casting

I need to find a male who is broad, tall and looks old. I need this because when you put a tall broad man next to a small boy the comparison shows a range in gangs. This idea is taken from the research of films because i always come across a big man in a gang and it is the first person i notice when viewing it. I viewed the film reservoir dogs this helped me think about the right kind of people to choose based on the genre of the gang.

In the film props such as sunglasses and black suites show the trademark for this gang of organized crime, but the moral is that one of them is an undercover policeman. This gives us the impression that looks aren't everything in gangs and they can be deceived. I am thinking about making one of the smaller characters in my film to be a snake in the grass to show small as a metaphor for being the sly one, and the big nasty looking man is innocent and miss understood because he is generally a nice 

person but he still commits crimes involved with his gang.

My characters are going to be made to look smart and classy but have a feel of being scruffy and messy personalities at the same time. 

New idea

I have come up with a new idea to help me pot-ray my ideas in a way that i can actually feel like i have put put my all in. I enjoy posts on blogger but i never feel like my idea is fully understand, to achieve this i have decided to write myself a script and record myself talking into a camera explaining my ideas as i am a very upfront comunitive person. As i have been told to make my posts more creative this is a good way that i can do this. If i put my full effort in i could edit these videos so they are enjoyable for everyone to view. For influence and ideas i will study youtube channels where they edit the film of themselfes talking into a camera, once i have mastered the tricks to do this i can make them look professional and hopefully have a feed of videos coming into my blog frequently. I have taken to this idea like a duck to water because it fits my personality and i am pleased that i can advertise my idea to its full capacity.

trailer research - lock stock and two smoking barrels

Watching the trailer for this film i noticed two main factors of why it stands out. The non diegetic music is continuos and this makes the trailer simple to view and you don't feel like it is too fast too keep up with. Another factor to make this trailer easy to watch and up beat it when the last few seconds of a scene edited in is fast forwarded to make it have a full effect a

nd get you buzzing to see the film.

I want to create my trailer with influences from this film as this is an old school looking gang, this opens my eyes to how gadgets and clothing shows the change in time i can use this trailer as a more detailed timeline to how gangs are shown in there generation.

Deciding The Genre

Choosing drama as my genre of re- make of a trailer took allot of consideration, I will be explaining my reasons as to why I chose this particular genre. I believe that drama has a wider range of options to create a good trailer. For instance in a film of drama you can have a simple prop such as a cigarette that can play a major role in the up coming affect of drama. Deciding a genre becomes more simple when you view a handful of film trailers for each genre, after doing this i still wanted to concentrate on drama. Reasons for this are because i think that in drama other elements are included such as romance, comedy and possibly fair amounts of violence. This potentially gives us more to work with, more reasons for mis en scene, cinematography and other micro aspects to be included.

overview of genre in trailers

I have looked at trailers such as 'Aliens' for sci-fi, i have looked at 'The Haunting in Connecticut' and for drama i am looking at 'The Bucket List'

The Haunting in Connecticut trailer is around a few minutes long and from the start it builds suspence using music that starts of very quite and gradually gets louder and duanting, i believe this is something only horror films would be able to use because the suspence is used to scare, frighten or adgitate the audeince. If this technique was used in another genre it would not pull off the same affect. This particular trailer could not be recondnised in the aspect of its genre just by viewing the first few seconds as it could be mistaken for a drama, this is where micro aspects come into play such as mis en scene. Props including clothing give us a clear view that the film is set in the 80's as the clothes the dad wears are very stereotypical such as the large collars seen on his coat which were very popular in the late 70's and early 80's on top of this the family is wealthy and owns a new model of a car made in the 70s.

It is very important to take in all these points when evaluating how a trailer can be remade. Aliens is a sci-fi film so we look at how he micro aspects feed into this differently, props would automatically be different the angles of the cameras would be wider to show spaceships full capacity.

initial ideas gang culture 60s 70s

Original Gangs

I have decided to combine two gang cultures from different time settings in the same film, the trailer will show the differences and similarities. The 60s aspect will be filmed in black and white and the modern one will be in color. My reasons for this are that i want to concentrate on the aspects of modern props such as fashion, cars and guns as apposed to knifes, trademark things that makes one gang member recognizable such as a tattoo.

research for gang films

The films i have viewed to educate myself and get some more ideas for how micro aspects are used to show gang culture in a drama. The first film is a bbc independent film 'shifty' it portrays the life of a drug dealer in london and the effects it has on the people\family around him crushing his life, the moral of the story is to show its never too late to escape the catastrophe that crime offers. This film is not a drama it is a thriller but this gives me a better overview of gang culture and how it is shown in films.

Things i have noticed throughout the film that show the boy is making money, or high up in his game are things like shoes, accent urban speech and jewelry. Being raised in a gritty area the main character 'shifty' believes he has made something of himself, but an old friend comes back to visit to give him a chance at a new life. Now on the new character we see a rather normal choice of clothing showing a decent up bringing, although this is false. This film is set in 2008 which is beneficial to me because i need to see what modern gang culture truly consists of. 

The second film i have chosen to use as development is 'This Is England' which is an older film and is set in an older time, a different generation which excites me because i can now visualize the differences of culture in the same place but a different time. This film is set in the 1960's , i like the fashion that was used in this time era and how someone is recognized by i tattoo or brand of clothing.