Production day 4

Day 4

Car boot scene

Most gangster films show a lot of violence and brutality, in order to conform to this convention we have took the minimalist approach towards violence as it's hard to replicate but have shown people being kidnapped, tied up and thrown into a boot of a car. 

Church scene

Due to the fact the Church was closed at the time the actors arrived at the scene we had to improvise and use the school chapel instead. I personally think that it worked well as it still had all the religious symbols in the background. Which yet again we've found as a common convention in gangster films. In order to reflect this we decided to show the opening scene of a trailer as a flashback to Vlad's youth where he decides to kill his father in the Church after being kicked out the house. This scene reinforces the idea of importance of religion to Vlads father and therefore influencing his upbringing as well as suggesting that he is different and shows no remorse for his actions.