Sunday 5 January 2014

Pre Production - Treatment For My Opening Title Sequence



Loglines Into Treatment

'A police officer seeks revenge for the death of his partner, who was murdered by an infamous assassin'

At the start of the film, two agents are sent to investigate a local abandoned house, after being told that there is the possibility that a major criminal could be using it as a headquarters to hold their captured colleague. The captured agent is thought to of been captured because he was investigating the groups previous crimes, and was on a close lead to arresting the group. However the group logged on to the fact that he was doing this, and has kept him hostage for the last month previous to the 2 agents being sent to investigate the house. The criminal believed to being holding their colleague hostage is known to be part of a gang that has had many wrong doings such as money laundering, drug dealing and assassination attempts, which they have carried out in the past. The group have been previously convicted of ruthless crimes like these, but have managed to evade the police every time, and thereby naming themselves the ‘Get Away Group’. The group is composed of 4 members, each of which are highly trained and have crucial links to other major criminals located around the city. On the other hand the two agents are at a complete contrast with one another. The lead agent has spent many years in the job, and is highly advanced in knowing what to expect when, approaching dangerous scenarios such as these. His colleague on the other hand is in his first year, and has been assigned to be the apprentice of his far more experienced colleague.  

Just as the two agents arrive and reach the entrance to the building, they feel at risk that someone is watching them, little do they know, that someone is indeed watching them at a high vantage point at the top of scaffolding. The lead agent then tells his young counterpart that he should 'not do anything stupid' stay behind him at all times, regardless of the situation. Just as the lead agent enters the house, he barges in, announcing his presence in the house. A few moments later, they reach the house, and start to investigate around the acctual inside of the house. Later on, the two agents meet again in the kitchen and discuss where their colleague could be. The young counterpart fatally decides to suggest the his experienced leader that he 'should check outside'.

It is at this point in which the assassin on the scaffolding is able to get a sight on the lead officer, and after tracking the officer walking into a shed outside, the assassin begins to put his finger on the trigger and get a clearer line of sight on the agent. A few minutes later the assassin sees the agent discover a vital piece of evidence that he had hidden from everyone to see. In an act of controlled desperation, he decides to assassinate the officer at the exact moment that the officer looks up and sees him up in his vantage location.

After hearing the his boss fall to the floor with a bullet hole in his chest, he called for more units to arrive and take down the assassin from his unknown location. When the police officers arrive, they instantly receive information that the house is home to the assassin of the 'Get Away Group', and thereby proceed with caution. The police bring 8 units to the scene, vastly out numbering the mysterious assassin in an unknwown location to them. They proceed into the building from every entrance, surrounding the criminals. Each police officer is armed with a normal pistol and bullet proof vest in case things get out of hand. The assassin realizes what is happening long before they arrive, he tries to make a desperate lunge for freedom, by climbing down the scaffolding, and jumping to the ground. It came to no avail however, as when he landed on the ground, he attracted attention to himself and was followed by police helicopter all the way back to his gangs headquarters.

A few hours later, the police surround the headquarters, in a abandoned, run down room in the top floor of building in the heart of a local village a few miles away.  They then set up four snipers looking directly at the four gang members, and on demand, they shot all four members with bullets that knocked them out, allowing the agents to break in and arrest the criminals. This therefore gave the officers an easy task of simply carrying the criminals into the police van when they left their location, where they were taken to the station, where they were arrested, and put on trial, and found guilty, thereby facing life behind bars.

As for the family of the young agent who was assassinated, he was flown back home to his family in his home town, where the entire town turned up for the funeral, for what they described as a ‘heroic, agent, who put his life at risk to save everyone elses.’ The film then ends with a scene of everyone sowing their respects to the agent, and then cutting to a final scene of the criminal gang being put behind bars.


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