Tuesday 8 March 2011

Promoting the video!

We as a group are promoting the video via Facebook. We have created a group to generate feedback about our video. We have added a group of diverse individuals to the group to prevent the same feedback from each person. We are basing our video on a 1970s game of poker between high flyers that goes wrong. We have taken ideas from a multitude of movies of our time and before. We looked at Bond movies, however we recieved most of our motivation from The sting a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters(Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. If a con game is successful, the mark does not realize he has been "taken" (cheated), at least not until the con men are long gone. The film is divided into distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards with lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post. The film is noted for its musical score—particularly its main melody, "The Entertainer", a piano rag by Scott Joplin, which was lightly adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch. The film's success encouraged a surge of popularity and critical acclaim for Joplin's work. The movie fascinated us and we felt if we could try to emulate and also add our own ideas we could come up with an excellent movie that will capture the imaginations of its audience.

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