Anabella Hart is a big time journalist working in New York. She is assigned the breaking main page story in the newspaper she works for and delves straight into the story with a keen sense and excited passion, a string of murders involving women being strangled and then shot in the heart. Women are terrified of the ‘Black Lace Killer’ so nicknamed as he covers his victims face in a veil of black lace. During her research she discovers a mass crime cover up involving bent cops and even more corrupt government officials, the mayor is trying to keep his son’s secrets covered up but at the expense of the publics safety. She plans to ‘blow the whole thing wide open’ but before she is chased down by two cops determined not to let the story get out. A hit has been put out on her, one with a hefty reward and now every seedy, money grubbing criminal is after Ana to stop her from leaking valuable information and shaming the mayor. Shaken by a near fatal experience where Ana only just escaped a gun yielding criminal by hiding in a crowded restaurant and sneaking out through the window, she decides to get some professional help. Dead set on getting the truth out she finds a private investigator to protect her while helping her get the facts out. Jackson is a heavy drinker with a past in the police forces who was fired for not following lead on a drugs smuggling cover up after which he decided to become a private eye. When he hears Ana’s case he instantly wants to help bring down those who took his job and his life from him. The second attempt to kill Ana is while the pair are at Jaks’ favourite bar. Jaks spots a man following Ana into the toilets and follows him in. The man has a gun and is about to shoot Ana when Jaks attacks him and ends up drowning him in the toilet. Jaks decides that they need to stay under cover as much as possible, so they end up spending a week in a hotel room under the names Mr and Mrs James while they look further into the case, one that is heating up now that the body count has gone up to five. Ana has located a witness and sets up a meeting that Jaks insists on going to alone and leaves an edgy Ana in the hotel room. While she’s on her own she is assassinated by the Mayors female bodyguard. When Jaks gets back he finds a dead Ana on the bed with black lace covering her face. Assuming that she was killed as a cover up Jaks goes after the mayor’s son and confronts him. Jaks end up killing the son. The police show up at that moment and charge Jackson as the ‘Black Lace Killer’ and take him into custody, he is charged with seven counts of murder and sentenced to the chair. He dies, the killings stop and no one is any the wiser.
I have also experimented on photoshop to see what the sin city effect should look like. I came up with these four example images of the isolated colour technique I plan to use in my piece.
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