Film Narrative & Opening Scene

1. Idea for opening scene
Genre: Spy-Thriller
By Amber and Jamie

2. Film Synopsis
A corrupt Swiss government sends an important top secret
message to the Russian president who intends to activate a
doomsday weapon called the Project Nemesis. 1 week later the
corrupt government then send the component that translates
the code for the weapon on a plane to Moscow. Agent Boyer
who works for the British Intelligence Division (BID) sneaks
aboard the plane and tries to take control of the plane to
retrieve the component and stop the weapon being activated.

3. Narrative of whole film
Equilibrium: The corrupt Swiss government get in contact with the Russian president and organise for
the component to be sent to Russia by a plane so they can activate the weapon.
A disruption: Agent Boyer who is working for the BID, sneaks aboard the plane to retrieve the
component as they don’t want the weapon to be activated. She takes control of the plane and tries to
retrieve the component but unfortunately crashes the plane.
Realisation: However, after the plane crashes, we realise the important code translating component is
missing.
Attempt to resolve: Agent Boyer is captured and threatened to be murdered by the Swiss Government
as she was the cause of the component being lost. The tension also begins to build up as people across
the world start to worry because they think the Weapon will be activated. 2 Agents working for the
Russian Government are set a mission to find the component as well as this being Agent Boyer’s mission
in the first place for the BID.
Resolution: Agent Boyer manages to escape with the help of the BID. The component is found by the 2
Russian Agents, Agent Swift and Agent Thorn.
Twist: Agent Swift betrays Agent Thorn and murders him to retrieve the component. She then finds
Agent Boyer and they destroy the component.
Re equilibrium: The narrative is back on track and everything is back to normal. Agent Boyer finds her
sister being held hostage by the Swiss (the audience now realise the who the woman in the opening
scene flashback is and it all comes together). Project Nemesis wasn’t activated, it was destroyed.

4. Characters
Main Character:
Agent Boyer (female protagonist)- Works for the BID and tries stop the Doomsday weapon being
activated.
Personality / Skills: Strategic Mind, Martial Art Skills, Independent and Intelligent
Clothing: Black Business suit often worn with black sunglasses and sometimes black spy uniforms are
worn as well.
Other characters:
• Russian President (male antagonist)- Dalmir Abrockovich Referred to as Mr President
Personality / Skills: Cruel, Harsh, Passionate, Dominating, Powerful and a Good Public Speaker.
Costume: Suit
• Head of the BID (male)-
Characters Personality / Skills: Strategic Mind, Fair, Curious, Passionate and a Good Public Speaker.
Clothing: Suit
• Agent Swift (female)-Works along side Agent Thorn for the Russian President. She then betrays
Agent Thorn to join Agent Boyers.
Personality/skills: Independent, intelligent and good memory.
• Agent Thorn (male)-Works for the Russian President to try and activate the Doomsday weapon.
Personality / Skills: Aggressive

5. Opening scene Idea
Characters involved:
• Agent Boyer
• Head of the BID
• Agent Swift
• Agent Thorn
Agent Boyer falls asleep in the back seat of the car and has a flash back
of her Ex Spy sister lay cold in an empty white room. She had been
captured by the Swiss Government.
Agent Boyer wakes up but the audience don’t know it was her sister in
the flashback until later on in the actual film creating an enigma.
Agent Boyer is on her way to retrieve a briefcase from the
Head of the BID that contains the strategies to retrieving the component.
However, what Agent Boyer doesn’t know, is that Agent Swift and Agent
Thorn are watching her every move…

6. Audience
Men and women both working and lower class. This is because
there is an equal amount of male and female characters. The
female character is the protagonist which will appeal to men as
she may be seen as a glamorous and sexy which proves the male
gaze theory. It also appeals to women because it shows female
power and independence.
The age range for this film would be people ages 15-30 as the
characters in it will be young so they may be able to relate which
will make it appeal to them more.

7. Spy-Thriller Conventions in our Film
Narrative
• Involves a Protagonist (Agent Boyer) and an Antagonist (Russian President)
• It involves working Institutions- Swiss government, Russian President and British Intelligence Division.
• Contains violence
• Plot twist which the audience wouldn’t expect
• Murder
• Threat of death
Setting
• Set all across the world as the Agents travel to get to other countries to retrieve the components and escape from
threats.
• Darkness in scenes to create a sense of mystery
• Normal environment to show realism.
Themes
• Murder
• Espionage
• Hostage
• flashbacks
Characters
• Agent Boyer is seen as a sex icon as Alfred Hitchcock included this in a lot of his films
• Agent Swift and Agent Thorn dress in suits and take their job extremely seriously
• Russian president is very demanding

8. Stereotypes in our Film Gender:
Women are often portrayed as the ‘’damsel in distress’’ in films, and are seen as powerless and innocent. They are
very rarely seen as authoritative figures that have power over male characters.
However, our film defeats some stereotypes of women:
• Agent Thorn (male) is murdered by Agent Swift (female)
• The protagonist (Agent Boyer) is female which shows independence and bravery
On the other hand, our film does show a stereotype of women as Agent Boyer’s sister was captured which shows
helplessness and innocence. But, in a lot of films, the women is usually ‘saved’ by a male (usually protagonist) but
in this case, she is saved by her own sister.
Also, even though having a female main character normally defeats the stereotype, the male gaze theory is very
stereotypical about women when it come to this as it states that women are only usually seen as the main
character in films for their sexuality.
Stereotypes of Men are involved as they are at the top of the institutions involved which show their strength,
power, dominance and control.
Class:
• In typical spy-thrillers, important, high class people wear suits. For example, people who are part of an
institution such as the government. Our film conveys this stereotype as Agent Swift and Agent Thorn wear
suits and also the Head of the British Intelligence Division and Russian President as they are all high class,
show dominance and are powerful.