Planning Ideas

First we did a brain storm of potential scenes we could include in our production, they didn’t have to be in a particular chronological order but they helped us to distinguish a genre and to gain a starting point for our production.
This is what we wrote down:

1) Small car parked up at traffic lights or at the roadside
2) We see the silhouette/full picture of a character coming towards the rear window (from the inside)
3) The window is smashed/attempted to be smashed in ‘slo-mo’
4) Blackout transitions to hostage scenes with strobe lighting
5) Light filters and strobes over dry ice
6) Tied up characters in a garage setting
7) Speedy, smooth camera movements
8) Characters in typical shell-suits or smart suits
9) Drug dealers
10) Car hire garage to make a link between gang and victim
11) Intricate camera positioning and movements
12) Effects in the editing process such as glare, blur and fading to black


With these pointers and a general idea of the direction of our trailer we devised some ideas.

IDEA 1:
Main gang: group of teenagers
One of the teens gets dared steal an item of clothing.
He gets caught as there is an unseen person inside in a car on the opposite side of the street
The driver chases the boy down through streets and traffic and catches him
The driver (gangster) gets the teen involved into the gangster lifestyle and he grows up as the runt who turned out to be a stereotypical British gangster

IDEA 2:
A man hires a car from a car hiring showroom
That car was previously used to store, transport illegal drugs
The drugs were left side and the agency collected the car
The gangster’s lose their goods and set out to retrieve them
The new driver is just an innocent man who is unaware of the cars inviolvement
The gangsters track him down and give him trouble as they think he is playing dumb, he is simply confused and unaware
The hire car owner has retrieved the goods and they eventually track them back to him
The victim takes some sort of revenge