Inspiration and rejection

Inspiration and rejection
We each had specific ideas about what we wanted from our thriller, but for me it was always a gangster, Sin City type storyline with typical Frank Miller/Tarantino direction styles and enigmas; stories that do not appear to have a specific story line straightaway and are carried by the characters and audiences questions. We rejected ideas about Russian communist robots as we thought the idea would be too complicated to get across in 2 minutes without money and good props/costumes. Our next idea was a sort of Tropic Thunder style (well, in as much as filming a film during the film) and having a ballroom full of masked people (think Phantom of the Opera and Eyes Wide Shut), with a director and camera man on set, them someone is murdered during the break. But again, location, complexity and money stopped us from this idea. But, we did like the idea of a twisted relationship between people and we watched Planet Terror and liked the idea of a stripper/dancer. So we came together and mixed all our ideas and came up with a gangster/burlesque club in Britain in the 1950s and we’ve made brave choices with long shots and shadow use and we think it works.