Film Idea
Genre: Crime Drama/Psychological Thriller
Parental Guiding: 18
Plot:
1999
Jake Lestrade has just received a promotion after cracking a year long narcotics case which featured multiple murders. He is then assigned the murder case of an exchange student where a satanic marking was found at the scene, linking to other several other murders and possibly linking to some missing persons cases. Forensics bring nothing back from the scene which leaves Jake stumped as he continues to question people.
2002
Media pressure to find the killer intensifies as another body is found as well as more reports of missing persons cases continue to surface, and every suspect Jake has pursued has resulted in a dead-end. He visits the ex-boyfriend of the latest known victim, Sara, to inform him of what has happened and possibly discover any info on the victim. He reveals that he had an altercation with a man in a pub who was antagonising him about Sara, saying she was now in love with him. The ex-boyfriend says the man come across as mentally deranged, and that he spoke about his love for death, before leaving in red van with distinctive markings written over it. Jake puts out an A.P.B. on the van, and it is spotted 2 weeks later driving it some woods. Jake follows the road where the van went, where he comes across a man carrying a knife with blood stains on his shirt. He arrests the man, who taunts him about the murders. Jake stumbles across the body of another girl and, enraged, shoots the murderer in the back of the head just as back up arrives. Jake escapes a murder sentence but is instead fired by his superiors.
2015
Jake, now an alcoholic waster, is being interviewed by two relatively inexperienced detectives, regarding the events he witnessed. He details the what he came across, with the detectives then presenting him with a case file, a murder the exact copy the ones he investigated, suggesting the man he got did not work alone. The detectives ask more questions, and Jake gives them every detail in his recollection, and he agrees to help them in their investigation. He takes them to his storage unit, where he had amassed a wide collection of evidence of the years of all the murders and missing persons cases he feels are linked. He explains to the detectives that the murders are all linked to one man, the Mayor of the town. He tells them when he confronted the Mayor about this last year, he threatened him with arrest for harassment, but as he left he uttered the same ritual words the murderer in 02 had said. Research on the Mayor leads them to finding out he has a son who doesn't actually exist on legal documents. Jake believes this son has been carrying out the murders of people all linked to the Mayor. They get address for the man, who's unassuming wife answers the door. When one of the detectives becomes more forceful, insisting they ask her some questions she shoots him in the face. The other detective busts through the door and arrests her, whilst Jake runs after the man who appeared after the gunshot was heard. Jake follows him into a dark warehouse, where is taunted about the murders. The murderer stabs Jake, and he falls to the floor. Just as the murderer finishes his taunting and prepares to kill Jake, the remaining detective arrives and shoots him, The signs of sirens are heard as Jake slips unconscious.
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Monday, 12 October 2015
Genre: Sports drama
Title:
Story:
A student has focused all his life on becoming a doctor.
However he does not have the funds to go to medical school.
He sees an advert for a running event which has a prize of £X which is more than enough to cover
costs for the school.
Inspired by the advert he trains to win the race.
Gets fired from his job, for being late due to training.
Uses the money from his payout to pay the race fee as the runner is poor.
With months of training on the eve of the event he is badly injured while training.
As he has worked months he carries on with the race determined to complete it.
He reaches the finish line on crutches.
A wealthy man congratulates him.
Gives him the money needed because he never had the opportunity to follow his dream and saw the determination to finish the race.
Attends the school.
First 2 mins:
Afternoon, Student is the last person in the social area in college, as he is packing up his equipment he attneds a meeting and in the background he sees a poster in the corner of his eye. The meeting goes on about the further education he needs to become a doctor with the topic ending on funding as he bows his head and leaves the room. As he sits down with a glass of water he sees the poster again as the focus is on the poster and the financial reward.
Title:
Story:
A student has focused all his life on becoming a doctor.
However he does not have the funds to go to medical school.
He sees an advert for a running event which has a prize of £X which is more than enough to cover
costs for the school.
Inspired by the advert he trains to win the race.
Gets fired from his job, for being late due to training.
Uses the money from his payout to pay the race fee as the runner is poor.
With months of training on the eve of the event he is badly injured while training.
As he has worked months he carries on with the race determined to complete it.
He reaches the finish line on crutches.
A wealthy man congratulates him.
Gives him the money needed because he never had the opportunity to follow his dream and saw the determination to finish the race.
Attends the school.
First 2 mins:
Afternoon, Student is the last person in the social area in college, as he is packing up his equipment he attneds a meeting and in the background he sees a poster in the corner of his eye. The meeting goes on about the further education he needs to become a doctor with the topic ending on funding as he bows his head and leaves the room. As he sits down with a glass of water he sees the poster again as the focus is on the poster and the financial reward.
Genre: Crime| Drama| Mystery
Story Line:
A man is out in a restaurant with his wife and as he goes to pay the bill and his wife is kidnapped and he sets about to go find her.
As he is searching for the man who is responsible the police are launching their own investigation but he feels that they are moving too slow. as he finds a woman wearing his wife's earings he gets his best friend and sets out to find out how she gets them.
They imprison her in his childhood house and ask where she got the earrings. they find the names of three men who she saysgave her the earrings.
The two men then proceed to find the men and torure them until they find that his wife has been sold to an old woman as a slave. The husband then finds the woman to discover that it is his childhood friend. He has a decision to make to kill his best friend from his childhood that he has shared many memories or to swap his life for his wife's.
3 months pass ...
The police man tracks the woman down and she runs at him with a knife ... the police man shoots her in the leg and she falls to the floor. The faint noise of the man knocking on the wall of the hole that the woman keeps him locked in.
Story Line:
A man is out in a restaurant with his wife and as he goes to pay the bill and his wife is kidnapped and he sets about to go find her.
As he is searching for the man who is responsible the police are launching their own investigation but he feels that they are moving too slow. as he finds a woman wearing his wife's earings he gets his best friend and sets out to find out how she gets them.
They imprison her in his childhood house and ask where she got the earrings. they find the names of three men who she saysgave her the earrings.
The two men then proceed to find the men and torure them until they find that his wife has been sold to an old woman as a slave. The husband then finds the woman to discover that it is his childhood friend. He has a decision to make to kill his best friend from his childhood that he has shared many memories or to swap his life for his wife's.
3 months pass ...
The police man tracks the woman down and she runs at him with a knife ... the police man shoots her in the leg and she falls to the floor. The faint noise of the man knocking on the wall of the hole that the woman keeps him locked in.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Research in to simular films.
Research in to Similar Films.In this document I am going to review and research similar films in our crime drama genre; the 3 different films I am going to look at are: 'Clockwork Orange,' 'Kingsman' and 'The Silence of the Lambs.' All of these 3 films are all crime drama's but with different levels of depth, 'Kingsman' being light hearted whilst 'Silence of the lambs' is really in depth and sickening to watch.
Clockwork Orange, a controversial film, released in 1971 is not so much drama but very 'crime.' After losing legal battles, Kubrick (the director of the film), was forced to withdraw the film in 1993, however after his death in 1999 the film got re-released in cinemas. The film was withdrawn becaused it influenced the public in to doing infomous crimes, and in court the name of the film 'Clockwork Orange' got brought up many times.The plot of the film is based in futuristic England where Alex, the leader of the group, and 3 of his "Droogs"commit in his own terms "Ultraviolence," where defenceless people are the aim of the group. This film tends to use a lot of music, most being fast tempo, classical music when the 'gang' is committing a crime. This film links to a crime drama genre, initially because of the use of the music chosen.
The second film I am going to give an overview of is a recent arrival, 'Kingsman.' Released in 2014, 'Kingsman' is a comedic crime drama which earned a gross profit of $412.4 million. Unlike clockwork orange, this film is uncontroversial and has a much larger target audience, not only because of its well thought out plot, but also the use of well known actors such as: Samuel L Jackson, Taron Egerton and Colin Firth. The plot of this film is all about "Eggsy,"(the protagonist) and his rise to become a great secret service agent; he goes through tough training -which he got kicked out of- to eventually save the world off of his own back. As it was a successful film a sequel has been announced and is to come out June 2017. This film links to a crime dra because of the plot, and how the main character 'defeats' the villian.
Finally, 'Silence of the Lambs,' published in 1991, based off a book with the same name, again, is a crime drama genre. Winning best picture in 1991, 'Sinece of the Lambs' also created Oscar winners in the actors: Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster which were reported as"greatest performances ever seen on screen."
The plot of this film is about a young FBI cadet that has to find a missing women whom is in the presence of a pyschopathic serial killer, who shreds the skins of his victims. To find the psychopath, the FBI cadet then goes to another pychopathic killer, in Hannibal lector, to get an insight of what psychopaths may do, and where the women is. This film links to a crime drama because of the characters.eing the same sub-genre, all the characters in this film is somewhat the same or simular to our film.
In conclusion, all crime drama's have one main different attribute, whether being conroversial (Clockwork Orange), having a comedy aspect to it (Kingsman) or finally having a sickening topic (Silence of the Lambs).
Monday, 5 October 2015
Sunday, 4 October 2015
Story-Line
Story-Line
Genre: Action / Drama
Title:
Thief
Story:
Man collapses in the Park, he wakes up in a hospital bed next to his best friend. He needs an operation that costs £15,000. His friend pays for the operation without the man knowing.
The man finds out his friend got a loan from a loan shark whom has a bad reputation.
They both get threats to pay back the money they owe.- Which they don't have.
They both steal minor objects, from markets and shops, which they sell in the black market to pay back the debt.
They than go on to larger projects to houses as he is not making enough money
They end up not making enough money. They both unconciously make a plan to steal from the person who they owe money too.
---------------------------------------------After 2 minutes----------------------------------------------------------
They get to the house but the loan shark sees them trying to enter so he shoots one of them and takes him hostage.
Being on his own, he has to rescue his friend.
He looks all over for his friend. The loan shark gives clues for where to find him. -There's a time limit before he gets killed.- 1 Week.
Eventually he finds him in a garage, tied up to a chair. He then rescues him.
They both look for revenge on the loan shark. They then steal his money form his bank account and become really wealthy.
Genre: Action / Drama
Title:
Thief
Story:
Man collapses in the Park, he wakes up in a hospital bed next to his best friend. He needs an operation that costs £15,000. His friend pays for the operation without the man knowing.
The man finds out his friend got a loan from a loan shark whom has a bad reputation.
They both get threats to pay back the money they owe.- Which they don't have.
They both steal minor objects, from markets and shops, which they sell in the black market to pay back the debt.
They than go on to larger projects to houses as he is not making enough money
They end up not making enough money. They both unconciously make a plan to steal from the person who they owe money too.
---------------------------------------------After 2 minutes----------------------------------------------------------
They get to the house but the loan shark sees them trying to enter so he shoots one of them and takes him hostage.
Being on his own, he has to rescue his friend.
He looks all over for his friend. The loan shark gives clues for where to find him. -There's a time limit before he gets killed.- 1 Week.
Eventually he finds him in a garage, tied up to a chair. He then rescues him.
They both look for revenge on the loan shark. They then steal his money form his bank account and become really wealthy.
Saturday, 3 October 2015
Possible Film Distributor: Fox.
A Possible Distributor for our Film
A film distributor is a company responsible for the marketing of a film; this is very different from a production company, which our group will take the role of (creating the film). Distribution is key to a film as with out marketing nobody will know, for example, when the film will be released. Taking charge of releasing the film in to cinemas and on to DVD's, distributors are incredibly important in the whole process from creating the film to people viewing the film.
Fox:
For a possible distributor for our film I have gone with 20th Century Fox, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The film company not only produces fims but they distribute them too; examples of them distrubuting crime drama films are: Percy Jackson, Fight Club, Die Hard, Die Hard 2 and Taken.
There are many reasons for choosing 20th Century Fox:
1). They have a good reputation with high standards.
2). Being a large American company they have a large budget, meaning they will be able to have a large marketing campaign to publicise our film and get it well known
3). Fox have many subsidiaries, but a main one which I have looked in to, that would be beneficial for our film is 'Fox Searchlight pictures.'
- Searchlight is an American film distrubutor from Fox. Unlike 20th Century Fox it does not produce films, it simply distributes them. The positive of Searchlight is that it distributes UK independent films; where they tend to distribute horror and 'dramedy' which is our genre. They have distributed well known films, from a relatively small budget, some of these films are: 'The Full Monty', 'Never Die Alone', 'Shame' and multi-award winning '12 Years of Slave.'Friday, 2 October 2015
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Research in to Crime-Drama
Research in to Genre
Crime Drama:
In a crime drama there's always a plot which causes distress to a character. Likewise, every film in this genre contains an authoritative figure, whether a police man or detective. Plot twists are key in a crime drama, they draw the viewer in and makes the consumer of the film want to watch on. Not only are the script and actors key, but the effects made in the post production of the film are vital! This is where melodramatic music is created to show the scared emotion of the characters (tending to use deep, low key classical music); dark filters are put on shots to enhance the morbidity of the scene and special effects, such as blood, are used to make each shot seem even more gruesome. A lot of focus in these types of films are on the weapon, whether it be
a gun or teddy bear, they do take up a lot of air time; this would be
because the viewer would want to know all details about how the victim
died, and how the villian caried out the attack.
There are three types of main characters in a crime drama:
- A hero cop/police man. The whole film can be wholey dedicated to following this character around and seeing how they solve a mystery.
- In contrast, a film can be dedicated to a villian or anti-hero. This is the person whom causes distress, they are usually bad tempered.
- A final type of character in a crime drama is the victim. Usually innocent, the victim(s) can either be a group of people of just a singular person, only to be seem on screen for a matter of minutes; but without the victims the film wouldn't work.
In conclusion, a crime drama is a genre that does not have a 'happy' feel to it, they are usually set in large, well known locations with heritage (such as Inspector Morse, in Oxford) to give it an 'old fashioned look.'
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