SYNTHACAINEThe joke’s on you….

By Ella Gough, Olivia Baragwanath and Freya Bruce.

USP

• Our unique selling point is that our protagonists are all female. We thought this was very postmodern so it is new and different to the crime film industry. We felt like this was similar to Charlie’s Angels by Joseph McGinty Nichol AKA McG but a updated version fitting to the time. Females are usually portrayed as the weak individuals saved somehow by the males however it’s the females in our film who do the evil.

SYNOPSIS• Empire & Prince Albert, the top mobster gangs, have been drug

dealing for years, running the streets of Brighton and providing them with some of the finest cocaine. However, nothing lasts forever and in recent years they’ve had to take a hell of a lot more care dodging the law. It’s become so difficult they’ve had no other option than to produce their own cocaine, Synthacaine. Empire, being an all-female gang has the edge over Prince Albert as they use their feline charm to their advantage. They’re sneaky, snaky & sultry; they pretend to just be clueless beautiful girls working for Prince Albert. Yet there’s more to them than looks, they have cunning minds which work together to destroy the boys. The jokes on them…

POSSIBLE TAG LINES

• PUSHING SNOW SINCE 86’• WHAT HAPPENS NEXT• THE BEST CRIME MOVIE SINCE SNATCH• COMING THIS WINTER• TWO GANGS ONE CASE• TRUST NOBODY• TIMES HAVE CHANGED • THE RANKS ARE CHANGING• KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE BUT YOUR ENEMYS CLOSER• GUNS GLITTER AND ALL THINGS BITTER

FEMALE MOB GANG

• PINKY

• GOLDIE

• RUDY

Leader of Empire. Use to be apart of an exclusive underworld art dealing business. In the past has worked with the likes of Francesco Di Carlo, the Kray twins and The Richardson Gang.

High profile cocaine smuggler through the Mexican border however always hired professionals as she never wanted to get her hands dirty. That is why Pinky is classed as an elusive dealer who everyone wants to work with.

Rudy is a new upcoming dealer. She may be young but has inherited the tricks of the trade from her father, Frankie Fraser AKA mad frank. Anyone in the business knows he is one not to be tampered with, especially his precious only daughter.

MALE MOBSTER GANG

• SKINNER

• MIKEY

• Lil CEASER

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Skinner, he is a hard wired killer. He has escaped the law due to his family seedy connections within the law. They have even worked with him on one occasion involving two murders and a jewellery heist involving hostages.

Mikey is a underworld human trafficker dealing with young girls to and from well known millionaire business men. He has close bonds in the high class society which comes in handy when performing his work.

Lil Ceaser and Skinner are brothers and have grown up together and closely worked with their uncle Big Ceaser. At the age of 10 they were running meth. By 15 they were cooking and distributing the meth. Their uncles meth lab and dealership is the biggest plantation in Europe and America.

3 ACT TREATMENT

• BEGINNING: The undercover mobster all-girl gang Empire, are working for the well-known mobster all-boy gang Prince Albert. The boys are in the shadows completely about their employees cunning minds and to the fact they’re gathering inside information at every poker night. As the girls deliver drinks and smile in the members of Prince Albert’s faces they’re carefully listening to every word said.

• DISRUPTION: After working for the boys for a good few years, Empire have got all the information they need and they finally act on their plans. They rob the boys’ large supply of synthacaine which they developed in a lab as a new strain of cocaine and run.

• RESOLUTION: The girls are laughing now, they’ve made loads of money and lost out on nothing. The boys don’t even realise anything is missing until the very end when they open one of the brief cases to find no synthacaine just a load of lipsticks. It’s obvious to them whose hands their synthacaine lies in and there’s nothing they can do about it. Empire are impossible to catch.

MOOD BOARD - PROPS

RECCE - LOCATIONS

LOCATION IDEAS

• We want to use a poker table in our trailer as we think it is an iconic prop in a crime film, setting the scene. On the poker table we will be able to have other mise-en-scene such as poker chips, alcohol, ash trays etc. These all fit the basic conventions of a genre film.

• We like the idea of having a lift and a car park, as it gives the atmosphere of emptiness for the car park, and fits the idea of someone on the run. But the lift builds tension as it’s a small enclosed area that we will be able to film close ups in to show character emotions.

• We will be filming this in a flat in Brighton, and therefore think that a panning shot over looking Brighton will set the location and show the area that the rival gangs are fighting for.

• There are chase scenes through Brighton laines. This will build tension and keep the fast pace momentum going which is constant throughout the most part of our film.

• We are also going to have minor shots around Brighton in different locations, mainly desolated to set the scene and mood of our film. This is will give our film a strong Brighton essence which is crucial to our film.

SYNTHACAINE- 3 ACT TRAILER TREATMENT

• BEGINNING: Begins with the boys walking along to the ‘meeting point’. They’re playing poker with the undercover all-female-gang delivering drinks to the table and being very attentive to them. Secretly they’re listening to every word said; learning how to continue making this new strand of cocaine and plotting their robbery of the boys supply too.

• DISRUPTION: Empire (the all-girl-gang) actually switch the brief cases full of the newly invented (by Prince Albert) Synthacaine for a brief case filled with lipstick. They make a quick exit from the ‘meeting point’. The boys realise two days later when they go to sample their supply, they all quickly work out who did it. They run out the house to go chase the girls.

• RESOLUTION: The boys cannot catch the girls, meaning the girls have successfully f***ed over the boys and are rich in a brand new strain of cocaine, synthacaine. The trailer finishes with all the girls in masks & boiler suits in a lift with the doors closing, signifying how they’ve completed their goal.

SHOT TYPES AND EDITING TECHNIQUES

• Freeze frame – during the chase scenes to break up the past pace action so audience can take all of the action and information in. Also postmodern.

• Pull focus – when male gang realised they’ve be stitched up. Builds drama and focus on facial expressions.

• Guy Riche freeze frame – When introducing characters in animated style. Postmodern.

• Tracking shots of chase scene – smooth and more advanced than others. Makes scene look slick and polished.

• Amateur camera phone video – Of filming and scenes in public. Breaks up standard recording and makes the scene more exciting. Post modern.

• Wide angle location shot – shot of a stereotypical location in Brighton.

• Close up shots – of characters and facial expressions. More dramatic and pulls focus to mood of scene.