FILMS + IMFORMATION

My playlist was mainly the inspiration for this film; I was listening to random mixes for revision and thought how influential British music is in gangster films and how that was primarily the reason to why I liked them so much – they drove the emotional of the film without these badass characters getting too emotional themselves. ​ ​ I originally started to look into playlists labelled ‘British Gangster’ and then diverted my interest into specific film tracks. This led me to looking into ‘Ocean’s 11’ and ‘The Gentlemen’ for inspiration. ​ ​ The song which lead me to wanting to make a Gangster film was ‘psycho killer’, so it only felt right to plan to feature it in the finale cut. When listening to it I found it illustrated the ideal gangster mastermind while diverting from the typicality of gangster and heist films by having it a female character. This to me felt perfect as it would follow the typical narrative conventions while allowing me to develop it into my own. I decide it would be used to introduce my female lead as the song itself begins to describe a mastermind type character that I would hope to make like my own. ​ ​ ‘Shimmy shimmy Ya’ would be my next song following my intro, I think it has a cool yet mischievous tone which would be a perfect parrel for some action which introduces the henchmen characters and the main basis for the plot. ​ ​ When watching movies like the ‘Gentleman’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, I found they had moments of sadness which was put to music which drove the scene instead of having the character explicitly emotional, for this scene I decided I would want a scene with the main character running slightly injured and then the henchmen come in to help her run. For this I felt a slightly upbeat and emotional tune that ‘ Under Pressure’ could provide would create a nice moment for all the characters that would allow the viewer to emphasise and connect with the characters portraying them as almost a found family. ​ ​ My initial ending of the character's story line would be set to the song ‘Loaded’. My idea for the conclusion of these characters story is for there to be a twist where we think the main characters have been defeated by the ‘big bad’ character. The scene would follow the ‘big bad’ relaxing, listening to the song ‘loaded’ on vinyl, then the scene would slowly reveal our twist in which the main character has a gun to the back of the ‘big bads head’. Before we see what happens the scene will cut to black at the point in which the song says ‘ we’re gonna have a party’, leaving the ending ambiguous to the viewer. ​ ​ Our final song will be in an end credits scene in which we get our finale twist in which it is revealed that the girl pitching the Gangster film is in fact the gangster herself. It will follow her returning to her car after the film gets rejected. It will be a shot of the inside of the car where her two henchmen sit. When she enters the car they will get the assumption that the film pitch was rejected. The henchman behind the wheel will then say, ‘Well, that’s entertainment for you’ and then the credits will continue to the song by the Jam of the same name. ​ ​ I feel the number of songs included with the time limit of 5 minutes is quite ambitious but necessary as all of them prick a certain plot point, its not as if the whole song will be used as well, it will be edited so only certain bits are used and ‘that’s entertainment’ will be in the credits so will be excluded from the five minutes.