'Hollywood' Narrative Structure

This picture shows evidence of planning in preparation for filming. It is our 'Hollywood' Narrative Structure for a whole film. I decided to take this task on and left Frank to focus on other areas of planning and research.

The story is basically about betrayl and Steve's quest to bring his ex-partner, Gary, down.

My vision is that, at the beginning of the film, you see how the betrayl was made and the consequences of it. The 'meat' of the film would involve a number of violent scenes and chases between the network of people in between Steve and Gary. The conclusion of the film would see Steve taking Gary down, but only after it had appeared that Gary had got the better of his ex-partner.

Once I had finished devising this storyline I couldn't help but relate it to the film Max Payne (2008: John Moore), another film of the genre we are making. This helped to give me a better idea of how our opening scene should look.

I found thinking about the film as a whole made it a lot easier to plan the for the finer details of our opening scene, as it poses questions like, (looking at a specific scene later in the film) what would the watcher need to see in the opening moments to make them understand that particular part of the film?