Creating a 10 Minute Film Script
BTEC National Diploma in Media (Television and film) Unit 23: Writing for Television and Video 05/10/08 Project Title: Creating a 10 Minute Film Script Task 3 Black Star The 10 minute film is called Black Star, it’s a Suspense and policial genre film, which is aimed to audiences of young people and mature as well, its unique selling point is the complex and controversial story that each individual of the film has to tell, with full of tense scenes and a final twist to the story that will make people interested and make them think about it, even when the 10 minutes has gone by, it also tells a story and a perspective never seen before in a gangster film, taking away all the boredom of the people watching it, making them guessing what will happen next till the last minute of the film, packed with all the action and raw brutality that is a convention on a gangster film, plus the special effects that some scenes will have. I believe this short film has all the ingredients needed for a great success. The initial scenario seen on the film is the heroine walking up to a night club, in a hot dress, lighting up her cigarette and then going in. This film takes place in a Night club called Black Star, in that night a poker game takes place, one that happens only once in each fifty years, to decide who will be the greatest drug dealer and rule over the others, so that night starts has the heroine, with a hot dress, lights up a cigarette as she is walking in the club, inside the club we see people dancing, some drunk and others
drugged, the music is loud and the lights blinking, the heroine by the name of Lowelry Teach( gangster name) but real name is Teresa Miers, walks to the bar, asks for a drink and places to strange shaped coins in the table, the barman sees and shows her the way to a secret door, he then closes the door and Lowelry teach seats on her reserved seat in a round table with other gangsters, there the room is just lighted in the centre, we see some man surrounding the table, they are bouncers, the room doesn’t have windows and there ...
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drugged, the music is loud and the lights blinking, the heroine by the name of Lowelry Teach( gangster name) but real name is Teresa Miers, walks to the bar, asks for a drink and places to strange shaped coins in the table, the barman sees and shows her the way to a secret door, he then closes the door and Lowelry teach seats on her reserved seat in a round table with other gangsters, there the room is just lighted in the centre, we see some man surrounding the table, they are bouncers, the room doesn’t have windows and there fume of cigarettes and drinks all over the place, in the table we see a deck of cards, and chips, everyone introduce themselves and the game then finally starts, a lot of close ups on the cards as well as people faces are shown, showing their emotions and tense atmosphere, suddenly one man starts cheating on the game that sooner become obvious to the other gangsters, till one of them stands up picks his gun and points at his head, at that moment the time freezes and he starts telling his personal story in form of flashbacks, we see the gangster hitting on his wife and his wife with the face swallowed up and then we see him snoring coke on the bathroom, we see the bathroom all messed up, when the flashback ends he shoots at the one that was cheating, the bouncers pick up the body and leave, the game continues and we see even more tense facial expressions caused by the death of one of them, then Lowelry Teach starts narrating and begins to tell the story of Elizabeth Batory revealing more of herself as well, in Elizabeth flashback we see her sister lay down on a bed, on a room very clean, all white, with a flower next to her sister bed, she is unable to move, due to her tetrapelegia, she is crying and screaming, then we see Elizabeth giving drugs to her sister, injecting to her veins and giving her too smoke as well, which temporary eases her sister pain, the flashback ends we see Elizabeth looking at her cards, we see her facial expression as she realizes that she had lost, she then ask to go to toilet, there in the toilet, she waits till the other girls go out, she enters into one of the doors and the scene suddenly changes to inside the room with all the gangsters there, Leonhart asks one of the bouncers to go check in her, as he goes in, he starts to check in each door for Elizabeth as he slams through it, till he reaches the last, only to found that Elizabeth had suicide by an overdose of medicaments, we see the medicaments lay down in the ground and Elizabeth face with blood on her mouth, with white bubbles coming out as well, the game goes on and then comes the time for Leonhart to lose, after he loses he attempts to kill one of the bouncers behind him, that’s when suddenly we hear some voices from the Police, saying that they had the place surrounded, by then only, Leonhart, Lowelry and Carter Jones are in the room since the rest had runned away, Lowelry driven by the rage to avenge his father only focus his attention on Carter Jones and Carter Jones only focus on him as well, Leonhart becomes confused and being shoot by the two as he tries to get some attention, then after some conversation between Carter and Lowelry, Lowelry shoots at Carter Jones with some help of special effects we make this fight intense, Carter Jones throws the table to Lowelry, flipping all the cards in the hair, Lowelry dodges to the left, by then Carter had runned away, he goes after him, only to found ambushed on the corridor by Carter Jones Butler, the Butler hits her with a fire extinguisher, and leave the rest to Carter, Carter Jones then shoots her in the leg and arm, making her unable to move he then has another conversation with Lowelry, we see some flashbacks of her, in a dark room studying all alone, full of books with only a candle lighted, the flashback ends and we after some more talk, Carter Jones picks Lowelry by the air and she uses a card to slice Carter Jones throat, the scene ends, the police comes to her rescue and then we see her laid down on the ambulance when the Butler comes in and presents himself as the true Carter Jones, showing a tattoo from his family, teasing Lowelry and leaving her there, ending the film. The message I want to convey to this film its that the police doesn’t have to always be the good guy and the gangster always be the bad guy, I wanted to give a more realistic aspect and make people think wherever or not people should end all kind of addictions, should that be a choice made by them but since most don’t have the strength to do it or left to someone else impose that decision and end once and for all. Character Brief: Biography: interior life Name: Teresa MiersGender: femaleNationality: EnglishPlace of birth: NorwichOnly ChildKind of childhood she had: she was adopted when she was 7, since childhood she was very lonely, didn’t talk to much people, was very shy but she was very smart and the only think that filled her head was her father death. Relationship with parents: when she was 7 her father died on a accident, and her mother died when she gave birth to Teresa!Didn’t have any foster parentsSingleWorking Biography: external life Professional: Works as a detective for the police As a detective she is more interested in drug dealers and gangsters, she has been trying to track a very famous Gangster for 2 years.She is very lonely at work, doesn’t socialize with no one, always focusing at her work. She looks down at everyone and has a bad attitude towards her Boss, she earns a low salary but for her she doesn’t care much has she doesn’t spend a lot of time at home. Personal: She doesn’t want to commit herself as she thinks it will only burden the person she stays with, or doesn’t have time for him, consequently people at work, thinks she has married with her job.Since her mother died when she was born, she has afraid the same may happen to her,She has a machist and manly personality Private: In the morning she works in the department till afternoon, then lonely she buys beer at a local shop, and goes home, she usually runs at night, she spends a lot of time training and at midnight she wonders off collecting information and data.She has three cats, one bird.Usually her house is always a mess, since she doesn’t have the time and patience for cleaning.She has a motorcycle Kawasaki The Need: The need of the Character is a frontal confrontation with the man who screwed her life and killed her father, a drug dealer, she has been for years searching for.In my screenplay she enters an illegal poker game, said to reunite the greatest gangsters, she enters there in disguise in hope to find Carter Jones.To be able to have chance on hitting him, she has to win the poker game and be able to create an atmosphere where she can catch Carter Jones.
