Short Film Introductions

Idea 1
   An opening credit sequence picturing old, grainy footage of IRA broadcasts on 1970s-esque television equipment. Cast and crew’s names appear in the bottom left corner whilst eventually the film’s title appears on one of the monitors, which then fades to black.

   The initial scene fades in from this blackout to show the corner of a room; the camera pans diagonally, upwards to the left to reveal a stereo-typically looking (and talking) Irish man being sat behind a desk whilst a British Police Officer interrogates him.

   Dialogue routinely consists of the policeman asking whether the Irishman knows of an attack somewhere within England, say near London or any other major city on some date in or around 1973, to which the Irish bloke will reply generic stuff, “I don’t know nutting”, “Don’t know what you’re talking about”, “No comment”, etc. He is essentially trying to absolve himself of all blame and distance himself from the attack.

    The officer becomes more and more frustrated, raises his voice towards the suspect. Close up: The policeman’s angry face to show the anger he possesses, then possibly cut to a close up of the Irish bloke, smirking, laughing maybe to show the contrast of emotions, the Ireland-er can say a quip like “Can I go now?” which will then cut to a scene of him exiting the police station.

Idea 2

  The scene would open in a corner shop/ post office, something like that in which the shop assistant will be talking with a customer, these two will not necessarily have to have their faces on camera as it is not essential to the story.

Midway through there tedious conversation a robber, dressed as expected, balaclava, black clothing etc. bursts in with a knife and screams various profanities to the shopkeeper in order to intimidate- holding the weapon towards him/her whilst (s)he loads money into a carrier bag provided. As soon as the money is placed in the bag and given back to the robber, he scurries out of the shop and runs into a dark area/ getaway car in which two other people are already located. The robber removes his mask and asks “did I do alright?” or something along those lines, a cut is made to the disappointed faces of his two accomplices which is then followed by a camera cut to the outside of the car/ dark area showing a trail of money as to where the bag has split, probably follow this up with “fuck” or “shit”.