Original Idea Synopsis

Throughout the whole scene, there is orchesteral music and an answer phone message plays, showing a youngish girl speaking and during the message she says something like 'Hi dad, haven't seen you for ages, just wondering why you didnt come to the cafe yesterday.... i waited for ages but you didn't show. Just making sure your ok?' etc.

The shot fades up on a clock which is hanging on a wall in a semi-dark room. There is a lamp on but the main source of light is coming from the window which is half covered by a striped blind, making the room have stripes of shadow. It then fades to a panning shot moving up a body from the legs. Another fade takes us to a cigarette burning out in an ash tray and then to some messed up papers on a desk. This is showing us evidence of a struggle. The next shot is the phone hanging off the hook. We here a grunt and it cuts to a mans hand, tied up on the arm of the chair. There is a masked man interrogating the tied up man and after a bit we here a gun shot.

This was our original idea but Ms Knott thought that having a gun shot would make it harder to be realistic so we took it out. We also thought that having an interrogater at all was hard because it was difficult to have dialogue and keep it looking proffesional. The last thing we changed at this stage was having the panning shot of the man at the beginning, so instead we moved it to the end.