COMING UP WITH THE IDEA

My group had lots of disagreements about our opening sequence should be about, and because of that we lost lots of time to produce our sequence, and split up. I came up with the idea that the film should centre knife crime from watching films like ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Bullet Boy’ I came up with what I thought would be a really good, engaging idea. I storyboarded it to gather a rough idea, and casted the actors, to make it realistic I thought a big group of black boys would best stereotypically portray danger! So I asked 8 of my friends to be in the sequence, it was hard with a big number of people to find a date that suited all of them, which is why I initially had so many problems. I debated between having a gun or a flick knife, but I thought a gun would be too complicated and then in turn make things unrealistic due to sound affects and the actors. So I opted for a knife, I researched gang culture and asked around for characteristics of a gang member, and I that’s when I found out a knife would be placed in a sock! I’m familiar with the theory that different colour bandanas within gangs have different connotations, I found black was seen as the most dangerous, and even to the eye of someone unfamiliar with the connotations associated with bandanas it looks mysterious and very dangerous of course! Along with a black bandana, I wanted him to be dressed in black, more specifically a black hoodie! I basically looked at all the stereotypical things associated with a black gang member and incorporated it into my opening sequence! ... To find an idea that was interesting, I had to find something that everyone could sympathise with not just the direct target audience, so I decided his best friend would have been killed and he wants revenge on the people who prematurely took his life! Teamed up with a good voice over this should be really affective!
RACHELLE NUNOO x