Script and Film Treatment- reasons for revision.

Like almost every project one undertakes, things go wrong, get better and change along the way. Throughout working with my group on our film opening we have experienced a change of genre, and about three changes in script. However, as the majority of footage has been filmed, we've got no more time to make any changes or revision- the script may vary for the last 10 seconds we need to film though, however!

We felt like nothing really 'happened' in the original script, and therefore needed to create a short situation that would really draw in the viewer. For example- Sin City presents itself with a character (not a main one, but as Sin City used an ensemble cast- it puts us in a different situation to them) killing someone in the first two minutes. The violence is 'suggested', there is not any gore as such and it is done in a really slick and stylish manner. This was really our main inspiration for our practical. A situation, an action and a single title sequence.

We needed to present a mystery to the audience, that left them going 'what? who are these people? who's number 4?'. Film Noir is basically a genre of crime films- just without actual policemen or detectives, just a single, slightly rough around the edges do-gooder taking on a malicious group or person. Neo-Noir like Mulholland Dr. and Brick present the main characters right away and a slightly far fetched situation that does not get resolved til the end of the film.