Screenplay

Black screen

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London

9:00am

12th May 2012

London Southbank, Daylight, London eye fully active

London city shown from various places

Shabby character, ragged clothing.

Clearly a tramp.

Character across the road behind moving crowd.

ANONYMOUS CHARACTER (NARRATIVE VOICE)

“How's a guy like me meant to make a living around here?

It's every man for himself and only the lucky ones have a chance of getting anywhere in life.

Nowadays you can go from being a nobody, to being feared by everybody.

Me? I'm the kinda guy that had a chance.”

Black screen

(Typewrite Effect)

London

9:00am

13th May 2012

London city, morning, broad daylight

Neatly presented character.

Wearing a suit with slicked hair holding a suitcase.

ANONYMOUS CHARACTER (NARRATIVE VOICE)

And him? He's the kinda guy that took that chance.

It's not for me to judge but it look like he's a damn sight better off than me.

To get rich, and make it big, you've got to want it.

The people you know determine who you'll be.

Cos' this is a tale of Rags to Riches and how a guy like me made it in a day.

We all made a contribution to this screenplay to create it as a group.we discussed possible factors that could impose as a problem to us when creating this screenplay.This could include then when we are filming in a busy part of London people may come towards the camera and block our view of the landmarks we are trying to capture.

Final Monologue

Final Monologue

Shot 3-The establishing shots of London and typical London sites such as Big Ben to set the scene.The following part of the monologue will be played over the top of this shot.This part of the monologue is roughly about 5 seconds long.

How's a guy like me meant to make a living around here?

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Shot 7- The main character sitting on the floor with people passing by as if he is still and the rest of the world is still moving on.The following is the part of the monologue that will be payed over the top off shot 7.This part of the monologue roughly goes on for about 25 seconds

It's every man for himself and only the lucky ones have a chance of getting anywhere in life.

Nowadays you can go from being a nobody, to being feared by everybody.

Me? I'm the kinda guy that had a chance.

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Shot 8- 18- Is the rest of the opening sequence and will be the part where the main character gets into the cab and is now rich.But you will not know its the same character from before until right at the end off the monologue when his face is revealed a second time as the rich man this time.The folllowing part of the monologue will be played over the top of this scene. This part of the monologue will last 1 minute

And him? He's the kinda guy that took that chance.

It's not for me to judge but it look like he's a damn sight better off than me.

To get rich, and make it big, you've got to want it.

The people you know determine who you'll be.

Cos' this is a tale of Rags to Riches and how a guy like me made it in a day.

We have discussed were we plan to use the monologue.we have separated the monologue up into 3 different parts to show the shots and the monologue over the top.Each individual member contributed to this monologue as we all decided to input our ideas to create what we believe to be the best monologue suitable for our introduction.

Our monologue plays a big part in our whole opening sequence therefore this monologue has to be a huge success otherwise it will cause our whole opening sequence to fail.

Intro for our production company

Our production company is called Damian media co.  Therefore as a group we decided that we wanted to create a introduction for the production company.As Josh is well equipped and very efficient in this section we decided to appoint this task to him. He used cinema 4D and Adobe after effects to create this short piece to introduce our production company.This will be right at the beginning of our 2 minutes of footage and it lasts for 5 seconds.

Treatment Rewrite

Title:Rags to riches
An original screenplay by:Dean Landers,Damian Mathers and Josh May
Production Company Name:Damian Media co.

We are presenting a gangster film about  typical London man who starts off poor and ends up very well off because he teams up with the insiders of a well known London Gang; WestfieldGang.In doing so he eventually becomes the most feared man in the whole of the capital.

As the story unfolds we see how the main character betrays each of the supporting characters to gain respect and further power.We see this through the killings/Imprisonment and kidnaps of the supporting characters.

We have changed it from him gaining respect hourly and going up in the hierarchy to just betraying them all in one go as gaining respect hourly is pretty unrealistic.

We are trying to make it as batman meets the Godfather because we like the idea of when the Joker betrays his associates to gain all the money for himself.

Our production company plans to use the theme of trust,betrayal and money in order to achieve the desired effect of surprise targeted towards a demographic composed primarily of the male gender.

Predicted target audience for our opening sequence focus group

As we are producing a gangster genre opening sequence our predicted target audience would be the age group of 18-30 and predominantly male as the genre contains a lot of violence that is stereotypically connected with the male gender.

Audience profile research

We worked together as a group to create a survey, and this is what we came up with
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/63SLBQ6
These are the questions I contributed to the group;


Would you Here u include watching films as one of your hobbies
[]yes   []No

When was the last  time you went to a cinema?

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Rank in order your favourite genres from the list below?

Gangster                                                Action
               comedy                  other
Horror                                                   Romantic

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What television programs do you watch ?
(List 3 please)

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Opening sequence research number 1:Godfather

The Godfather-opening sequence

Francis Ford coppola

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBfMikOuv2U
The scene starts off with a guy in low key lighting he is clearly italian of of
a closely related ethnicity We can tell this by the looks of the man and the dialogue
that he is using.The low key lighting on the introducing of the character is to show
that there is a mysterious way about the character.this intrigues the audience.Then
the godfather is introduced with even lower key lighting.we can not see his face at
all because its an over the shoulder shot and the camera does a reverse creep
shot to eventually show the office that they are in and reveals another character
which is a woman that seems to cater to the godfathers needs. The low key
lighting and camera shot used are very effective for keeping the godfather hidden
and unknown for bit. The males clearly have dominance within the scene.however

we can tell that the godfather has the most authority as the guy is asking for his
help.The guy who is in distress is given some kind of drink. We can tell this is most
likely alcohol or some kind of beverage because of the size of the glass.
The general gangster conventions are used to meet the stereotypical
gangster theme. These include black suit.This will definitely aspire our production
as we will definitely include black suits within our sequence.
I believe the target audience would be an older generation as the whole film is concentrated on violence and revenge. I also think it would appeal to the male gender rather than the female.

Treatment pitch feedback

treatment pitch feedback

Our group were filmed pitching to Mr Lawes,Miss O'dell and the rest of our class mates.We received some feedback for our audience:

Good Feedback on our idea-They said that our idea was well planned out and our thoughts on the opening sequence were clearly put across during the pitch.Our idea would definitely go along with the stereotypical theme of the gangster genre.It was also very efficient on presenting what the target audience the film will look to appeal to.Male audience.Mr Lawes and Miss O'dell told us that they could tell we had carried out our research into the genre as our conventions were the same as films such as goodfellas with the monologue throughout the footage.They also believe that the way we keep the character mysterious is very effective.

Constructive Feedback on our idea- The monologue needs to be very appealing and well scripted to keep the audience entertained throughout the whole 2 minutes.we also need to consider whether we be able to film in london due to security restrictions

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