Deciding on our storyline and making a storyboard

Together in our group we brainstormed ideas, forming them together to make the most effective story, including twists, affairs and murders. I am happy with our story, and feel it fits the Film Noir genre well.


The Story


In the past Detective Frisco finds out that his partner Goodwin is having an affair with his wife, Adrianna. The argument gets heated and Frisco loses control, shooting his partner.
In present day Detective Frisco is about to have his first day back at work after being off on personal leave for the loss of his work partner, it not being known that Frisco was the one who shot him. At work he recieves a call to go to a murder scene, where Frisco finds a dead girl with a note and his wifes necklace crumpled in her hand. The note tells him to meet at the church at 10 o clock, "or she dies". Frisco impatiently waits, wondering who it could be, and when he gets there and finally finds Adrianna tied up by a gravestone, his old Partner Goodwin appears.


Goodwin knocks Frisco out, and when he awakens tells Frisco the story of how he is still alive, and getting revenge for what he did. The pair fight, which is stopped by the sound of a gun shot. Meanwhile Adrianna unties herself and then shoots Frisco, where he falls to the ground. Adrianna had been in it with Goodwin the entire time, the plan to kill Frisco to be able to finally be together.

Our story follows Todorov's Narrative theory, with 5 stages making the storys structure:

- Equilibrium: Detective Frisco getting ready for his first day back at work.
- Disruption: The call to come to the murder scene, finding the note and necklace.
- Period of disequilibrium: Back at the office, Frisco trying to solve who wrote the note.
- Attempt to Repair the Disequilibrium: Frisco finds his wife in the graveyard and discovers who   
                                                                     was behind the note. The two detectives fight.
- Restoration of equilibrium: Frisco gets killed and Goodwin and Adrianna can now be together. 

However it also fits with classic Film Noir's narrative style, where instead of the equilibrium being technically restored, a new equilibrium has formed - one which of course the protagonist is not happy with, as he has been shot.

Storyboard


After deciding on our storyline we made a story board, working out camera angles and shots. We decided to have a flashback scene to start, in the form of the main characters dream, to help give the audience insight into the past quickly.