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American gangster powerpoint

Sarah Griffiths
Sarah Griffiths

This document summarizes an idea for an American gangster film title sequence. The idea involves an autistic child drowning a mafia don's cat, leading the child's father - who owes a debt to the mafia - to go into hiding with his family. However, the mafia finds and kills the entire family. The film would then follow the father's revenge against the mafia. Costume, prop, and location ideas are presented to establish the 1940s setting. The sequence will use gangster genre conventions while challenging expectations by focusing on the story of a man seeking revenge rather than following the mafia.

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AMERICAN GANGSTER By Zan, Sarah & Lucy
OVERALL IDEA Our chosen subgenre was American Gangster. Our original idea was: An autistic child drowns the mafia dons cat. The father of the child owes a favour to the mafia and when the mafia hear of the cats death they order the father to kill the autistic child. He goes into hiding, but is soon found by the mafia and his entire family are killed. The film following the sequence would tell the story of the fathers revenge on the mafia.
MOOD BOARD
COSTUME < MAFIA Dinner Suit Red Carnations Italian shoes Oxford Brogues Trilby Brill Cream POOR GUY > Flatcap Clothes do not co ordinate Scruffy shoes Off-white shirt Stained Dirty looking
COSTUME CONT. <The Wife Plain dress in this style Oversized trench coat Scruffy shoes/boots These are some costume ideas for our main characters wife and son. <The Son Flat cap Scruffy looking tshirt Three quarter length trousers
THE PROPS Toy Cat. Cigars. Guns. Old fashioned liquor bottles in the Dons office. Fake Blood.
LOCATION These are the two locations that we have thought about using. In the end we decided that we would use the studio to create our locations. This is because there isnt many places that look like they are from the 1940s and this is the time period that we are basing our title sequence in but, we will probably use these locations to shoot the outdoor scenes.
STORYBOARD
USING, CHALLENGING AND DEVELOPING GENRE CONVENTIONS. In our title sequence we will be using these genre conventions: Tension Set in the 1940s Typical gangster costume (dinner suit, red flower etc) We are going to challenge the conventions by: Instead of following the story of the mafia it will follow the life of a man who seeks revenge on them.

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American gangster powerpoint

  • 1. AMERICAN GANGSTER By Zan, Sarah & Lucy
  • 2. OVERALL IDEA Our chosen subgenre was American Gangster. Our original idea was: An autistic child drowns the mafia dons cat. The father of the child owes a favour to the mafia and when the mafia hear of the cats death they order the father to kill the autistic child. He goes into hiding, but is soon found by the mafia and his entire family are killed. The film following the sequence would tell the story of the fathers revenge on the mafia.
  • 4. COSTUME < MAFIA Dinner Suit Red Carnations Italian shoes Oxford Brogues Trilby Brill Cream POOR GUY > Flatcap Clothes do not co ordinate Scruffy shoes Off-white shirt Stained Dirty looking
  • 5. COSTUME CONT. <The Wife Plain dress in this style Oversized trench coat Scruffy shoes/boots These are some costume ideas for our main characters wife and son. <The Son Flat cap Scruffy looking tshirt Three quarter length trousers
  • 6. THE PROPS Toy Cat. Cigars. Guns. Old fashioned liquor bottles in the Dons office. Fake Blood.
  • 7. LOCATION These are the two locations that we have thought about using. In the end we decided that we would use the studio to create our locations. This is because there isnt many places that look like they are from the 1940s and this is the time period that we are basing our title sequence in but, we will probably use these locations to shoot the outdoor scenes.
  • 9. USING, CHALLENGING AND DEVELOPING GENRE CONVENTIONS. In our title sequence we will be using these genre conventions: Tension Set in the 1940s Typical gangster costume (dinner suit, red flower etc) We are going to challenge the conventions by: Instead of following the story of the mafia it will follow the life of a man who seeks revenge on them.