Scipt draft

The scene opens with the two characters facing each other across a table. She is dressed casually in light colours. he is dressed formally and looks run down. The scene starts with wild sound for a few seconds before dialogue commences.

Sarah: Hey, how have you
Tommy: (interrupting) why have you been avoiding me.
Pause
Sarah: (sighs) I haven't been avoiding you, I just need some time away, (pauses)
Tommy: away from me?
Sarah: (expression changes) yes, away from you.
Tommy: why didn't you just tell me, why all of this secrecy?
Sarah: Tommy (reaches across the table and takes his hand)
Tommy: stop it (pushes her hand away)

This is a draft of the script we will use for the argument scene in our extract.

The Last Seduction and Brick, influences

Film Information.

Brick.
Brick starts with Brendan Freye staring at the dead body of ex-girlfriend Emily, lying in a storm drain. Days earlier, Brendan, receives a terrified phone call from Emily, who tearfully tells him that she "didn't know that the brick was bad" and that "the Pin's on it now," imploring him to help her. Brendan manages to find her, only to face her plea for him to leave her alone. After her death, Brendan takes it upon himself to solve her murder, along with the help of 'The Brain' to track information, while feigning to be an inside man for his assistant vice-principal.

The Last Seduction.
"In a town called Beston, There is a woman who cannot control her natural instict". The Last seduction is a story about a sociopath, Bridget Gregory, who steals $700,000 from her drug-dealing husband Clay. Bridget drives off headed to Chicago when she stosp at a small town, Beston, and meets Mike. Mike is back in town after a whirlwind marriage and divorce in Buffalo. The two immediately hook up. Bridget is just looking for sex while Mike is trying to find a way out of the small town.

Meanwhile, drug dealer Clay, under pressure from a loan shark and with the help of a private detective, frantically searches for his plotting wife and the money. Meanwhile Bridget changes her name and gets a job at the same insurance company as Mike. The film continues to unveil with disconcerting plot twists which ultimately end with Bridget cheating Mike and Clay.

The reason for watching both of these films was to find some influence for our extract,
particularly regarding sound and shot location. The urban landscapes used in both films heavily influenced the shots we decided to use in our extract. The atonal music as well as the poly rhythmic samples often used in the background of brick gave us the idea of keeping the sound in our extract simple and rhythmical as this will allow the focus to remain on the visuals while providing a solid base for dialogue.

Ideas And Influences

Our project is heavily influenced by the neo-noir style, particularly films such as Brick and Memento. One idea that we incorporated into our design is the structural technique used in both of the films mentioned above. Switching between past and present carries the narrative along in an interesting and clever way that is typical of the noir style. Using this method to do a two minute extract allows us to switch between different scenes without disrupting the continuity of the story.

Trailer for Brick

Trailer for Memento