_{MURDER SCENE}

Tia and Chance are walking down a street. They’re laughing and joking and as they pass a pub, a man stumbles out of it drunkenly. The drunken man is a police officer. Tia and Chance share a look and attempt to move around him. The police officer follows them to an alleyway. It’s empty.

POLICE OFFICER (stepping in front of them) hey… h-hey. Whe-where do you think you’re going?

TIA (Kissing her teeth) get the fuck out of my way, bruv.

The POLICE OFFICER shoves her and CHANCE steps in front of her protectively.

POLICE OFFICER (stumbling and fumbling over his words) watch your tone. I could arrest you right now for verbal abuse, y’know. I’m-I’m a police officer.

CHANCE and we could have you arrested for physical abuse. Don’t ever lay your fingers on her again.

POLICE OFFICER walks menacingly towards CHANCE until their faces are very close together. CHANCE glares at him, unmoving.

POLICE OFFICER or what?

CHANCE bruv, you don’t wanna know what.

TIA Chance, we don’t have time for this. I’m more than capable of looking after myself, you idiot.

The POLICE OFFICER  still staring at CHANCE, reaches around him and pushes Michelle again.

CHANCE pushes the POLICE OFFICER up against a wall.

TIA Chance, stop. Please, leave it, yeah. He’s not worth it. I’m okay. Look at me, I’m fine!

CHANCE tenses abruptly. His hand goes limp and the POLICE OFFICER pushes him away. A knife stained with blood falls between them. The POLICE OFFICER, MICHELLE and CHANCE all stare at it in silence.

TIA (reaching for her brother) Chance… you good? Why aren’t you saying anything?

CHANCE falls to the ground, blood staining his top.

POLICE OFFICER I didn’t mean to… he just came at me- what was I supposed to do?

TIA (screaming) what the fuck did you do?

She charges at him, punching at him and kicking him.

CHANCE (gasping) Michelle, please.

TIA (kneeling beside her brother) shit, you’re losing a lot of blood. What should I do? I don’t know what to do.

POLICE OFFICER I’ve-I’ve called for help. (backing away) I-I can’t be here right now. I’m sorry.

TIA (ignoring him) help is coming, Chance. Don’t die on me. Don’t you dare die on me, you dickhead.

CHANCE’s eyes close and he doesn’t respond.

TIA please… please, I need you. You never listen to me. Why don’t you ever listen to me? You can’t die. Please.

Cellar scene

Michelle, Shaniqua and Denise are standing in a room. Tia enters, wearing a hoodie.

Michelle: Tia, I saw the verdict this morning. Community service? That’s a joke.

Shaniqua: It’s a bloody pisstake. That man still gets to sleep in his own bed tonight, while Chance rots away in a coffin.

Denise: if you need a shoulder to cry on, we’re all here for you.

Tia: (slamming a fist hard on the table) the last thing that I fucking want to do right now is cry. What are my tears gonna do? Huh? Are they gonna bring Chance back?

The room is silent. They girls, except Tia, look around at each other.

Shaniqua: Listen, you’re not the only person hurting right now. T, we all are. 

Tia: Then lets do something about it. Look at us, look at what that man did to us, what he took away from us.

Denise places a hand over Tia’s, which is still resting on the table.

Denise: T, what are you suggesting?

Tia is silent and she stares back at all of them.

Shaniqua: It better not be what I think you’re suggesting. Bruv, too much blood has been shed.  

Tia: Do you really think picking up litter negates the fact that my brother is dead? That it makes up for it?

Michelle: lets think about this logically, T. That officer had links within the system. He knew people! That’s how he only got community service. You know no one. They’re not gonna give a fuck about you.

Tia: I’ve been thinking about this. Every second of every day since Chance died in my arms, I’ve been thinking about this.

Michelle: That doesn’t mean you’ve thought everything through!

Denise: Girl, you’re grieving right now. That’s the only reason that you want to do this.

Shaniqua: Don’t do something that you’re going to regret.

Tia: I’m going to do this with or without you. I knew that before I came here, but it’s good to know for sure that you lot don’t have my back.

Tia turns to leave.

Shaniqua: hold up.

Tia turns around slowly.

Denise: (sighing) we can’t let you do this alone.

Michelle: so, what’s the plan?

Tia lowers her hood and smiles at them.

Tia: We’re gonna come for everything that he loves; his wife, his child, until finally we come for him.

Tia laughs.

Tia: he’s not going to see us fucking coming.

I will begin to challenge myself whilst editing footages for my trailer.

One way I will do this is by using software that I'm not familiar with such as Adobe After Effects, After Effects is a digital visual effects software and it is usually used in post-production process of film making. 

Here is a video of me testing out how and where I will embed these effects onto the trailer and also making myself familiar with the software; this is all trail and error so this will help me better my editing skills as I go along.