Original Pitch

The Pitch First Draft: The Vendetta

• Group Members: Elizabeth, Karolina, Martha and Josephine
• Chosen Genre: Gangster Crime
• Title of Film: The Vendetta x "Mess With Our Family, Mess With Yours."
• Outline Of Ideas: The plot synopsis of four film is there are four girls who live similar lifestyles, but have different personalities. They all tend to come across as quite deviant, follow their own rules, don't like being bossed around. One is serious, second girl is aggressive, third girl is girly, fourth girl is clumsy. The leader of the girl gang is the serious one. The sibling of one of the girls gets shot by an off duty police officer. The police officer gets away with the killing as no one is able to find out that he carried it out. The girl was a witness to the shooting/murder but no one believes her. The police rule her brother's murder as a gang associated murder. In addition to this, the police officer was actually harassing the girl one night, henceforth why her brother came to save her but unfortunately he gets killed by the police officer. The girl vows to get revenge on the police officer with her girl gang. 

What conventions of the genre will be included in your trailer?

The trailer will include a leader, that is in charge of the girl gang, including helping coming up with plans and ideas with the revenge of the police officer. The conventions of a group of gangsters will be included in the trailer, they will be females and students who are in the education system. Also the conventions of the girl gang being faced with some sort of conflict (in this case the police officer murdering a family member of one of the girls) The locations of the trailer will be in various places all over East London. East London is an urban area so it fits quite well with the gangster crime convention. 

Where will your trailer be set? What other aspects of mies-en-scene do you need to consider?

The trailer will be set in various locations all over East London. We will be using houses, areas in our sixth form, shorditch, brick lane and stratford. The aspects of mies-en-scene we need to consider is clothing as since the girls are gangsters living in an urban area, we wouldn't really expect them to be dressed glamorously. They could wear jumpers, jeans, trainers, tracksuits. Another aspect of mies-en-scene that we must consider are props. The girls should have basketballs, steel bars and typical weapons that would expected of a girl gang in East London. I feel that the girls having guns would be a little unrealistic. They could somehow get hold of one illegal gun but I don't think they should all have guns and start walking around with them.