2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our chosen character is the gunman, (Zygimantas Pukas), he is kept hidden and in a very secret state and is the assassin. Examples linked to this may include; James Bond films, The Mechanic, Transporter etc.
         They display a lone gunman, who alone can accomplish the mission/contract given to them, and are very good at what they do. The representation of gangsters in the final piece shows what modern gangsters may be like, the house is their meeting place, or hang out area and this is where they are shot, not typical at all for gangster films.

Hitman

Our final film

The two are different as in our group film the killer has a handgun without a silencer and in the film "Hitman" he as a silencer to sneck up on this target. Also in Hitman the killer is seen to be wearing a suit whereas our character is casully wearing sports clothes.

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We chose to display our opening credits in an uncommon way, we begin by displaying all of the actors, crew and jobs allocated, and the last title is the name of the film. This creates a sort of suspense where the audience will find out who the actors are, and who did what, and at last, find out the name of the film, which will fit in with the opening scene just shown. Our production flows with the titles as the titles are somewhat involved with the footage, ie; "Karl Mould" shoots out of the gun, this creates a nice flow of credits being displayed leading up to the final title.
               The researched that was carried out enabled us to follow codes and conventions of similar gangster titles, and the end results lead us to use typical props such as; guns, suits, drinks etc. Mafia in similar films do not have much speech and therefore this was kept to a minimum as most of the concentration was on the death of the two mafia guys. We tried to hide the identity of the assassin until the very last moment, and this is how the story will continue, by seeing the killers' face, the mafia strike back at who has hired the assassin.
               Conventional products and forms were challenged by using a more modern approach to typical mafia and old style gangster products. The use of CCTV and a bright light next to the focused actor challenges the typical idea of darkness, hidden identities and secrecy.

CCTV effect

Pictures

Unfinished

After all the problems that we have had with the construction of our final piece we finally got back on track, although its a little bit behnind the rest of the class. The venue for our filming was changed to Luis's house due to a lack of comunication which happened between the resturant and our group. This is the last draft before we should have finished the openning all together.

Although we have improved greatly in our filming techneques, there are still some problems which came up and were spotted after we had finished editting. The first main problem is the continuity break within Zygi's hood. This because when he walks into the french doors he has his hood up, but when he comes through the door from the shot of inside the livingroom his hood is down. Then when he leaves and is outside the house once again his hood appears to be up, this breaks the contunity rule.
Another problem is the timer on the CCTV as throughout the openning the timer is in sync, but when the shot moves away from the CCTV inside and jumps to a point of view shot then to the CCTV outside the timer had gone back in time once again breaking the continuity rule.
There is once again another problem aswell. We were unable to add any sound into the opeening at this time but when we go back and edit the openning we should be able to correct this and post the final production on youtube before our deadline.

Once we have corrected these problems and made sure Zygi keeps his hood either up or down we shoulod be finished and can start to evaluate our product.

Draft of production video

This is a draft of our porduction.

Sound track

ideas

Title/working title	Clear Bets         (?)
Plot/outline summary	Due to the assassins actions 3 years ago, a gang rivalry has been created, two mafia families fight each other over the money being taken 3 years ago.
Opening sequence outline/summary	Assassin receives a phone call, and is told to murder 6 rival mafia guys who owe money. He then walks into a closed restaurant through the back door, and proceeds upstairs where an illegal poker game is taking place including thousands of pounds. This money is owed and the assassin then pulls out two guns and shoots everyone there, except the waitress who hides and survives, the assassin then takes the money.
Characters (consider genre, role, image etc)	1 – Main Assassin 5/6 – Gangsters gambling 1 – Barman 1 – Waitress
Mise en scene Setting: Locations: Costumes: Props: Lighting (what mood are you trying to create? etc)	Guns, Money, Poker related things, drinks. Dark, empty, closed restaurant. Upstairs. Restaurant Dark, not to reveal much character. Shirts, waistcoats, blazers. Guns, shot glasses,money, poker. Toplighting, backlighting to create a sense of being superior. Low ambient lighting. Few lights used with mise on scene.