script
This section contains three drafts of my narrative/cinematography script for my five minute film And Then We'd Be Happy, as an attached documents.
There is also a physical copy of the final draft as a back up.
A script is the dialogue for your characters and camera movements for the production you are making.
There is also a physical copy of the final draft as a back up.
A script is the dialogue for your characters and camera movements for the production you are making.
21st November Draft One
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There were some formatting problems with my first draft, along with this my shot list was constantly changing therefore the cinematography elements of the script were being rearranged for the second draft.
29th November Draft Two
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The comments on my second draft were similar to my first, whilst my narrative was left completely the same it was more formatting and cinematography elements that needed to be shaped better.
6th December Draft Three
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This is the final draft of my script for And Then We'd Be Happy. There is also a hard copy underneath, in case of format problems.
FILM.
By Amy Anderson.
Narrative/Cinematography script.
INT. Black room, there is no natural light.
INT. Black and white. Close up on mime artist face, smiling.
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INT. Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, eating chips.
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INT. Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing.
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Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, eating burger.
CUT TO:
Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing.
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INT. Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, drinking coke.
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INT. Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing
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INT.DAY DANIEL AND HELEN'S LIVING ROOM.
A couple sit in silence in a room full of supplies. HELEN (25) is quite pretty but nothing special, she's not wearing make-up because she's past caring. She's the type of girl that men settle down with and always wonder who else they could've married. DANIEL (26) is a bit of a catch but could make more of an effort: his beard is unkempt and his clothes could do with a wash. Both characters wear slouch clothes.
They stare out towards the camera. They're not looking at the audience but are desperately trying to look away from each other.
This scene is composed of not many shots and with no movement. The use of a long shot is to allow the audience to question why there is no editing therefore forcing them to focus on what is happening on the screen.
HELEN
All I'm trying to say is it is common decency
DANIEL
Really? We're carrying this on?
HELEN
It's important Dan.
DANIEL
Is it though?
HELEN
I don’t want to live in your filth.
DANIEL
You don’t have too.
HELEN
What’s that supposed to mean?
DANIEL
No, no, no. Not like that...
HELEN
Like what then?
DANIEL
We, we, can go wherever we like, we can live wherever we want. We can have countless amounts of cutlery. I can get the Queens spoons or Nick and Susan’s knifes, remember how much you liked them that time we went round?
HELEN
mmmm...
DANIEL
So what I'm saying is does it really matter if I left my cutlery in the sink? In the grand scheme babe, does it matter?
HELEN
I guess not...I was just making the point that I don’t like living in it.
DANIEL
For fucks sake.
HELEN gets up and starts rearranging some of the cans of food. DANIEL stands up and goes to put on some music.
HELEN
No more Olly Murs please.
DANIEL
Why?
HELEN
We've listened to him for the past week all day, every day.
DANIEL
You said you liked him.
HELEN
I did, but that was before I had listened to his pre pubescent voice for an entire week.
DANIEL
Fine then. It just...reminded me of Ben, that’s all, I always liked the music he listened too.
Pause.
HELEN
Don’t pull that shit, you thought Ben’s taste in music was, and I quote you here 'a embarrassment on even the scale of tosser sounds'.
DANIEL
He liked fucking Lil' John and Travis.
HELEN
And Olly bloody Murs.
DANIEL
Alright fair point.
DANIEL puts on Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys. HELEN recognizes the sound and a loving glance is exchanged between them, DANIEL goes to hug HELEN from behind.
HELEN
My parents loved this song.
DANIEL
Mine too.
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INT.DAY Direct west wall medium shot.
The camera rotates 90 degrees. The couple have not moved.
A voice is heard off camera.
GABY
Hello?!
HELEN
Did you hear that?
DANIEL
Yeah.
HELEN crosses the room to DANIEL.
HELEN
Who is still out there?
DANIEL
How did they find us. Shhh.
GABY
Hellooooooooo?
DANIEL
Get the bat.
HELEN
We have a bat?
DANIEL
Yes, under the couch, get it.
HELEN reaches under the couch and pulls out an american style baseball bat. She hands it to DANIEL.
HELEN
What do we do?
DANIEL
I don’t know, get behind me.
They press up against the East wall so they cannot be seen. A woman appears at the french doors. She is very pretty, layered in make up and wearing a short sequin dress and heels. This is GABY. GABY knocks on the door.
GABY
Allo? Bonjour? Sault? Koniche fucking iwa?
HELEN
Dan.
GABY opens the door. DANIEL puts the bat in front of the gap between the door and GABY.
DANIEL
Stay back!
GABY
Oooh there you are.
DANIEL
Who are you? What are you doing here?
GABY
Calm down, let me in.
Pause.
GABY
I come in peeeaaacceee.
DANIEL lets go of the door and lets GABY in. Eye contact is made between all of them.
GABY
Danny?!
DANIEL
Gabs?
HELEN
Danny?
GABY
Jesus Christ. I cant...what the fuck?
GABY runs and hugs DANIEL.
DANIEL
What? How are you...how are you still here?
HELEN
Sorry, who are you? What’s happening?
DANIEL
Babe, this is err Gaby Stagnem, we went out for about two months in year 11. Gabs this is Helen my girlfriend.
GABY
Alright? You were like my proper first boyfriend, probably one of my longest relationships as well. This calls for a celebration Danny!
GABY gets a bottle of vodka from her bag and begins to set up shots.
GABY
Glens! Like back in the day Danny Boy.
DANIEL
Yeah...I still don’t understand Gabs.
HELEN
(mocking) Gabs...
DANIEL
Gabs what are you doing here?
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INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY is sat on the floor by the table, she has moved some of the cans to make way for her vodka. Helen is standing in the centre of the room and DANIEL stand slightly more towards GABY.
GABY
(finishing shot) Oh God yeah, sorry. Well basically when everyone started dropping like bleeding flies nothin' seemed to happen to me. Like I was fine, didn’t even feel ill. It was proper weird. But no yeah I watched everyone die while I stayed alive which was pretty bloody depressing. So since then I've been shopping and drinking to keep my spirits up. I drove a bus today, that was mad. Ran out of gas a little down this road, when I got out I heard your music blasting out through the streets, bit creepy Danny if I'm honest, like something out of 28 Days Later or summin'.
DANIEL
So you survived it all too.
GABY
Well obviously doll, wouldn’t be sitting here otherwise.
HELEN
But why did you survive?
GABY
Charming.
DANIEL
What she means is, its more than a coincidence.
GABY
Whatcha mean?
DANIEL
Well...
HELEN
No-one else as far as we can tell is alive, its just us, only us. How on earth did you make it?
DANIEL
Hold on.
DANIEL pulls out a mobile phone
CUT TO
INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY has not moved, HELEN has moved forward watching DANIEL. DANIEL is squatting on the phone.
HELEN
What are you doing?
DANIEL
Shhh
DANIEL dials a number and it rings for a moment
GIRL
Daniel?!
DANIEL hangs up
DANIEL
Fuck.
DANIEL dials another number. It rings.
GIRL2
What the...
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL3
Hello?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL4
Danny?
HELEN
Dan?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
MAN1
Daniel?!
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL5
Who is this?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL6
Is anyone there? Hello?
DANIEL hangs up, falls to his knees.
CUT TO
INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY has not moved. HELEN has moved forward slightly. DANIEL is sitting in shock.
DANIEL
Holy shit.
HELEN
Babe? What was that? Who were you calling? Who picked up? Who’s alive?
DANIEL
Everyone I've ever...(he looks at her) everyone I've ever been 'intimate' with.
GABY laughs in the corner and then does another shot.
HELEN
What?
DANIEL
Everyone I've ever banged is alive. Everyone.
HELEN
Too bloody right everyone! How many people did you just fucking call. You slut.
DANIEL
That cant be right.
HELEN
I counted seven girls there.
DANIEL
Six girls, one guy.
HELEN
One guy!?
DANIEL
Its a long unimportant story right now, Helen focus on what I'm telling you.
HELEN
What you’re telling me is that you banged a dude!
DANIEL
No, what I'm telling you is I have...
HELEN
You have what?
GABY
MAGIC SPERM! Your swimmers make people immune! Thanks babe.
HELEN
What?
DANIEL
Well that’s the only conclusion, the only logical one.
HELEN
Logical? Magic sperm? Logical?
DANIEL
Well think about it, the common denominator is that I've had sex with all these people, they're all immune. I clearly have some kind of property in my seamen that...stops them from being infected.
HELEN
I need to sit down.
DANIEL
I have magic sperm, I need to sit down.
GABY
You’re a proper man Danny, you have the chance to start the world again. Repopulate.
HELEN turns to DANIEL.
DANIEL
Be quiet Gabs you're drunk.
HELEN
She has a point though. You can start it all again, with everyone immune. It could work. Everything could go from the beginning, Adam and Eve, but real.
DANIEL
You think it could work.
HELEN
Maybe.
DANIEL
Might get a bit weird.
GABY
You're stuck on a planet with all your exes and one night stands, people you actively choose to not talk too. How ya gonna handle that?
CUT TO:
INT.DAY Medium close up, bedroom
By Amy Anderson.
Narrative/Cinematography script.
INT. Black room, there is no natural light.
INT. Black and white. Close up on mime artist face, smiling.
CUT TO:
INT. Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, eating chips.
CUT TO:
INT. Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing.
CUT TO:
Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, eating burger.
CUT TO:
Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing.
CUT TO:
INT. Extreme close up on mime artist mouth, drinking coke.
CUT TO:
INT. Extreme close up on mime artist face, laughing
CUT TO:
INT.DAY DANIEL AND HELEN'S LIVING ROOM.
A couple sit in silence in a room full of supplies. HELEN (25) is quite pretty but nothing special, she's not wearing make-up because she's past caring. She's the type of girl that men settle down with and always wonder who else they could've married. DANIEL (26) is a bit of a catch but could make more of an effort: his beard is unkempt and his clothes could do with a wash. Both characters wear slouch clothes.
They stare out towards the camera. They're not looking at the audience but are desperately trying to look away from each other.
This scene is composed of not many shots and with no movement. The use of a long shot is to allow the audience to question why there is no editing therefore forcing them to focus on what is happening on the screen.
HELEN
All I'm trying to say is it is common decency
DANIEL
Really? We're carrying this on?
HELEN
It's important Dan.
DANIEL
Is it though?
HELEN
I don’t want to live in your filth.
DANIEL
You don’t have too.
HELEN
What’s that supposed to mean?
DANIEL
No, no, no. Not like that...
HELEN
Like what then?
DANIEL
We, we, can go wherever we like, we can live wherever we want. We can have countless amounts of cutlery. I can get the Queens spoons or Nick and Susan’s knifes, remember how much you liked them that time we went round?
HELEN
mmmm...
DANIEL
So what I'm saying is does it really matter if I left my cutlery in the sink? In the grand scheme babe, does it matter?
HELEN
I guess not...I was just making the point that I don’t like living in it.
DANIEL
For fucks sake.
HELEN gets up and starts rearranging some of the cans of food. DANIEL stands up and goes to put on some music.
HELEN
No more Olly Murs please.
DANIEL
Why?
HELEN
We've listened to him for the past week all day, every day.
DANIEL
You said you liked him.
HELEN
I did, but that was before I had listened to his pre pubescent voice for an entire week.
DANIEL
Fine then. It just...reminded me of Ben, that’s all, I always liked the music he listened too.
Pause.
HELEN
Don’t pull that shit, you thought Ben’s taste in music was, and I quote you here 'a embarrassment on even the scale of tosser sounds'.
DANIEL
He liked fucking Lil' John and Travis.
HELEN
And Olly bloody Murs.
DANIEL
Alright fair point.
DANIEL puts on Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys. HELEN recognizes the sound and a loving glance is exchanged between them, DANIEL goes to hug HELEN from behind.
HELEN
My parents loved this song.
DANIEL
Mine too.
CUT TO:
INT.DAY Direct west wall medium shot.
The camera rotates 90 degrees. The couple have not moved.
A voice is heard off camera.
GABY
Hello?!
HELEN
Did you hear that?
DANIEL
Yeah.
HELEN crosses the room to DANIEL.
HELEN
Who is still out there?
DANIEL
How did they find us. Shhh.
GABY
Hellooooooooo?
DANIEL
Get the bat.
HELEN
We have a bat?
DANIEL
Yes, under the couch, get it.
HELEN reaches under the couch and pulls out an american style baseball bat. She hands it to DANIEL.
HELEN
What do we do?
DANIEL
I don’t know, get behind me.
They press up against the East wall so they cannot be seen. A woman appears at the french doors. She is very pretty, layered in make up and wearing a short sequin dress and heels. This is GABY. GABY knocks on the door.
GABY
Allo? Bonjour? Sault? Koniche fucking iwa?
HELEN
Dan.
GABY opens the door. DANIEL puts the bat in front of the gap between the door and GABY.
DANIEL
Stay back!
GABY
Oooh there you are.
DANIEL
Who are you? What are you doing here?
GABY
Calm down, let me in.
Pause.
GABY
I come in peeeaaacceee.
DANIEL lets go of the door and lets GABY in. Eye contact is made between all of them.
GABY
Danny?!
DANIEL
Gabs?
HELEN
Danny?
GABY
Jesus Christ. I cant...what the fuck?
GABY runs and hugs DANIEL.
DANIEL
What? How are you...how are you still here?
HELEN
Sorry, who are you? What’s happening?
DANIEL
Babe, this is err Gaby Stagnem, we went out for about two months in year 11. Gabs this is Helen my girlfriend.
GABY
Alright? You were like my proper first boyfriend, probably one of my longest relationships as well. This calls for a celebration Danny!
GABY gets a bottle of vodka from her bag and begins to set up shots.
GABY
Glens! Like back in the day Danny Boy.
DANIEL
Yeah...I still don’t understand Gabs.
HELEN
(mocking) Gabs...
DANIEL
Gabs what are you doing here?
CUT TO:
INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY is sat on the floor by the table, she has moved some of the cans to make way for her vodka. Helen is standing in the centre of the room and DANIEL stand slightly more towards GABY.
GABY
(finishing shot) Oh God yeah, sorry. Well basically when everyone started dropping like bleeding flies nothin' seemed to happen to me. Like I was fine, didn’t even feel ill. It was proper weird. But no yeah I watched everyone die while I stayed alive which was pretty bloody depressing. So since then I've been shopping and drinking to keep my spirits up. I drove a bus today, that was mad. Ran out of gas a little down this road, when I got out I heard your music blasting out through the streets, bit creepy Danny if I'm honest, like something out of 28 Days Later or summin'.
DANIEL
So you survived it all too.
GABY
Well obviously doll, wouldn’t be sitting here otherwise.
HELEN
But why did you survive?
GABY
Charming.
DANIEL
What she means is, its more than a coincidence.
GABY
Whatcha mean?
DANIEL
Well...
HELEN
No-one else as far as we can tell is alive, its just us, only us. How on earth did you make it?
DANIEL
Hold on.
DANIEL pulls out a mobile phone
CUT TO
INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY has not moved, HELEN has moved forward watching DANIEL. DANIEL is squatting on the phone.
HELEN
What are you doing?
DANIEL
Shhh
DANIEL dials a number and it rings for a moment
GIRL
Daniel?!
DANIEL hangs up
DANIEL
Fuck.
DANIEL dials another number. It rings.
GIRL2
What the...
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL3
Hello?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL4
Danny?
HELEN
Dan?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
MAN1
Daniel?!
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL5
Who is this?
DANIEL hangs up, dials another number.
GIRL6
Is anyone there? Hello?
DANIEL hangs up, falls to his knees.
CUT TO
INT.DAY Direct centre south wall medium shot.
GABY has not moved. HELEN has moved forward slightly. DANIEL is sitting in shock.
DANIEL
Holy shit.
HELEN
Babe? What was that? Who were you calling? Who picked up? Who’s alive?
DANIEL
Everyone I've ever...(he looks at her) everyone I've ever been 'intimate' with.
GABY laughs in the corner and then does another shot.
HELEN
What?
DANIEL
Everyone I've ever banged is alive. Everyone.
HELEN
Too bloody right everyone! How many people did you just fucking call. You slut.
DANIEL
That cant be right.
HELEN
I counted seven girls there.
DANIEL
Six girls, one guy.
HELEN
One guy!?
DANIEL
Its a long unimportant story right now, Helen focus on what I'm telling you.
HELEN
What you’re telling me is that you banged a dude!
DANIEL
No, what I'm telling you is I have...
HELEN
You have what?
GABY
MAGIC SPERM! Your swimmers make people immune! Thanks babe.
HELEN
What?
DANIEL
Well that’s the only conclusion, the only logical one.
HELEN
Logical? Magic sperm? Logical?
DANIEL
Well think about it, the common denominator is that I've had sex with all these people, they're all immune. I clearly have some kind of property in my seamen that...stops them from being infected.
HELEN
I need to sit down.
DANIEL
I have magic sperm, I need to sit down.
GABY
You’re a proper man Danny, you have the chance to start the world again. Repopulate.
HELEN turns to DANIEL.
DANIEL
Be quiet Gabs you're drunk.
HELEN
She has a point though. You can start it all again, with everyone immune. It could work. Everything could go from the beginning, Adam and Eve, but real.
DANIEL
You think it could work.
HELEN
Maybe.
DANIEL
Might get a bit weird.
GABY
You're stuck on a planet with all your exes and one night stands, people you actively choose to not talk too. How ya gonna handle that?
CUT TO:
INT.DAY Medium close up, bedroom