Crime Film Evaluation

Written In Blood

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Script

Script

“It was written in blood“

JOSH is tied to a chair. MATTY is beating him

REMY (MATTY)

Where is she! Where is she! WHERE IS SHE!

Camera turns to face MATTY and HANNAH is standing behind him

LAILA (HANNAH)

Here she is

HANNAH shoots MATTY. MATTY falls to the ground, HANNAH takes JOSH gag out of his mouth.

BARNABY (JOSH)

Oh my god thank you, you saved my life

LAILA (HANNAH)

I didn’t save your life, I made it five seconds longer mother fucker!

HANNAH shoots JOSH 5 times in the face. HANNAH walks away from the camera as blood starts to drip from the screen.

What Would Happen In The Rest Of The Film?

Film Planning: what would happen in the rest of the film?

‘Written in Blood’ directed by Megan Faye Haynes

Starring Josh Weale, Mathew Davison and Hannah Nickless

In the rest of the film after Hannah has shot Josh and Matt, the film flashes back in time and we see the story of why Hannah is after Josh and why she also kills Matty. When it goes back we see Hannah in a prison cell planning her escape and revenge, on Josh and Matthew we never find out why she is in prison or why she is after Josh, but the film continues and we see Hannah’s escape, when she has escaped. The story of Hannah’s revenge continues and in the style of Kill Bill (2003) we see Hannah looking for Josh and trying to find information about him and a way to get to him.

While this is going on there is a parallel narrative going on where we see Matty looking for Josh as well as well, we see Matt find him and beats him up and knocks him out, while he is knocked out he ties him up and continues to torture him. This is where the film flashes towards the end and replays the opening again but this time the scene is a little continued and this time we see Hannah walking away from the scene of the crime but as she is walking away we hear a ticking noise, and then we see an explosion in slow motion which kills Hannah and then cuts to Megan laughing with a detonator in her hand.

Film Summary

‘Written in Blood’

By Matthew Davison, Megan Haynes,

Hannah Nickless and Josh Weale.

Summary of our two minute film.

The opening of our film begins, with a close up of Josh’s face with tape across his mouth, the camera then begins to zoom out to reveal the surroundings of which appear to be a basement, the camera continues to zoom to reveal Matt in the basement too punching and shouting at Josh ‘Where is she?’ We see Matt continue to torture and beat Josh, and asking continuously ‘where is she’ he then removes the tape from Josh’s face and Josh then says ‘she’s behind you’ at this point Hannah appears in the scene and shoots Matthew in the back, there is a slight pause as Hannah looks at josh. Josh then says ‘thank you for saving me’ Hannah then replies ‘ I didn’t save your life I just made it five seconds longer motherfucker’ after Hannah has shot both of the them she begins to walk out of the basement as the credits roll.

This is the plot for our two-minute film. The idea for our film was inspired by the sex scene in Pulp Fiction (1994) but we have decided to put a different twist on it and set up the characters differently to create more enigma codes, tension and excitement. We have also chosen the basement as a location to create a dark atmosphere, to emphasise the nature of the events that are coming. The crime genre is a very wide-open genre and can include many different aspects; all can offer something different to a different target audience. We have decided to incorporate several aspects of the genre into our film to create a crime film that also falls into the genre of horror and thriller. I think that the use of death and guns are part of a crime film very often but we have tried to twist this by not giving the expected character the guns and instead gave the woman in the film the power by giving her the guns this also incorporates film noir into our film as Hannah becomes a femme fatale.

Our film also includes several enigma codes such as why is Matt torturing Josh? And why does Hannah kills Matt and Josh. This engages the audience and creates excitement in the film .