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We have decided that our film is going to be called

 Happy Larry

The reason we decided upon this name is because the main character's name is Larry and despite his incompetence and his slow mind messing things up, he is always seen as a funny character who is always happy no matter what happens.

Review of Mall Cop

Opening credits (black background white text) non diegetic sound suspenseful/ moment to shine type of music fills you with confidence for character
Columbia pictures
Happy productions
Mall cop badge rotates across the screen(extreme close up black background)
 film title come up “paul blart mall cop”
police training place, extreme long shot shows lots of men all wearing grey training and exercising
long shot of individuals training, audio of officer briefing men starts cuts to medium close up of office to medium close up of a few men in 2 ranks, pans along the line left to right, main character paul blart who is short showing he weak/less dominant shows he is different and stands out he is also chewing gum shows confidence and cockiness.
Extreme close up of paul blarts grew shirt shows “new Jersey State Police Academy”
Camera eases out so show the sweat on paul which is comical because it shows a face on him. :o
It also shows Kevin James pulling a funny expression
He completes obstacle course camera pans left to right from start to finish towards end it cuts to close up of pauls face who then shows a sleepy face and camera cuts to long shot of him falling over on his face inches from the line.

Other Films Research

Mall Cop- owned on DVD (no online video)
Get Smart-owned on DVD (no online video)

Scene Ideas for Film

1.       No trousers scene-main character walks out of house only wearing underwear look really proud until old woman across the road pulls shocked face he notices he is wearing no trousers.(possibility of before opening door cop remembers he has forgot something audience thinks he has forgot his trousers maybe he goes to put his hand in his pocket, he rushes up stairs to get his key which is right next to under his trousers he get the key them leaves the house) (try to find boxer shorts that are concealing (big baggy) so the is no nudity  exposed or outlined)
2.       Car key ring scene- two cops talking outside a shop about stolen cars 1 cop tells main character he recognises the number plate on the car in front of the shop main character walks over to the car 2 burglars run out of shop and jump in car only to be stopped by main character who signals for them to wind down the window, they wind down the window looking shocked and afraid, the main character asks them for the keys, he glances pulling a serous face and says these are stolen aren’t they, burglars start crying and confess the “ok ok! I admit it I stole it!” police man takes the key rig from the car key hands the key back, burglar looks shocked then police man says don’t steal key rings, burglar composes himself and drives off.
3.       Leaf blower scene-main character whilst cool march music is playing walks down the road with confident look on his face whilst wind is blowing his clothes, he slips (record breaks) stands up composes himself then camera pans to a man with a leaf blower who has a puzzled look on his face- possibility of incorporating flour acting as drugs blown in cops face, either someone has to walk in front of leaf blower with flour of cop has to be carrying flour.
4.       Drop it/kid with ball scene- main character whilst cool march music is playing walks down the road with confident look on his face whilst wind is blowing his clothes, he looks right camera shows some burglars exiting a shop with stolen goods, cop shouts across and says drop it burglars hold hands up in surrender position and drop stolen goods camera cuts to cops eye view camera pans down to see a small child with a ball standing next to a no ball games sign kid drops ball, cop says move along. Burglars pick goods back up and run off. (could change to old woman picking up a mouldy ,piece of fruit because of small stature and steriotype of bent over idea would stil work) also possibity of helping this scene work by raising cop upwards using steps to a building.
5.       Toilet head dunk scene- cop goes to the loo looks down in front of loo is some money he bends down to pick it up when someone opens the door and nocks him into the toilet head first.
6.       Cereal killers scene- some burglars are arrested and the cops arresting them take their bags containing cereal and say at last we have caught these cereal killers (just an example) one of the burglars calls out no not the weatoes. (much more can be added to this just in brief)
7.       Johnny English getting ready scene- whilst he is getting ready he either puts music on/tv) he then dances stupidly to the music whilst getting ready for work.

This research was later abandoned because we decided to change our film Genre we kept this research to show we had also considered other options and we later decided to go with another idea.

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