Story and Planning it out.

My group, who consists of Emilie, Raya, Luke and me, had a production meeting to discuss plots and ideas.
Before this, I had drawn up the idea of a plot and explained this to the group. We went on to discuss what could be done better, what could be removed and added to make the film clearer and flow nicer.

We ended the meeting with a name for the film and also a plot.
The name being: "Le Mortel Liaison". This means "The Deadly Affair" and is a comment on the plot of the film. We chose it to be in French as the many dark themes of film noir originated in post-war France, which was a dark, destroyed and depressed place. We also decided to call it this as we are basing our Film in France, made possible by taking advantage of a school trip to Paris to collect scenic shots of places of Paris, such as iconic landmarks to paint the illusion its set in France, while not actually filming acting scenes in France.

We decided unanimously to film the entire film in black and white, to instantly appeal to the Film Noir codes and conventions.

The story's synopsis goes as follows:

Barnaby Frisco has a dark past, and on his first day back after honorable leave it comes back to haunt him.
His first case back will test him to his very limits, physically and mentally. Bringing the job home was never a good idea.



The whole story is on this storyboard, as a first draft some shots may change or something may happen the on the day which would be better than the one on the paper.

Breif outline of the plot follows:

The brief outline of our plot is as follows: - Barnaby Frisco returns to his job as a detective after a period of 'honarable leave' following the 'death' of his partner 'Bones Goodwin' who he 'killed' because of Bones's feelings for his wife. However no one is aware of this. He is summoned to a crime scene where he discovers a series of clues that reveal that his wife is missing. He then attempts to work out where his wife could be, finally working out her location. he travels there to find that Bones Goodwin is still alive. Frisco and Goodwin then have a fight which results in the death of Frisco. Bones Goodwin and Frisco's wife then leave together.     

We decided to make the story follow the Narrative theroy, with 5 stages of the storys progression. 

These stages are as follows:

- Equilibrium - His first day back

- Disruption  - Dead woman and Note

- Period of disequilibrium - Trying to solve where is wife is

- Resolution - Fight

- Restoration of equilibrium - Death Of Frisco leaves the world peaceful again

These stages help us create a nice flowing stroy, with each stage at least taking a minute to be portrayed.