Pre-Production Proposal

Proposal

Producer(s): Khaleed, Alieu and Arvinder

Production Title: Jumped

Brief: Flashback: The narrative is about a young male growing up gets involved with the wrong people selling class A drugs out to people willing to buy. As the young male becomes wiser and he wants out in selling the drugs as he has a girlfriend who's pregnant. Because of this she wants him to find a proper job to support there unborn daughter. The black male character visits the people who he sells the drugs for because he wants out, but he learns that its not that easy to leave the gang so they make him deliver one last package to client in an estate if he wants out... Thinking about his family and wanting out he decided to do the job only on one condition that they would keep to there word. On his way to deliver the package he thinks about his girlfriend and his baby. He arrives at the estate and walks up the stairs to be suddenly jumped by a Masked Character. The Masked Character takes the package and leaves him for dead. In his last moment he decides to pick his phone and call his girlfriend and tell her he loves her and his unborn baby. Tears run down his face. His girlfriend starts to cry, confused and in panic she asks him where he is. Unexpectedly the Masked Character returns to finish him off. The Masked Character stamps on his face and the screen blacks out. Start: The young Black male is laying on the floor dialling his girlfriends number. Picking up he expressing how much he loves her and his unborn baby with tears running down his face. His girlfriend starts to cry, confused and in panic she asks him where he is. Unexpectedly the Masked Character returns to finish him off. The Masked Character stamps on his face and the screen blacks out. The Enigma code in the storyline is the identity of the masked character who jumped the young black male. Another Enigma Code is why he got jumped. The Protagonist is the young black male (His Flashback of the chain of events leading up to the present time).

Aim: The aim of the production is to be appealing to an age group of young adults who may be able to relate to the short production. The production could be related to programmes such as Top Boy or Youngers. This programme can also be viewed by other viewers if the production is appealing to them.

Description of your intentions: The intentions of the production is to make a short production which the audience would find appealing to watch. We would also want to make something that the audience may be able to relate to, for example more young adults would find the short production more appealing than an older audience.

Target Audience: The aim of the production is to be appealing to an age group of young adults who may be able to relate to the short production.

Similar Products: The production could be related to programmes such as Top Boy or Youngers. Top boy is a UK based program following the lives of different characters throughout the episodes. This program is aimed at ages of 15 to 35 year old. The programme Youngers also has a target audience of the age group. This programme is centred around a couple of friends who drive the narrative forward.

Production Details: For the production my group will use a DSLR camera to shoot the different scene that we need for our production plan. After shooting are scenes that we need we will edit the scenes to put together the short production. We may use a block of flats which have low key lighting to add more effect and also use key camera techniques to add more effect and give the production more of an urban feel to the scenes.

Research on Institutions

E4:

E4 is a British TV channel launched in 2001 and is a companion to the channel, Channel 4. The 'E' in E4 stands for Entertainment and its programmes are mainly aimed at the 15-35 year old age group. Programming includes U.S imports such as The Cleveland Show, Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory etc. Other Programming include British shows such as Misfits, Hollyoaks, The Inbetweeners and Mad In Chelsea. E4's most successful broadcasting date was on the 11th of October 2010 when an episode of The Inbetweeners pulled in over 3.7 million viewers.

BBC3:

BBC Three is a television from the BBC Broadcasting via digital cable and other platforms. The channels target audience includes in the 16-34 year old age groups and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent and new technologies. The channel is on air from 19:00 to around 05:00 each night, covering all genres, from current affairs to drama to comedy to animation.

Review on The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

Review on The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

The Taking of Pelham 123 is an American film made in 1974 directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by Edgar J. Scherick.  The film was inspired by John Godey's best-selling book (The Taking of Pelham 123). The novel starts as a normal day on a subway, when the normality is interrupted by a hijacking of a subway car. Four men armed with submachine guns detach the lead car of the train and take it and 17 passengers’ hostage into a tunnel. This film is then built around that intro with a group of criminals asking for a ransom fee of $1million dollars. The genre of the film could be classed as a thriller due to the fact that it uses suspense and excitement as the main atmosphere in the movie. In the original film it featured Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo. The film was released in October 2, 1974. It was later remade in 1998 as a TV film and was again remade in 2009 as a film.

The remake in 2009 was again built around the story of a train becoming hijacked but was modernized. Production began in March 2008, and it was released on June 12, 2009.The film features two main characters which are, Denzel Washington and John Travolta. Denzel Washington plays a train conductor which tries to negotiate with a criminal mastermind John Travolta. The ransom is very interesting due to the fact that it keeps you on the edge of your seat because the demand is $10million which has to be paid within 60minutes in cash to the criminals. Tension rises as a condition is put in place, that for every minute that goes pass the deadline a hostage would die. The police and everyone involved have to overcome some problems to save the hostages without any deaths, whilst trying to figure out how to stay one step ahead of the mastermind. An interesting feature that is added is that it has an in built timer counting down all the action as in unfolds.

In the beginning, you think that the 2 main characters are different from each other. However, throughout the film we find out that they have more in common with each other than you think. Both have committed a crime, and are both seeking redemption for their actions. Whilst they both seek to find redemption they both find it in a different way.

This version of the book has an even more thrilling side as it was more intense with more action something you would expect that you could relate to in the 21^st century, which wasn’t poorly delivered. The film hit cinemas on July 24, 2009 and was then made available on DVD on January 11, 2010. From the US Box Office the film gained £65.5M

I would recommend this film to people who enjoy action films and thrillers as it will keep you engaged and on the edge of your seat from the very beginning. The downside is I didn’t think it was long enough due to it being only 1hr 46mins. For this reason I would give it 4/5 stars, but would still class it as a crowd pleaser.

Media Production Idea

Flashback:
The narrative is about a young black male growing up in an estate where there is high knife and gun crime. The young male growing up gets involved with the wrong people selling class A drugs out to people willing to buy. As the young male becomes older and wiser he wants out in selling the drugs as he has a girlfriend who's pregnant. Because of this she wants him to find a proper job to support there unborn daughter. The black male character visits the people who he sells the drugs for because he wants out, but he learns that its not that easy so they make him deliver one last package to client in an estate if he wants.. Thinking about his family and wanting out he decided to do the job only on one condition that they would keep to there word. On his way to deliver the package he thinks about his girlfriend and his baby. He arrives at the estate with kids playing football on the street he walks up the stairs to be suddenly jumped by a Masked Character. The Masked Character takes the package and leaves him for dead. In his last moment he decides to pick his phone and call his girlfriend and tell her he loves her and his unborn baby. Tears run down his face. His girlfriend starts to cry, confused and in panic she asks him where he is. Unexpectedly the Masked Character returns to finish him off. The Masked Character stamps on his face and the screen blacks out.

Start:
The young Black male is laying on the floor dialing his girlfriends number. Picking up he expressing how much he loves her and his unborn baby with tears running down his face. His girlfriend starts to cry, confused and in panic she asks him where he is. Unexpectedly the Masked Character returns to finish him off. The Masked Character stamps on his face and the screen blacks out.

The Enigma code in the storyline is the identity of the masked character who jumped the young black male. Another Enigma Code is why he got jumped.

The Protagonist is the young black male (His Flashback of the chain of events leading up to the present time).


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