PROS AND CONS

WITH MAKING A GANGSTER FILM TRAILER..
Pros:

- Costumes are day-to-day clothes; smart/casual wear with trench coats, or other long coats – these are comonly found in the wardrobe of the average male therefore there is no need to purchase new costumes,
- Locations are readily available – backstreet loactions, perhaps a view of the london skyline,
- No special effects needed as British Gangster films are created in a realist style
- Characters would include an average looking middle-aged man, aged 30-45 years old – this is a pro as normal or little known actors would be used to play the characters due to the realist style,

Cons:
- Often weapons such as guns are widely used in this genre of film – convincing replicas are difficult to source
- We need to make sure we have the right location, as our film is based around flash cars, speed boats and harbours. Athough we have a member of the group who has access to these..

GENRE RESEARCH

Gangster films tend to be developed around an urban lifestyle, with characters that operate outside the law. The stories are normally based on the life of a crime figure, or gangster, or they tell the story of the rise and fall of a particular gang. Gangster films are often set in large, crowded cities, specifically the back streets of the city. However there is also the stereotype that gangsters are very wealthy, therefore some gangster films are set in large mansions on the outskirts of a city.


A stereotype for film gangsters tends to be that they are immoral, street-smart, materialistic, and other characteristics of this type. A common plot characteristic is rivalry with other criminals in gangster warfare. Crime plots also include a high authority such as the police force or special agents in an attempt to apprehend the gangster.


Many gangster films are morality stories. For example, a member of a poor immigrant family tries to pursuit wealth and success and so takes the route of crime to gain this. In this story, he will make friends, often gangsters, and also make enemies. The plot would normally involve the main character performing some form of task, which will tend to involve gaining money, and there will be an enemy, either in the form of the police, or another gangster, or sometimes both, trying to stop the character.


As the storyline is quite simple, we can think of a creative one relatively easily, and due to where we live and the availability of expensive cars and a boat we have, we can follow the common convention of Gangster films.

POSSIBLE SETTINGS

The common setting in a Gangster film is backstreets of a big city, or in general, an urban setting. Good locations for the main part, would be Redhill, Reigate, or if we can't find an ideal setting there, London has many perfect places for us. For one part, we need to film the boat so clearly we need a harbour or something similar. We have this as one of our group members has a boat so we will film there.

ALLOCATING TASKS.

Synopsis: is decided carefully as a group.
Poster design: Tristam
Poster designing by computer: Tristam
Shot list: Calum and Nick will complete two drafts.
Pictures: The majority of the pictures will be taken by Tristam, but any taken by anyone else in the group will be accepted.
Production Company logos: will be designed by Piers and Calum they will create a few designs and as a group we will decide on our favourite.
Cast: we will decide this as a group, we will then take pictures of them individually and upload them.
Story board: This will be designed mainly by nick but it will be a group effort.

TARGET AUDIENCE (final)

We have decided that our target audience would be males from 15-16, to around 25. The reason for this is that, as a relatively action filled film, generally more males prefer these. The reason for the lower age being 15-16, is that the storyline, though not too complexed, may be difficult to understand for lower ages, and also there will be violence as this is a convention for Gangster films. The reason for the higher age being around 25 is that, through our research, we have noticed that audiences of a higher age tend to look for a film with more substance and a deeper meaning, whereas our film is more action based and follows a storyline where the audience would rarely have to look for a deeper meaning. Due to these factors, the film certificate would most likely be a 15, however, depending on any changes we decide to make, it could be shifted up to an 18.

PROPER TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

THIS IS MY TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE EMPIRE MAGAZINE FRONT COVER THAT WE AS A GROUP WANT TO AIM TO CREATE.
(BLOGGER HAD ISSUES THAT WASENT OUR PROBLEM - THIS IS WHY THIS IMAGE IS POSTED MORE BELLOW IN THE BLOG, BUT AT LEAST WITH THIS ONE YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE GOT OUR IDEAS FROM)

DEVELOPMENT

FINAL MAGAZINE COVER

This is our final magazine idea for our gangster film trailer. we have called the magazine 'Universal' - called it this was a group effort. we got the ideas from the film magazine cover of Empire, and have done simular design layout ideas. we have used a superimpossed image of the main character (female) in our film to cover some of our 'Universal' title. Using the city skyline lower down the magazine cover - draws the readers into the title more than the image.

we have an image from http://www.google.com/ to use as our magazine barcode for the cover. using a real but random barcode makes the magazine cover more realistic. bellow is the one we have chosen.

(final barcode)