Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Poker Scene

We found with analysing this scene from Lock, stock and two smoking barrels it really help us out with ideas for our poker scene that we are planning to have in our music video. Our poker scene will not last as long as this clip, but we have taken ideas from this and plan to shorten them and speed them up to fit them in. In particular we like the way that the scene begins with a whip pan around the table to set the scene, this shows the atmosphere around the table is a bit of edge and nervous, also in the way that cards and chips are thrown towards the camera and stop in middle air.

This scene there is a lot of shape editing and is rarely the same shot for more than a couple of seconds; we plan to make your music video even sharper than this as we will be doing it in time with the music. This scene is mainly made up of shots of action such as; people playing with chips, people smoking, people drinking, chips being thrown in the middle as people are increasing the stakes and many shots of peoples cards and giving the audience a view of their cards. All these things we have looked at and considering what to have in our music video.

This scene is set in a boxing ring; this is very unstereotypical for a poker scene. Usually you would expect a poker scene to be played out in a casino or in a house which appears to be large and appears that the owner is very wealthy. This is what we are planning to do for our music video, we plan to film this in a house, with a large table and we plan to decorator the room in a more hip-hop form such as; putting awards and trophies in display cabinets and having framed sport shirts on the wall, all things that could signal, success and wealth.