Layout of Key Frames

1) Medium close up shot of John inside his car driving. he is wearing a long pale green coat, a grayish, pale green shirt and a red tie. (The red is being used to represents the characters anger with his current situation, the pale green is being used to represent how uneasy he feels at the moment). This is a technique used from Sin City to represent emotion. This scene is also a direct reference to Tarantino's scene that he directed in Sin City with Dwight and Jackie Boy in the car.

2) John pulls up in to a busy car park late at night, we see he open a letter that states 'Letter of resignation' with his name bellow it. The focus on the letter will emphasize the focus surrounding this scene. This is similar to Fincher's use of cinematography in Zodiac

3) John steps outside of his car and the camera cuts to a close up shot with a focus on his hands and part of his mouth which shows him lighting the cigarette in his mouth. This is also similar to Fincher's use of cinematography, focusing on inanimate objects in peoples hands in Zodiac.

4) The next shot features a medium close up from the side of John exhaling the smoke from his cigarette. This relates to the scene in Sin City featuring Marv smoking after beating Kevin as a way of releasing stress.

5) The next shot features John with the envelope again, we see him tearing the envelope up. This again links to the use of Fincher's use of cinematography but this time in the introductory title screen of Se7en.

6) The scene ends with a final shot of John attempting to light this envelope. This again relates to the introductory scene of Se7en where there is a focus on John's hands, like how there is on John Doe's hands in that scene.

7) The scene opens to a distant shot of John in his office, the shot is as if someone is watching him. This shot also shows John's drinking issue as from the use of the prop of a can of beer in this scene. (This foreshadows to the conversation to come with Sam). This is similar to how Dwight is watches Jackie Boy in Sin City as well as how Paul in Zodiac resorts to alcoholism to deal with his issues.

8) The next shot is a close up, shot but placed over John's shoulder. Focusing on John's hand holding a photo of himself and his wife to emphasise his distress about losing his job. This is similar to Bruce Wayne reflecting on child hood memories in The Dark Knight.

9) Close up on John's phone as an unknown number calls him.

10) The next shot shows John on the phone, looking slightly angry due to the fact that he doesn't want to work for his old colleague Sam. This is similar to the cinematography Fight Club to see the narrators emotion when he is on the phone. The scene ends with this shot.

11) The next shot is an over the shoulder shot showing John working for Sam, assaulting a government official. This is similar to the the interrogation scenes in The Dark Knight and Sin City.

12) The next scene uses an observing shot and is in Sam office, it shows John and Sam both inside with Sam smirking and John with a stern expression on his face, wearing a black shirt with a red tie. On Sam's desk there are three photos spread out of the assaulted government official. The black shirt represents his power and hints that what John may be, being corrupted.

13) The next shot shows John about to leave Sam's building, as he's walking he crosses paths with Sarah. This shot is an observing shot, where the male gaze is clearly represented with how we will see John looking at Sarah.

14) The next shot shows the pair of them talking, but for strangers they are quite intimately close when they speak to each other. I will use photoshop to give Sarah blue eyes as the colour blue represents that someone is trustworthy.

15) The next shot is a behind the shoulder shot of John and Sarah, they have met in Sam's office in order to raid it. They find on Sam's laptop there is a document on the laptop revealing his 'benefactors' project. Sam's 'benefactors' are using people to place their corrupt people in power and if the people they place no longer support their interests. They use people to threaten them in to compliance. This shot is similar to the scene in Zodiac when Robert and Paul are looking at information from the Zodiac case and come to a realisation.

16) As they make this realisation they decide that it would be unwise to split up and both insinuate to go on the run together as they become very close and intimate with each other again. For this shot I will use a observation shot from the side of the pair of them. This is similar to the unspoken intimacy in Sin City during the customer is always right between the man and the customer.

17) Sam arrives at his office, this shot will be a point of view shot from Sam's perspective, as  he aims and shoots at Sarah. This is similar to the confrontation scene between Jackie Boy and the Basin City prostitutes.

18) The next shot is just after John is knocked on to the floor by Sam after . The shot is an over the shoulder shot of Sam as he aims his gun at John. This is similar to Fight club where Tyler, the narrators subconscious is enforcing his power over the narrator.

19) The next shot features Sarah as she is bleeding out shooting John in the neck. This shot is a low angled, focused shot, focusing on Sarah. This shot relates to the cinematography during the scene in Sin City where Shellie threatens Jackie Boy with a knife.

20) After this Sarah passes out, John stands over Sam's body, holding Sarah in his arms, John will have blood over his face from the beating he endured and Sarah will have a puncture in her clothing with blood around it. This shot will be a low angle shot, portraying John in a position of power over the dead Sam's body. This shot relates to Sin City where Marv standing over Kevin after beating him.