Retribution

"True love surrenders the affirmation that 'one' has for his comrade.The concept of love overrides a young man's heart as emotions fly due to the deception yacob has showed to his comrade Mai".

Movie Treatment
Audience -

Audience - The opening sequences of the film instigates that this production will appeal young adults between the ages of 15 to 23, for both males and females.

Resume - A mans retribution upon his best friend. Emotions fly due to the deception "yacob" instigates towards his comrade "Mai" by falling in love with his girlfriend.

Performance - "yacob" (Jacob Collins-Brown) undergoes a time of reflection as he is embarked upon by the return of his best friend "mai", who's girlfriend "yacob" has secretly being dating. "yacob" is mysteriously stalked by his former comrade who is now in search of "Retribution".

Props - The one and only significant prop used was the mobile phone device.

Costumes - The characters wear quite modern attire to conjunct with the scripting.

We wanted 'Mai Shettima', who is an external actor and plays 'yacob's best friend in the production, to wear stereotypical clothing associated with young black males. this particular attire consisted of a black hooded top and some loose jogging bottoms. this sort of attire is stereotypically associated with gangsters and this is what we wanted to bring to our film.

In contrast we have 'yacob' who contradicts the stereotype of young black males and this is partly shown through his costume and his overall persona.

Key locations - Hulme market arch, St peters Square (Manchester), Hough ends playing fields (Bluebell woods).

Recording days - All in all we frequently filmed during our prescribed lesson hours on Monday and Wednesday. As a group, we wanted to film the scene in St peters square (Manchester) first due to the sudden renovations which would take place a few weeks later , to do this we spent one of our Monday afternoon's lessons getting all the shots we needed from that particular location to match what we had initially planned. Occasionally filming was done after college hours in aim of capturing diverse shots such as the high angle of "yacob" walking into "Bluebell woods", this took time to get right so required patients in order to capture the prescribed shot.

Changes made during production - We rendered quite a few things throughout the production with an aim of improving it, such changes ranged from the initial location of the "north city library" in "Harpurhey" to numerous other contentious venues such as "St peters square" (Manchester) , "Hulme market', and the "Bluebell woods" where our "martini shot" was taken. We also made explicit changes to the storyline due to the connotations of some of our scenes, this allowed us to have more expressive shots and complimented the film much better with the flowing narration allocated over the production via voice over.

Music -

The genre of our production required a contemporary piece of classical music. One of our group members (Jacob Collins Brown) was enlightened with a piece of music composed by "Karl Jenkins" which complimented our scripting very nicely. The piece of music we used was "Palladio".Karl Jenkins who composed "Palladio" was born and raised in the Gower village of Penclawdd, in the county of Swansea, south Wales. He studied music at Cardiff university and then commenced postgraduate studies in London at the Royal Academy of Music where he also met his wife and musical collaborator, Carol Barratt.

Initial Idea

Unleashed

1. Over the shoulder shot should be used to show the stalkers perspective at all times
2. Victim goes up the escalator on the left side , match cuts to the right side, then back to left side.
3. Victim goes into lift, close up of victims face as he thinks.
4. High angle shot as stalker looks down at target, target walks up and down talking on his phone, camera match cuts as he moves around to save time.
5. Victim goes into a room with a table, he sits down to right something.
6. Track shot of stalker as the approaches the door, over the shoulder shot, mid shot, shot of feet, then close up of stalkers hand as he opens the door.
7. Supernatural sound as stalker slams door. Film ends there with the title ‘unleashed’ filling the black screen.
8. Music – Russian violin music throughout the clip.
9. Devilish laugh from stalker at the end whilst the title ‘unleashed’ is shown on a black screen

Initial Plan (Story Board)

These are a few of our initial ideas constructed onto a storyboard.

A Plan was made for the different shots and scenes that would be used for the film. They were small sketches so that we could have a vague idea of what the outcome would be like. The plan was just a small draft of what the scene could look like, this helped as a guide line to what exactly would be required and what could be altered and improved.

The initial idea film idea of 'Unleashed' , was rendered quite a lot in order to attain a better quality of production and a wider range of shots. The decision was made by director (Jacob Collins Brown) to make the transition from 'Unleashed', which is a film about a released murderer seeking his next target, to 'Retribution', which attains a few things from the initial idea.