Film Noir Narrative Structure

We started off by looking at the basic Film Noir "Narrative Structure" which generally includes:

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-Equilibrium

-Disruptive event

-Recognition of disruption

-Attempting to repair the disruption

-New equilibrium

Then we got spilt up into groups, my group was a group of 3 and were given 2 sheets of a mixed up narrative structure of a typical film noir, we had to order it to how we thought it fit and create a photo story board of our script.

1.

Buster Rayburn is in a prison cell.

His voice can over can be heard. 'Here I am again. They said I wouldn't make it outside. If only I didn't meet that dame.

2.

Buster is drunk in a bar on his own.

3.

..and is greeted by a gangsta who says that he has a job for him.

4.

Buster turns down the job.

5.

The gangsta's girlfriend Lacey Lane appears. Buster can't take his eyes off her.

6.

Back to Buster in jail.

Voice over. 'If only I walked away when I had the chance.'

7.

Buster is at the same bar drinking whisky. Lacey Lane appears and whispers seductively in his
ear.

8.

Lacey gives Buster a gun and a kiss.

9.

Buster shoots the gangster as he leaves his house one morning.

10.

Buster and Lacey meet in his dingy hotel room. She thanks him and says that she will run away with him that night.

11.

Buster waits for Lacey at the railway station.

12.

The cops turn up and arrest him. Lacey can be seen in the background. She has obviously reported him the the police.

13.

Back to Buster in jail. His voice over can be heard.

'You see dames always bring a man down. She won't hurt anymore suckers now.'

14.

Buster quickly grabs the policeman's gun and after a struggle..

15.

Manages to fire a shot and hit Lacey and she dies.

16.

Flash back to Buster walking out of jail.