Complete Film Idea

The two minuet introduction of my film shows flash backs of my protagonist character and how he has got to where he is when telling his story, as heard on the voice over.

The two minuet introduction shows.....

Joseph C. S. Williams was one of the most successful young business owners in England. Since he began his small business in the early 1990’s, he has built it up to be a huge success. Uniquely called the ‘Hazard Group,’ his company specialises in selling DVD’s around the country, as well as him being tied up in many other business. In 2008, as Joe attempts to make the biggest entrepreneur style gamble of his life, a global recession hits England. His own naivety towards business leads the ‘Hazard Group’ into liquidation.

With the little money that Joe has, he turns to the one thing he was once lucky with, gambolling, but he immediately losses every penny he has left. Joe is now living on the streets, in unfamiliar territory in one of the roughest parts of England, ‘The Styinghawk Estate.’ As he befriends a homeless divorced father of two, Joe must soon learn how to survive in the real world, and face the harsh realism of a troubled community.

If my film introduction was made into a full feature length film, this would be the middle and end of my protagonists story.....

Joes first two weeks on the disgusting and half abandoned Styinghawk Estate are the worst two weeks of his life. He just manages to find shelter at night, only to be moved on by the police or even thugs. Although he shares a common bond of constantly searching for food and water with the other homeless men, Joe is not interested in alcohol or drugs unlike the others are. He is always more concerned about raising money to get himself back onto his feet and he knows from his old success that this comes from always listening and taking notes. One day, amongst his daily rummaging, Joe overhears a foreign woman from one of the flats talking about pirate DVD’s. This is the opportunity that Joe needs. He introduces himself to her, telling her that he knows a lot about films and DVD’s. As she believes him, she agrees to take him into her flat and introduce him to her family who make the copies.

Within a week, Joe is on the streets selling the DVD’s door to door and out of phone boxes. The little money he makes is shared between the makers and himself, leaving him with little over £20 a day. However, Joe’s business man attitude still encourages him to gamble and although he sometimes loses, when he wins he invests in more DVD’s to gain profit. Joe is very slowly on the up.

This goes on for a couple of months, until one day Joe is found supplying DVD’s by the police. He is arrested. When questioned and recognised for being who he once was, he is told to tell the police who his suppliers are. Joe knows that he now has enough money to manage without them, so he grasses them up.

Still on the streets, but now very much on the up, Joe thinks he is doing well until one day he is found by the family of suppliers. It turns out that one of them was on the run from the police for attempted murder, another two for robbery and a couple more other charges. Joe has grassed on the wrong people. Now surrounded by a sadistic foreign family from the Styinghawk Estate that are all on bail, Joe has nowhere to run. The family certain to go to prison or be deported has one last thing to deal with; Joe.

One week later the news reports read that one of the country’s most successful young business men who lost everything and ended up on the streets of the Styinghawk Estate was brutally murdered, but no suspects were questioned.