Research into similar products

 I'm looking at these two products for similar TV shows which are under the same genre of our sequence which is Thriller and Sub genre is Crime/Thriller:

• The Bodygaurd:

 

Studio - World Productions, BBC

Director - Thomas Vincent, John Strickland

Cast - Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle and Vincdeent Franklin

Year - 26th August 2016

In the Bodygaurd, the characters which feature in the sequence are similar to my characters in my sequence due to the part as the bodygaurd. He is the main role in this series and his costume is similar to the one played by Mike Niland in our sequence. The Bodygaurd character plays the role of a PPO for the metrapoitain police, in which his duty is to protecrt the MP. 
The theme incthe bodygaurd is dark and mysterious which suportrs its genre of crime, political thriller  and a drama. It's fast action, dramatic and slightly violent theme is similar to our theme which is shown on my mood board which I created when I was planning our costumes, props and overall dark and mysterious theme. 

The narrative of Bodygaurd is about a ex veterinarian soilder who's duty is to now to work for the Royalist and Specialist Protection Force for London's Metrapoloitain police. He is assigned to vprotect this Polition who is a target for terror attacks throughotut the season. 

The setting and location within this 6 part series varies between smart offices and buisness hotels. This office setting is similar to our final scene in our sequence of the mafia boss's office which is dark, moody and sofisticated. 

The Bodygaurd character is dressed similar to 'James Bond' style costume. His costume was usually a skinny tie, and button down shirts with a black suit and trousers. The earpeice he wore is vitial to portraying his character as a bodygaurd as it is steroptypical to see a security charavter wearing the earpeice. The alround lighting seems to be dark and dimed to highlight the srious and sceptical tone. 

• The Night Manager: 

Studio - The Ink Factory, BBC

Director - Susanne Bier

Cast - Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander and more

Year - The six part series was released by BBC on 21st Feb 2016

The main character in this tv series plays a double agent. His chacater begins as working in a hotel before getting recruited to work for the British MI5 but hpwever goes undercover to seek revenge on an illegal arms sale billionare. This is similar to our sequence as our characters are both working for the mafia as well as their own gang. The bodygaurd in our sequence is working for his boss who he drives around as well as his own boss who is head of a large mafia gang.

The themes in The Night Manager are corruption, money laundaring, rule breaking and most prominently the moral equivalence between those suposedly on 'our side' and the enemy. The themes of good vs bad is the most obvious similarity between this series and our opening title sequence. 

The narrative in this series is about agent Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier, is the night manager. The novel is about Pine's preoccupation with undoing Roper's criminal enterprise, which began earlier, in Cairo, where Pine was working as the night manager at the luxurious Queen Nefertiti hotel.

There were three main filming locations for The Night Manager, from Egypt, Monaco, London, Devon, Mallorca and Marakech and Switszerland. 

One similar movie product under the same genre is:

• The Gentleman 

Studio- Mirmax

Director - Guy Ritchie 

Cast - Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jermery Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant.

Year - December 1st 2019

The characters in The Gentlemen are similar to our characters in our final sequence. Their job role of working undercover is similar to our style of characters as they An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

The similarities in themes follow a criminal empire and deals with themes of class seperation and media representation. this is similar to our final sequence which deals with themes of illeghal activity, weapon sales, and most liely drug sales insude of the mafia gang.

The general narrative in this film by Guy Ritchie follows the plot of an American expatriate who became rich by building a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business, it soon triggers an array of plots and schemes -- including bribery and blackmail -- from shady characters who want to steal his domain.

The filming locations for this film was The Gentlemen was shot at West London Film Studios. Filming also took place at Princess Victoria located on 217 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London. Emirates Stadium.

One particular costume worn in The Gentlemen is very similar to our style of costumes in our sequence. These two costumes inspired our choice in costumes for our final sequence. Our bodygaurd/driver character worse a similar costume to this one. 

The waistcoat and tie and shirt give an important, smart adn formal feel. We also wanted the boss in the backseat to wear a similar outfit to this green one worn in The Gentlemen. We had the idea of the tweed cap and double breasted suit for the boss who gets shot. 

One video game which is similar genre and theme to our sequence is: 

• Mafia 

Studio - Illusion Softworks

Directors - Petr Vochozka and Daniel Vavra

Year - Released to Microsoft Windows, Xbox and Playstation in 2002 - 2004

One of the characters played in Mafia which is most similar to our Bodygaurd character was Tommy Angelo. His character started as a taxi driver on the streets of Lost Heaven during the probation. His character was gratefulv tohave his small paid job during the time of the Great Depression. He also gets into situations with gang members and end up helping them in return for money. This character's costume is most similar to our characters, the smart, sufisticated suit and tie resep

Another character similar to the role of the bodygaurd in our sequence from the game Mafia is Lucas Bertone. He provides service for the mafia. He gets players to carry put his requests in return for information on how to steal luxury cars. 

The most similar character to our mafia boss in this game is the Boss, also known as the Don in Mafia families. He is the leader of criminal organisations within his gang. This is like our Mafia boss in our sequence. He is the leader of his criminal gang and who the Bodygaurd receives order from. 

The themes in Mafia are pretty much the exact same as our sequence. Themes including gun violence, illegal organisations, blakcmailing, and good vs evil.

Mafia is a 2002 action-adventure video game developed by Illusion Softworks and published by Gathering of Developers. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in August 2002, and later ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004. It is the first installment in the Mafia series. Set within the fictional city of Lost Heaven during the 1930s, the story follows the rise and fall of taxi driver-turned-mobster Tommy Angelo within the Salieri crime family.Mafia's storyline gameplay consists of driving, mainly easy city cruises between different locations, as well as chases and races; the rest of the game is based on third-person on-foot navigation and shooting - all inter-connected with cutscenes. 

Mafia takes place between the fall of 1930 through to the end of 1938, during the later part of Prohibition, and is set in the fictional American city of Lost Heaven. However our final sequence is set in modern day.