Film Titles

For our film, we came up with a list of possible film title ideas.

• Hit and Miss
• Half cocked
• Empty Chambers
• A job half done
• Unfinished Job
• Pointless

We plan to ask our potential audience what title they find would be most suitable in our questionnaire.

Analysis of Title Sequence: Goodfellas

I will be analysing the title sequence of Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese.  The title credits were designed by Saul Bass.

The first few titles are introduced to the audience. Initially they pan from right to
left in a faded / grey tone before being presented in a large, bold white text accompanied by
the sound effect of a car speeding by, suggesting a fast-paced film.

Next we see a shot of a car, driving down a dark road at night. The lack of light in this shot creates a dark, atmosphere.
The camera then tracks to the front of the car before cutting to the next title shot.

The next title shot establishes to the audience the setting and timeframe that the movie takes place in.

The audience are then greeted with the film's 3 protagonists - straight away the personalities of the characters are established. De Niro and Pesci are shown to be relaxed and laid back, contrasting with Liotta who is shown to be somewhat tense and stressed. 

The next shot is a long shot, showing the 3 characters standing side by side looking at the boot of the car.  The most significant aspect of the shot to me is how the characters are lit by the car's lights, showing them in a red light. Immediately this creates connotations of blood and danger. 

The film then shows a shot of the car, slowly zooming in on it.  Because of the slow zoom, it creates a sense of anticipation and suspense.

This shot is also significant in establishing the character's personalities and relationships.  Pesci and De Niro are shown to be close together, symbolising their relationships whilst Liotta is distanced from them.  The camera then zooms in on De Niro, suggesting that he is the most dominant figure in the film. As well as this, the characters are again shown in red light, suggesting danger. This is in addition to the fact that Pesci and De Niro are both grasping weapons. 

The next shot is of a mysterious person who the audience doesn't yet know, wrapped in sheets and covered in blood, gasping for air. This graphic violence makes the audience uncomfortable, setting the violent mood of the film.

We then see Pesci violently stab the injured person, unfazed by his psychopathic behaviour. Again, this helps to highlight the aggressive, violent personality of Joe Pesci's character

Finally, De Niro finishes off the attack by shooting the person.  Again, like pesci, he shows no remorse at ending the person's life.  

During the shooting, the camera quickly cuts to Liotta's character - showing him flinching at the gunshots.  I felt that this portrays Liotta's character as being quite a passive character who isn't in as much control or as powerful as De Niro and Pesci's characters. 

After the shooting has finished, the camera slightly adjusts focus, focusing on the still corpse. This is accompanied by an eerie silence, creating a chilling atmosphere.



Liotta then closes the car boot and the camera zooms in on him before freezing, showing Liotta looking into the distance.  This is accompanied with a narration with Liotta reflecting back on past-experiences.

After cutting to black, 'GOODFELLAS' then appears on the screen, similar to the first few title credits, showing the title of the film.

All in all, the Goodfellas title sequence suceeds in gripping the audience from the beginning of the film, whilst establishing the tone and atmosphere of the film.

Distribution company

We have chose the distribution company for our kind of movie to be VICE SHORTS. We have made our decision based on previous movies done by them and their age certificates. One of the previous movies was The Ellington Kid which was very similar to our short movie. Another reason we choose that VICE SHORTS was because they do short movies around 5-10 minutes. 

We have also found that the company is British, Liverpool which makes it local and similar to where we would film our short movie.

Also some shots and editing technique they used are similar to what we have though about and was going to use

Character profile: The Rookie

The Rookie

actor: ????

status: would be considered the main character, loses money whilst robbing a shop, panics and kills the boss.

The rookie should be portrayed as sort of confident whilst robbing the shop but then begins to doubt his abilities once he loses the money and begins to panic during the escape. he should also have an uneasy relationship with the boss.

Character profile: The Boss

The Boss

actor: ????

status: one of the main characters in the film, Is shot by the rookie but doesn't deserve it.

to be portrayed as a stereotypical charismatic criminal not necessarily a "boss" so to speak but is in control of the petty crime he and the rookie carries out.

could be seen as being based off of a character like "jimmy the gent" from good fellas with some slight differences in character as the boss is a petty criminal as opposed to a mafia gangster.

Research into potential audience

The age range of our audience would be around 15 to 35. This is because our film's certificate would probably be a 15, meaning the youngest possible audience would be 15, since no one younger would be able to watch it legitimately. The age of 35 is where an adult may start to show signs of slowing down a little, and they may not find the film as interesting or exciting as someone younger.

The audience would primarily consist of males, since our lack of female characters would probably put off a female audience or at least disinterest them from watching the film. The film's themes contain what a male audience would likely find entertaining, so it's that audience which would give the film the most attention.

Our film takes place in south Yorkshire, so it's only natural that a northern English audience would be more inclined to watch it than a southern audience. Some of the slang that might be used by the characters may throw some southerners off, and would almost definitely confuse someone from another country. A northern audience would be able to better connect to the characters and setting, as they understand both a lot more than people from the south or different countries.

 Being a crime film, it will obviously be more interesting to those who enjoy that kind of film. However, we also have the benefit of producing a short film, which some people, myself included, prefer due to them being shorter and less longwinded. This means a small, simple storyline can be told in an axciting way. If we pull this off, that means we can attract an audience that would prefer to watch a shorter film as opposed to a long blockbuster.

An added benefit of us making a crime film could be another potential audience. Aspiring police officers, detectives and other such roles may enjoy the film as it gives them an idea of what kind of cases they may end up being assigned to later in life, even though it's probable they'll never have to tackle a case like this one. They may want to fantasize about their potential career, so this film would be an excellent way of attracting that specific audience.

Besides those two, our film would also just, rather simply, attract those who just enjoy a good crime film from time to time. Some of the most successful crime films in history have been based around the criminals (films or TV series' based around the police are more popular as TV Crime Drama than films or short films) so the fact our film focuses on the criminals could help attract that large audience, too.

Revised age certificate

Age Rating

after further discussion with the group I have decided to change the age certificate from 12a to 15. This is because the film displays scenes of violence and criminal behaviour.

Audience profile

Our film's target audience:

gender: would appeal more towards a male audience. This is because it doesn't tend to any typical feminine film customs and only features male cast members.

age: 15 to 35 minimal due to the age certificate

ethnicity: Any, as it is unoffencive to any racial group, however its cast is also mainly white so could appeal more to white people.

occupation: college students, full time workers because the would have easy access to viewing a short film and would find the time to do so.

region: Northern setting would appeal to a northern audience however understandably other people
would find it appealing. it also is based on independent warp films as they tend to be gritty and display the grimness of Northern Britain

interests: the film would appeal to people that like films like, snatch, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs. Or British films like shifty, maybe four lions any kind of independent short film.

Analysis of a short film title sequence

The film starts off with a slide-like logo of the production company, Vice. It's a simple, easy way of showing who made the film right at the start, and doesn't require much editing and not a single second of actual filming.

Immediately after, we see nothing but black, but we hear the sound of something metallic being scraped against another metallic object. Shortly after, the shot cuts in to show us a man scratching a knife against a sharpener. It's a simple shot, but it makes us wonder why he's sharpening the knife. The red shirt highlights some kind of danger, but the apron tells us he may be a butcher, or work at some sort of restaurant that serves meat. 

Several seconds of the same shot pass, and it simply cuts immediately to the title. It's nothing fancy, and is incredibly simple, but the immediate cut means you focus your attention on what's happening right now, rather than leave your mind wondering on the past shot.

Again, it immediately cuts to a shot of a meat cleaver being chopped down on some meat. This confirms that the man works at some kind of food establishment. It seems innocent enough, but, after seeing the film in its entirety, you may doubt it is animal meat and does not prove this man is necessarily innocent. Again, this is a simple, but effective, shot.

In a similar fashion to the previous title, it immediately cuts to this slide, keeping is from thinking about the shot too hard. The fact it says "Based on a true story" may unnerve some people, and get people thinking.

Another short, simple shot, similar to the previous two.

The last shot in the title sequence, this slide adds some humour right at the end, and may calm down some of the more paranoid viewers. However, it may still leave doubt in some people's minds, as it may still be based on actual events, albeit loosely. 

In conclusion, this title sequence is effective and simple. It avoids being needlessly complicated, and focuses entirely on what people need or want to see, and even sets the tone for the film, a sort of grim dark comedy, involving knives, potential cannibalism, and a some what true story.

Potential List of Tricky Shots

Here is a list of 'tricky' shots that we could use in our film:

• Selective colour edit  - To reveal the red rubber band on the money, it could be good to show it in a black and white flashback, with a selective colour effect showing the red rubber band wrapped around the money to help bring the audience's attention to the rubber band.



This is shown in Sin City where the film was shown in black and white,
except for a few objects where colour was shown.

• Backwards Rewind edit - I think to show the transition from realtime to flashback, a good idea could be for us to reverse the footage, to create an effect that looks like it's going back in time.



This was an example of a backwards rewind edit that was used in Christopher Nolan's 'Memento'. Nolan used forward playing sounds in this shot. To capture the bullet going backwards, it had to be dropped infront of the camera, but it kept going out of frame.Instead, Nolan had to blow the bullet out of the frame, but the filming crew shot it in reverse. Because of this they had to make an optical copy and reverse the shot to make it go forward again.

• Pull Focus - At the end of the film, when the guy is walking past the shop he robs and the money is revealed, I think we could show the lost money by using a pull focus, to slowly reveal the money to the audience

This is an example of a pull focus, used in Dexter. In this shot, Dexter is shown to be in focus in the background, whilst Elway is shown to be out of focus. When Dexter walks out of shot, the camera shifts the focus to show Elway as being in focus, whilst the background goes out of focus.

• Trunk Shot - A trademark of film maker Quentin Tarantino, I feel like this would be an ideal shot to introduce the characters. A trunk shot is shot from inside a car's boot whilst looking up to the characters. In addition to this, I think it would be a good idea at the start of the film to have the sound muffled whilst the boot is closed. This shot could potentially be tricky for our group to accomplish in our short film because fitting a camera inside a car boot could be difficult. Also, if we chose to do the muffled sound effect, this would require extensive knowledge of Final Cut.

This is an example of a trunk shot used in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. It shows the characters in a low angle shot looking into a car's boot. It is a common occurance amongst Quentin Tarantino's films.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1: Are you male or female?

2: What is your age?

3: Where would you expect this film to be shown?

4: Would you watch this film?

5: Who do you think would enjoy this film more, a man or a woman?

6: Have you seen a short film similar to this one?

7: If yes where?

8: What do you think the age rating would be for this film?

9:

Research into Title Sequences

Title sequences are extremely important in introducing the cast and characters of a film. It is also convention for title sequence to set the tone and vibe of a film, as well as suggesting the direction that the film is going in. As well as this, title credits need to capture its audience's attention - making them want to carry on watching the film.

Reservoir Dogs uses mid-shots to introduce the film's cast, as well as the
soundtrack which sets the film's mood.

This is usually supported by the soundtrack that accompanies the title credits. Again, it helps to establish the film's atmosphere.

Originally, in early films it was conventional for films to have a simple rolling credits at the beginning of the film. However, as the technology in films progressed, design was incorporated into title credits to create a more aesthetically-rich title credits. For example, David Fincher's 'se7en' title credits was very successful in setting an eerie, suspenseful atmosphere, as well as introducing a mysterious character - hooking the audience from the start.

Se7en's thrilling and creepy title credits were successful in dragging the audience into the film's bleak universe.

Final storyline

Two guys are dealing with money. They are counting money and realise they are missing some. They were missing £100. The symbol on money was red rubber band around it as thats how the shop marked the money in £100. They are questioning each other about who took the money. They realise that after they stole it from shop only them two had it. One of them must have took the lost money.

The flashback happens and audience see bits of what happen. As this happens the thief's starting to remember more of what happen. GuyA soon realise that while escaping the crime scene he drops the money wad.

GuyA, afraid to tell the boss that he dropped some cash plays coy and denies losing any money. after arguing for a while the two draw their guns on each other and after a moment of tension the underling shoots the boss in a moment of panic.

Afterwards the underling leaves and walks past the shop he robbed, the camera stops following him for a moment and shows the money wad on the ground. 

A random person comes along and picks it up. 

Credits roll.

Possible distributor for our film

A possible distributor for our film could be the independent short film distributor Short of the Week.

Short of the Week takes the best independent short films and uploads them to their site for all to see, free of charge. They don't just upload a single genre of film, but instead upload all kinds, from comedy to crime film.

This would be perfect for our short film, since, if it was made well enough, we could have it uploaded to the site and it would likely receive more views than some random, hastily made site.

They would also be able to promote the film to other people through Facebook, Twitter, Emails and other forms of social networking, meaning they could help advertise the film for us.

Short of the Week promotes films trying to get crowd funding on sites such as kickstarter, so if we attempted to receive crowd funding, this could help us as well.

Similar Film

Similar Film

http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2013/03/14/the-ellington-kid/



''IN A TYPICAL SOUTH LONDON KEBAB SHOP, NATHAN EXPLAINS TO BEEFY WHY HE REALLY SHOULDN’T EAT THE BURGERS''


I have found this short movie online. This movie is really similar to our movie in a sense of actors and mise en scene and the genre of the movie.  This movie gets 4.5/5 stars on shortoftheweek site. From this movie i can really relate to this movie and get really good ideas.

Firstly, i like the idea of the guy telling story and as he does it goes back and fourth to what he says and the audience see it. I think that is a good idea and makes it clear for audience. I'm hoping we can use that technique in our movie.

                             

 Here we can see him running and turning behind. At that point the guys in cafe tell the story simultaneously. This gives audience a feel exactly what is happening as they get visual and verbal explanation.

Then, when another action happens the camera shots back to guys in cafe. This emphasises that they are still talking about relevant thing.
Then it shots back to guy doing what they just said which is turning around corner.

Then it shots back to guy doing what they just said which is turning around corner.

Here you can see the guy who works in the kebab shop. He is looking like he is just serving customers but in the next scene you can see he is getting ready to combat the gang.

Here you can see that he is getting ready and picking a knife up. If the audience didn't know someone is robbing the shop the wouldn't think this scene is wrong. Because he usually uses knife in his work it looks like its just part of his job.

He is then gone to turn the open sign around. This is something we were going to use in our movie. I think its a good idea as it shows that no customers will be able to come in.

Research into Similar Films

Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantino's debut film and was hailed 'The best independent film' of all time by Empire. It became a cult classic, showcasing a group of thieves reacting to the aftermath of a jewellery heist gone wrong and how they suspect one of the group being an undercover cop.

The opening slow-motion sequence became an iconic scene in the history of films, as the film was praised for its glamorous violent nature, and it's references to pop-culture.

As well as this, it also features a stand-off scene like in intend on having in our film.

Reservoir Dogs received a 91% score on RottenTomatoes and a 77/100 score on MetaCrtitic and made just over $14 million.

The Usual Suspects

The usual suspects features a non-linnear story as a survivor of a massacre on a ship is interrogated as to what happened on the boat. The survivor uses a series of flashbacks and narration to explain how the events unfolded.

The budget for the film was $6 million and the film made $23 million at the box office.

After securing initial budgeting problems because most studios thought the non-linnear storyline and large amounts of dialogue would be hard to make, Bryan Singer attempted to cast several actors. Kevin Spacey  agreed to be part of the film after seeing Singer's earlier work (his character was also wrote with Spacey in mind). Robert De Niro and Al Pacino both rejected the film and the film's fate was sealed when Chaz Palminteri was casted as Kujan as Palminteri was seen as a high-profile actor after his work in A Bronx Tale.

The Usual Suspect was marketed in a 'word of mouth campaign' relying on consumers to promote the film because of the film's relatively small budget.

The film was met with widespread critical acclaim by critics and its audience and it received a 89% rating on RottenTomatoes and a 77-rated MetaScore.

Memento


Memento was another similar film to our film ideas in that the film uses flashbacks to form a non-linnear story. I feel like this is a good way of entertaining an audience because it makes the film unpredictable.

The film shows a man with short term memory loss try to cope with losing his wife whilst try and find the person who shot her. To get around his disability, he uses a series of 'prompts' to trigger his memory, such as tattoos and photos.

Memento has a $5 million budget and made $40 million at the box office. The film released and received a 92% rating on RottenTomatoes and a 80/100 rating on MetaCritic.

The Town

The Town is  also somewhat similar to our film because it contains a heist.  I think we could use aspects of the first heist in our film, such as using the CCTV security cameras to make the film more dramatic. Also, during this scene the camera frequently cuts to the clock. This helps to build tension during the heist scene.

http://vimeo.com/27501438

Research into a similar film (my 1st film idea)

The Shawshank Redemption 

The Shawshank Redemption if a film about a wrongly convicted banker who is sent to shawshank prison.
The character in my story line deserves to be in prison and is not based off Andy Dufresne but rather off the old prisoner that commits suicide after becoming institutionalised. I chose this character over the main character because it fits the plot of my film better. The Shawshank Redemption is similar to my film as it includes  themes of institutionalisation and crime.









A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is a film about a distopian future Britain in which a charismatic delinquent, Alex, is the leader of an ultra violent gang of youths who is put in prison after accidentally murdering a woman in her own house whilst attempting to rob it. While in prison Alex volunteers to be a test subject for an experimental method of rehabilitation which involves a form of mild indoctrination that gives him an aversion to ultra violent acts. upon his release, aspects of his pasts begin to weigh heavily on him as he is kicked out of his home, beaten by both former victims and friends and is finally driven to attempt suicide after accidentally seeking refuge in one of his former victims house. this is similar to my storyline as it links to how my character is treat upon his release from prison and what his life was like before he is incarcerated.

Age Certificate

after researching the differences in age certificates I believe that our film would receive the age rating of 12A:















This is because the film shows:

• violence but not an excessive amount nor is it too graphic.
• some strong language (potentially)
• a tense and unpleasant undertone
• displays of dangerous behaviour

This however can be revised and changed if the group feels it to be incorrect. 

Crime Genre

Crime genre research.

The crime genre is one of the oldest, most popular genres across all forms of media, not just film. The nature of crime films allows for a large number of different stories to be told, and provides plenty of opportunity for social commentary, regarding the police, justice system or many other factors that may contribute or prevent real life crime.

Usually focusing on the criminal's side of the story, crime films can be as simple as a bank heist, to a much more complex story involving crime families, double crossings and plot twists. They're often very stylistic, and can either glorify crime or, in the case of Bonnie and Clyde, it can make the prospect of crime seem rather horrifying.

It has a number of sub-genres, including:

Crime comedies - A combination of both the crime and comedy genre, they usually focus on the ineptitude of a group of criminals or law enforcement personnel.

Crime Thrillers - Usually a thriller where the main focus is crime. It usually involves numerous plot twists and limited time for the protagonists of the story.

Film Noir - Popular in the 40s and 50s, they often follow detectives or private investigators as they try to solve a crime. It even has its own sub-genres, such as Sci-fi noir.

Heist Films - They usually follow a group of criminals who attempt to commit a robbery, and may even include what happens afterwards and the consequences of their actions.

Mob Films - They usually focus on American crime families or a specific member of said families. They are often brutal, gritty and rather unpleasant due to the source material.

research into genre: crime fiction/crime

Research: Crime

The base concept of a crime film typically follow a group of individuals who operate around the law or it follows a police officer who is trying to stop a particular organisation. Crime films often feature either an anti-hero, a grizzled law enforcement officer with a dark past or disregard for the rules, or a crime lord as the protagonist who usually comes to an unfortunate end.
Often crime ad thriller overlap. However thrillers often include a heavy amount of fiction, are often unbelievable and don't show much truth into the criminal underground. On the other hand crime is often gritty, unpleasantly violent and are very close to what actually happens to people who get involved with the mafia.

Crime-Thriller film is a sub-genre that incorporates the suspenseful aspects of a thriller with a crime film plot. This sub-genre's plot usually centers on a serial killer, murderer, robbery or manhunt. As opposed to traditional crime films, the storyline focuses both around the criminal and the protagonist. Crime-Thrillers use both action and psychological aspects to build tension and suspense.

Examples: The Usual Suspects, The Fugitive, Jagged Edge.

CRIME Sub-genres

Mob/Gangster

Mob/Gangster films are a sub-genre of crime films that center on organized crime or the mafia. Often the plot revolves around the rise and fall of an organized crime leader. Many Gangster films explore the destructive nature of organized crime, while others attempt to show the humanity of the individual characters.

Examples: Goodfellas, Scarface, The Departed.

Film-Noir

Film-Noir is not simply a genre, but rather a term for a distinct, stylistic type of crime drama that was popular throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Film-Noir is characterized by a black-and-white visual style and stark lighting effects. The main character is usually a cynical hero. Film-Noir relies on a narrative voice and various flashbacks to explain the intricate plot.

Examples: Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Sweet Smell of Success.

Neo-Noir

Neo-Noir refers to modern film that takes on the characteristics of Film-Noir. Modern updates are made within Neo-Noir in terms of media and visual elements. Neo-Noir films also update themes and content to fit with current society.

Examples: Chinatown, Sin City, L.A. Confidential.

Research into Genre: Crime Film Subgenres

Crime films are films which showcase criminals and their lives.  Crime films are mostly fast-paced and glamorise the crime lifestyle.

One of the reasons why crime films attract a large audience is because it offers an escape into the thrilling world of crime.

There are many subgenres within the crime film genre. Some include:

• Heist Films - The Town, Heat, Resevoir Dogs
• Mob Films - The Godfather, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco
• Crime Thrillers - Se7en, Silence of the Lambs
• Crime Comedies - In Bruges, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Heist Films

Heist films are often centred around a group of criminals who specialise in theft or robbery. As well as this, many heist films show the consequences of the risky life the criminals have. Most heist films revolve around a 3-part structure - The preparation for the heist, the carrying out of the heist and the consequences of the heist. In addition to this, many heist films feature a nemesis that the film's characters most overcome or beat

Mob Films

Mob films are based around organised crime, and in particular, the mafia. Mob films became hugely popular in the 70s with The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. There was a resurge of Mob films in the 90s, with Martin Scorsese being instrumental in this after directing Goodfellas and Casino. As well as this, mob films saw some actors becoming 'typecasted' for their roles. For example, Robert De Niro is well known for his roles in Goodfellas, Casino, The Godfather Part II where he portrays figures involved in crime. In addition to this, Al Pacino could be seen as being typecasted for his roles in mob films. Al Pacino starred in mob films such as The Godfather trilogy, Scarface, Donnie Brasco and Carlito's Way.

Crime Thrillers

Traditional thriller films can often combine with crime films. The main purpose of Crime Thrillers are to excite the audience by using suspense. The most notable examples include Se7en and Silence of the Lambs. These films are alike in that they show an insane, psychopathic character and the pursuit of the protaganists and the struggles they have to overcome to put an end to the psychopath's madness.

Crime Comedies

Despite being centred around crime, crime comedies often portray a darker, but humorous side to crime,  with many films focusing on incompetent characters and dark humour. For example, In Bruges was about 2 hitmen being told to go to Bruges after a 'job' goes horribly wrong, showing Colin Farrell's disapproval at the city he finds himself in.  

Genre research- Crime

Crime

As we have decided we are going to do crime genre I will firstly look at crime in general and then look into different sub-genre that will make up my short film.

The crime genre deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. The most of crime movies share similar structure, however not all.

They usually have a criminal who breaks law to get reward or sometimes help others.The reasons are different each time but mostly money matter.

The detectives or 'good guys' are looking for them and usually are involved in a movie. However, sometimes they are left out of movie for most of the time until very end. The criminals often don't get away with their crimes unless their crime is in a good reason. For example if they are robbing bank to help his father they are more likely to get away.

Crime-thriller

Conventions of Crime Thriller Genre

Conventions of a general thriller film

- Suspicion                  - Enigmas                                       - Extraordinary events
- Drama                       - Investigation                                - Antagonist in danger
- Fast Pace                  - Antagonist & Protagonist            - Storyline that requires thinking
- Crime                         - Cliffhanger                                  - Complex Narrative

What would the audience expect:

Within a thriller film, the audience expect the film to meet many conventions. The reason for this is because the conventions of the thriller genre is what makes up the genre itself. If the film dosen't meet the conventions of the genre, then it wouldnt count as a thriller genre, therefore it wouldn't meet the expectations of the audience. An example of a thing that the audience may expect is most likely to be a lot of drama and investigation. The reason for this is because within a thriller genre, there is usually a good person as well as a bad person. The bad person usually does something wrong and it causes investigation by the good person. Another example of something that the audience may expect is a complex narrative. For example, 'North by Northwest,' had a storyline which was complex because it had the audience wondering what was going on due to the fact that one of the characters were identified incorrectly. This is something that is expected within a thriller genre because it creates enigmas for the audience and makes them ask questions.

What the audience would not expect:

I personally believe that in a thriller genre, the audience wouldn't expect anything happy to happen until the end. The reason as to why i would say that nothing good will happen until the end is because at the end, the antagonist would have usually been found or exposed and they usually die in most thriller films. Another thing that i wouldn't expect in the thriller genre is if the antagonist is never revealed. I believe that there is only a certain amount of time in which the antagonist can hide for, i believe that before the end, its important for the protagonist to be revealed.

Using both crime genre and crime-thriller sub-genre I got clear idea on what is expected from this kind of movie. I will try to get some of this information used in our movie as that way, the movie will follow a same structure. This will make audience clear on what they are watching.

Film Idea

Film Idea

Film A:

Two guys are dealing with money. They are counting money and realise they are missing some. They were missing £100. The symbol on money was red rubber band around it as thats how the shop marked the money in £100. They are questioning each other about who took the money. They realise that after they stole it from shop only them two had it. One of them must have took the lost money.

The flashback happens and audience see bits of what happen. As this happens the thief's starting to remember more of what happen. GuyA soon realise that on the way to the house they have met a mate and talked for a bit they showed him the money.

They went to look for him and tried to find him. Once they meet him they argue and kick off. Once they walkaway from his house the guys split up and go separate ways.

The guyA goes to dealer to buy some drugs and pays with £100 with red rubber band on. This shows that he is the one who stole the money and tried to get another person blamed. 

Film B:

The movie starts with main character in a interrogation room getting asked questions about theft. He leaves. On his way home he meets his gang mates and talks. They ask him to pay back what he owed them from last robbery but he explains that he got chased by police he had to drop the money and drugs. They give him 24hours to find money and pay back or his life is in danger. He needs to go back and remember where and how he dropped the money and drugs and see if he can gets them back. 

He goes back to riverside where he left the money and see if its there. Thankfully the bag is there. But there is twist, drugs are there but money are missing. 

Later that afternoon he goes to meet his gang and explains to them. They are about to punch him they say' Well Done'. He is confused and asks 'What for?' 

The gang members explain to him that as he is new in the gang they needed to find a way to see if he is trust wordy. They took the money but wanted to see if he will be honest and comes clean on what happens.

The movie ends in him getting ready for another robbery. 

Film ideas

Film one:

criminal is put in jail, whilst in jail the criminal reforms, upon his release the people he was affiliated with have all moved on and forgotten about him enraged by the fact that he has lost the thing that he was looking forward to seeing has disappeared falls back into all routines and begins a crime spree that was worse than anything he's ever done before.

Film 2:

The main character lives a life without worries in the utopian monolith that stand as a last bastion of civilised life, while the most of what is left of society suffers in the uncivilised wastes of the real world. the main character goes out of the monolith to experience life outside utopia and learns of the struggles of wasteland life. upon his return to the monolith he is hated by the leaders for his idea that it would be a good idea to let some outsiders in which could lead to either a twist or his execution.


both of these ideas are basic and aspects could be changed to fit the lack of funding or the implausibility of the story line.

Film ideas.

Several decades into the future, and mankind has all but destroyed itself fighting for the last few resources left on the planet. The remains of humankind are forced to survive in the crudest and most primitive of ways, salvaging what little they can from their old lives. 

The main character is a simple person trying to survive as long as possible. As he is preparing his first meal in quite a while, he notices some people approaching. He prepares himself for the worst, and sets various traps, and surprises to deter those who would kill him.

After dispatching of his foes, he searches their bodies. He finds a wanted poster with a picture of his face and his name. The poster reveals that the main character is wanted for multiple accounts of murder and cannibilism.

My Film Ideas

Film Idea 1:

A guy wakes up with a stack / briefcase of money and drugs and has no recollection of how he got them.

The film shows him piecing together and finding out how he got to where he was and how he got the money / drugs.

Initially the character is shown to be behind on his bills and struggling with money. Walking out of his flat, he finds a postman delivering a parcel. Seeing a window of opportunity, he steals the postman's unattended postbag.

After escaping the scene, the character opens the stolen goods, finding a package of drugs.

Quickly getting paranoid he seeks to offload it to a local dealer. Freaking out, he takes some of the drugs and his mind enters into a blur.

Fast-foward to the beginning of the film, he reads a text message from the drug dealer threatening him and, after a hazy flashback, comes to the conclusion that he must have ripped off the dealer.

Then, there is a knock at the door.




Film Ideas 2:

A guy walks in on his flatmate preparing for a drug deal. Fearing he might snitch,  the flatmate makes the guy do the drug deal for him. The guy does the deal and returns home to find his flat raided by the police and his housemate missing.

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