Mind Map of Initial Ideas

Having studied the history and conventions of film noir, we feel we are ready to begin planning our own film. We tried to come up with three different ideas and developing a premise for each using stereotypical characters, themes and ideas. We eventually combined different elements of each of them to create our final premise:

A war veteran suffering from dissociative amnesia finds himself at the psychiatrist's coinciding with a string of local murders. He meets a young undercover journalist who has her own career at heart- and sees the opportunity for a breakthrough.

From this we were able to discuss initial ideas for the setting, characters, props, costume and makeup.