The following lesson we set about deciding on characters. We already had the detective and the mob boss, who's drug deal the detective would be investigating. We then agreed upon the involvement of a femme fatale, a couple of assistant detectives and the love interest of the mob boss. We created brief character profiles with information about their appearance, age, back stories and characteristics.
Then we loosely storyboarded the layout of the film, this included the key moments/scenes and some basic information about the dialogue that would be spoken during those scenes. Next we began to construct the first scene on paper: this would include a voice over from the detective providing the back story of the characters and events that occur in the film which is vital for understanding the film in it's entirety.