Final Treatment
Pre-Production - Blog Post #56
Below is our final treatment of my groups opening title sequence written by Harry Denn:
'A police officer seeks revenge for the death of his partner, who was murdered by a group of ruthless criminals.'
At the start of the film, two agents are sent to investigate a local abandoned ware house, after being told that there is the possibility that a major criminal group could be using it as a headquarters to organise their 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 elder one, Bob, 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 a crane several streets away. Bob then tells his young counterpart that he should stay behind him at all times, regardless of the situation. Just as Bob enters the warehouse, he pauses, which crucially leaves his young apprentice still outside of the building and in the line of sight of the assassin. A few moments later the assassin puts his finger on the trigger, and looks down his scope, pauses for a couple of seconds, before releasing the trigger, and assassinating one of the two agents. This causes confusion, grief, and loss to Bob, who decides to abandon the mission, but finds himself trapped in the entrance to the warehouse, as he is still unaware of where the assassin is located and whether he stopped aiming down on the warehouse where he is located. Instead he decides to ring the police force for help. However, by doing this, he catches the attention of one of the criminals, and is captured and held hostage.
When the police officers arrive, they instantly receive information that the warehouse is home to the four members of the Get Away group, and thereby proceed with caution. The police bring 15 units to the scene, vastly out numbering the four elite criminals inside. They proceed into the building from every entrance, surrounding the criminals. Each police officer is armed with a taser gun, and a normal pistol in case things get out of hand. The criminals realise what is happening and try to make a desperate lunge for freedom, by sliding down the roof, and jumping to the ground. It came to no avail however, as the drop from the roof was so high, that they almost killed themselves when they crashed to the ground. This therefore gave the officers an easy task of simply carrying the criminals into the police van, 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, wear they entire town turned up for the
funeral, or what they described as a ‘heroic, agent, who put his life at risk to save everyone elses.’
At the start of the film, two agents are sent to investigate a local abandoned ware house, after being told that there is the possibility that a major criminal group could be using it as a headquarters to organise their 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 elder one, Bob, 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 a crane several streets away. Bob then tells his young counterpart that he should stay behind him at all times, regardless of the situation. Just as Bob enters the warehouse, he pauses, which crucially leaves his young apprentice still outside of the building and in the line of sight of the assassin. A few moments later the assassin puts his finger on the trigger, and looks down his scope, pauses for a couple of seconds, before releasing the trigger, and assassinating one of the two agents. This causes confusion, grief, and loss to Bob, who decides to abandon the mission, but finds himself trapped in the entrance to the warehouse, as he is still unaware of where the assassin is located and whether he stopped aiming down on the warehouse where he is located. Instead he decides to ring the police force for help. However, by doing this, he catches the attention of one of the criminals, and is captured and held hostage.
When the police officers arrive, they instantly receive information that the warehouse is home to the four members of the Get Away group, and thereby proceed with caution. The police bring 15 units to the scene, vastly out numbering the four elite criminals inside. They proceed into the building from every entrance, surrounding the criminals. Each police officer is armed with a taser gun, and a normal pistol in case things get out of hand. The criminals realise what is happening and try to make a desperate lunge for freedom, by sliding down the roof, and jumping to the ground. It came to no avail however, as the drop from the roof was so high, that they almost killed themselves when they crashed to the ground. This therefore gave the officers an easy task of simply carrying the criminals into the police van, 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, wear they entire town turned up for the funeral, or what they described as a ‘heroic, agent, who put his life at risk to save everyone elses.’
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The other gun that I needed was a sniper rifle for the assassin to use when shooting, I was firstly unsure how I was going to get hold of this and if we would then be able to film it in a public space. Fortunately I persuaded a friend to let use his air rifle for the filming although he had to be present while we had it in the open and we changed the location to my house which is a more secluded to avoid any scares where people called the police about young adult brandishing weapons.
I also needed a shell casing from a round that had already been fired from a weapon but unfortunately I couldn't get hold of one so had to use an empty shotgun casing that I had at home.
To do this I looked at other police themed film/tv shows to get inspiration, such as Hawaii 5-0, NCIS and Hot Fuzz. I found that I took the most inspiration from the costumes of Hawaii 5-0, as I thought that the shirt and tie with a protective vest over the top suited the 'detective' characters I had to create. However as our film would be set in England I decided to look at an British biased police film, I looked at the character on the left as his costumed fitted the profile extremely well but the fact that hot fuzz is a comedy and the fact that this character seems overloaded with weapons seem too over the top and adds a comical effect to the scene (something that I did not want to recreate in my own work).
