Noir Story Board

1. StoryBoard
Germain

2. Characters
 Protagonist – John Halloway - brother to Cal
 Femme fatale – Isobel Halloway – wife of Cal
 Main villain – Detective Cal Halloway – brother
to John
 Mother of Halloways – Susanne Halloway
 Danielle Halloway – sister to Cal and John and
daughter to Susanne Halloway
 Ed Newick – Old man who kno
 Other members of the force and John’s kids

3. Overall Story Board

4. Act 1

5. Act 1 - The Set Up
• Detective John Halloway, is at home, with his children and his
mother. They are discussing his recent retirement from the force in
the wake of an accidental killing of an unarmed man. John
mentions Linda, his ex wife leaving him 3 years ago. John is
becoming increasingly bored with his retirement and having
nothing to do, he doesn’t like living in the ‘real world’ without
solving crimes. As we see him begin to get increasingly bored by
playing computer games and trying to write a book, his home
phone rings, he goes to pick it up and the person on the other line
speaks in a low voice, “ Detective, you should not have quit., the
phone then hangs up, John is freaked out but shrugs it off, as he
walks away the phone rings once more, this time threatening to
kill80 a member of his family of ‘great fortune’, the phone then
hangs up once more. Halloway thinks it’s a sick joke and keeps it to
himself. However over the coming week, things begin to happen
that his put his family’s lives in danger.

6. Act 2

7. Act 2
• Halloway decides to investigate, as he is now being sent letters and
clues that might lead him to the person who is making the calls.
One letter is decrypted to lead to him to a house in which a family
friend lives in. John realises he has seen him before by his house, so
immediately thinks suspicious of him and has a go at him, ringing
his Brother to arrest him, as he is his brother, he just arrests him on
little evidence. Things go quiet for a while, as threats stop. However
whilst Ed Newick is in prison, Halloway begins to receive more
letters and calls. Mother then dies of suspicious causes; Cal is first
on scene to investigate. Ed is released but is still tailed and watched
closely. Cal’s wife Isobel turns up on the doorstep of Johns to offer
her condolences and support. She leads him into wrong direction
by making him focus on the wrong information (using her sexual
manipulation). They sleep together, he now trusts her as she
continues to send her in wrong direction.

8. Act 3

9. Act 3
• John visits Mothers grave and sees a dark
figure standing over the grave and as he gets
closer the figure begins to run, turning into a
chase scene. Isobel stops John. They go for a
walk. She is picked up by Cal who says he was
wondering where she was, the two say they
just bumped into one another.

10. Act 4

11. Act 4
• Cal and John speak, shortly after Cal and
Isobel leave, the public phone box rings, John
answers the call, and the speaker says “you’ve
been wasting time, sleeping with taken
women, you’re out of time”. Across the road,
John sees his sister has been shot and is
holding her chest as she walks towards him.
John begins to get extremely depressed and
angry, pushing Isobel away.

12. Act 5

13. Act 5
• John is called to a meeting with Cal regarding inheritance of Mothers
money as she is now dead and so is sister after both being killed. The two
argue about who should get which amount of money. As they leave, Cal
invited John over for drinks. John decided to go, upon arrival, uses Cal’s
upstairs loo, and sees a false wall, behind which is a desk with scattered
newspapers and clippings, with glue etc.… John is shocked and leaves
through bathroom window.
• John calls Isobel to tell her to meet him by secret alleyway (so Cal wont
find them) so he can tell her what he saw and to stay away from Cal. She
leads him to a ‘safe house’. The house is dark and suspicious. Cal suddenly
arrives and it is revealed through argument that it was him who killed
Mother and Sister. All for inheritance, it was his plan to kill John
eventually. It is also revealed that Isobel who pressured him into it, in the
end it is left to John who shoots Cal in the arm, not killing him, then Isobel
suddenly grabs Cal’s gun and shoots him dead. Eventually after an
emotional breakdown, She shoots John, as he slowly dies he sees her walk
away with the claim to the inheritance money.