Script – We have not yet decided a name for our film
Blue: Camera
Red: Stage directions
Premise:
A drug dealer that had a spent his life building a business worth millions is now trying to escape from his rebellious past and live a normal life. Whilst a young, ambitious psychotic hitman has been hired to track him down resulting in a cat and mouse chase that ensues across England.
Setting: Spring Electrical (an electrical wholesaler/ lighting-shop) – Mid-afternoon
It’s mid-afternoon about 4:00pm with grey, gloomy overcast weather, inside the ironically-bleakly-lit-room of a lighting-shop. The lighting shop is situated next to a bustling dual carriageway, allowing for new customers and visitors at any time. The shop starts almost empty, with the exception of the much organised and very experienced sales assistant/ cashier behind the till who, at the time, is having a conversation with her also present mother, and a casual looking teenager in dark blue jeans and a hoody is examining the products in the display room, which isn't visible for the entirety of the opening sequence.
[Camera starts with a wide shot of the window on the right side of the front entrance door, from the right side of display shelves that are located centrally, showing the grim and cloudy sky and the busy bypass road, slowly the camera starts to move backwards through the shop as a dolly shot from a one point perspective]
Voiceover of man: If you look at me – in all my riches, and you told me that what you saw was an innocent man who got lucky, I’m not proud - but you’d be wrong.
(Background conversation)
Sales assistant: - Oh! Mum, do you not want a bag?
Customer/mother: No thank you, don't worry about that love, that’s fine, I’m rushing home to escape the rain, are you still all coming for lunch on Sunday?
Sales assistant: It doesn't look as if it’s about to get any brighter does it! Yeah, yeah we should be there around 2'clock? Thanks mum, see you.
Customer/mother: See you soon, love, take care.
(Customer takes product and walks down the right aisle and out of the shop, walking past the camera)
[Camera has made it across the right aisle and to the end of the shelves, and dollies over to the left side of the shelves,passing the central shelf, facing across the left aisle to the window now to the left side of the door, in a one point perspective shot again]
Voiceover of man: All that I built is now crumbling, and I turn away without looking back.
(Teenager walks into the main area from the display room and kneels onto the floor to examine products enthusiastically)
Voiceover of man: But others can’t… and they won’t.
Sales assistant: (Shifting her attention to young man lent down) Can I help you sir?
Teenager: [the camera switches to behind the teenagers (joe) shoulder, showing the sales assistant for the first time] (He turns to assistant and nods his head) actually you can! (Gets up and starts walking slowly towards counter) Bit of a weird thing to ask actually but (smiles sinisterly and lays hand onto till, [a medium two shot taken from one side of the till, showing the pair on the opposite sides of the till] could you just tell me what you know about this man. (Throws photograph onto till in an aggressive manor)
Shop assistant: (Looks down, shaking her head, gulping) I’m sorry but I don’t think I can give out such information as that, why?
[shot changes to low angle shot from behind one side of the teenager looking up past the boys legs and to the face of the sales assistant the other side of the till]
Teenager: (Pulls gun from waistband – back of jeans - raises gun level to her head) [Music starts]
Shop assistant: Oh… I don’t... h- he came in earlier – this morning. H-he knows our boss - my boss, his name – I think the name is Tom Longley, please don’t –
[the medium two shot taken from the side of the till, showing the pair on the opposite sides]
Teenager: (Puts photograph back into pocket and lowers gun to the base of the till) Where can I find your boss?
[Zooms in onto sales assistants face, close up, from the side, shows emotions]
Shop assistant: (Face starts to collapse as tears begin to form) He lives in Ashtead… Overdale… please don-
[Zooms back out to original shot of the pair either side of the till]
Teenager: And his name?
Shop assistant: … *silence*
Teenager: (Raises gun again)
Shop assistant: It’s Brian Greene!
[Screen turns to black promptly and a second later a gunshot is heard, followed by a stumbling onto the floor, before jumping to a medium shot of the teenager, taken from behind the till, with the teenager obscuring the view of a 4th character who witnessed the act in the background]
Teenager: (Lowers gun and sighs deeply before slowly turning around, we see the other customer standing limply in shock, and the teenager raises his gun once more) [The screen blackens before the title of film fades in the colour of blood red]
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