Cast Script - by Kirsten Barman

INT. DON’S OFFICE – DAY

Joe Messina hurriedly walking up a narrow flight of stairs. He is dressed in a smart suit and hat. He comes up to a door. Knocks twice, and enters.

Alexsandro Messina is alone in his office gazing through the window. Joe Messina walks directly to the centre of the room. His face is expressionless.

JOE MESSINA:

My Brother

ALESSANDRO MESSINA:

Aaaaaah My brother. You bring me good news I trust?

JOE MESSINA:

He isn’t going to be a problem anymore.

ALESSANDRO MESSINA:

(TO LUCIANO MORETTI) Luca! Go help your brother dispose of the body.

EXIT LUCIANO MORETTI

Alessandro sits down at his desk, looking pleased with himself, lights a cigar and pours a drink for Joe and himself. He smugly sips his drink.

ALESSANDRO MESSINA:

Where is Miele!

JOE MESSINA:

She is safe, She is at the estate,

With Carlo

(Alessandro swears loudly in Itallian)

NT.BASMENT ROOM – DAY

A group of men are sat playing a game of poker, Joe Messina looks down at his cards. A young Luciana Messina is serving drinks. She walks around the table and replaces the empty glasses. She replaces the glass of Joe Messina then lightly taps him on the shoulder.

One of the players, Leo Ramone, takes a sip of his drink; he looks around, and starts to look dazed and confused. Joe Messina looks over his shoulder to Luciana Messina;

JOE MESSINA:

You play a good game Leo Ramone, but you must remember,

Ramone puts his cards down on the table to reveal a royal flush, the highest hand in poker. Then collapses on top of them.

JOE MESSINA:

One of us must lose.

The body is dragged away.

EXT. GRAVEYARD – DAY

A Young man, Marco Ramone, is looking down at a huge tombstone. He is holding a photo and a rose. His girlfriend, Marilyn Johnson walks up behind him and reaches for his hand.

MARILYN JOHNSON:

Are you alright?

MARCO RAMONE:

I’m going to find who did this to my father. I make a promise

Marco breaks away from the hug and drops the rose and photo on the grave. They turn hand in hand and walk away.

Storyboard

Props by Kirsten Barman

Here are the props we are expecting to use when we film;

1st Scene (Don's Office)

Chair And Desk - For the Don to sit behind, hopefully something large and wooden

Whiskey glasses

Whiskey bottle

Ashtray

Cigar/Tin of Cigars

2nd Scene (Poker Room)

Cards & Poker Chips

Ashtray

Martini Glasses

Whiskey Glasses

Cigars

Drinks Tray

Small Lipstick case or similar - To carry the poison

Sugar Capsule

3rd Scene (Graveyard)
Single Red Rose
Photograph

Film Certification - By Josh Nutt

Our film is going to be certificate 15. This is because:
Statistically certificate 15 films have the largest audience, an 18 would cause the audience to think it was too violent.
Our film does not involve or promote the use of drugs, although it does have a drug in to kill Leo Ramone, it doesn't promote the use of it.
Our film includes no scenes of nudity
Our film is planned to have no swear words in, may have the odd few, but none in the opening 2 minutes
Our film does not involve any sexual scenes
There are strong images of pain and violence in our film, espescially when the Mafia is taken down, yet is not extreme.
Our film does not include any footage of dangerous behaviour, such as suicide or self harming.
Our film does not include any pictures referring to horror.

25 word pitch - By Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson, Connor Asquith and Kirsten Barman

This is our 25 word pitch, to get people drawn in and to watch the film;
Marco Ramone wants revenge for the death of his father, taking down members of a rival mafia, with the help of the don's sister.

A Level - PROGRAMME RISK ASSESSMENT - By Andrew Robinson and Kirsten Barman

http://www.sendspace.com/file/05jgsf - Click this to download the original document.


This is the risk assessment of our filming locations for Omerta.

Film Distributors - By Josh Nutt

Film distributors are important to any film. They act as soon as the film is finished, or nearing finishing, and then they make sure that, through advertising, that the film is going to sell. They arrange advanced screanings to the film, and produce many other marketing techniques such as posters and trailers.

With our film, we would be looking for one of the main distributors, to distribute our film. These main distributors are...

Warner Bros. is a major film distributor, and would be able to amount global success for our film, yet usually Warner Bros. is assosciated with more children type movies, to may not be suitable for our mafia based film. Examples of films they have distributed;

• The Shining
• Batman
• Ace Ventura
• Harry Potter
• I am Legend

Paramount, owned by Sony, would be able to amount global success with our film, and they are more likely to take interest into our sort of film, they would be ideal for distributing our film as they could generate a lot of interest. Examples of films they have distributed;

• King Kong
• Saving Private Ryan
• Mission: Impossible
• Kung Fu Panda
• Transformers

20th century fox is again, another big film distributor that would be able to generate a lot of profit for our film, and again, they would be ideal. Examples of films they have distributed;

• Die Hard
• Mrs Doubtfire
• Independence Day
• Stars Wars IV,V,VI
• Avatar

Universal, would be our preferred film distributors as they are global and are able to generate a huge amount of interest in our film, as they are global. Examples of films they have distributed;

• Jurassic Park
• American Pie
• Gladiator
• Bruce Almighty
• Mamma Mia!

Columbia, again is another main distributor within the film industry, and would be another ideal company to distribute our film. Examples of films they have distributed;

• Stuart Little
• Spider-Man
• The Da Vinci Code
• Quantum of Solace
• 2012

Set Designs - By Kirsten Barman

Pulp Fiction - Intro - By Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson, Connor Asquith and Kirsten Barman

Goodfellas - Intro - By Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson, Connor Asquith and Kirsten Barman

Reservoir dogs - Intro - By Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson, Connor Asquith and Kirsten Barman

The Godfather - Intro - By Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson, Connor Asquith and Kirsten Barman

Qustionnaire Results

What is your gender?

Male 11

Female 4

• Our target audience is mainly males

How old are you?

15-20 14

21 – 25 1

• Ages 15 – 20 are more likely to watch our film

Have you ever seen a mafia film?

Yes 10

No 5

• 75% of the people asked have seen a mafia film

If no would you consider watching one in the future?

Yes 4

No 1

• Only one person of the five never seen a mafia film would not see a mafia film

How long do you prefer a film to last?

60 – 90 mins 4

90 – 120 mins 10

More than 120 mins 1

• 75% of people prefer films that last up to 2 hours

Do you like mafia films with a lot of blood in them?

Yes 6

No 4

• More people preferred violent mafia films

Do you prefer old fashioned mafia films?

Yes 5

No 5

• The vote was split. Out of 10 people that had seen mafia films, half preferred old style ones like Scarface and The Godfather. And half preferred new ones like The Departed.

Why?

More classic. Old cars and settings. Prefer more modern things

• Some comments people left

What age would you be more inclined to watch?

15 9

18 6

• Out of the 15 people asked nearly 75% would be more inclined to watch a 15. This means we must aim to make our film a 15 to reach our targeted audience.

Costumes - By Kirsten Barman

This is the general idea for most of the male costumes in the film. They are wearing suits or shirts or waistcoats. Mainly in the colours of black and white, but some may be grey. This was common during the 1920's and extremely common to the mafia gangsters, and is one of the ways we instantly recognise mafia gangsters in films. The style was loosley based around Sonny Corleone from The Godfather.







This is the Costume i have designed for Marylin Johnson. Her character comes into the story in the 1940'sand eventually marries Marco Ramone. She is still quite young so i think she would be quite stylish and fashionable. In the 1940's wealthy women wore knee length dresses with V-necklines and long, hourglass style coats. Many of these styles came from designers such as Christian Dior and Coco Chanel.





Luciana Messina's costume is a little harder to design. There aren't many pictures or sources on the internet from which i can see what clothing was like in the 1920's. Her dress is based around a "flapper" design, young women in this era were often called Flappers because of their hectic lifestyle, they would drink and smoke, party untill late and even drive cars, which in previous years was unheard of. Even though in the scene we have she will be serving drinks, i still think she should still have an air of glamour and sophistication about her. The red dress will also enforce the "Female Fatale" idea.

Five card draw poker - By Andrew Robinson and Josh Nutt

Planning: Shot List - By Connor Asquith and Josh Nutt

1st Scene:

As the shot is black, we hear a knock at the door.

*Camera placed at the top of the stairs looking down on the entrance*

High Angle Shot - As it fades into black, we see the door opening and a tall man opening it (Leonardo Moretti).

Close up shot - As Joe Messina walks through the door it freezes and goes to black and the title, close up shot on Joe. The text appears "Joseph Copley as Joe Messina".

*Camera moves from top of stairs to inside the office*

*Camera inside of office, looking at a man, in a suit, looking out of the window*

Line Alessandro Messina: Who is it?

*Cut*

Line Leonardo Moretti: Your brother.

*Cut*

Line Alessandro Messina: Let him in

Close Up (Low angle looking up very slightly) *Alessandro Messina turns, changes to black and white, text appears "Jordan Sims as Alessandro Messina*

Panning Shot - Following Alessandro Messina as he walks to his chair, Joe Messina is still stood up but has moved further into the room.

Line Alessandro Messina: Aaah my brother. You bring me good news I trust.

*Cut*

Line Joe Messina: He isn't going to be a problem anymore.

2nd Scene

*White Flash into Flashback*

Extreme Close up of Poison being dropped into glass, slowly zoom out and show Luciana Messina's face. Black and White, close up on face. Text appears, Kirsten Barman as Luciana Messina.

*Camera at the bottom of the stairs, looking up as Luciana walks down the stairs holding 4 glasses on a tray*

Panning Shot as Luciana walks towards a table of 4 men playing poker. Camera in same position as before.

*Camera in middle of poker table*

Camera Pans round in a circle, following Luciana as she hands out the drinks, (Freezes on the people playing poker)

• Joshua Nutt as Leo Ramone
• Andrew Robinson as William King
• John Jones as Walt Dixon
• (No Freeze) Joe Messina

*Camera near stairs high angle, looking down on the poker table*

Poker game plays on

*Leo Ramone drinks his drink in one, camera extreme close up of this happening*

Leo Ramone chokes, and collapse towards the table and his face hits the table *the camera goes into birds eye view of Leo's with his head on the table, then slowly zooms in on his hand, that is the royal flush, the camera carries on zooming in slowly on the A of the ace*

*Title Sequence*

Final Scene

*White Flash, and fades in to see the sky, as the camera slowly tilts downwards to see Marco Ramone stood at gravestone, with Marilyn Johnson stood far in the background, Low angle shot from the gravestones prospective looking up at Marco, holding a rose and a picture of his Father (possibly mother as well)*

Marilyn slowly walks towards Marco to comfort him, she hugs him

Marilyn: Are you alright?

*Camera moves to a long shot position showing them both from behind*

Marco: I'm going to get revenge for whoever did this to my father.

*Camera back at the gravestones perspective, back into a low angle shot of them stood together*

*Drops the rose and the picture on his Fathers grave, and they both slowly walk away as the camera fades to black*

Questionnaire - By Connor Asquith and Josh Nutt

What is your Gender?
Male
Female

How old are you?
15-20
21-25
26-30
31-40
41+

Have you ever seen a mafia film?
Yes
No

If no, would you consider watching one in the near future?
Yes
No

How long do you prefer a film to last?
Less than 60 minutes
60-90 minutes
90-120 minutes
More than 120 minutes

Do you like mafia films, with a lot of blood in them?
Yes
No

Do you prefer, old fashioned mafia films?
Yes
No

Why?
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What age rating, would you be more inclined to watch?
U
PG
12A
15
18

Thankyou for participating in our questionnaire.

Costumes - by Kirsten Barman

Costumes are the hardest thing to get perfect. this is a good example of what we wan the costumes to look like, For the first scene.

Omerta - by Kirsten Barman, Josh Nutt, Andrew Robinson and Connor Asquith

This is the idea behind our name..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omerta

Omerta Title Sequence - By Andrew Robinson

Titles - By Connor Asquith, Kirsten Barman, Andrew Robinson and Josh Nutt

We came up with numerous titles for our films including the following

A Brotherhood

Royal Flush

Omerta

Vendicare

We made titles for Royal Flush and The Brotherhood, yet decided to go with Omerta as it is the mafia's code of silence. This relates to the fact that Luciana Messina breaks the code of silence, the Omerta by talking to Marco Ramone about her family dealings.

Our tagline for our film is 'The code of silence.' and when we create a poster we would have the line on it...

'If i live i'll kill you, If i die i forgive you'