Private Eye Monologues

In our group we decided on having our girl character do a monologue that runs alongside the our cinematic, by doing this it would reference old detective movies more and add more to the atmosphere of the scene. I have been looking into old movies and also any recent movies or programmes that include a private eye monologue; I have found that it has been used a lot in TV programmes/animations. The three that I've looked at so far have been:

• Pinky and the Brain - "Brain Noir"
• American Dad - "Star Trek"
• Rugrats - "Radio Daze"

All three are animations and even though they are based around the private eye detective they all differ from one another. I was mainly looking for key phrases that were spoken which I could then use to come up with a script for our character. Some of the phrases that we may use are "The night began like any other..."; "My next step was clear"; "I was a man on a mission and no-one would get in my way".

Not only by watching these did they give me ideas of what to include for the script, but in both Pinky and the Brain and American Dad, the character starts off face down in a pool while a monologue talks over before it cuts back to the beginning. This is another aspect that seems quite common within detective style movies/programmes, almost a parody even. By seeing this appear in both shows it gave us the idea to open up our cinematic of the camera fixated on our girl's face as she is lying down. It would set our cinematic up and you would instantly know it's in the detective style.

We're going to play around with this idea a bit more and hopefully finish the script before long so we can create an animatic with rough sound and a monologue on top. By doing this we can have a better idea of what will work and how long each shot will roughly take.