Pictorial Maxim development
Upon retrospective of my First Draft of Pictorial Maxim, I felt that there was more need for character development for the character of Merrick as her motivations and actions didn't seem really clear from an objective reading so I decided to scrap some scenes in place for a confrontation with a detective in a diner. Connecting to the incident at Park Row in the previous scene, I felt that this would act as a moment of relaxation for the audience/reader, leaving a balance between the madness and mundanity of the narrative. Also, the inclusion of this scene enabled me to demonstrate the use of dialogue, which was mainly absent from my First Draft. For this scene, I took reference from David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks which I have been recently watching in my free-time, the diner acts as a place of reality within the surreal location of Twin Peaks. Acting as a place of comfort from the complex narrative.
