2. Summary
• We’ve decided to do a short film in the thriller genre.
• Our film focuses on a man in a therapy session, with a
gradually fading memory he begins to reveal a vague and
disjointed murder confession.
3. Influences.
• One of our main main inspirations for the film is Memento, a
mystery film by Christopher Nolan that pioneered a new linear
structure.
• Memento is a film about a man suffering with anterograde
amnesia who is trying to avenge his wife’s murderer. The
narrative is presented backwards, revealing more and more
information that the protagonist has since lost.
4. Film Structure and Narrative
• Within our film we too plan to put you in the mind-set of a
man losing his memory. Instantly you are thrown into the
perspective of someone committing murder, then at a later
date, we show the man confessing to the crime, though his
recollection of the crime has since faded due to memory loss.
• Throughout the film, the viewer is shown the same crime
playing out in various ways and told from different
perspectives.
5. • The film is set in two places, a therapists office and the
memories of the confessor, the memory sequences will be
told by breaking the fourth wall as the camera becomes the
perspective of both the audience and the therapist as we are
guided around the disjointed memory of how the crime
occurred.
• To show the man’s faded recollection and put you in the mind-
set of this man, the memory sequence will be cluttered with
continuity errors showing the lack of stability of the man’s
memory.
6. Characters
• There are two dominate roles throughout the story that are
present throughout the film.
• The first character is the patient who is confessing to murder,
the costuming of this character is smart casual, such as a
jumper and shirt.
• The second character is the therapist who is listening to his
patients confession, the character is shown formally though
through his lack of experience we see him struggle to handle
the severity of the confession.
7. Settings
• Predominantly our film is set in a therapists office as the man
recalls his confession, the intercut memory sequences will be
set in a separate house.
• We aim to create two varied atmospheres throughout the
film, the therapy sessions will have a lighter and warmer
atmosphere that we plan to manipulate into a darker and
colder vibe as the film progresses.
• The memory sequences will be depicted with with realism and
not overdramatized or surreal as dream sequences tend to be.
8. Target Audience
• Although we don’t intend to have our film become a horror,
we do want it to have a level of suspense as we delve further
and further into what actually occurred on the night of the
crime.
• Our target audience will be people who are accustomed with
the “whodunit?” sub-genre of mystery film, despite the
subject matter it will be shown in a way where violence can be
implied though not necessarily shown therefore allowing us to
appeal to wider demographic.
9. • However, our film is a story of not what you know, but what
you don’t.
