Script Read Through

During our read through of the script it came to our attention that the main points used to propel the plot was the messages on screen and that we needed to bring in some physical elements to break up the action and have the actor move rather than sit in one location for the whole five minutes.

We then decided that the flashbacks throughout the film would be triggered by different objects found around the room. As you can see from the diagram below the three initial objects where a shoe, some nail polish and a lock of hair. These each would link to a very small section of the flashback which we also put on this diagram. However, we later decided that the hair would be replaced with lipstick as we could not obtain any hair for the day of filming.

During this planning session we also went over the traits of the characters as you can again see below we decided that Scott the protagonist in the film would be an average business man as he would be working in an office and he would be rather posh as the ransom was quite large. The hacker, although we never see his face directly, we wanted to be very confident and determined in the way he spoke through the text. This would have to be shown by using certain keywords and the things he says. We also wanted him to come across as quite malicious. Finally the girl, we did write down "victim, flirty and short-fused". However, we later decided that we didn't want any traits to be shown as we wanted the girl to remain as anonymous as possible, but the victim trait still obviously took affect.