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I made this short sequence of the storyboard for my film to represent how the film moves from one scene to the next. The hand drawn images and annotations visually describe what camera movement goes on and what actually happens in each scene. it is not an exact representation of the whole film however an overview of the major events in the film. This can be used to pinpoint changes made to the film, since first writing the script many scenes have changed, been pulled from the sequence and replacements made and added to the final edit.

target audience

1)who are the target audiences for the short films you looked at?

the short films i looked at seemed to be aimed at more at younger people either middle or working class. no specific ethnicity. the target audience these short films are aimed at may not necessarily see the film because most short films are made to build portfolio work or to be shown in interviews or fellow students. some of the films i looked at their target audience's were similar to mine. 'night school' showing two teenagers breaking into a school and getting up to mischief. this being aimed to young teens not necessarily specific to any ethnic minority or social class but teenagers in general. Then i also looked at a film called 'easy hours' where a shopkeeper is confronted by a young male in his shop and as soon as the male enters the shop the owner is constantly aware of him and watches his every move. this film may be aimed at slightly older audiences and possibly of a higher class because of the instant pre conception of younger people and how they in a way look down on them and expect them to do wrong that higher class older audiences may share.

2) films I looked at where la haine, kidulthood and adulthood, sweet 16

these films aimed at similar target audiences and these films appealed to similar audiences. working class, mixed race/culture teenagers. the issues these films deal with are similar to that of mine. the troubles teenagers deal with who live in council estates, the little input they have from their parents. they all share their friends ideals rather than that of their parents. these films were also not massive hollywood money makers, independently funded touching realistic subjects and issues, these films had very similar target audiences as mine.

3)who are you making your film for?

like other people in the industry i am making this film to build my portfolio for possible future breakthrough into the film industry. as a part of my portfolio this film would need to appeal o my colleagues as well as possible lecturers at university level or anyone who would be interviewing me to enter university or further education. initially i am making this film for myself to boost my film making skills, a stepping stone into the world of film making. this film would need to appeal and impress obviously my target audience so teenagers of working class background, mixed cultured strivers.

the target audience for my film is mainly teenagers both male and female. This is because the issues the film deals with are of those that center around this age group and of both genders, both males and females can be drawn into what happens in the film. The social class of these teenagers is working class, because the teenagers represented in the film are of that same social class, it could be said that the teenagers in the film represent that social class/target audience that the film is aimed at. not poor people but not rich either. the educational background of my target audience will most likely be school drop outs, or the rebellious ones in school who strive to make teachers lives painful and tend not to care for their education. it could be said that the characters in the film are strivers, they are unsure of themselves, have low income and acquire possessions most of which they cannot afford so they steal it.

4) how will you measure your success in having made a product which appeals to this audience?

way in which i can measure my success are: uploading my film to sites like youtube and vimeo, these sites allow you to upload your film for free and has features in which people can comment on your film and give you feedback on your product. another way is to create a survey on the film and hand it out or email it to people you know have seen your film or who are going to see the film. sites like facebook and myspace where you know a lot of people go to talk with friends. utilizing this could prove to be a success for retaining feedback on your media product. another idea would be to hold group screenings and at the end of the film have a session with the people who have watched the film and discuss and take notes of what they thought of the film.

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film script

Script

Setting

Bow E3, set in the grimy back streets of, East London our film is aimed to capture the real visualization of Gangs of London.

Characters

Our protagonist is a young white male who goes by the name of Derek, nicknamed D.

He has a group of friends:

Phil, Grant, Trigger, Frank, Pam and Lauren.

The gang that these friends get involved with is one of the most renowned gangs in east London and the names of the members are

Trevor, Scott, Danny, Boyce and Alicia.

SCENE 1:

It’s a Friday night and school has just broken up for the weekend, the brothers Phil and Grant and the rest of the gang are on the way home, but they will see each other very soon, that night a massive party was being held down the road from where the brothers live. Some of the lads have organized to pick up some weed for the party and planned to rob the local newsagents for some alcohol if they refused to serve it to them. They were all looking forward to tonight it had been planned for over a month, everyone who was anyone was going to be there. We have Derek in the background with his hood up listening to music not doing much at all being a rebellious youth.

Derek: “cool g you all on that massive party ting tonight? Stihl.”

Grant: “yeah Fam don’t want the rest of you ducking out init!”

All reply: “yeah yeah we’re still on that init.”

Trigger: “ Oi Blud you picked up the draw yeah?”

Frank: “ nah man not yet I’m linking my boy in a bit stihl.”

Trigger: “safe hurry up though man I’m cattin for a zute fam.”

Grant: “ cool we’ll link outside the house at like 8 then init, girls see you girls later yeah?” grant winks at Pam and Lauren

Lauren: “Fuck off you perve!”

As the friends disperse the local gang walks past and push Derek up to the wall and pretends to start a fight with him but then all is revealed when they acknowledge him (friends look shocked) and ask

Gang member: “ Yo Derek safe yeah you still coming to this party tonight?”

Derek: “yeah man see you boys there”

Gang member: “course blud link up later man we gotta roll init sort out some wastemans, cool”

Derek and the gang exchange nods and good byes

Scene 2: montage of shots

Background music grime kid by Wiley

We see frank picking up the drugs, Phil and Grant are running away from the local off license with their stolen booze, and grant is about to put a condom in his wallet but then throws it away with a smirk.

Scene 3: The Friends meet outside the party (Trigger, Frank, Pam and Lauren are late)

Derek: “ehy where you lot been blad?! This party ting started ages ago blud I been waiting here for time! Thought you lot ducked out fam”

Grant and Phil: “yeah fuck sake man”

Frank: “Yo I got the shit init fam lets roll deep”

Grant: “alright girls, looking fine tonight” – grant smirks

Pam and Lauren: “for fuck sake grant get over it you aint got a chance of getting with my tings blud!”

Friends enter party, they’re all having a good time, all drunk and smoking franks drugs, and then the local gang Derek met earlier arrives. Derek leaves his friends and begins to get drawn in with the gang crowd. The gang leader notices a rival gang have turned up to the party, they all acknowledge what’s going on and move towards the other gang, Derek sticks with the gang, his friends try to stop him but he doesn’t listen. A massive fight breaks out between the two gangs, the gang leader hands Derek a knife, Derek nods at him showing he knows what he wants him to do, as Derek moves off he is followed by a rival gang member also with a knife. People are running screaming in all different directions, finally an ear piercing cry is heard and the party clears and we see Derek lying on the floor holding his stomach, knife lying beside him, the gang he thought he trusted, the gang he begged acceptance from had left him. His friends turn up all tearful. Grant and Phil are either side of Derek trying to stop the bleeding, Pam and Lauren are crying, Pam calls the police

Pam: “hello?! Please help our friend has been stabbed!”

Officer on phone: “ok m’am please try to calm down and tell me where you are?”

Pam: “erm I . . . we’re outside the daylight inn pub please hurry! He’s dying blud!”

Derek: “shit man shit man I’m gonna die! I don’t wanna die man!”

Grant: “fam you gonna be fine blud trust the ambulance is on the way fam just hold on!”

Phil: “where the fuck is this ambulance fam!?”

Pam: “they’re on the way just stop the bleeding!”

Derek: “shit man, I’m done blud”

Shot fades to black sad music rolls in

Scene 4:

We hear knocks on the door, the rival gang member who stabbed Derek is who the police is after, he looks around too see if there is a window or any way he can escape but there is no option he is two floors up he will break his leg if he tries to jump out the window.

Police: “don’t try to run sir we have the building surrounded!”

Rival gang member: “fuck this is it”

Screen cuts to black music starts (eminem 8mile)

Credits roll

END

media film

my media film will be based on gang culture based in london and how young tens can be wrongly influenced by gang culture and how it can start a spiraling downfall in life if you make the wrong decisions. The basic outline of the film is that we have a young group of teens living in a heavily gang laden part of London, they start to mix and become friends with a local gang, one friend in particular (terrance) is drawn into the gang life and this is a pivotal point in the film and his life where it starts to go wrong . he begins getting into small time crimes, pick-pocketing etc and as the film goes on (we see a montage of him climbing the ladder of crime) and the crimes get worse as he goes on. Finally we have a gang to gang confrontation and terrance stabs someone and kills them. The gangs immediately disperse and police turn up. we then move to terrance at home and the police turn up, and the equilibrium is restored as he serves time in the correctional system.

my film represents teens in london and how easily they can let their lives slip, but it also represents how holding it together and staying along the straight and narrow path can keep you safe.

my institution in an ideal world would be like the UK film council and film four because these are the british film institutions that represent what my film is about, and also like british film my film is based a lot on realism, representing as true as possible what events like these lead to and representing london gang culture in its true light.

the values of my film are much like lahaime all in black and white and very realistic, also based around uk independently funded films such as kidulthood and adulthood, my film will have the same values as these.

my audience will be aimed at teens who are surrounded by this gang culture and crime etc, the film is aimed to reveal what gangs are like and how they can be, the crime you can get into when you look up to the wrong crowd.

the language used in my film focuses on what these teens would be listening to such as RnB, Hip-hop and rap etc, which can be very aggressive music and lyrically often relates to crime. the posters hanging in their bedrooms etc all this will relate and link to the language setting of the film. hanging out on street corners/body language. also what they wear will represent who they are, such as colours that represent the gangs they belong to age groups etc.

ideology most of the film will be in black and white to represent the dark and light that surrounds the film ( good and bad), also adding effects to the finished product to make it seem a little bit more grainy/dirty to add to the grime london feel of gang culture. my aim is to avoid the flash glamourous film making styles of hollywood etc.

narrative like any film it will have a begging middle and end/equilibrium, dis-equilibrium and then the building back to that original equilibrium, that is represented in my film by the equilibrium of the friends having a good time and walking the straight line etc, which is then disrupted by the influence of gang crime and culture that sadly these teens get into and finally this is fixed with introducing the correctional system that they are put into (prison) which then rebuilds that equilibrium.

genre- the genre of my film will be based much like kidulthood and adulthood, crime drama