pre-credit sequence

Establishes tone
Establishes genre
Establishes subject



Protagonist - What do they want? What do they need?
Antagonist - What do they want? What do they need?
Pivotal Character(s) - How do they keep the protagonist and Antagonist engaged in conflict?
Dialogue - Its not everything
Intentions - motivation
Subtext - Whats going on under the surface?
Context - Whats going on around it? What happened before and after? Where and when is this happening?


Pre-credit sequence of ALL OR NOTHING

All or Nothing

INT. The Virginia bank

Western, set in 1659

COLT RUTH, as a young boy, walks into the bank with his mother. Shes paying money in then a group of men walk in with guns and try to rob the bank. While this is going on colts mother is shot and left for dead.

COLT RUTH'S mother takes him into the Virginia bank to put some money into the bank.

MOTHER RUTH:

Now colt stay close, there's a lot of people around and i don't want to lose you.

Colt holding his mothers hand while they line up, Colt watching everyone working, trying to get closer to them while his mother keeps pulling him back to her side

Mother ruth:

Colt, now stop here! look we are next up.

Colt and his mother walk up to the window to talk to the man

Bank worker:

Good morning madam, what can i help you with today?

Mother ruth lets go off cloths hand and hands over money to the man.

MOTHER RUTH:

I would like to put this into my account please.

The man takes the money, as he turns to give mother ruth papers to sign the doors of the bank bust open. Everyone turns, a woman screams

Bank robber:

Everyone! get down on the ground! this is a bank robbery!

People lower to the ground, women screaming and Colt is under a desk. Guns shot fired, the men leave with money and laugh.

Bank worker 2:

HELP! shes been shot, shes been shot!

Colt gets out from under the desk, moves over to the group of people standing around a body drowning in blood to discover its his lifeless mother. 

screen goes black

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