Synopsis for title sequence

The genre we have chosen to do is a crime caper. So the two main films we are taking influences from are Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998) and Fun With Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot, 2005).

Our idea is of a family suffering from job loss to the credit crisis. They decide to start stealing things they can sell on to people. The idea of a family resorting to crime is similar to the story of Fun With Dick & Jane. We have decided to jump straight into the story rather than setting up the narrative with a back story, this would be told later on through flashback or the family just talking about as natural conversation.

Our sequence will open with some titles and a voiceover of the father figure telling the plan to his children. The plan is to break into a neighbours house and steal their big television while they are out. We will only hear his voice, after he finishes talking we will cut from the titles to the sequence. We will start with a young/teenage boy climbing in a window from the outside. We will then cut to the inside to see him fall through the window. He will fall below the view of the camera and then stand up. Once he has stood up it will pause and we will hear a voiceover from the father figure introducing the boy. He will then go to the back door and let his father in. When we see the father it will pause and there will be a voiceover of him introducing himself. They will then move into the hall and talk a bit. We will then see a young boy on the stairs. He is the other boy in the family who has followed them. We may introduce him, we aren't sure yet. They will then begin to try and steal the television but will encounter a problem with the plugs. There will be too many plugs and they can't figure out which one is the television's. The family will then pull up and they will have to run out through the back garden and over a wall. The title of the film will then come up.