Alternative Sequence Ideas

Alternative Idea 1

Opening close up shot of a scruffy looking man sat with his head down leaning forward tapping his heels nervously with clearly audible band music. The shot zooms out to reveal him in a bar with his guitar surrounded by people looking to a stage. The woman sat beside him comforts him reassuringly, kisses his cheek, they exchange a glance and he joins in watching the stage looking somewhat calmer. There is a faint sound of the bar door opening and he peers over.

Next, a low angle, medium long shot of bar door as two burly, aggressive looking men in matching suits and black leather jackets stand at the bar entrance looking around, searching for someone.

Another close up shot of the man’s face looking shocked which cuts to a medium shot of him quickly finishing his drink, grabbing his bag, whispering in the woman’s ear, kissing her goodbye and swiftly moving off camera.

Then a high angle long shot of the bar, as if perceived from a corner or CCTV camera, of the man making his way through the crowd to the back exit avoiding the men searching through the other end of it.

A long shot of the exit corridor as the man, whilst trying to move down the corridor, reaches in his bag, kicks off his shoes, pulls off his jeans to reveal a pair of trousers, changes his shoes, removes his shirt to reveal a different t-shirt beneath and puts on a suit jacket from his bag.

A medium close up shot from the side of the bar back exit door as it opens and the character pokes out his head to look around. He then steps out, the camera panning to follow him and slowly zooming out to medium shot as he looks around further and spot some nearby bins which he throws his bag in. He then reaches into his inner pocket, pulls out a wig, puts it on, pulls out a pair of glasses, puts these on and walks off camera.

The man walks around the corner and smirks as he passes the unknowing, confused looking, burly men outside the bar. He turns into a nearby alleyway and just begins to jog away as he hears a scream. He swiftly presses himself against the wall and peers around the corner just in time to see the men dragging the woman he was with at the bar into the back of a van and it driving away.

The man’s phone rings, he looks at it horrified for a little while until eventually silently answering and pressing it to his ear to hear a sinister voice saying “Clearly you didn’t take our first threat very seriously, sir. And now look what’s happened.” followed by the woman’s voice crying out “Get off me!”, “Help!” etc. until it is muffled out. The sinister voice then continues; “And so it appears I have something of yours and you something of mine, so why not let’s make a trade, eh? I wouldn’t take too long deciding though if I were you, or else maybe your little ‘friend’ might have some kind of ‘accident’. She certainly seems like the clumsy type to me... You’ve got 12 hours.”

End Scene.