Film Noir Full Narrative

The narrative begins at the end of the story with the Everyman, Tony, bankrupt and damaged. He then leaves his house in the dark and walks to another house where a woman (Femme Fatale) opens the door; Tony then shoots her (a voice over is used to briefly explain how he got in the situation that he is in and what he is doing).
A flashback then shows Tony's life before he met the Femme Fatale at work, she finds out that he has a deep, dark secret and uses this to blackmail him- Tony is also seduced by the lady but he hates that he likes her. Eventually, the Femme Fatale hustles Tony out of a large sum of money therefore he is left with nothing other than his secret. During a lunch break at work, the Femme Fatale breaks into Tony's house and steals a box which holds his secret in, when Tony returns home he realises and goes to kill her to get back everything that is his (the story then cuts back to the end).
The upset Tony is distraught that he has lost 'his' woman and that he will inevitably end up in prison, he opens the box for one last look at what he has hidden from everyone and shoots himself in the head. The camera pans from the dead Everyman towards the box and there is a fade to black after revealing his secret.

Deciding our Narrative Structure

When deciding on what narrative structure as a group, we had sheets that had definitions of possible narrative structures and from this we decided if they were suitable for our idea and if they would be good for it as a whole.

These were out two options. We decided that the 'Vladimir Propp' narrative wouldn't work for ours, as there is far too many characters compared to the amount that we plan to use, however we might include some of the character ideas. After looking at the 'Enigma Code', we've decided that this would be a suitable and effective narrative to follow. The sense of mystery is perfect for our story and would make the audience question the events of the opening which is exactly the idea.

Beginning Narrative Idea

For our final piece in Media Studies I am working with Heather McDonald and Josh Coe, and we have started to plan a narrative for it and tried out different ideas for a storyline. To start, we discussed ideas for a story and talked about how many characters we would have and what the general idea would be. From this we were then able to write out a general synopsis of what our story is.This is just a starting idea so we will build on this idea to develop and improve it in multiple ways. The name for the Everyman at this time is Micky.

'Micky is staring in the mirror with a gun... Flashback:

He was a successful person, but he had a big secret.

He employs an assistant (femme-fatal) who finds out his secret but agrees to keep quiet by blackmailing Micky.

Leaves him broke.

In his anger he kills her.'