Original Ideas

Title – Watch Your Back

Duration – 5 Minutes

Audience – Adults (since rating is likely to be an 18). Male adults mainly that like more action thrillers.

Suggested Elements – Twists, interesting action sequences and leads the viewer into thinking about things.

Synopsis – Jack Rousseau is walking down a street while opening an envelope, he pulls out the document that turns out to be a dossier with a picture of a man and all his information spread out across the sheet, while he is reading the papers, two men appear behind him. Jack senses he is being followed and carries on walking while putting the dossier back in the envelope and placing it in his pocket. Two more men walk around a corner a few feet in front of him and he stops his pacing. The two behind him stop abruptly right behind him and there is a tense moment while Jack is thinking what to do. He notices an alleyway next to him and starts to run down it with the four men in pursuit.

A well-dressed man walks into his office while talking on the phone, he sits down at his desk and finishes his conversation, then places his phone on his desk. His desk is covered with papers and photos of Jack Rousseau. His phone starts ringing and he answers, Jack is on the other end of the phone, “If you are looking for me, I’m outside.” The gentlemen spins his head round to look out of his fourth floor window, seeing Jack in the parking lot with the 4 men who were chasing him, on the floor unconscious. Jack hangs up the phone and drops it on one of the men. Jack notices a bin cart with mops and bin liners and some dark blue overalls. A sudden smile stretches across his face.

The suited man jumps out of his chair and grabs some security personnel on his way out of his office. The three men walk speedily to the main entrance where he hoped to see Jack. A bin-man slowly walks down the same corridor with his head down and a cap placed low on his forehead, trying not to look at the disgusting rubbish in the open bin liner. He gladly lets himself into the office that was left unlocked. The bin-man throws his hat off across the room revealing that he is Jack Rousseau. He quickly grabs all the paperwork and photos of himself and screws them up in his pocket to discard later. He starts searching through the draws in the desk and finds a file that reads ‘Classified – Jack Rousseau’ he places the file inside his overalls and leaves the office.

As he closes the door and turns round he looks down the corridor and sees the well-dressed man and his security escort walking towards him. They see each other as Jack starts running in the opposite direction and the other men follow without hesitating. They storm out the building and the chase carries on down the street. Jack turns a corner and the pursuers follow and they stop after the corner, as Jack is nowhere to be seen. ‘No!!’ the well dressed man shouts and turns to angrily head back to the main office building, as he gets to his office he stumbles in and slouches onto his chair as a gun is put to his head and a file slammed down onto the desk, ‘What is this?’ Jack asks, ‘Its your whole life…Jack, why don’t you take a read?’ Jack lowers his gun and picks up the file and opens it to read, just then the file rushes towards his face and Jack passes out. He wakes up in the office sat in the chair and is dressed in a suit, he stands up and walks out, a woman walks past him and says ‘Morning Mr. Rousseau’.