The Last Lane Shot List

1) P.O.V. shot following Emily playing with the leaves.
2) Production Company transition.
3) Low angle shot pointing upwards at Liam cycling past.
4) Same shot further down the driveway and following Liam with the House in the background surrounded in mist.
5) Low angle shot facing the pool house, towards Liam.
6) Extreme close-up of Laim's face with a handheld shot.
7) Low angle shot facing the pool house, towards Liam.
8) Panning shot of Liam walking towards the pool house.
9) Extreme close-up of Laim's face with a handheld shot.
10) Shot panning to the left to see a flash of Emily running behind the wall.
11) P.O.V. shot following Emily playing with the leaves.
12) Mid-shot from inside the pool-house facing Liam looking into the window shot pans to left afterwards.
13) Low angle shot following Liam walk back to his bike
12) Low angle close-up shot following Liam walking to the right.
13) Wide angle shot of Liam walking up and about to get on his bike.
14) P.O.V. shot following Emily playing with the leaves.
15) Wide angle shot of Liam riding up on his bike towards the house.
16) Shot panning right as Liam riding towards the house, panning upwards with Emily in the window above.
17) P.O.V. Shot from EMily looking down through the window towards Liam.
18) O.T.S. shot following Liam's perspective as he walks up and presses the doorbell.
19) O.T.S. shot of me (Ed) opening the door and sharing dialogue with Liam.
20) O.T.S. shot of Ed opening the door and sharing dialogue with Ed.
21) Low shot of Emily through the window.

The Last Lane Evaluation

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our Thriller opening thriller conventions as its main method of getting it's point across. One of our most important conventions was to create the feeling of being watched; the idea the entire way through the opening is that Emily is watching Liam as he delivers his pizza. We use many different methods to get this across, for instance we use the obvious ideas of shots from her point of view towards him. We also believed that there were subtle ideas which worked well to build up tension towards the end, for instance we used a fleeting glance for when Liam first sees Emily. This was actually done by accident as on the first take as Emily didn't get out of the way of the camera fast enough, but the way her dress flew behind her worked really well in terms of colour comparison to the other room and adding mystery because you only see a fleeting glimpse. This shot relates to the idea that Liam is being watched which is a further convention of a thriller. The idea of water or running water are included through the panning shot of the swimming pool which adds tension to the scene. The idea of there being a big house with only one person living in it works really well. This has been used time and again in thrillers (mainly sub-genres such as horror films), of course it is far more subtle than usual as the large house is obviously seen but it is only a small part of the story as it is only referenced in the storyline rather than the fact there is a large house being a main plot point, but it is clear that the father lives on his own.

Our characters are stereotypical, for instance the pizza delivery boy who investigates which character is in the pool house. The father whose daughter's death still remains in the forefront of his mind, and lastly the girl who follows Liam (Pizza delivery boy) is the small ghostly and frightening supposedly dead girl. These follow the conventions of characters as in this segment Liam follows the role of the detective character as he investigates the person supposedly in the pool house. The father in this situation could be the 'victim' as he is the only one who has no idea what's going on in contrast to Liam, who has at least been told he has to deliver a pizza and has a purpose at the house. Of course Emily can be considered the 'psycho' but she also plays the part of the 'Red Herring' as she leads Liam towards the pool house away from his original task. It is important to remember though that during the length of the film the character's roles in the story can change, for instance if we were to produce a whole feature length film then it would become apparent that although in the opening the main character appears to be Liam, as the story progresses it becomes clear that the main character is in fact the father. Liam is simply the helpless victim, but Emily's role stays the same.

Our camera work throughout adds mystery by using certain aspects of the location we had and twisting them to our advantage, for instance the large house that we were able to use, we used a low angle shot in order to shroud the house in mist, this gave a great 'spooky' effect which works well with the idea of 'fear of the unknown'. We incorporated flashbacks of Emily before she died to give an idea of how happy she was but we also incorporated her playing with leaves into the flashbacks which as we filmed in autumn could have worked well with ideas of trees dying and their time passing which works also as symbol for what may be soon to come with her.One of the shots we are most proud of is the shot from Emily's perspective, which when we played it back, was framed well and the grass meeting the gravel alongside the edge of the window frame are parallel which space the shot out evenly, also the way Liam walks across past the edge of the window out of site is a way or representing how Liam may vanish or disappear later on in the story.   Quite a large part of our film is that Liam has seen the girl and is trying to find out if he just imagined her or not, this is challenging thriller conventions in a way because with most thrillers the idea is that the victim has no idea that they are being watched or followed but straight from the beginning we could see that Liam saw the girl and went over to investigate. We chose this because we didn't want him to appear helpless or at a loss when he saw Emily, we wanted the audience to think of him as a strong and brave character rather than what you get with other thriller genre films which use the first death at the beginning of the film (It is important to note that if we were to make this a full length film Liam would have been killed later on.) to show the killer and how they act or kill people, bu t by making the Pizza boy a strong character we have in fact made the 'psycho' character seem a lot tougher as well, which (although maybe subconsciously) ups the opinion of the character the audience has.

One of the main conventions thriller films have is that the main character is usually a strong male with a girl/woman playing the helpless and weak victim. We decided to challenge this and therefore flip it on it's head and make our victims in this case both male with the girl (who appears to be playing the strong character) being the character who controls them and is in power. There recently has been a spike in films which have strong females as the leads. They of course have been there before but recently with the release of films such as the “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” series, The Debt and The Iron Lady.

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Each of the main characters represent their own individual social group. Liam is 17 and working as a pizza delivery boy and was created to be so conventional that it is almost unusual in itself. In himself Liam represents no social group specifically, unless we were to greatly generalise and put him in the ‘teenage male’ category. None of his behaviours in the film stand out in any way or make you think about his actions or feelings. This idea could be referenced to the film ‘Idiocracy’ in which a main part of the plot line and the character himself is that he is ‘the most average man of the planet’. This also helps as he is very average he shows no behaviours which we could really like or dislike or agree or disagree with.

So if we were to move further on in our plot we would see that Liam dies in a later scene, and as he shows no prominent or specific behavioural traits we do not relate or engage with him as a character, some would agree this is wrong and we always must relate but in fact this, I feel, slows down the pace of the story if minor plot points such as Liam’s death are focused on. So if we were to continue feeling sad for Liam for a prolonged period of time after his death, we would be subtracting from other important areas of the plot that may be continuing on afterwards. Putting all of this aside we would still have made Liam an average character for one very important reason, this is that as he has literally no personality to relate to. This highlights how extraordinarily ‘un-average’ Emily is as a character.

Emily is two different characters , in that when we see the old footage of her alive she is happy and carefree, but when we see the present day footage we can see she is sad and no longer a true representation of her formal self. And in this way she represents two different sides of one social group; children. So the first portrayal of the happy and carefree child Emily is a more traditional form of social group portrayal, a Disney character if you will, where although children go through periods of adversity, they are on the whole happy and cheerful. Films such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off typify this character portrayal. Later in the thriller we see Emily as a changed character; her demeanour becomes more sombre and serious. This side of childhood would be represented in films like Hesher, It’s a Wonderful Life and A Series of Unfortunate Events. So the social group represented by Emily is that of children and it is portrayed to show both sides of life, so while the characterisation of her life and ‘death’ is fictional and unrealistic her portrayal of modern childhood is accurate in its complexity of emotion.


Our final character is Ed the father of the ‘dead’ girl who answers the door to find that someone has ordered a pizza to be delivered to his house. We can immediately tell by the setting that he is a potential AB social classification and his dress furthermore supports this view. By setting we refer to the size of the property and its location obviously set in its own substantial grounds, suggesting the family that once lived there all together either inherited or made substantial amounts of money. This social grouping represents a very small percentage of the population, however most of us will know or come into contact with someone in this group. Often in films they can be caricatured, or characters to be envied. However, in our film we have chosen to keep this character very low-key allowing the setting and the story of his daughter to have prominence.

So in conclusion our three characters represent three different social groups, with a wide range of genders and ages enabling the story to have a richer content and a wider audience which allows more people to empathise with the characters as the film develops.

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

When we look at the ideas of our thriller film we think that in general although it does have it’s own original plot, it does have general ideas and themes behind it that would apply to many films. For instance the use of small children being the ‘scary’ lead antagonist in films has been used for decades going straight from The Omen series, The Orphan, to the modern day Insidious. These films all have something in common, which is that they all are your average ‘multiplex’ movie. For instance an obvious example of a film they have chosen to screen in the re-make of The Thing which is far more recent. I believe that if we were to carry on making this movie then we would aim for it to be in that category. This is because generally (but with exceptions) films do better in this area of cinema at the box office than Art House films or other genres do. So I think that our plot is interesting and new enough for people to want to see it and for the large cinema companies such as ODEON, Cineworld and Vue to want to screen it. Yet is simplistic enough for it to warrant being in a multiplex theatre rather than at an art house venue, which stereotypically, more complicated films do, one example of one of the films which I believe could belong to and do well in the Art House genre Is the first Paranormal Activity film which due to its low budget yet high success could have appealed to that type of audience.

Also the next obvious choice is straight-to-DVD. This is mainly because looking at other similar themes and movie ideas, the horror genre (Which is a huge sub-genre of media, and a huge part of the thriller set) has really had a re-boost in the past few years with far more movies coming out in this time, for instance the Paranormal Activity series has been hugely successful. From personal experience, and visiting other people’s houses I can see that almost every family has at least one of these ‘New’ horror movies, these include such films as, Drag Me To Hell, Let the Right One In, and obviously the SAW franchise. I know this is purely speculation and in no way a form of real research but I think it’s a sign of our buying habits in films and everything else, which supports the view that it should be a multiplex production.

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

I think that to get to our audience we first have to define what our specific genre of thriller we have developed; in our case a psychological thriller, as obviously different types appeal to different people; what may appeal to a teenager may not appeal to a 40 year old mother with children. All our rough edit questionnaires focused entirely on the films themselves and not on how the audience felt about genre but I have done some previous independent research in relation to another thriller movie which covers the questions we need to answer. In this research I found that overall the older generation prefers to have a much more substantial storyline and less violence whereas the younger generation has a higher appetite for violence and horror in general. I’ll explain why I think this might be.

In terms of audience preference my feeling is that the older generation, either one generation or older may have had a range of life-experiences ranging from difficult and uncomfortable to devastating and destroying and therefore may not find it entertaining to re-live those emotions in an escapist setting at the cinema. Younger people however in general may be seeking more emotional and frightening experiences to make them feel more alive – they may find it more enjoyable. My generation has not had to live through a world war or a depression and deal with the likely outcomes of close family death or loss of your home on a day to day basis. Although we have more stress around exams and finding a job after College at the moment this still leaves plenty of space for escapist entertainment. My generation has seen the rise of a whole movement of zombie books and movies such as the Walking Dead series which has been transferred into several types of media; we are less likely to have experienced death at first-hand and are therefore fascinated with it. Furthermore in my previous research I found that people in general favour psychological thrillers over any other sub-genre type. This has been apparent throughout film history with films ranging from Fight Club to Shutter Island, films which are eleven years apart but still have one thing in common which makes them hugely successful; a twist. I think people love the idea of not knowing what’s happening in film (as opposed to in real life) and being able to just sit back and relax letting others take control, as film is such a strong form of escapism. I see my thriller as a psychological thriller because of the girl’s father’s battle with himself throughout the movie. This leads me to argue that it will appeal to a wide range of audiences but particularly the older generation because of the complexity of the plot and the intrigue but without an overload of obvious violence.

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

We found at the storyboard stage that because the plot we had settled on had a cliffhanger ending to the opening. However for them to get to the ending and enjoy it we had to draw them in by gaining their attention right from the start. We used a range of ways to do this; we start with the young girl as a child in ‘old’ footage with a date 9 years back, we then open with the present day which made people want to know why the girl was of relevance. We engaged the audience through our setting; a big house shrouded in mist which gave the feeling of wondering who lived there and what might happen. The mist was designed to give a feeling of mystery and all of these elements were designed to get the audience wondering what was going in and how the little girl related to the other scenes. We also maintained this by cutting in shots of the girl throughout the opening. During this process we edited the shots in a way which meant we replaced part of Liam’s footage with Emily’s therefore creating the feeling that you had shut your eyes for a moment to think about something else and when you re-opened them real time had passed and you may have missed some of Liam’s actions, therefore making it seem less like a film and less like real life.

How we shot the film also contributed as when it came to Liam we used many different variations of close proximity shots in order to create the illusion of being with him and therefore the audience was drawn in and could feel part of the action rather than a bystander.

We felt all of the audience (and we thought this was a broad audience of all ages) could relate to the at least one aspect of one of the characters. Emily is shown first and could either be a younger sister, a peer or a daughter or grand-daughter, then Liam would be related to by teenagers his age especially if they do a delivery job or paper round and then Ed would be related to by the older age group.  

All our feedback suggested that the cliffhanger had worked effectively, they had been drawn in from the beginning so our techniques were successful here – most said they would continue watching it.

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the past I have used video cameras and many different types of editing suite through personal use and interest, work experience and through studying this course last year when I began to develop a strong interest in the subject. In order to improve my grades I am re-taking the coursework element and so last year’s learning experience  provided me with a large majority of the skills that are necessary to perform well in this task. However it has also been an opportunity to sharpen my skills and learn some new ones.

My previous experience meant that I was able to help our group avoid many of the mistakes I had made in the first year like letting batteries run down and losing our work. We were able to plan when and where to film and what equipment was therefore needed and what state of preparedness it needed to be in. This meant we went from filming to first edit within one week whereas with my first group it took us about four weeks to get to the same stage. I identified we needed a tripod and camera and made sure we could book it out at the time necessary and complete all the forms. I worked out how to get it home on my bike and on to location the next morning.

From last year’s experience I learned that it was important to be happy with every shot on location and it only takes a few minutes to re-do them then but once you have moved to editing you can’t return to the shot to try and do it again. So I was keen to get the group to get it as right as we could.

When it came to editing I remembered to just use iMovie solely as although Final Cut is good and more advanced none of the changes we could have made by using it would have been worth losing the simplicity of iMovie and familiarising ourselves with the new suite. But when we used iMovie we advanced from my learning of last year by experimenting with a different variety of filters and white balance, contrast and colour saturation.

Sound editing was a large part of our thriller opening. Jack had composed his own sound track to our thriller which is something I have never seen before. This incurred challenging but rewarding tasks of matching up events in the visual to events from the audio to make sure that they worked in harmony with each other to create the right effects in the film.

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


Obviously it's hard to answer this question as the amount you can learn after doing it once already is large but the amount you can learn over again is much smaller in comparison. All we can do is re-use what we have learnt  from the previous years. 
Similar to the last question the previous year’s preliminary task and Thriller Opening had educated me on several techniques which helped me this year. For instance last year we focussed heavily on, what to be fair, was a less than ‘Scorsese-like’ masterpiece. So this year I remembered to keep it simple and in our preliminary task my main goal was to try and get the team to use as many different camera shots and angles as possible. This meant that we would be prepared to use as many different shots as possible as obviously we would have done it all before.

Rough Edit Questionnaire Feedback

1. Could you estimate the time of day during the film?
   Morning: 7
   Noon: 4
   Evening: 9
   Night: 0
   We mostly got good results from this question as the majority of people who answered believed it to be evening which is what we were looking for although a moderate amount also believed that it was the morning but the amount wasn't enough to consider re-editing the film and moving it into Adobe After Effects.
2. Were there smooth transition between shots?
   Yes: 15
   No: 1
   Didn't Notice: 4
   We found that most of the audience did in fact think that the transitions were smooth which was great as one of our main concerns was that the 'bittiness' of the shots was going to come across as a lack of editing skill rather than adding to the effect of the movie. One person said that our transitions weren't smooth but when asked for a reason they simply wrote “Some panning shots are a bit”. So we looked at our panning shots and decided that after the fairly useless comment we wouldn't change it. And lastly 4 of our audience didn't notice our transitions which was okay as we know they aren't the most prominent feature of our film, also it is important to remember that we simply screened the film to a group of our peers and not film critics or experts so it's fairly normal to not pay complete attention to our transitions.
3. Did you find the opening effective in drawing you into the story?
   Yes: 18
   No: 1
   “Sort of”: 1
   Most of our audience found our opening did want to draw them into the story, for such reasons as they wanted to see what would happen next, there was a cliffhanger, the use of music was effective and it simply kept them interested. This was obviously great as Jack took a long time on the music making it work alongside the visuals, and we also took time to frame the shots well using the weather we had i.e. mist etc. One person said that it sort of found it effective in that it left lots of questions unanswered which was good but it was in fact too slow so therefore didn't draw them in.Lastly one person said no as it was they didn't really understand it. So we looked at our thriller and to perhaps make it more clear of the times that the videos were taken we put dates and times on the video of emily as a child and also of Liam cycling up the driveway. This also solves the problem of people thinking that the video is taking place early in the morning.
4. Do you think the ending of our opening was appropriate for a thriller film?
   Yes:17
   No:2
   'Kinda':1
   We found here again that most people thought that the opening was appropriate, reasons people gave were, there was a cliffhanger, it was mysterious, leaves questions unanswered and because you're completely focused on it. One person said yes and no, because of slight continuity errors such as when Liam gets off his bike then back on the go up to the house, we decided that perhaps it wasn't clear enough that Liam saw something then went up the house, but in all honesty we couldn't think of any way we could change this without re-shooting. So we decided to risk it and leave it a it was as it wasn't the majority who were concerned about why he got off his bike.
5. Would you pay to watch the entire film?
   Yes: 12
   No: 8
   Here we had the majority who would pay to see the entire film but also quite a few who wouldn't, while at no point am I trying to make excuses I think maybe the question should have been worded better. As it may have come across as “Would you pay around £5-7 to watch this 2 minute clip at the cinema” rather than “If this were made into a feature length film would you pay to see it”. I also think this as one comment was 'No, I wouldn't because it's 2 minutes long”
6. Do you feel this film is true to the thriller genre?
   Yes: 18
   No: 2
   With this question it's important to remember that not everyone in the audience would know much about the ideas of thriller genres, but I think it was important to see if the people who would be watching the film and paying to see it thought it was.
7. Which gender are you?
   Male: 6
   Female: 14
   This was just to see if there may have been a correlation between the amount of people there and whether it was the gender difference that made some of them like the film and others not. Stereotypically males would like thrillers more but here we saw that we got mostly good feedback even though the majority of our audience was female.
8. How old are you?
   15-16: 5
   17-18+: 15

Layer Cake

I: This is a crime drama thriller about a successful drugs dealer who is going straight after one big final payout. A gang of men led by 'The Duke' steal one million ecstasy from a Serbian Syndicate who are out for revenge. And now our drug dealer is charged with selling the pills the syndicate is also after him. Layer Cake is based on a novel and screenplay by J.J. Connolley who also played "Barry the Bookie" In Mean Machine (2001). The book was published in 2001, the movie was greenlit and made three years later. There are five main characters first off is our drug dealer whom we only know as 'XXXX' played by Daniel Craig, Morty played by George Harris, The Duke played by Jamie Foreman, Jimmy Price played by Kenneth Cranham and finally Eddie Temple played by Michael Gambon. It was filmed completely on location in the U.K. It was successful at the awards and was nominated for 8 awards including the Empire award for Best Director and won that two others. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn and the production company mainly involved was Song Pictures Classics. The film was rated a 15 in the U.K. for it's strong and brutal violence, references to torture and drugs content. The film did well at the box office with a budget of £4,000,000 and an opening weekend take of £1,090,561in just the opening weekend.


II: The films plot can be reduced in it's most simple terms to a London Gangster Drugs film, so the target audience will probably for the majority be males, the film is rated a 15 and I agree as the film in itself is quite complicated and could be hard to follow for anyone younger than 15. At first I thought that the film wouldn't appeal to an older audience because of the movies plot line and the actors. But having watched this with my parents (50 and 52) who both thoroughly enjoyed it I can say that a wide range of ages will enjoy this and interestingly enough a large part of them enjoying it was Michael Gambon appearing as Eddie Temple. Although with a lot of gangster films there is the problem of sexist language and behaviour throughout which may alienate a female audience but Layer Cake is the exception that proves the rule as it has very minimal occurrences of this type of behaviour, which means that while not specifically aimed at women they could happily watch it. 
Looking at User Reviews Layer Cake's IMDB page I found that with a rating of 7.4 this film has a 
largely successful following and I have picked one example of a review at random.

218 out of 259 people found the following review useful:
In short, see this film., 7 October 2004

Author: matt_cub from United Kingdom

After being cast as Bond, Daniel Craig's back catalogue is now much sought after. Although Craig came to most of the UK's attention with a stand out performance in Our Friends in the North, it's Layer Cake that showcases why he got the Bond audition. Perhaps now, this strong contender for the best thriller of the year may find the audience it deserves. Mis-sold as a more art house friendly addition to the Guy Ritchie school of crime films, Layer Cake is a unique and remarkable experience.


The plot is deceivingly simple and would wrongly be placed in the gangster-wanting-to-retire-peacefully cinema staple seen frequently in Al Pacino movies. It is a much greater accomplishment that the audacious visual style, superb script and excellent performances make easy comparisons to this film pretty difficult. If anything it is closer to Schrader's 'American Gigalo' where the morally questionable hero is engulfed in a situation going on around him. The predominantly male cast is faultless with everyone from Dexter Fletcher to Michael Gambon putting in superb turns to give the characters justice. Far more human than the cartoon stereotypes we've come to expect after so very many Brit gangster flicks. Craig has never looked in better shape for taking on Hollywood.


Hats off then to Matthew Vaugn for filming Britain as it can look. Grimy in places but every bit astonishing in locations as our Stateside cousins. We've grown too used to seeing rain pouring and hackneyed clichés that have represented this country on celluloid. It's not foppish. It's not Bend It Like Beckham. So there really is no excuse left not to see it (aside from the awful trailer). Layer Cake deserves a wide audience and there's more than enough of everything for everyone to enjoy. At times hilarious, astonishingly frank and incredibly concise the whole film is a pure joy and clearly made for people that love film. Makes you wonder why they can't all be as classy as this.

As you can see the review very much enjoyed the film hence the 10/10 stars. He specifies that the film is NOT like every other 'gangster-want-to-retire-flick' and compares it to the quality to Al Pacino's 'Heat' starring Robert De Niro. He also highlights how he believes that this movie is the reason Daniel Craig got the chance to audition for James Bond, which is the role that really shot him into stardom.
Overall it looks like that this film was very popular with it's audiences but from what I saw in the rest of the reviews that it could be difficult for Americans to understand simply because of difficult terminology.


III) When it comes to technology the film was only released not too long ago in 2004 so technology was easy to use but still more advanced than in previous years for instace the film has its own website which contains trailers and character profiles which really opens up its audience to much more people who may not have seen the television advert, or maybe use web services such as rotten tomatoes or IMDB more to find the films they would like to watch, they were also able to read up fully on the film before watching and able to see who directed and who wrote it which is very popular. This may also be a good addition for those who were a fan of the book on which the film was based. Although the trailer which has been brought out has been given criticisms (Which in all fairness I agree with) the film has still taken full advantage of all the resources that are available to it.  


IV) I am going to be analysing what I believe to be one of the most prevalent scenes in the film which is in fact the opening one and sets a basis up for how we see the main character. for instance in a lot of films the drug dealer character is one we mostly view on negatively, but Layer Cake changes this so that we take a shine to Daniel Craig. Click Here for the copy of the opening scene I am analysing.

Music: For the first 15 seconds there is no diegetic or non-diegetic sound other than Daniel Craig's voice-over. So there is a feeling of calm through the beginning of the scene. This is continued as throughout the scene a calming melody of synths is played and is kept the same throughout the opening. For instance even when some van doors are blown off. Which makes the two in stark contrast to each other therefore helping the viewer look at what's going on on-screen but also listening to the voice-over. The music starts to get louder and lyrics are heard as soon as the scene comes into the present day which highlights how Daniel Craig says "Drugs changed everything".


Colours: Throughout the majority of the opening the colours are kept as dark blacks, blues and greens. These are especially suitable for when there are prison scenes or robbery scenes of which there are in the opening. An interesting point is that the only scene where there are bright colours is the scene where people are smoking what is supposedly hash. This could be a reference to the way that drugs affect you and make you feel. The colours are in stark contrast to the darks colours which could represent the divide between the drug affected world and the 'real world'.


Editing: Most the shots area combination of tracking and panning shots that give the impression the camera is simply going around the room through all of the different locations. All of the shots themselves are at the same height although in one section it can be ad sitting level ad another at standing level. The transitions for all of the shot are quite simple and are that the camera moves past what looks like a wall and emerges on the other side in a new year or place.   


V) when it comes t social groups the film itself only references to these a few times. For instance there is a murder and when a black man volunteers to take away the body the man telling the story says that "Back in those days being black was worse than being Irish". This si the only real mention of racial disharmony , especially as two of the main characters are both black and Caucasian. The only other mention of any social problems are the representations of women. There are only three female characters in the whole film and the first one played by Sienna Miller immediately proposes to have sex with Daniel Craig, and the second is simply a trophy wife/girlfriend for a low-level drugs dealer. and the last is the daughter of a very wealthy high end kingpin drug dealer, but she is addicted to crack cocaine and also living in a crack house. Females are definitely shown as the less dominant of the genders as the cast is largely male in comparison to many other films, but not when it comes to this genre of films (London Gangster).

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