Femme Fatal

- Alluring and seductive woman
- Charm is to trap her lover, and make him irresistible towards her
- Leads them to face bad consequences, usually involving violence
- The charm of being irresistible was seen as being supernatural
- Femme fatal represents females in an independent way
- Femme fatal is French for ‘Deadly woman’
- She is skilled in using her beauty as a way to charm men
- She can also be a victim as well as a threat, in situations she cannot escape
- Majority appear as anti-heroines, who become heroines by the end of the tale
- They drives lover to the point of obsession & exhaustion
- makes lover inescapable of their charm, resulting to rational decisions

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Progress Report 28/02/2010

Me and Anam met up to finish off some stuff before we begin filming

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- both posted 20 things on blog
- Finished story board
- Done scene script
- made filming time table
- found Actors for filming

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- More research on Romance genre
- finish rationals
- find music for trailer
- Get camera on Monday

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Synopsis

A nineteen year old boy Named Anthony Walter finds himself making his way through a troublesome life full of deadly sins as being the leader of his gang including Louie Burr & Emilio Quinn. His ‘honest’ sidekick Tyler Sutherland betrays Anthony without him knowing and helps Angel Stanton to try and Make Anthony fall in love with her and ultimately achieve his fortune. The Movie follows Anthony from his high success to his unexpected death and along the way his falling in love with a complete opposite, Sophia Jacobs.

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Locations

Park
School
Busy streets
Alleyway
Domestic setting, homes of the characters.
Parties/clubs

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Movies which include both the Gangster and Romance genre.

Gangster movies have been around for very long, and all have seen a great success over the years whether that be the Hollywood movies such as the Iconic God father or the low budget ‘Ghetto’ gangster movies such as Kidulthood. Though both are gangster movies they also involve the theme of love to not over do with the action, power and aggressive attitude. Another reason to why the theme of love would be involved in these movies is because audiences may gain personal identification through the movie and this can be a key factor on appealing to audiences.

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Romance/Gangster.

The amalgamation of the genres Gangster and Romance has been used several of times in order to gain more than just the male audiences. The action and activeness from the Gangster genre movies appeals to more of a male orientated audience whereas the romance element enables a sense of emotion to run through the movie and attract female audiences too.

Anaam

Codes and conventions of a Romance Movie.

The codes stereotypically associated with Romance movies are:
Relationship between a male and female protagonist
Parks
Sunny days sometimes
Rainy days sometimes
House/houses
Happiness
Struggles
Arguments
Sometimes a third person/villain.

These are all the expectations a media consumer may have when they think of a Romance movie.

Anaam

Some of the most memorable romance movies

1. Titanic
2. Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet
3. Love actually
4. Pearl Harbour
5. The notebook
6. The time travellers wife.

Anaam

Romance

Romance films typically are based upon two protagonists who have a romantic relationship with one another. The appeal of romance films is the prominent dramatic emotions which the characters convey in the movie. The theme of romance within movies is said to be the main attraction of female audiences as it is more about people and their emotions which highly contrasts with action which tend to attract a more male based audience due to movies aggressive nature.

Many people associate Romance movies with chick flicks but this is not necessary true because ‘chick flicks’ may not be plotted upon a romantic relationship between the main characters.

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Charecter Profile

ANTHONY (GANG LEADER) – Nicolas Cox
He is the protagonist and the leader of the gang

LOUIE (1st GANG MEMBER) - Sunny Dhunna
Play the role of working for the gang leader

Emilio 2nd (GANG LEADER) - Vikram dade
Also works for the gang leader

ANGEL (BAD GIRL) - Prabs
She is the femme fatal promiscuous and out steal the gang leader’s money

SOPHIA (GOOD GIRL) – Rabia Azam
The innocent girl who falls for the gang leader

TYLER (HELPER) - Raheam Omar
Helps the gold digger, to attempt her mischievous plans

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Codes and conventions of gangster genre through 1900s from all influences

• 1930s: smart suits, acts of violence, murder, weapons and luxury items associated with the life style such as cigars and fine liquor, these influences was form Al Capone as he was well known for fulfilling all the above conventions. He wore the most expensive suits, constantly smoked cigars and once stabbed someone to death at a dinner party with a fork.
  
  
• 1980s: codes and conventions changed dramatically after the release of Scarface. The conventions now focus more on drugs and money eg. Cocaine, the original conventions are a lot more detailed; violence is more graphic, more use of guns, better clothing suits more appealing, and leading characters status is emphasised a lot.
  
  

20th century: Conventions slightly changed as there was more influence form street crime,
racial discrimination which resulted to the original convention of violence and murder. Another reason why this culture grew so much is due to east coast and west coast arguments in gangster rap between artist such as Biggie (east coast) and Tupac (west coast)

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Research on Gang Leader - Al Capone

America first well known and most ruthless gangster was Al Capone aka Scarface, he and his men earning for a single year was:

• $60,000,000 from beer and liquor
• $10,000,000 from racketeering
• $25,000,000 from gambling dens and dog tracks
• $10,000,000 from dance halls and vice

• He was involved in a number of murders; the most famous of all was placed on 14th February 1929. Were 5 men where on hideout in a car, 4 men were dressed as policemen and they marched into a building and killed all seven of their rivalry gangs. Then they walked out with hands in the air as if they had been arrested, this deceived onlookers who were wondering why gun shots had gone off, one victim survived long enough to tell the detectives ‘it was coppers, that’s all I know. Copper done it’. Al Capone was a true under cover genius!
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Narrative shots

1. Prime time production

2. Montage - slam knife on table

3. Montage – guy who help gold digger: turns around

4. Montage – till opening (ask geeta dad)

5. Montage - Brief case opening by main guy

6. Montage - girl blowing out candle

7. Montage - car moving forward

8. Montage - 2 gang members either holding toy gun or bats

9. Montage – 2 random people kissing

10. Montage – main guy dancing with gold digger

11. Montage - 2 gang members in corridor

12. A Anam and Sonia Film

13. Bad girls feet

14. 2 gang member about to go into a room ‘shall I go in first, or shall you?’

15. Bad girl sniffing nose – in a lift which then closes

16. Lights switch off

17. TEXT – Greed

18. Main guy talking to himself in mirror ‘who you talking to, do u know who I am’

19. Girl sitting at table ‘I want his money and I need your help’

20. Shot of the man helping her – at diff place sitting down ‘marry him first’

21. Shot of girl again – ‘the fool loves me’

22. The man talking in mirror – ‘she loves me’

23. Alchol glasses slam together

24. TEXT-LUST

25. Innocent girl – shot of her face

26. Bad girls dancing because she thinks she going to be rich

27. Man walking down street in hurry on the phone (in rain if possible)

28. Girl walking home in hurry (in rain if possible)

29. Bump into each other- girl drops her oyster

30. Heads turn to road and shout 'TAXI'

31. TAXI Passes by – fade into black

32. She walks off and he runs behind her

33. Bad girls dancing because she thinks she going to be rich

34. They both turn face to face and he says hi I’m........ whilst giving her book

35. Both smile

36. TEXT

37. black fades into - girl n guy at restraunt luaghing

38. her on the phone on her bed

39. Him on phone on his bed

40. his face close up - 'i love her'

41. Them two hugging

42. Phone ring – gold digger pick up

43. Him n her dancing he twists her - she in dress

44. Slaming of phone- shouts 'he got a girl'

45. her falling on bed - in normal clothes

46. Bad girl talking to helper i want him dead slams knuckle on table

47. Helper is dressing up - puts on hoody

48. Girl zips up dress

49. puts on shoes

50. pulls up stockings

51. covers his face

52. puts on earing

53. picks up knife or gun

54. she picks up bag

55. he steps out slammign door behind

56. main guy knock on door – ready

57. girl says ready

58. they turn around to walk out - fades into black

59. the 2 gang memebrs holding guns

60. door shuts

61. innocent girl turns head and screams

62. TITLE OF FILM 63. In cinema near you Done By Sonia