By Cai Gausden 22/05/2019

Context Report
For my FMP, I decided to make a script for a comedy gang film, based
around the town I live in, called Wellingborough; creating short scenes
from the script, including an intro and a trailer.
I decided that I’d be doing this as a pair with Luke Johnson, due to the
fact that we wanted to do the same sort of premise, prior to our FMP
stage. We both wanted to do the same idea, because we both find
comedic value in the people’s attitudes within our town, especially with
the youths; as they walk around in large groups to intimidate people,
while speaking in slang. We found this behaviour unamiable and funny,
that’s why when we saw the film Anuvahood (2011), we laughed to our
hearts content; since the town and its people were portrayed, the same
as the people in Wellingborough, but were massively overdramatic in
their actions and behaviour, to get message across to people, making
the people see that gangs everywhere look stupid and disrespectful. But
since we didn’t want to completely copy the films idea, we looked into
other films around the same genre.
We both went away and researched a few other films that had the same
sort of genre and premise as what we wanted, to help settle an idea for
the plot. We combined our results and ended up going with Attack the
Block (2011) and Ted (2012), to go along with our original Anuvahood
(2011) film idea.
This gave us an idea to make a film about the government wanting to
destroy the town called Wellingborough.
We got this from Attack the Block (2011), because there is a scene
within the film, where the main character speculates that the government
made the aliens to come over to their town, to irradiate the gang problem
within London, due to the people not killing each other fast enough. We
decided to use this idea to our advantage, and twisted it to fit our vision
for our creation, which was to make the government try to destroy
Wellingborough, because the town is draining the country’s money and
resources; but the gang in the town ends up fighting back when they find
out what they are doing from a narrator; which brings me to Ted (2012).
The reason we decided to use the comedy film Ted (2012), wasn’t
because it was a comedy; it was because there is narration at the very
beginning and end of the film. So, we incorporated a narrator in our film,
who the gang capture at the beginning of the first scene shown, and he’d
tell them what the government is planning to do with their little town,
while narrating at the camera sometimes throughout the film, to break
the forth wall for comedic aspect and diversity.
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Now with the concoction of information that we had gone away and
gathered, we decided to put it together in our own way, so it didn’t seem
like a complete copy of one film. One way we did this, was with the title;
we made the gang in the film call their town Welly instead of
Wellingborough, to accommodate the slang used by other gangs. We
found that by shortening words like Family to Fam, makes people seem
very uneducated and lazy with their language, so we did the same
chemistry with our characters, but with multiple words, so younger
people watching get the general idea of why people hate slang and why
they think that slang is an uneducated and lazy way of using their
language. Slang is also extremely well known since youths are always
overusing it, so by using slang in our title, the film will be controversial
and recognisable by this generation and parents, to hopefully fix the
attitudes imprinted by other films or people on the parent’s kids.
Another way we changed our film from the others we chose, was with
the narrator. We wanted the narrator to be interactable with the
characters in the film, so not only the film could progress easier, but to
also bring some comedic 4th wall breaks within the film; another film that
broke the 4th wall and the box office, is called ‘Deadpool’ (2016), which is
beloved by many adults and youths alike, because of its comedy, which
includes adult humour, snappy comments, and 4th wall breaks. When I
saw ‘Deadpool’ (2016) for the first time, there were a lot of adults and
youths laughing hysterically at the 4th wall breaks, which I thought were
pretty funny as well. But we also extended the humour in the 4th wall
breaks too; we made sure that if the narrator broke the 4th wall, we’d try
and make it as cheeky as possible. We did this by looking at all the 4th
wall breaks in ‘Deadpool’ (2016) and wondering what could’ve been
improved. Like the scene where he tells someone that he is not talking
to himself but to “them”, as he points to the camera. Me and Luke
thought that this could’ve been pulled off better, if the camera turned
around and viewed a crashed school bus with children watching in a
group; since there had been mass accidents due to his ignorant fighting.
So we made sure that there would be a point in the script where the
gang would ask who the Narrator was talking to, then they both look at
the camera, but the camera turns and point to a group, with a camera
man, boom mic operator, and director, who would nod his head, telling
them to continue; which is the last we see of them. This also makes our
film more likely to stick with modern audiences, since that the humour is
like the popular film ‘Deadpool’ (2016), but isn’t a complete copy, since
the comedy of breaking the 4th wall is a little bit original and extra with its
timing.
With all the planning out of the way we decided to get to work on a script
then start filming as quick as we could.
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We also decided to not do the entire film, due to time restraints, so we

wanted to work 3 scenes and 2 trailers. We wanted to chose 1 of our
favourite scenes within the film and meet in the middle with the 3rd
scene, so we both got a little bit of satisfaction and closure about not
doing the entire film.
I wanted to do the Corridor scene, where Bruiser and Dave had a little
objection to each other’s opinions on the leader Trooper, I wanted to do
this, mainly for my foreshadowing skills; I love ambiguity and tension, so
I made the scene very calm, but it also had a sober tone to it, so the
view could feel the tension between the two characters, without even
being in the same room. I made the lighting extremely dull and gloomy
as well, so I could try to make the viewer feel a sort of unease with the
atmosphere presented in the shot; like at the end of the scene, where
Dave walks away from Bruiser and his warning towards him, and travels
down the corridor with the light shining in front of him, signifying him
walking into the headlights of heaven, prior to his death that happens
later in the script.
We decided that the last scene should be where the gang run into the
neighbourhood bully, Moses. Since that most of the comedy we liked
from ‘Anuvahood’ (2011) is present in this scene. We also decided to do
this scene because it was the one that our class was most anticipated
for, but we unfortunately rushed it due to the amount of time we had left,
so it was apparent to our audience; but they didn’t really mind due to the
relatable but outlandish humour. Even with this positive feedback from
the class, we still strive to do a better job of time management with our
projects in the future, so we can the most perfected result possible.

Overall, Luke and I feel that the process of our FMP went extremely well,
and we are proud of our overall creation and pre-production done. We
feel that we have done what we wanted to set out do for this Final Major
Project, and we feel that we’ve achieved more knowledge on the art of
film making; this education will seriously help our management of time
now and in the future, and will help with our understanding of what a
mainstream audience want for entertainment within a genre of film to a
deeper level. At the end of the day, this project has helped our
expectations for the film industry, and this will also make any future
projects simpler for us to do and understand. We hoped to achieve more
within this FMP, but we are proud and happy with what we’ve got; this is
one of our learning curves, which sharpens and defines what we are
good at within the media industry and we aspire to do better, no matter
the outcome.
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