Costumes and Props

Character Profiles

NIKOLAI, 45, Drug lord

Personality: Dominant, Methodical, Ruthless, Pragmatic

Clothing: Expensive- Suits, Watch, Glasses

Loves: Power, Wealth, High status, Loyalty

Hates: Losing

Past: An abusive father and an unloving mother caused Nikolai to live homeless for a long period of time before he decide to start his own business dealing drugs. Slowly, he began forming an empire built upon the foundations of loyalty and hard work within the narcotics industry. His reputation increased exponentially as the success of the deals led to mass amounts of wealth.

DEMARCO, 28, Drug dealer

Personality: Organised, Responsible, Intelligent, Analytical

Clothing: Urban- Hoodie, Sneakers, Jeans

Loves: Wealth, Problem solving

Hates: Orders, Failing

Past: Raised amongst the brutalities of the violence of the slums, Demarco had to survive his childhood in a culture bred from drugs, crime and hopelessness. He survived by growing his innate abilities of mathematics and reconstructing them towards the narcotics industry- handling stock intake and funding.

LUCAS, 33, Drug dealer

 Personality: Aggressive, Violent, Volatile, Antagonistic

Clothing: Urban- Black coat, Boots

Loves: Hard workers, Professionalism

Hates: Shortcuts

Past: Known for his reign of terror, Lucas is an upcoming powerhouse in the drug industry. Maintaining a strong professionalism, he upkeeps a strict and organised business with no room for errors.

ALEXEI, 28, Drug dealer

Personality: Observant, unforgiving, conscientious

Clothing: Urban- Black coat, scarf

Loves: Cocaine, Teamwork

Hates: Patience,

Past: Lonely and hungry. Alexei was brought into Lucas’ industry out of sympathy, he had slowly risen through the ranks until eventually his talents were sought after by almost every major drug lord in the country. Lucas quickly tempted Alexei into a partnership as his advisor which Alexei was forced to accept after he overdosed on cocaine and needed money to recover.

Location Scouting + Research

Before we went location scouting, we looked at typical locations associated with Crime films. Locations commonly associated with the action and crime genres are usually very urban areas. Most crime action films take place in cities, streets specifically. The locations often tend to be very gloomy, with very desaturated colours. Scenes tend to be set at night in isolated locations.

A few blog posts before this, there is the questionnaire which we put up on the blog, as well as the results. We provided a copy of the storyline for people to read. We had them look at and read the storyline. We then asked them which location would suit the storyline. Most said Urban/Town with one person saying "Urban Asia". This shows us that people have been conditioned to assume that if the film is action, that it would probably be set in a city or town.

We had a look around town, we assumed that this location shown in the above photo would be the most suitable for the deal taking place, it is quite out of the way. However, it is a public location, cars pass in and out very often, so while it is a suitable location for our genre and type of film, it's a hard location to film in

 This photo shows the alleyway which we will run down. A shootout will take place here.

 This photo shows the location that we will be using for the conversation. This is where we go after running from the police.

This photo is of the exit/entrance to the college car park. It has reasonable lighting and isn't very busy. This is the location of the drug deal.

Production Logo

Risk Assesment - Niko's Proposition

UPDATE (09/02/2017): As we intend to film with prop guns in a public space we have informed the local police department of our intentions and have being approved by the Sargent to go ahead with the filming.

Details of Target Audience

Details of Target Audience

Our film would be something that anyone could go to see and enjoy regardless of their age and gender. That being said, if we were to identify the exact target audience it would be mainly males of an age range between 15 and 50 years old. This is based primarily on the themes that exist in the film; guns, violence and drugs. Society’s ideology is that males are much more likely to be entertained by these themes then females, hence why it would make better business sense to market the film towards the male demographic above.

Although our research suggests the demographic we should aim our film at is female, our ideas are based on other successful films and the paths they took in order to maximise box office sales.

Images of Script