PLANNING : initial mindmap

A key inspiration we found was the notorious gang led by Al Capone during the 1930s and his signature dress to impress way of going about things. We saw him as a good example to base the villain of our story on as he once ruled San Francisco which was the style of approach we wanted to take with our antagonist. As we built on the idea of gangs and Al Capone, we began to draw out the world in which we wanted the plot to inhabit. We then thought of well-known cities that have been filled with gangs, such as New York and Chicago. Although, we still believed that it would be a good idea to directly set the plot in this already existing cities. This would allow us to use existing history around them and create our own history to help with the world-building in our story. After that, we began to look at possible characters and started merging the ideas for Film Noir and Al Capone's empire.

We decided to use many stereotypes to convey the Film Noir aesthetic. This is going to mainly be achieved by making the video monochrome (black and white) as this was conventional at the time as the colour video hadn't been invented. The mind map showing our thought process for this is below.