first draft for my opening to a Indie Drama/Crime

1. Misfortune
Monty Tremlett
Original screenplay
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2. FADE IN:
1 DISTRIBUTOR IDENT 1
Soda pictures
2 PRODUCTION CO. IDENT 2
SweetWater Productions
3 TITLES 3
white titles over black
Soda pictures presents
A SweetWater film
4 ENT.STREET - NIGHT 4
From behind we see a man wearing a beanie hat,his cold
bread creating steam. this is Dom.
he walks down the street, he is wearing heavy winter coat.
jeans and some heavy duty boots.
Dom rifles through his pocket.
He pulls out headphones, plugs them into his phone and
starts playing a song.
(Non diegetic music plays representing what he is
listening to}
Dom is a 17 year old tanned person
We follow Dom as he walks down the pavement and over his
shoulder we can see 4 hooded people on the other side of
the street, looking intimidating. Dom slows down to gaze
over
(The four hooded people whisper
to each other)
They all slowly spread whilst moving towards Dom.
As Dom is distracted by checking the hooded people, he
accidentally walks into the 5th member who mistakingly put
his knife into Dom’s stomach.
The music fades for a couple seconds before it starts
playing again.
Dom and the killer intensely stare at each other.
5TH HOODED MEMBER
SHIT...
(silent due to the non diegetic
music}
(CONTINUED)

3. CONTINUED: (2) 2.
The other members crowd round as Dom falls to the ground.
A couple members scavenge through his pockets before they
run off.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
Title sequence on a whit