Idea for preliminary task

Our first idea was to do something in black and white, basically a film noir so that the two colours have a contrast, so with this idea in mind what genre would fit it. All three of us, me, Jack and Sam then decided we wanted an American 1930's/40's gangster noir film. But we had a limit. It had to be thirty seconds long, use of shot reverse shot, and a 180 degree rotation, and finally a match on action. We also wanted one of the characters to be a sort of bent cop, so we had a set in mind. so our idea consisted of on being tied up, the other smoking, and both on each side of a table in this dark smokey room, with the camera at the end of the table most of the time so we can see both characters facial reactions. We also decided not to have much speech as we believe it will create tension.