Planning: Production Breif

Project name:PI (Private Investigator)
Length: 90sec – 2mins
Deadline: Friday 11th February
Group members & their roles: Charlotte Beaird= Filming and Editing
Libby Rowe= Camera work and Director
Si Hin Tuong= Acting and Editing

Brief overview of content : The film is about a private investigator who is going on about his normal day-to-day lifestyle of re-opening old cases for people. Only one day he opens up a case that he will not be able close quickly. So to begin with he lays the ground work starts to scope out where this one suspect in particular lives. But this time he's not as professional with the job as he is seen. As the man he's stalking is in a gang, and one of his fellow gang members See's the investigator and they all seek a means to keep him quiet. By doing this they kidnap the investigator and they make him tell them everything he has found out. But the investigator takes a risk and does not tell them anything as by doing this he has the upper hand. The gang members simple believe they have scared the inspector far too much and this is why he is not talking. They believe he is silenced forever and let him go. The inspector then takes a trip to the police station and hands over everything he has found out about the gang members. Meaning that some are sent to prison, yet the leaders and most dangerous members of the gang are still out ad free. Now there is trouble on the horizon for the inspector as the gang members know it was him who got them arrested. So the gang are now out seek revenge upon the inspector and officially silence him forever. (This means that there can be a sequel to the film).

Target audience (age group, gender): The primary audience is men, with a niche market of women. Within the age groups of 15-50 year olds.

What comparable products have you researched? As a group we have all research "The Departed" and "Infernal Affairs" which are both fall under the crime genre. Also both are very comparable with our film with similar narratives.

How will you test whether the product is successful? We will put the title sequence on to a DVD and show it to a room of people so that they are able to give us responses verbally. But also we shall make a questionnaire so we can go back to there thoughts and look over them at later dates.

What generic codes and conventions will be operating in your text?
Our title sequence should be made to the exact codes and conventions of a typical "Crime" movie. It will also have the codes and conventions typically of that of a Martin Scorsese film, it will be dark with harsh lighting and characters that can be rather emotionally detached. But with essences of a crime genre's codes and conventions being prominent throughout such as explosions, car chases, villains and an inspectors workspace.

Identify any resource constraints (time, money, equipment, human resources) that might affect your production and your hopes for your product:
The only resource constraints we could find, was that time and money may be wasted. As we want this movie to be perfect and with Martin Scorsese working on it we will need a lot of time. For him to work his technical skills and for things to work well, this may mean we could possibly go over our deadlines. Perhaps also w have found that by hiring Martin Scorsese we may have spent a lot of money already, this may mean a possibly loss of money that was destined for other places. Yet we are figuring this one out as we believe that hiring him, with all of his vast experience and knowledge on this genre means it could all be made easily down to him. Therefore they may not be a real loss after all.