Presentation of Short Film

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FILM title
Tagline Who can you trust?

• By Kieran Ashton, Gabriel Walker, Patrick
  Laville, Jack Hanlon

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Suggested Film Titles

• Break Down
• Double Crossed
• Vigilance
• Professional Friends
• Sudden Impact
• Blue Betrayal
• Partners in Crime

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Comparisons

• Prisoners There will also be loads of twists in
  it and it will be quite dark.
• The Usual Suspects There will be a variety of
  different characters as suspects.
• The Departed About Detectives and how theyre
  corrupt.

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Plot

• Two partners begin working on a case of a murder
  only to find out it goes deeper than they think.
• Forking Path Narrative
• Open Ending
• It opens with a camera panning across a dead body
  in black and white then it goes to the two
  detectives getting the case. They then show up
  and begin investing the case. Slowly One of the
  detectives begins acting strangely and behaving
  differently. His partner picks up on this and
  begins to investigate him which leads to him
  finding out more than he wanted to know. It ends
  with a confrontation between the two detectives
  which leads to gunshots.

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AUDIENCE PROFILE

• Fans of crime films
• 15 to 45 year old males and females, but men in
  particular
• Short Film audience as opposed to Hollywood
  blockbuster audience.

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Genre and Style

• Its a Noir film about two detectives
• Its Genre is a Crime Drama
• Well be using black and white filters within the
  film

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CHARACTER

• Characters The two detectives Jack Hanlon as
  Joey Taylor (the hero) a younger, less
  experienced detective and Patrick Laville as
  Tommy Hudson (the villain) a jaded grumpy
  detective Steve Boyes as the Chief of Police
  (whimsical character) who thinks he can control
  both of them. Ellie as the girl who was murdered
  (victim and the enigma as shes the one whos
  murdered).
• Also a bunch of suspects (the helpers).

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Costume, PROPS and lighting
We will be using suits for the two main
detectives, everyone else will most likely be
using normal clothing. For Props well need guns
and other detective items. We will be playing
around with the lighting as there will be a dark
interrogation room and when one of the detectives
are drunk well be using sharp bright lights.
Some of the sequences will be Noir style so we
need to get the low-key lighting correct.

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Setting, location and era

• Itll be set in the present although there will
  be flashbacks to earlier events in the story. The
  setting will be interview rooms, houses, a field,
  a car and maybe a few other places like a river.
  The location is the Media Building for the
  interview rooms as we can make it completely
  pitch black and play with the lighting easier.

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time and tech

• TIME Were going to desaturate the colour to
  make it black and white in the flashbacks, making
  it more atmospheric, fitting with the style and
  idiomatic of noir.
• TECH Were going to control the lighting and
  were going to film all the flashbacks in one go
  to get the continuity right.

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A rough Storyboard
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The Message were portraying
NOT EVERYONE IS WHAT THEY SEEM