1. The Pitch Of
Our Group
Trailer
'Strapped!'

2. Title of Film: STRAPPED! (The name of the film refers to the urban
slang for carrying a gun).
Group Members: Andrea, Christina, Ishmeal and Ryo
Chosen Genre: Urban Drama
Tagline of Film: Which family comes first?
Basic Plot Synopsis:
17-year old Shaquille Carr, who attempts to turn his life around and
start legitimate work to be alike his maternal half brother. Yet, gang
life soon takes over his life and forces him into a complicated
operations involving selling guns/drugs and killing rival members on the
street. But which family will come first?

3. Characterization
The protagonist Shaquille Carr is a Black British 17-year old
teenage boy. A member of the Beaconsfield Thugs and the most
sensible in the gang. Unlike his friends, he knows right from
wrong. Whereas his other friend Cain Barkley, the main antagonist
whom is 26-years old. Also a member of the crew, he is often seen
as the most aggressive and the most trigger-happy. Omar
Khalid, the most religious yet presumably labelled as the ‘ladies
man’ in his neighborhood. And, Damien Toomey who is seen the most
vulnerable out of the group due to his ethnicity.Shaquille’s half
brother Gregory Carr will be presented as the ‘perfect child’ and a
all-star athlete at College with a promising London 2012 entry. His
personality will be illustrated ‘well-mannered’ than the other
characters.

4. Mise En Scene
Lighting – As the genre we've selected is perceived about the
streets of London etc. The lighting is suggested to be low key rather
than a high key as a social realist film would present. However high
key lighting would be useful to express or cover up ‘life and death’
issues as the streets of London illustrated in this film trailer is
dangerous and life threatening.
Use of Colour – The use of colour in this film trailer would be rather
dull so that it is parallel with the low key lighting, and also since the
genre is urban drama. For example gritty and dark tones would be an
explicit feature.
Props & Make-up – In this film trailer we are going to follow the
usual conventions of a urban drama films props and make-ups. For
instance characters wearing hoodies and tracksuit labeling them as
urban youths, and weapons such as guns and knifes or other props
such as money, bicycles, phones, condoms and game controllers. This
is so our film trailer goes with the usual principles and looks almost
real-life.

5. Cinematography
Within the genre of the project there are cinematography ethics
and features that could be used for example:
Dog’s eye view and extreme close-up shots that will allow the
audience to kept in suspense, leaving them in anticipation wondering
what could possibly happen next. Long shots would be useful as well
since it gives the audience to feel and to examine the subjects
personalities or purpose in the scene. An Establishing shot will also
be essential as we would like the audience to relate to the area or
setting of the new scene, like the differences between council-flats
or parks, house, schools etc.

6. Reinforcement or Reinvention of Conventions
of Trailers, Posters and Magazines
Trailers – We were considering subverting from the present
conventions and possibly using the protagonist as the narrator whilst
having voice over’s of scenes in the trailer as well. Furthermore we
could use the similar scenes at beginning and end of the trailer as
though it began backwards from start.
Posters – We are bearing in mind the original structures of a poster
and conforming more present posters that allow the audience to
focus on the main image rather than other text.
Magazines – With magazines we are presenting enticing productions
of the cover as it will be comfortable for audience to read and to
increase sales as well as it sticks to conventions.

7. Relevant Resources
The actors in the trailer will be predominantly male with a minority
of females as the synopsis follows the male’s story. The most
relevant props that will be needed are bikes, money, phones and
knifes (possibly guns) as it’s a common stereotype for youths in
deprived areas to own any of these items. Also, costumes that’ll be
used in the trailer are hoodies, tracksuits, bomber jackets, baggy
jeans and common hats and trainers etc. this is since, the trends of
wearing these clothes in deprived areas in London are highly
accurate. Whilst this, the protagonist’s sibling would counter this as
the inspirational clothing would be wearing wealthy and designer
clothes etc. this is also another stereotype. The setting that will be
selected for the film trailer would be in urban areas of East London
as the film trailer set for the upcoming Olympic games and also with
the expected ‘Knife crime’ issues.

8. Justification of ideas in relation to the
genre, Film influences and Unique Selling
Points
Our ideas have been influenced by films such as ‘Kidulthood',
‘Bullet Boy’, ‘Menace II Society’ and ‘Boyz N the Hood’. These
film include a troubled male teenager in there plot-lines and
have elements of gang violence and includes urban themes. Our
unique selling point is that we are subverting the conventions of
urban drama films which tend to generalize by having some
areas relating to real life stories in the ‘hood’ and plus, as the
plot of the film sets a parable and almost a moral story which
can teach other youths about morals in life like a social realist
film.