is about criminal, dark themes.
-Guns (BB Guns)
-Suits (3 suit and ties)
All the suits will be dark and standard as not to distract the viewer. We are trying to show high end criminals and the best way to represent them is to have them dress smartly to show the crime more a planned business meeting rather than a opportunistic deal.
-Alcohol (Apple Juice, Water)
-Furniture (Coffe Table, 2x Sofas)

Audience Research Questionaire

Coursework Research: Film Opening

The Themes that we have been drawn towards for our Film opening Course work are Cop and Crime Dramas, Similiar to the HBO series the Wire. The Wire is the source our inspiration for the content of our film rather than the media convetions used with in it. Get Rich or Die Trying is similar to The Wire in the way that it includes the Mise-en-scene and the themes that we are trying to achieve in our opening.

The genres that we are interested in is are Crime, Thrillers.

The Films that do inclued these media conventions are:

- The Dark Knight

- The Matrix

- Get Rich or Die Trying

- The Departed

- Memento

- Inception

The opening in the dark knight has a fast pace with alot of cross cutting between several different events at once, which was the first thing we talked about when discussing what to include in the opening.

The Matrix includes scenes in the opening, and in the rest of the film, of cuts from either side of the door to create suspense. Combination of digestic sound and silence to contrast with the action.

Christoper Nolan's films like Memento and Inception have fast cuts, cross cuts and flash backs in the opening and the ending. In Memento he uses a black and white filter to show the past or the start point and then each of the other cuts are in colour. This is not a convention of crime thrillers but is a clever way of subtly showing the viewer additional informations, the start point of the story or flashforwards.

Crime thrillers:

Characters:

- Chief police - does everything by the book and has high expecttions of everyone under him.

- Criminal master mind - Shows little emotion,

awaiting picture

Genre Mind Map