Exchange

By Will, Nik and Elana

A Rough Idea of our Plot

A very well to do family finds themselves involved in a crime when their part time mobster father/husband messes with the wrong person when exchanging a life threatening object. The mobster father

Summary of Opening Sequence

• Small time mobster/family man does a deal involving the exchange of two mysterious briefcases and tries to escape with his daughter and wife before his Big Mob boss finds out.

• Two men intercept his plans by leaving him the horrible “calling card” of a mutilated dog in the boot of his car.

• Mobster tries to pretend nothing is wrong in front of his family.

The Opening SceneFirst is a tracking shot through a very expensive manor

house. (Handheld Steadicam)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHGg6slWdgThis link gives a brief idea of our opening scene however

we want to track it from the open front door of the house going through to the open back door.

In the Garden

When we go through the back door we see a mother playing with her daughter and their dog. It’s a wide shot.

This represents happiness and laughter and shows an obvious bond between the mother and daughter.

In the Office

• An ECU of a hand opening a draw… in the draw is a gun

• The gun gets picked up and put into the trouser of the beholder, all the time not seeing the mobster’s face

• We track the mobster to the window where he looks out the window and watches his family play… we see the back of his head and the main focus point is what's going on outside

• It then zooms out and we see the mobster’s reflection and in the reflection we see a man with a look of terror, sadness and longing.

• He then proceeds to pick up a silver brief case and walks over to the desk where he opens it. The viewers don’t see what’s in it. This adds a sense of mystery to the scene

Getting into the Car

• We see a track shot of the man walking out his front door and getting into his very expensive car. He then drives up the drive and the shot is held watching the car accelerate up the drive.

Back in the Garden

• We than see the mother and daughter again and then the mother gets up hearing the car drive out… the look on her face suggests she didn’t know her husband was going out. The daughter carries on playing unaware. In this shot you will see the mother and a looking space.

The Exchange

• The car pulls up to a wood that is remote and no one can be seen

• We see the mobsters feet walking briskly and the bottom of the brief case too

• It then zooms out and there is a wide shot of the mobster and one other man staring at each other.

• The next close up is an extreme close up of the briefcase being exchanged.

• The mobster walks away, gets in his car and drives off. We see the man he exchanged with and then it cuts to two butch like men with beards come out from behind a tree both with a gun.

• It then cuts to the mobster back at home walking in the house.

• He sits down at the dining table with his family and begins to eat dinner

• An ECU of his mobile phone ringing

• The mobster picks it up and looks terrified

• The mobster suddenly screaming makes his family get in the car saying things like ‘I’m going to take you to the station. Go and stay with your mother’

• As they get in the car, the mobster sees two men by a tree (the same two men who were with the man the mobster exchanged with). He goes to open the boot to put suitcases in there and the dog that they were playing with previously is dead in the boot.

Characters

• The mobster father/husband• The almost perfect housewife• The beautiful daughter (around 5-7 years

of age)• The man in the woods• The two men in suits• A small fluffy dog

Who could play each part?

• The father

• The mother: Ruby Cowan

• The daughter:

Our Target Audience

Our audience is aimed at the age of 15+. Although our opening sequence doesn’t involve blood and guts we want to portray a more sophisticated thriller with mind games and twists.

• The man in the woods:

• The two men in suits:• Berika • Zurab

Locations

• The house used by the mobster and his family could be Cornhill. However, the inside can’t be used there as it needs to be grand and expensive.

• Luckily Hurtwood is situated in a wood, therefore we have a great deal amount of options to shoot the scene in the wood.

Props

What do we need?• A briefcase• An expensive car• A stuffed dog• Mobile phone• Expensive dinner ware• A gun

Costumes

• Four suits• Ordinary clothes for mother• Pretty dress for girl

Our Working title

• Our film in entitled ‘The Exchange’. We don’t want anything to old fashioned however we don’t want something that will appear to fast action.

Some examples of what our title could look like

Black Star ProductionsPhantom Productions

North Star Pictures / EntertainmentDavinci Productions

Turner PicturesHolmbury Productions

• Days of shooting:• Mon 12th jan… will, elana and nik

• Perfect mother and small daughter enjoy day in backyard playing with their small fluffy dog. Smiles and clichés.

• Their small time Mobster husband/father his office

• Mobster gets a phone call ECU’s of hand and diegetic sound of dialogue and background noise of phones and typing

• Mobster is doing a dodgy deal on the side (that he thinks his big boss won’t find out about) involving suitcases being swapped.

• Series of match on action cuts to condense time.

• E.g. SHOT 1- Mobster’s hand opens drawer,

• SHOT 2- hand picking up suitcase • SHOT 3 – legs walking down corridor • SHOT 4- Suitcase with gold or light

emanating from it?

• Mobster goes home to pick up his family, they are being watched by 2 guys in suits – waiting for him.

• Mobster collects family, tries to put them in car, opens boot and sees mutilated fluffy dog as a tableaux.

• Closes boot and suggests they take the bus instead. Tries to pretend there is nothing wrong to the wife and child.

• “Lucky Number Sleven” for ideas?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=30EeGDiI7MA

• “MOBSTER” (Working title) – NICK, ELANA AND WILL• Perfect mother and small daughter enjoy day in backyard

playing with their small fluffy dog. Smiles and clichés. • Their small time Mobster husband/father his office• Mobster gets a phone call ECU’s of hand and diegetic sound of

dialogue and background noise of phones and typing• Mobster is doing a dodgy deal on the side (that he thinks his

big boss won’t find out about) involving suitcases being swapped.

• Series of match on action cuts to condense time. • E.g. SHOT 1- Mobster’s hand opens drawer, • SHOT 2- hand picking up suitcase • SHOT 3 – legs walking down corridor • SHOT 4- Suitcase with gold or light emanating from it?• Mobster goes home to pick up his family, they are being

watched by 2 guys in suits – waiting for him.• Mobster collects family, tries to put them in car, opens boot

and sees mutilated fluffy dog as a tableaux. • Closes boot and suggests they take the bus instead. Tries to

pretend there is nothing wrong to the wife and child.• “Lucky Number Sleven” for ideas?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30EeGDiI7MA