Treatment

Blackout. As a jewellery box’s tune begins, the shot of her blood red lipstick fades in as her hand reaches over and gracefully picks it up. The corner of her lips, with her glamorous hair comes into shot, she’s applying the lipstick slowly. This is followed by a behind shot of her, placing her lipstick on the counter and in turn collecting some diamanté earrings from her jewellery box. The shot lingers on the photograph of a happy couple before returning to a side close up of her ear and cheek, as she places her earring in her ear. Her wedding ring is removed and placed under a necklace in her jewellery box, her fingertip lingers across the man in the photo’s face, hesitation…the jewellery box is slammed shut, and the music abruptly stops. She leaves in silence.

Next is a shot of the femme fatale swiftly leading the building, rushing down the steps. She walks into a darkly lit, enigmatic alleyway. As she glances over her shoulder, her face is largely covered by her stylistic hat’s netting. Yet her eyes glancing behind her, whilst swiftly walking, is clear. Due to a long shot of this character rushing, a second character is revealed by their dark mysterious shoulder and neck wandering into the frame. A man, and he’s watching her.

The sub-genre of thriller that we have decided upon is Film Noir, due to the especially creative aspects of filming, editing and music. The Film Noir's theatricality and glamour would make an exciting opening to create, we expect. Inspiration taken from many classic Film Noir's such as the dark mysterious alleyways used in The Third Man, though not a Film Noir the stylistic opening of Casino Royal, we aim to use similar unique camera angles and shots to create an on-edge impression. Our Femme Fatale has many qualities similar to Phyllis from Double Indemnity, the confidence, glamour, and seductiveness are traits that we inivsion being in the character of Scarlett. Not only this, the plot took some inspiration from the theme of adultery that runs through Double Indemnity since it brings such a motive for violence and passion. Also Chinatown's J.J. "Jake" Gittes (the male protgragonist) loosely inspired our protragonist, mainly his flair of character and love of money.