This document describes the opening two minutes of the film "Bugsy Malone" through shots, scenes, characters and audio. It establishes a comedic take on gangster films by casting children in adult roles and having guns that fire cream instead of bullets. The opening focuses on Character 1, a vulnerable little boy pressed against a brick wall at night as four silhouetted characters approach and fire cream at his face, all while non-diegetic music plays.

1. 0:00- MS
Topless man hitting gong
Diegetic parallel synchronous noise
Zoom
0:10- T1 "The Rank Organisation"
Production
0:13- Black background
0:14- ES
Street
LLL
Night time
0:18- Crab
0:27- CU drain pipe
0:30- Vertical track down
Diegetic sound of water falling and hitting metal bin lid
0:39- V/O of young boy
0:42- CU red sign
0:45- ES street
High angle
Non diegetic orchestra music
Boy runs across street and falls
C1
0:53- LS
LLL
Boy with hands on face
Hiding
0:55- Zoom
CU
0:59- ES
High angle
black silhouettes running
0:55- LS
C1 running and panicking in lane
1:06- MS
C2
Woman shouting out window in foreign language

2. 1:08- MS
C2 trying to climb brick wall in dead-end lane
1:10- ES
High angle
Street
4 silhouettes in vertical line walking
1:13- C1 attempting to climb brick wall
1:14- C1 opens her window
MS
1:16- ES
High angle
Street
4 silhouettes walk
1:18- Angle change
4 characters turn corner
LS
Diegetic footsteps
LLL
1:22- C1 pressed against brick wall
LS
1:23- 4 adult silhouettes walk towards him
Diegetic footsteps
Lighting reveals their faces
1:28- C1 pressed against brick wall
LS
1:29- CU young boy
Black suit and hat
C3 diegetic speech
Asks question
1:30- CU C1
Bow tie and glasses
Removes top hat
Scared emotion
Nods head
1:31- C4 diegetic speech
1:32- CU C1
Nods head

3. 1:33- C5 diegetic speec
1:34- CU C1
Nods head
1:35- CU Guns
1:36- C1 pressed against wall
1:36- CU Guns
1:37- C1 pressed against wall
Shots fired by head
Indents in brick wall
1:37- CU Guns
1:38- CU
White splat hits face
Shot
V/O begins again
1:41- 4 characters turn and walk away in vertical line
1:45- Freeze frame of characters jumping and clicking heels
1:46- ES
C1 walking around corner
Tracking across follows him walking
1:52- T2 "A GoodTime Enterprises-Production of-"
White writing
1:56- T3 "-Alan Parker's Film-"
White writing
2:01- T4 "Bugsy Malone"
Film Title
White writing
Sound:
0:39-1:07, 1:40-1:45 Non diegetic voice-over young boy
1:30-1:35 Diegetic speech of 4 characters
1:45-2:00 Non diegetic music singing Bugsy Malone
Summary:
In this two minute opening of Busgy Malone the audience experiences a
comedic approach of a British Gangster. The characters are played by
children instead of adults, and the guns fire a creamy food, instead of
bullets. The low level lighting and night scene inspires me to use the
same setting. Character 1, the vulnerable little boy, is focused on which

4. makes us empathise with him. However, he never actually talks.