Location planning

Treatment

A desk in a detective’s office (props around the room to indicate it’s a detectives office such as lots of paperwork, police badge etc.) with a silhouette of a man dressed in full black, with a long black coat, and black hat shadowing his face, tapping his nail on the desk. His phone and hand is lit up by a lamp on the table. He receives a message causing his phone to light up. He takes a deep breath and looks at the phone, cuts to over the shoulder shot of the phone. Message from an unknown number, the message reads “Hollywood car park, 42 Angel Street, Norwich, 9^th floor J” He has one leather glove on as he opens a draw, you see him tugging on something but never get to see what. He then puts the item in his pocket and as he walks out of the room he puts on the other leather glove. During all of this, you never get to see the man’s face.

Cuts to a woman with a suitcase walking towards the car park, the shot comes from the neck down so we never see her face. Following the 180 degree rule.  She is dressed in a bright red dress, with black heels. All you can hear is her footsteps as she walks along the pathement. You then see that the lift is out of order, and she makes her way up the staircase, using a low angled shot, level with the staircase. It then cuts to shot of a sign that says “9^th floor”, with a graffiti “J” on it, and the camera slowly moves down, and as it sinks you see the women go up the final step, and the camera then reaches the bottom step and you then hear a scream, followed by a choking sound.

Our opening to our thriller takes inspiration from such thrillers as, “The Third Man”. The way you never clearly see our character has been taken from this film, in the way that it hides one of the main characters, “Harry Lime”. We have decided to take this idea, and use it as our own as it creates tension and enigma in the plot. As for the way our characters look, again this is taken from “The Third Man”, but not only that, also “LA Confidential”. Both films use classic film noir costumes for male and female, and that is approach we would like to take. 

Characters, Costumes and Props

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