Decision Process

When planning and researching my product along with Ben, we had a variety of initial ideas, ideas including flashbacks, an Italian Character and a number of different scenes.

When it came to the final decision making process, many of our initial ideas were abandoned:

1. No Flashbacks
2. No Italian Character
3. A number of scenes planned were scrapped

Many of these decisions to get rid of the above were down to timing of the product as we didn't want to run over the alotted time that we had (2 minutes), this was mainly the reason for the flashbacks.

The reason for getting rid of the Italian character was due to the difficulty of pulling off the accent, and shhoting scenes in the perfect Mise-en-scene, such as an Italian Resturant; as this would help to establish the characters nationalitie; however being unable to film in a resturant or pull off the accent, meant it was easier to change the actor to 'Jimmy the Hustler' a rival London Gangster.

Linking with the Flashback's, provisional scenes such as one in an Italian resturant was neglected, as already mentioned; being unable to film on the premises and because of the trouble of timing. We also found that with too many scenes, including flashbacks; would disoreintate the audience. So we felt that keeping it simple would help the flow of the Film.

We did however add some features which we had not planned, this was mainly incorporated when editing the product, such as having the characters name appear in the Characters first appearence, this was frequently used in films directed by Guy Ritchie. Another feature which we had not planned was the Point of View shot at the end of the film, although very shaky, this was intended in order to represent to fear of 'Archie' and the uncertainty of what was about to happen.