Interesting Screen Shots and Angles,

As the brief was to produce a silent film, we as a group had to rely on the action and camera work within the frame to make our story clear the audience. The camera angles used in the film also had to be good and so i recalled some iconic and rememberable camera angle from films that are within the same genre of our film.

The Dodgy Deal


When ever there is a dodgy deal going on within gangster films, they are either set in an alleyway or a mob boss' office. Here is a clip from Guy Ritchie's Lock,Stock &Two Smoking Barrels, where the boss is telling off one of his henchmen. This character is similar to Big Pete as he too has his henchmen (the Bodyguard) who seem slightly frightened of him. This is definitely how we pictured Switch's drugs deal scene to be, in an office/hotel room with bodyguards and an scary looking boss.

The Slow Motion Walk.



The original scene that we would base our slow motion walk on is a scene in Superbad where two geeky guys walk of a bus in slow motion, thinking they look really good in their new clothes. Which is exactly what happens within our film. But unfortunately i was unable to find the clip, but this is one from Quentin Tarantinos classic Reservoir Dogs. This is the iconic walking scene where each Mister and Nice Guy Eddie walk in slow motion out of the breakfast diner into the cars. The slow motion effect instantly makes the nerdiest of characters cool and that's why we want to use this scene within our film, for comedic effect.

Below is an example clip of geeky guys looking sooooo cool in their sharp suits and slow mo :P



Following Someone:

In the following scene we wanted to create like a 1920s sleuth atmosphere and i think that's as long as you have the right 'sneaky' movements, its the music that makes the scene that extra bit special. And to me the only acceptable soundtrack that creates this mood is the classic Pink Panther soundtrack.

Photo storyboard

During the planning stages of production we had to organise a day in we could meet and take photos for our photo storyboard. Organised by Rachel O'Connell we met in the afternoon and it allowed the other crew member to meet our friends/cast of the film. The problems we had on this day were that our original actor who would have played Charlie was unable to attend so we were able to persuade another friend to help out and take his role :) The final problem was the lighting, as it was winter the daylight hours got shorter and the streetlights came on earlier so we had to think about continuity and lighting for our final production.

Photo storyboard

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Props List

Various props we needed on the day foor our film:

COOKIES/TRAY

A CAR

FOR SALE SIGN ON THE CAR

BLINDFOLD

POT OF MONEY FOR FAKE CHARITY

BRIEFCASE FULL OF MONEY

FAKE DRUGS (BAGS OF SUGAR AND FLOUR)









EMPTY CAN

Cast List

FRANK - Ashley Walker

CHARLIE - Jack Glister

BIG PETE - Lewis Plaster

BODYGUARD - Matthew Partlett

EXTRAS - Sharon Uyinwmen
- Halle Smith
- Iman Shafi

Guy Ritchie

Born 10 September 1968

Guy Ritchie is an English screenwriter, film maker reknowned for his Brit-crime comedies like Lock,Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , RocknRolla and Snatch, which we widely based our film upon.

Film attributes: (click links for more information)

1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2000	Snatch
2001	The Hire: Star
2002	Swept Away
2005	Revolver
2007	Suspect
2008	RocknRolla
2009	Sherlock Holmes
2011	Sherlock Holmes 2
2012	The Fistfull

Richie recently changed his directing style by directing the new Sherlock Holmes movies which although were also set in the east end of ,victorian,London. It has a more light hearted edge with less violence and black comedy.

Snatch Trailer



Lock,Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Trailer

SWITCH titles

I researched different fonts and came across this website www.dafont.com that has great fonts for our movie'Switch'as our film is a slapstick comedy this website specifically had a font genre called comic which had a variety of different fonts, some very humorous and some a bit more serious heres some example which i thought would help the audience relate to the movie and understand the humor;

The first font is called Komika poster.




The second font is called Slapstick comic.






The Third font is called Badaboom.








The fourth font is called Que font.









The fifth font is called Shake and bake.

Money Making Schemes Research

From the start our group knew that we had to come up with quick and stupid ways that our lead characters Frank and Charlie could use to make enough money to buy their car. But we we also realised that they couldn't be elaborate schemes as they were not smart enough to some up with one, plus the council estate setting wasn't fit for a scam on the scale of the BBC hit show Hustle. Therefore, web had to research or come up with smaller scams and find a way to put a comedic twist on them. These were a few I found.

Cleaning Windows is something that i see in the East end nearly every morning and it is a good way to make money. In past years there have been many comedy sketches that make cleaning windows funny, whether it be buckets of water falling or the ladder slipping from under the character. This is a possible scam that we could use, however staging it correctly within the limited amount of time we have could be a problem whilst also finding a location.

Selling cookies is yet another scheme that we could easily put together for the duo to use. It would require minimal props and we would only need to find a few houses to film at, but since friends live around our shooting location, that shouldnt be a problem. Plus the image of seeing two grown men trying to sell something usually donw by girl scouts could be funny. I'm thinking costumes. :)


Selling....their bodies?This was one idea we thought of ourselves as we knew that seeing the duo dressing up as women for money would definitely get some laughs and put a lighter edge on a sinister subject of prositution. We were thinking of getting the pair to lure other men over, get in the car and then run out with their clothes and money.