Props Research

MEDIA PROPS RESEARCH LIST 

 • Two big guns – These guns will be the weapons that the amateur robbers use in the heist

• One small gun – This will be for the least experienced/ weakest member of the group

• Bat – This is another choice of weapon and because these people are amateurs, their weapons would also be amateur. This was partially inspired by “The Purge”

• First aid kit – We will use the first aid kit to treat the man that has been shot. It would be nice to get a few close-ups of the kit while the man is being treated

• Earpiece – This will potentially be for the guard that protects the main man during the stitch-up. We wanted a few options to see what looks best on the guard

• Van – This will be the get-away van that the amateur robbers jump into. The back of the van has no sight of the front. This would mean that they never know where they are being driven to so they just trust the driver. This works perfectly for them to being stitched-up

• People Carrier Car – We have a few options such as a VW or a Nissan, but any big car will fit perfectly. This will be the car that the “professional” drive off in after taking the “amateurs” stuff

• Sunglasses – These will also be a potential for the guard. He will either wear the sunglasses with the earpiece, he could wear a balaclava or nothing at all

• Balaclava – Again this is a possibility for the guard

• Pelican cases – These will be what the robbers use to steal the goods. This way, we won’t need to see inside them so we don’t actually know what they have stolen. They also look quite high security

• Smoke machine – Inside the van, it will be very bland, so to create some atmosphere we wanted to have some smoke to make the van look a bit dusty

• Fake blood – Obviously we need blood in order to show that the guy has been shot. We will need quite a lot of it depending on how long we shoot the scenes of him bleeding

• Torches – As we will be using smoke inside the van and also due to the fact that the van doesn’t have any windows in the back, it will be very dark. Torches will light up everyone’s faces and will look cool with the smoke

• Cardboard boxes – These will just be used to make the van look a bit fuller and cramped as 
normally there wouldn’t be much inside.

Character List

Post from Dasha's blog:

Female Character Guideline:

Young woman that has a strong personality,dark hair, inherits a leader personality.








Robber 1:Around a 35-43 year old man with a Liverpool accent, very short hair (possibly bald) and has a harsh personality and cares for his fellow correspondents.








Robber 2:
A guy that is in his mid thirties, looks a bit different to all the other robbers. We are looking for him to have a quiet personality that helps out purely because he needs the cash from the mission.





Robber 3:

The last robber is an actual doctor in real life that has specialist skills and helps out with the technology and downloading part of the mission. He is in his mid forties and is non-white.

Mafia Man:

This man is very important and is ruthless. You mess with him, you have the whole mafia after you. White male around 30-40 to show experience and strength. Needs to have style.

Casting Kenneth

Final Idea

Our final idea is about a successful robbery except one of the members has been shot. They are all arguing in the get-away van while one member is trying to stop the bleeding. We continue to see them fight between each other until the van pulls over. The robbers assume that they have arrived at the destination which they wanted, but the driver has stitched them up and they have been double-crossed. Other, more professional robbers take the goods from the van and drive off, leaving the amateurs to question there abilities. 

My Tasks

PROPS:

Masks with costumes: the actors playing the main characters are robbers and so to make them seem more threatening, we though it would be a good idea to have masks with matching costumes. This would also establish that they are a part of the same organisation. This was inspired by films such as The Purge 2 and The Town.

Sacks/Cases: We will need some sort of sack or briefcase depending on the item that the robbers will be stealing.










Fake money or diamonds: Depending on what is being stolen, some sort of object would need to be in the bag to give the realism of the weight of the items in the sacks.

Van: We are going to use a van for the robbers to get away in. We will use the schools bus.

Weapons: Similar to The Purge we will need different types of weapons. As these robbers aren't very professional, they would be using weapons like baseball bats and bb guns.










LOCATION: 

Car Park: After the robbers have stolen the goods, the van will pick them up from a car park

Van: Most of the opening title sequence will be in the van. There will be some arguments as the robbery didn't go completely to plan seeing as one of the members has been injured.











Woods: When we find out that the driver has taken them to a different destination than originally planned, we see that they have been stitched up. For this we will use the woods thats all around our college as it gives the impression that they are in the middle of nowhere.

Issues...

New Idea

We knew that we had too many random ideas happening all at once and they weren't actually possible in the time period we have to film. The ideas weren't very thought out either because we rushed to come up with an idea as we were starting to panic. 

Thankfully, Ashen came up with a strong idea which blende our previous ideas together. 
We would see a bank robbery and we would cut in and out between that and a scene of a wealthy man  doing his daily routine. We would see the arguments between the robbers and then see that this man is very materialistic and seems to be of some importance. s we wanted to link the two stories together, we thought that the two scenes could meet with the man getting run over by the van of the robbers.
Alen and Ashen agreed that they would be able to create a believable accident with special effects but we thought that it would look too much like a stunt and so we should change the ending.
I then thought that we could end it with a phone call. The robbers could simply call the man, he picks up the phone and talks to them calmly. They both hang up and the robbers throw the phone out of the van window and we get a tracking shot of the phone until it hits the road and then the titles would come up. 

Dasha din't like the phone being thrown out so she suggested that the man should pick up the phone and then just cut to black. I personally thought that it wasn't as visually effective as my original idea and we are still on a disagreement now. 

Our aim would be for the audience to think that there is a strong connection between the man and the robbers. Perhaps the man is the ring leader of the group. To help bring this idea across, we would have the robbers dressed up in costumes and masks that are identical to show that they are a part of an organisation. We would then show that the man is hiding the same masks in his wardrobe.
Here are some examples of scary masks and costumes to show why we thought this would be a good feature to our opening title sequence: