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The Investigator - Coggle Diagram
The Investigator
Inspiration (the moodboard)
Characters
The Investigator
Crap new york accent
Ay oh!
I'm
insert
here!
Investigating
Collecting evidence
You tryna tamper with the evidence
I'm snooping here
"you've never even been to new york"
I knew a guy
Keeps using different voices
Forgets which voice he's using
no
Only breaks voice once when breaks assistant
OH SHIT
Nearly breaks at the end
So far into there own illusion that they fully believe they are a new york private investigator
Smoking
The sidekick
can be used as a narrator
unreliable narrator
gets roped in by investigator
Gets crippled
tragic
A bit dumb but looking for something to do maybe doesn't believe it 100%
Local bobby
Clown
Once was a partner with the investigator but stopped
leaving investigator to go
Townspeople
Priest
Only speaks in innuendos
confession scene
investigator gets the jitters
but does not change
Themes
Film Noir
Black and white
Always raining
to show Investigators perspective
Smoke machine
Tragic Comedy
Comedy
Mystery
Vessel to explore the character of the investigator
Music
Sequence to music
Speakeasy
Plot
Ideas
Burst into meeting
undercover?
case has led him there
Situation gets worse and worse and investigator has to remain in character
Can't back out
starts from something seemingly harmless which builds to something serious
Gets assistant
at a bar?
not enthusiatsic
Sir digbey chicken cearsar
Sir Digby C. Ceasar
or Lady Susie
Clown
Film noir and real version
shift in perspective
From investigators 'noir' perspective
and or from the assistants
in colour
comedy club act 1 start and end
Village meeting
with and without investigator
investigator thinks they are getting closer to mystery
Town are talking about how annoying the investigator is
Missing person
Large estate
Moved down under but interprets that as 6 ft under
Leaves x number of children
Pub scene
noir version is suave bartender serving whiskeys
Normal version is cider
"he reversed his tractor into a wall... knocked the whole thing down"
Got a letter and its eating away at him beginning and end
The know
What the audience know
Investigator arrives to solve a mysterious case
Investigator is presented as a stupid over the top character who just ends up annoying everyone/getting in way/making things worse
Have to be made to think it is a real case
silly to start with but something happens and it gets serious
What the characters know
Characters have prior knowledge of the investigator
feeds into the investigator as a tragic character
scrap
The truth
The investigator is sent from place to place following cases that have been made up
Tragic character who is trapped within their own lie
Setting
Pharmaceutical company
Based on real experience
Scrap
UK town
South west
Silly village names
Big enough to have a decent population, village/church hall
And a clown performing for a childrens birthday party
Small enough so that everyone knows the investigator
