Planning: Treatment

Narrative plot of our title sequence:The narrative of our title sequence is that our investigator re-opens a cold case and sort of task is apart of his normal day to day life. What he does not realise is that he is about to investigate a world that shouldn't be tampered with. The people in which he is about to investigate into find out that he knows what they are up to. So due to this the gangsters are all trying to kill the investigator, so he will be forever silent. They then kidnap him due to many failed attempts, they torture him so that he will give them everything he has found out about them. He does not let go of the most important pieces of information and with the gangsters thinking they have forever silenced him they let him go. The investigator has no real fear of the gangsters so he takes his chances and gives all the information his has of them over to the police. But the police are only able to bring down a few of the gangsters and the ones in which they are able to bring down are not the worst therefore justice has not been served. Meaning there needs to be sequels to this film that will divulge much further into this case and the individuals within it

Target Audience:
The mass audience that we are aiming at for our film is men. This is because we believe they will be more interested in the gangster characters and there gritty lifestyles. As we want the final product to involve car chases, explosions and fighting. Although we do realise women may be interested in it also due to these factors. So we have put women in to be our niche audience as we believe a lot of women will be interested, just not as many when compared to the number of men that will be. We believe our primary audience will have a normal working class lifestyle as this film will be a source of there escapism. We believe that they will be intrigued by violence, that sort of gritty troublesome lifestyle. This is what will interest them in the film. But we think they will be normal law abiding citizens, who would like to rebel but wont ever be likely to. We think there beliefs would be in speaking their minds and doing what they want to do. The risk takers there optimistic and hopefully, but at the same time are consumed by everyday pessimistic attitudes towards work and family life. We believe that there interests are in women, fast cars, drinking at the pub and trying to live on the edge a little. We want them to love our final product we want it to make them be stunned, horrified but exceptionally overwhelmed by excitement and anticipation the whole time. We want them it to become one of there favourite films, a film they can watch many times and still find something new about. Also for them to still feel the same way they did first time round. We are going to make it appeal to them by using recognisable and familiar people, such as Martin Scorsese as the director plus Tom Hanks and Jet Li as the lead roles. This instantly gives them trust and a sense of security to the film. We are going to offer a life of excitement and pure fear ad unpredictability that many of them wish they could have, through the use of our lead roles. We shall entice them with car chases, woman, villains and explosions. Our niche audience we hope will be exactly the same just with slight lifestyle choices and beliefs. Also the male characters within the film will be used to appeal to them. There lifestyle choices will be that of wanting a more exciting and free life. With beliefs about being able to change your own path and being open to have a lot of fun in life.


What will the style of product be?
We will use the forms and conventions to overall portray a very dark and depressing environment. The lighting that will be used will be rather dim, not vasts amounts over the inspector as he is to remain mysterious and unknown throughout the title sequence. The lighting we hope in certain scenes for it to be limited to convey signs of distress and danger. We hope to be able to possibly use filters over some shots to connote a deathly essence and to add tension to the scene. Yet this is a possibility still for the moment we still have to figure out how to do filters, so this idea may have to be lost. The camerawork we would like to use would be that of steady, yet shaky at certain points. As the stillness shall connote someone running for dear life, and the steadiness will connote that they are in control. We shall use a variety of mid shots, over the shoulder shots, close-ups, extreme close-ups, long shots, medium long shots and 3/4 shots. We hope to be able to incorporate a birds eye view and a worms eye view. Again this is still in deliberation as we need to figure out exact settings and locations still. We want our titles typography to be comparable to that of an old type writers. Some kind of official typography that is bold and relatable to that of an inspectors official files. So not necessarily a type writer but in that form. We do not want the titles to be the main focus either as we want the audiences to have more focus on to the footage given rather than of is in it. We are still figuring out ways in which for the text to appear as we could have it being typed on to the screen or it being stamped on to the screen. Something to make the titles original but not too flashy so it steals the limelight away from the footage.

Institutions: We would want our film to be placed rather high up in the film industry. Possible candidates for the distributor would be 20th century fox, Warner brothers, Universal pictures and paramount pictures. As these are just some of the biggest names in the industry and arguable the most known and relatable to audiences. Overall we may be tempted to chose paramount pictures as it is the distributor that has worked with our films director Martin Scorsese before. Those particular blockbusters they worked together on such as "Shutter Island" were a big success, so this is a promising aspect to us. Plus this means we can cut certain deals with the distributor through our links our director has with them. We are still deliberating on what our production companies logo will look like. As we are still figuring out what it shall be entitled and what theme we want to accompany it so its memorable to its audiences.


Representations:We have thought about the issue of using stereotypical characters that the media often project. But we have thought about how we want the investigator in particular to be portrayed. We have thought about the persona we want him to carry. We want our inspector to be seen as emotionally challenged and detached. In many respects we can see that the persona we have chosen can be relatable to many other movies. But in a sense its this rawness of the character that we want to project amongst him to make him memorable. We are not in anyway relating him to a character we have seen before on TV or in films. We have just simply made him up upon the basis of how we would want an investigator to look. We put ourselves into the shoes of the audience and we want someone new who can offer more compelling acting. In making him emotionally challenged we feel that when he chooses to open up audiences will respect him for more it and relate to him more from this. These ideas of ours have also sprouted from our audiences, as we have now established who they are we now know how to make what they want. As we know men don't want an emotionally investigator who's spilling his feelings all of the time. But we don't really want to project a Mr. cool to our audiences either. More of a troubled everyday man who is fighting against his own inner demons.

What generic codes and conventions will be operating in your text?
We are looking deeply at the codes and conventions of other crime genre movies, such as "The departed" and "Infernal affairs 2". Both of these films project the ideals that we want to be established in our film. As a group we have looked at both films title sequences and compared them to how we want ours to look. There are a few similarities perhaps with the use of camerawork and lighting. Yet we don't want to seep into the same codes and conventions of every other crime film. We do want to offer something new and emotionally dark. So although we shall be incorporating typically iconography such as an investigators office and certain props such as guns, badges, files and filing cabinets. We want to present them on the screen in different angles and lights so that everything on the stage and in the shot has a vastly extreme emotional change. For everything to feel uncertain and to be in a constant state of tension and anticipation.