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Billy is a lonely boy who finds solace only in his books. After being bullied at the park, he retreats to the woods where he begins hearing a mysterious voice and finds a bottle talking to him. The bottle tells Billy not to feel sorry for himself and to strengthen his relationship with his mother, who has been distant since Billy's father passed away. Inspired by the bottle, Billy decides he will try to reconnect with his mother and no longer be alone.
First draft script
- 1. 1. Alone by Brad Tocque Name: Heath Park Address: Prestwood Rd, Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV11 1RD Phone Number: 01902 556360
- 2. 1. FADE IN: EXT. SCHOOL. DAY We are greeted with a wide shot of the school. The school is deserted but Billy has stayed behind after school in the Library. Billy is now walking home from school. He continues to read the book “Boy in striped Pyjamas”. A montage of him walking home is choreographed to sad and lonely violin music. Billy finds 20p on the floor, picks is up and puts it in his pocket. he picks it up with a slight smile on his face because he seems to think that the 20p was left there for him by someone. He then continues the walk home. BILLY Ooo thank you very much He carries on walking home, he acknowledges no one who walks past him or who he sees. He knows how anti-social people of the modern-day have become and accepts it. He then reaches his house and opens the door to his house. INT. HOME. DAY Billy opens the door to his house and begins to walk upstairs. He doesn't seem excited at all to be home. He seems more concerned with the house rather than happy to be home. BILLY Hello Mom Mom is sat in living room watching the tele and completely ignores her son. Billy seems slightly concerned but doesn't bother confronting his mom about her status. Billy acts as if he is used to being ignored by his mom and walks up stairs. He opens the door to his room and closes it. He sits on his bed and opens his bag and starts to carry on reading his book. The character from the book begins to read some of the extract. He reads that Bruno feels lonely and feels as if he has no one to turn to. Billy Voice over *Reads extract from book about bruno feeling lonely*
- 3. 2. The scene slowly fades to black. Billy falls asleep while the voice over distorts and fades away. The sound of an alarm clock goes off and Billy suddenly wakes up to the ringing. He turns the alarm clock off and sits at the side of the bed contemplating his existence. he then gets up, heads downstairs with his bag and his book . He heads downstairs for the door. Billy Bye Mom As he says his farewells he stops and stares for a moment at his mom who is asleep and in the same position from last night but this time with empty alcoholic beverage bottles on the floor and tables. EXT. PARK. DAY He heads towards the park and finds a bench away from people. He sits on it and pulls out his book from his rucksack and begins to read from where he thinks he left off. Before he can find the page, his book is flung out his hands and lands across the park. Billy says nothing and avoids eye contact with the person who did it, as if he already knows who it is. The bully stands there for a few moments and then wonders off as if his work is done. Billy then picks up the book, dusts it off, sits back on the bench and again starts to contemplate his existence. Billy As sad as it sounds, books are my only friends in this world. He looks around at his surroundings and realises places like this are not for him. He looks at his book.
- 4. 3. Billy Places like this aren’t for us anyway. He packs his stuff up and heads for the woods where he thinks he will be alone. He goes towards the woods. EXT. WOODS. DAY Billy starts to walk through the woods, looking for a place where he can be alone and isolate himself away from the world. As he is walking he notices a whispering voice that seems to be near him. He nervously looks around, but he notices nothing. He carries on walking ignoring what he just heard. As he walks further the whispering is heard again. Billy Hello? He smiles because he believes someone is interacting with him for once. He continues to look around but again sees nothing. His smile wears off as genuinely no one is around him. Billy Sorry, I'm not used to fun and games. Your making me feel uncomfortable. Billy begins to get very anxious and nervous in the woods as there is till no sign of anything. There are short and quick snapshots of different areas of the woods and also some first person shots of pan movements looking around. There will also an arc shot then followed up with a trombone shot of Billy. This will when Billy realises what is talking to him. There will then be a close up of the specific bottle. This bottle will have not been in the surroundings originally. Billy looks at this bottle in confusion, then looks around, and then back at the bottle.
- 5. 4. Billy HA! Im going insane. Billy walks over to the bottle. He picks up the bottle and examines it in confusion. He scans the area again because he refuses to take in that a bottle is making him insane. He looks at the bottle in a disgraced look, and again refuses to believe that a bottle is messing with his head. Bottle Billy!? Billy drops the bottle and takes a few steps back. He takes a few seconds to bring himself together. He goes back towards the bottle, picks it up and starts to speak to the bottle. Billy Hello? There is a long awaited answer for the reply. Billy waits patiently for the voices to start again. Billy Hello? Was that you? Can you speak bottle!? He again waits patiently for the reply. As soon as he is about to come back to reality the bottle speaks. Bottle Billy. There is no point in feeling sorry for yourself. Billy What!? Bottle In times in need you have no one to turn to! Billy You’re a bottle what do you know. Bottles dont feel emotions. You know nothing. Your just plastic. Bottle
- 6. 5. I may be a plastic bottle, and i may not be human. But what you know about being alone, i know too. A bottle has nowhere to go when its been thrown out. A bottle is unable to speak to other bottles. Bottles cannot move, see, hear, think. Bottles are never companied by anyone. But you, you are human. You can see, hear and think. You can make places to turn to. Friendship is a responsibility, not an opportunity. Billy But I dont. I have no friends, no family and that is rectified by the fact that I'm talking to a bottle. Bottle Put yourself in the shoes of others. Your mother. She is lonely. But she has a reason to be. Your fathers passing cannot dent your relationship. It needs to be closer than ever, and only you can change that. Billy But how. She doesn't speak t- Billy turns around and back again only to find that the bottle was gone. Billy then turns towards the camera. Billy Lets go get my mom back. Billy walks towards the camera and just as he is about to exit the shot it freezes and the title comes back up.
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- 8. SCENE INDEX THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS EMPTY BECAUSE YOU AREN'T USING THE PARAGRAPH STYLES SET TO APPEAR IN IT.