Setting the scene for 'Affiliation'

In order to create an old style gangster thriller we realised that our costumes were a good form of mise en scene as it tells the audience how the gang is associated and also the black tie look can often be related with gangsters. Our inspirations for costumes were ‘Goodfellas’ the movie poster and ‘Resevoir Dogs’.  To also maintain the 1940’s/50’s feel we had to use certain shots to prevent seeing cars in the background. In the first half of our film we were filming just off of the main road therefore we had to use our knowledge of shots to consist with the atmosphere we tried to create.

I have now downloaded four pieces of copy right free music, one or even two of the pieces will feature in our film. I selected four pieces which all have differences so when the three of us come to that stage of the editing process we will have a wider range of choices. The reason behind choosing different genres (some with a fast beat and some with slow) as our editing may create a film which may be better suited to a faster piece, or vice versa.