3rd film opening

The Godfather

The Godfather has fantastic lighting at the beginning as the light only comes from above, leaving the rest of the room in darkness, focusing on only one man in this convocation. The music helps set the mood as well, with the sound bridge used at the beginning. I picked the Godfather as it has every thing to do with gangsters and the lighting at the beginning is just what we want in our film, focusing on one man (the victim). There's a very good slow zoom out from the guys face, we used this in our film showing time, tension and drama as in our film he's trying to break free.

2nd film opening

The A-team


In the A-team, they have a very similar opening to our film as there's a man tied up, he is captured and is being interogated, the lighting in this scene is like ours as we have little light coming in our's in a dark room while there's has little light coming in through the roof of the warehouse, but there's avoids the victim leaving him in the dark so we don't see who the victim is until the later when he brakes out. the setting is like ours as well as this man is in an old, run down warehouse in a discrete location, whereas our location is also in a discrete place so no one can hear our victim. Like our film there is drama as we get our victims finger cut off while the A-team has there's victim almost shot, again like our film the henchmen leave the victim and some how the victim breaks free, but in the A-team they leave there victim to die where as we just leave him knocked out.

Things we couldn't add in our film

In the original idea we had the victim having flashbacks showing glimpses of what had happened to him and how he got here, but we couldn't add it in as our film went over the 2 minuet mark. We also was going to show the henchmen walking back into the room when the victim broken out to add more tension and keep the audience hooked, but again we had gone over the 2 minuet mark.

The storyboard

The Location

                                                                        The Dark room

This is our location of where we shot, as you can see it is very small which was a problem for us as we couldn't get the shots we wanted in, but it did help make our film look realistic.

The Script

Written by Justin Edlagan

Concept by Arjun Johal and Seb Benge 

Shot over a table with torturing equipment

Tracking shot of man tied to a chair with a bag over his head

Tracking shot behind the chair showing his hands tied up

Gang member 1: [lifts bag off victims head and hits him]

Victim: POV shot of him being hit by Gang member 1 (x2)

Gang member 1: "Where is it!"

Victim: "Wheres what!" [Spits out blood]

Gang member 1: "The CD!"

Gang member 1: [Grabs Victims neck and threatens to punch him]

Victim: "Arrgh get off!"

Over the shoulder shot of the Victim as Gang member 2 walks in followed by the Boss

Boss: "The CD!"

Victim: "I don't have it!" (In pain and unconsious)

Boss: [Walks over to Victim]

Boss: [Boss looks over to table and picks up a hack saw]

Boss: "Let's wake you up then" [Runs fingers down the blade of the saw]

Boss: [Hands over the hack saw to Gang member 1]

Gang member 1: [Walks around to the back of the Victim]

Victim: [Looking scared and it wondering on what is happening]

Gang member 1: [Begins sawing away at the Victims thumb]

Victim: "AARRRGGGH!!...AARRRGGHHH!!"

[Blood drips onto floor]

Gang member 1: [Throws tumb onto the table]

[Shot of thumb landing on the table]

Boss: [Walks over to the Victim and bends down]

Boss: "Are you awake now?"

Victim: [Spits in Bosses face]

Boss: [Starts to throw a series of punches]

Boss: "Get a bat and break his legs!"

[Boss leaves with Gang Member 1 and 2]

[Shot of Victim in chair slowly zooming out as he breaks free]

[Rope drops to the floor and the film ends]

Casting

Casting the actors was hard as we needed someone who was brilliant at acting as they would have to act in much pain to make the cutting of the finger seem realistic to the audience, for casting the roll of the boss we needed someone who looked the part, we also needed some henchmen so we need them to look like someone who you wouldn't like to meet in a dark ally. There wasn't much dialogue so we didn't need to give audition but only for the role of the victim as we needed the best of the best to act as if their finger is being cut off.

Risk assessment

When we was filming, we had a few risks as when we was cutting the victumes finger off, we could of by mistake actully cut the actor or when the boss runs his finger along the weapon, he could of cut himself, a way we got over this is that we had a member of staff watching over us when we shot thoughs secens.