PLANNING - Inspiration

INSPIRATIONS

• GOODFELLAS
• MAKING OF ARLINGTON ROAD OPENING TITLES
• OLD STUDENTS OPENINGS (Paper Trail and others)

STORY PLOT CLOSELY MATCHED WITH OUR OWN.

- The story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighbourhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), who takes him in as a surrogate son. As he reaches his teens, Hill (Ray Liotta) is inducted into the world of petty crime, where he distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his psychotic partner Tommy (Joe Pesci), he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant; however, he quickly learns that, like his mentor Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), his ethnicity prevents him from ever becoming a "made guy," an actual member of the crime family. Soon he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters, who feel that he has become a threat to their security with his reckless dealings.

OWN SIMPLE PLOT

- A man is being hunted down by a MOB due to what he has done; put one of the top leading mobsters in prison for a number of years and so the 'snitch' that did this went into hiding but that didn't stop the MOB from carrying out killings of his family to bring him out of hiding however he finds out very late where most of his family almost dies out. In our opening we see that a hitman is assigned to kill the guy. The thrilling twist is that the guy being targeted knows that a hitman is coming for him so he prepares by taking the hitman around places where he has the local knowledge and knows a good place to take him and then finally find some answers....

(We still are deciding on actual name for the victim and how it will actually end. After filming some small details may change)

TYPE OF OPENING: NARRATIVE

- The opening of a narrative is important because it usually sets the scene and gives clues as to what the story will be about. So as a group we decided that the most effective way to do this is to create a narrative opening due to the fact of past experiences of making opening title sequences with Arlington Road but this didn't stop us from thinking about the other types of styles we could do. We are aiming to keep it very mysterious but still have it filmed so that the audience know kind of what is happening almost like the opening of Paper Trail made by past students at City and Islington.