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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 

2. Person A and B on road scene 

3. Grave scene – graveyard 

What happens – 

1. Function of the scene (what is the scene doing) 

2. Car/phone call –exposition/inciting incident 

3. Grave – exposition – emotional rising action? 

4. Road /finding Person B – rising action 

5. Decision – falling action 

6. Cliff-hanger (conclusion…) 

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Starts with a detective getting ready to leave their office mumbling to themselves about how they’ve finally located their suspect. Once they’ve left the office they see their suspect and initiate a slow, maze-like chase around a rural area. Eventually, they end up outside a small coffee shop and the suspect stops and leads the detective inside, knowing they’ve been caught. They sit down and order, the detective attempting to gain some answers but the suspect stays silent. Eventually the detective starts choking on his words. It ends with the suspect taking a sip of their drink and leaving the scene.

Locations:

Coffee shop, town/estate, small office

Begins with a schizophrenic patient in an office. Then main character goes to the bathroom to have a breakdown. The audience then meet the protagonists delusions for the first time, who is a tormenting character. It is in Black and white to show his inner turmoil. He runs away followed by his delusion. this carries on where the audience and see him and the protagonists battle with this other character. The film ends at a bus stop and when the bus passes the film turns to colour symbolising acceptance.

Locations

office, car, high street, beach and bus stop

Mapping A Narrative

Plot Point 1: Opening Image

Plot Point 2: Inciting Incident

Plot Point 3: First Act Break

Plot Point 4: The Midpoint

Plot Point 5: The Point Of Commitment

Plot Point 6: All Is Lost

Plot Point 7: The Climax

Plot Point 8: The Resolution

Plot Point 9: Closing Image

SCRIPT	SCREEN
Opening Line: “Take trust, for instance, or friendship: these are the important things in life.“	Opening Line: “I’m not ashamed. I’ve known love. I’ve known rejection. I’m not afraid to declare my feelings.“
A horizontal strip of face, eyes motionless and unblinking.	The ‘horizontal strip of face’ rotates whilst the voice-over is heard.
A series of fast-cut static scenes of empty streets.	A series of long fast-paced tracking shots, intercut with slow tracks through a forest, accompanied by soundtrack and credits.
The door is dark, heavy wood and on it is a plastic card embossed with the names of three tenants.	The door is bright red with a plastic card embossed with the names of three tenants on its right side.
David, Alex, and Juliet sit in a line on the sofa directly opposite Cameron, who shifts uneasily in his armchair.	David, Alex, and Juliet sit in three separate chairs directly opposite Cameron, who is sitting in the middle of the sofa.
ALEX (continued): “Do you think he was upset?“	The three tenants laugh hysterically as Cameron leaves.
A large extract of screenplay, in which multiple applicants arrive at the apartment plays out.	Cut from Cameron leaving, to the three tenants interrogating other applicants.
ALEX: “Squash is often used as a metaphor to represent a struggle for personal domination.“	ALEX: “Defeat! Defeat, defeat! Sporting, personal, financial, professional, sexual, and everything!“
Hugo is in his early thirties, tall, dark and bohemian in appearance.	Hugo is in his early forties, short, balding and smart in appearance.

Paradigm – a typical example or pattern of something

Syd Field was an American author and speaker who wrote several books on screenwriting, and led workshops and seminars about producing screenplays.

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