Initial planning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrEKCcjSCyw&feature=youtu.be

Some rough ideas so far:

• Set in a press office for a newspaper.
• Femme fatal: A late 20s/ 30s female journalist of high importance
• Protagonist male: An intern in mid 20s looking for a way to make his name known
• Femme fatal is a year or so in to an assignment to get an inside/ undercover story of a local drug gang but is coming up with nothing.
• She actually is secretly in with the drug gang looking for some extra money agreeing to keep them out of the press as long as they keep giving her hand outs.
• She sets up the intern acting as if she can’t handle the situation by herself claiming she owes the gang money (which she does), he innocently tries to help and gets pulled in too far (consequences of this are not yet decided on).
• Aim of the femme fatal is to draw a deal with the gang so that they can be all clear and she can move on with her life and live on the spoils of her year long assignment.

Setting:
Around 90s - present, we don't think it will have a specific era although we do not want it to be confused with a classical film Noir and so want it to be set closer to the present day. We want it to be set in a large town/ city as it will give the film a stronger and perhaps more realistic atmosphere; what with the under-wraps nature of the press office and also the drugs scandal. We were thinking London would perhaps be too large a city, Cambridge seemed the perfect size and style and it would give more of a negative feel to the goings on of the main characters due to the towns positive atmosphere.

Characters:
We want to keep the character number to a minimum for added ease during production but also to be in keeping with Noir conventions. First ideas are; Femme fatal named Robyn (established through brainstorming), Protagonist; Scott (intern for the newspaper attempting to make a name for himself), Newspaper editor (probably only introduced briefly to outline Robyn's brief to the audience), Drug gang leader (used as a consequence for Scott doing Robyn's bidding) and Jade (the gang leaders girlfriend, used to warn off Scott).