Film Brief

We settled on a action genre for our 2 minute opening scene. The beginning of the scene will introduce our unnamed protagonist and feature him getting off of a train. He'll be wearing a suit, tie and smart shoes so the audience knows he is a professional character. He'll be holding a briefcase that has quite a few close-up shots so the audience knows it is important in the scene. The protagonist will walk through the barriers of the train station which is when we have the first front-on shot of the character.

We'll then have a few establishing shots of a forest or wooded area and track the characters movements through the location. The character will be on the phone talking about "delivering the package soon," so the audience know he is comitting underhand activities or a crime. A mysterious figure will be shown watching the character through the trees, shown in soft focus at first so the audience cannot make out what he looks like, increasing tension. A close-up of the character will be shown as he hears the sound of a twig snapping behind him and turns to see what caused it. An extreme close-up of the man tightening his grip on the briefcase will be shown to reinforce to the audience that this briefcase is important.

After a few seconds of silence, the focus pull of the shot will switch from the background (where the character is) to the foreground to show a crossbow bolt fired into a nearby tree. The focus pull will revert back to the background and show the characters fearful expression before he begins to run away. As he runs, several shots of the mans attacker will be shown, but never in full focus to always obscured by trees to increase the idea of the attacker operating in the shadows, not wanting to be seen. An over the shoulder shot will show the attacker aiming and firing at the man and will quickly cut to a mid-shot of the man falling as he runs with an arrow sticking out of his leg.

The man will shout out in pain and will lie against a tree trunk. A point of view shot from the mans perspective will show the attacker approaching him and stealing the briefcase. Shots will interchange between the attacker forcing the briefcase open and the man looking at his leg with the arrow through it whilst it bleeds. When the attacker cannot open the briefcase, he points the crossbow at point blank range to the mans head and asks him what the code is. The man initially refuses and the attacker twists the arrow deeper into the mans wound as he screams he pain. When the attacker asks again, the man tells him the code, then we have an extreme close-up of the trigger being pulled and hear the sound of the man slumping to the floor. The attacker opens the briefcase and looks inside, a close-up of the man smiling at the briefcases contents is shown. The attacker steals the mans phone and redials the previous number. He says "the package has been delivered." As he walks away from the camera, the titles are shown.