Scripting

Scripting

By

Danielle McCart, Mary Hainsby and Samantha Bevan






                                The King Alfred School

                    Highbridge

                 TA9 3EE

Shot 1

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An old style book, 20-30 years old. The text has no reference to the shot so it is not important. The book appears to be very large and is placed upon a worn out black table. The camera is focused on a dirty hand in which turns 5 pages and quickly scrunches the sixth page. As the hand turns the page, it leaves black finger prints.

Shot 2

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The shot is quite dark but the trees are still in focus at all times. The trees are moving in the wind. The atmosphere and the colours in the shot are very dull. There are leaves surrounding the floor as there are hardly any leaves on the trees.

Shot 3

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Feet running across muddy forest. The leaves on the floor are being squished as the feet run across them. The rest of the shots is dim but the feet are in focus.

Shot 4

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Hand drawing the films ‘symbol’. The hand is being very forceful and breaking rips into the paper as the symbol is being drawn.

Shot 5

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Hand cutting up old photographs. The sound of the cutting is the focus as it is very loud. The shot’s focus is on the hands and the scissors.

Shot 6

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A character running across the forest and pinning the symbol of the film onto a tree. The character is dressed in black from head to toe, and the face is not shown. The focus is on the character until the symbol is placed then the focus moves to the symbol.

Shot 7

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Hand cutting up old pieces of film. The sound is focused on the cutting up of the film. The shot is focused on the hands and the scissors.

Shot 8

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A glass vase slowly hitting the floor and smashing into small pieces. The glass vase will slowly be falling for around 3 seconds and then hitting the floor very quickly. The focus will be on the vase as the background is plain black.

Shot 9

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Person running across the forest very quickly. The person is being focused on and the trees in the background are blurry as they are not the main focus of the shot but need to be recognised.

Shot 10

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Fire in the middle of the forest. A book is being ripped up and the remaining pages are being thrown into the fire. The sound is focusing on the fire as it burns the pages.

Shot 11

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An old style book, 20-30 years old. The text has no reference to the shot so it is not important. The book appears to be very large and is placed upon a worn out black table. The camera is focused on a dirty hand which is turning the pages.

Shot 12

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A dirty hand is writing on an old piece of paper. The hand is writing very quickly and the text is not read-able as it is irrelevant to the film.

Shot 12

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The eyes of the main character are being shown. The eyes look very sad and it appears that the eyes have tears in them. The eyes blink as the shot fades out.

Shot 13

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An old looking rock being thrown into the sea. The rock meets the sea and the rock bounces and then falls into the water. The shot is mainly focused on the splash of the water. The sound is focused on the splash of the rock.

Shot 14

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Photographs of people with no faces. The photographs are of people that are wanted by the police as they have been missing for a long period of time. The cameras focus is on the blurred out faces of the people.

Shot 15

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Photographs of people with faces. The photographs are of people that are wanted by the police as they have been missing for a long period of time. The cameras focus is on the faces of the people.

Shot 16

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Close-up of main characters eye. The eye is looking around, starts looking left and quickly. The eye blinks and then the shot ends.