Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Film Layout

We have decided to introduce the film from the end and then start from the beginning. Here is how it will go:

The story will start at the job interview where Tom, the main character will be going through a job application and he comes across a section in the form saying "Do you have any criminal convictions? If so please give details". As he writes down "Under age sex offences, served 1 year" he thinks back to how he landed in this situation; this where the main focus of the film takes place. The next section starts with Tom and his girlfriend Sarah Clary about to call her father John to ask if he can stay the night. She calls him and he approves on his way home from a meeting at the local pub. As John is on his way home he can't help but make a comment at a couple as they pass by ,disapproving of a white man and a black girl in a relationship, his remarks are ignored by him and John walks home to bed.
The next morning Tom is downstairs having breakfast when he is joined by John, who is annoyed and angry of Sarah's choice for a boyfriend, he calls her into the next room where he unleashes his anger in a rage of accusations stating that they had slept together. During the arguement, Tom, who overheard everything leaves feeling sad and depressed by Sarah's father's hurtful comments.
Still outraged and unable to listen to Sarah's protests that they had not slept together John has Tom arrested for stautory rape and is sentenced to two years in prison.
We re-join the present again where Tom is applying for a job and is currently in an interview with the head of the company. The employer is looking over his application happily when he comes across the criminal convictions section. He then tells Tom that his application is good and that he will hear from them within the week. As Tom leaves the room the employer asks his assistant to bin the application even though she recommends him for the job. The employer states that because of his convictions they should not hire him.

Why tell the film in this way?

We decided to tell the film this way because the audience would be interested from the beginning and finding out how Tom became a "criminal" and how this will effect his job interview

Inspiration came from the film Swordfish, the film starts near the end and then re-tells the beginning up to that point( the present point) and then goes forwards in time to the end. Another film that uses this is Forest Gump where for the majority of the film Forest is telling different people how he get to sitting on the bench waiting for a bus. When he tells everything up to that point the film carries on in the present

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