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            Component 3 Production: Evaluative Analysis My production is a script for the short film: Sunbird – a film with a narrative twist. My main intention in writing Sunbird is to provoke reactions from the audience through the main ‘twist’ in the film. I wanted to write a film which shows the audience something recognisable to the key elements of the spy film genre so that they make assumptions about the narrative. The film is a story about mystery, and I wanted to design for an aesthetic to act as a visual metaphor for this theme. The short films I have studied for my production are High Maintenance (Van, Germany, 2006), Pitch Black Heist (Maclean, UK, 2012), Stutterer (Cleary, UK, 2015), Connect (Abrahams, UK, 2010), and Night Fishing (Park, South Korea, 2011). Whilst they are all very different films, they all do share some commonalities in structure and in character development. I am choosing to focus on three films in my analysis as they are all ‘films with a twist’ and a
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FINAL SCRIPT

FIRST SCRIPT

“UNNAMED PROJECT”   By   Elise Booth   FADE IN:    PHONE CALL    EXT. THE CITY CENTRE OF PRAGUE - DAY   Establishing shots of Prague. Text overlay reads ‘PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – PRESENT DAY’. Blonde young woman, BLAIR, dressed in yellow smart/casual clothes featuring a yellow colour palette is sat/stood in front of a Clock Tower. Her mobile phone rings.   The phone reads ‘Withheld Number’. She answers it.    INT. DARK ROOM – DAY     Split-screen revealing the caller. She is brunette young woman, ELEANOR with dark makeup and red clothing, her exact location is not revealed but she is sat in a dark-purple toned room speaking into  a   yellow  telephone.      BLAIR   Eleanor.   ELEANOR   You were expecting me?   Split-scene ends and the shot switches to Blair.   EXT. PRAGUE CITY CENTRE - DAY   BLAIR   I always do.    Shot switch