Collaborative Screenplay Plot Points-

Ground (Hannah, Molly, Matilde)

Opening and Closing Images- Open with close-up of Detective drinking coffee, Closing with Mute drinking coffee. 

Inciting Incident- Detective thinks mute person is responsible for their partner’s kidnapping- (flashbacks)

First Act Break- Detective leaving their house.  

Midpoint- Chase

Point of Commitment- Catches mute 

All is Lost- Finds out partner is dead 

Climax- Detective dies 

The Resolution- Mute sits alone – cliffhanger.

collaborative task; screenplay idea

Bryna, Phoebe & Kirsty 

Idea/concept –  

person A sees person B (who they hate) unconscious in the middle of the road while driving. – moral dilemma (save them or ‘leave them’)  

Story outline – 

Person A is driving to their family member’s grave because it is the anniversary of their death. (They were killed during a hit and run many years ago by Person) B. Person A has hated Person B ever since. 

Person A is driving somewhere. They get a call and say that they are going to visit ‘mum’. They park at a graveyard and proceed to sit by a grave (mother’s) and recount the day of the accident. 

When driving home, they come across a body on the road, they almost run over it, becoming frightened. They get out the car and realise the body is an unconscious Person B. At first, they get their phone out to call 999, then they hesitate…. maybe Person B deserves this ironic fate? Person A (after a long inner conflict) decides to carry Person B into the trunk. And as they driver away, screams and bangs can be heard coming from inside the trunk. 

Required scenes/locations 

  1. -Driving scenes (in and out of car) – secluded road or car park 
  1. Person A and B on road scene 
  1. Grave scene – graveyard 

What happens – 

  1. Function of the scene (what is the scene doing) 
  1. Car/phone call –exposition/inciting incident 
  1. Grave – exposition – emotional rising action? 
  1. Road /finding Person B – rising action 
  1. Decision – falling action 
  1. Cliff-hanger (conclusion…)