Props and costume

Weapons :

Shuriken

M16a4

Costume:

In the opening sequence, and throughout the whole of the story line, costume plays an important role to show which person belongs to each gang. We are trying to show the difference between the black ethnic background and their apparel, alongside the asian ethnic background and their apparel as well.

The Saints :

Their main symbol or "Tag" is the fleur de lys

This symbol shows that this gang is wealthy as it is commonly used on old victorian buildings, and wallpapers that appear in very wealthy environments.

Typical clothing of The Saints, this gang would normally wear casual clothes, consisting of hoodies and tracksuit bottoms, as this type of clothing best suits them.

Black Stars

This is their main emblem, as it represents the weaponry they most likely use, which is the shuriken, which is a small but lethal weapon, also describing the gang, as they are as clean cut as this emblem is.

Their attire consists of expensive designer labels, and smart outfits, sometimes with suits, and Fedora's.

Mike Bell

Locations

Sofa: in sitting room this is where (sam mooney) wakes up in the start of the sequence. The main character is introduced.







Gateway to front door. This location is where the final scences will take place, building up to the climax of the title sequence. Mike is introduced in this location outside Sams house















Bathroom & Bedroom








Lord focho

Title production

We used www.dafont.com and photoshop to produce a suitable title style for our film name. At www.dafont.com there are a variety of font styles and colours to choose from. We used the graffiti style to emphasize on the ghetto gangster life. We took a picture of a fire ball from google as it shows the conflict between the two gangs. The title was then merged into the fire ball picture.

Lord and Mike

In this test video, I tested out an effect on final cut pro, where by doing this it will give a sort of distorted effect at the beginning of the frame.

Mike

Treatment

Title : My Turf

Outline of Opening sequence. Its 6:59 am the alarm clock goes off and the main character Sam Mooney (Lord Focho) wakes up from the sofa and turns the alarm off. He sits down in tank top and boxers, scratches his head and sighs. He washes his face in the bath and looks at himself in the mirror. He then goes for exercise in the sitting room. He does some press-ups while having a fag revealing his gang tattoo on his arm. After the workout Sam opens the wardrobe in his room and picks the clothes he wants to wear.Then he looks into the mirror and fix his bandana. Sam later walks out of his front door and encounters Michael Sying (Mike Bell) scared for his life he pulls out his pistol. too little too late same gets brutally shot and knifed.

Titles
Sea view Pictures

Lord Focho

Mike Bell

Swift Production

Presents

My Turf

Certificate:

15 certificate due to use of strong language, drugs and voilence.

Character description:

Sam Mooney (Lord Focho) Member of 'The Saints' gang. 18 years old Drug Dealer. Dropped out of university because he couldn't afford or be sponsored. Joined the Saints Gang to make money. He is respected around the area and feard for his agressive nature.

Michael Sying (Mike Bell)A member of 'The Black Star' gang. 19 years of age is a proffesional assasin. unlike 'The saints' gang who are a group of black ghetto drug dealers 'The Black Stars' are a family of Asian thieves.

Audience: The audience for this film will be teenagers and young adults within age range of 15-21. Target audince will be fans of gangster crime film genre like Scar face, Goodfellas etc.

lord Focho

Watchmen Frame Analysis

Watchmen opening sequence is cleverly done to look visually pleasing by use of cinematography and Mise en scene. each frame looks like your reading through the comic book.

Frame 1

Overhead shot of the comedian's blood stained smiley face badge. Sound effect of wind as the camera quickly zooms into an extreme close up then fades to black.

Frame 2

Nite Owl 1 punching a thug at Gothans Opera House and saving Mr and Mrs Wayne . Batman posters on the background. Bob Dylan's 'times are a changing' playing as non diegetic music over the shots throughout the title sequence. On scene camera lights flash onto the characters and sound effect of gun fire then slowly zooms out and fades to black.

Frame 3

Fades from black into light flashes from camera paparazzi into Silk Spectre 1 on steps with cops holding a newspaper headline. 'A lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin production' as titles at center of moving images. camera gradually zooms in then fades to black.

Frame 4

fade out from black revealing The Comedian posing with a captured criminal. 'A Zack Snyder film' title come up on bottom right of the film. sound effects of tommy gun fire. slowly zooms out and fades to black

Frame 5

Nite Owl 2 setting up automatic camera to photograph the watchmen group. The watchmen heroes re all dressed in their outfits representing their ultra ego.

Lord Focho

In this comedy/action film, we are interested in the two gangs, and the way they are outfitted with costume and props, with one gang dressed in very formal clothing, whereas the other gang are dressed in their own casual clothing.


Mike Bell, Lord Focho

Main ideas:

General outline of movie: The movie is a British gangster genre, which revolves around the "Life in the day of" style of a drug dealer. The movie is set in the heart of St. Pauls, Bristol as this gives a general idea of the surrounding area and people. Throughout the film, the main character has various situations leading to conflict with the opposing gang. The two rival gangs are called "The Saints" and "The Black Stars". The two gangs have been tolerant with each other from a long family history. Until the meeting of the two opposing gang members start to have an affair with one of their daughters. Towards the end of the movie, it ends with a brutal killing of the member which catches up with the beginning of the movie.

Mike Bell, Lord Focho

In the film Shifty, it gives a very interesting insight into the a "Life in the day of" style of a drug dealer, how friendship and loyalty has great importance, and that he relies a lot on close friends.


-Mike Bell

In Memento's opening sequence, we are most interested last part of the opening sequence, where the extract is edited to reverse in time, this gives an interested aspect to the movie, as it shows the action he has committed first, then rewinds to show the viewer what the picture is really about.

Mike Bell, Lord Focho

Napoleon Dynamite Opening Credits

The opening credits of Napoleon Dynamite has a very clever composition, as all of the credits are introduced in physical form, rather than the regular digital title sequences seen in most other opening sequences. Taking inspiration from this sequence, we can apply similar properties to our opening sequence.

Mike Bell, Lord Focho