Friday, January 27, 2017

Alone Script draft #1 (without credit insertion)

Key:
-Stage directions
-Camera directions
-Actor directions
-Dialogue


SCENE #1 

Setting: The detectives' office

Newspaper being printed off
Detective: Picks up Newspaper and puts it on the Desk
Panning shots + zooms of each document
Detective: picks up documents and puts them in a file
                 takes his coat off the rack and wears it
                 long shot+zoom of the trench coat being worn
 Pan on the detective's desk and see a picture of his family
 Detective: Picks up handcuffs + Props and flings them in a cool manner
                   Picks up folder
                   Close up of opening the door

SCENE #2
Setting: Interrogation Room
-No lightning
Opens with a close up of the SUSPECT
Suspect: Taps her fingers
Detective walks in + Long shot
Detective: Sits and clicks his fingers
Zoom of lights turning on
Detective: takes documents out of folder (with an overhead shot)
                  Does a hand gesture
POV shot towards suspect whilst holding police report
Detective: Pushes Murder picture towards the suspect
                 "You did that didn't you?"
Suspect: Picks up picture + POV shot
Looks at it
Detective: stands up
"Should I take that a confession?"
Low Angle shot of suspect
Suspect: Close-up of hands smashing the table
Track shot+Echo
2 shot: detective moves back, suspect comes forth
Close up of suspect
Mid shot
"I had to do it"
"I had to do it for my family"
Detective: Holding up picture
 "Well, you're not the only one with a family"
180 Degree Line
Suspect: "If it were your family you'd do it too"
Detective: has a flashback of his wife
FLASHBACK: Blur lessens as wife smiles and hands over a rose
Close up of DETECTIVE'S eye Squinting
Detective: Puts sheets back into file in a messy, unorganized manner
"We're done for today" 
Shouting: "Guards!"
DETECTIVE walks out.
Suspect: SMIRKS SLOWLY.

SCENE #3 
setting: Office

Detective: *puts down folder in a slacking manner*
Phone rings 
(Text notification from the detective's wife saying "I've cooked steak for dinner!")
*TRANSITION TO NEXT SCENE*

SCENE #4

Road-Detectives house

Wife: *holds up phone with detective's replies*
close up of wife smiling
Wife: Tenderises steak
Close up of detective in a car
*shift to wife cooking steak*
close up of the wife seasoning the steak
*Shift back to detective in the car*
Wife: tilts pan with oil in it and prepares to put steak in
LIGHTS TURN OFF
SCREEN BLACKS OUT
(1-2 seconds silence)
Pan drops onto the floor


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