Script meeting 4th draft
- 1. “BROWN SUGAR” By Phoebe-Annelies Jones Parsonage Barn Ln, Ringwood BH24 1SE 01425 475000 jonesp@ringwood.hants.sch.uk
- 2. 2 FADE IN: SCENE 1 – INT, RACHEL’S HOUSE - BEDROOM, NIGHT MEL (To Rachel, slightly teasing) Are you looking forward to seeing Stan? RACHEL Shut up Mel! (Laughing) He invited all of us round. Not just me! ASTER Yeah right Rach, (laughing) he invited us so he could see you! MEL Yeah let’s be real we won’t see you all night. RACHEL Shut up! (Smiling) SCENE 2 – INT/EXT, RACHEL’S HOUSE, NIGHT The girls finish getting ready and then leave the house all piling into a car waiting outside. SCENE 3 – EXT, STAN’S HOUSE, NIGHT The girls drive up to a really big house in the forest. The lights are on but no music can be heard. MEL Doesn’t seem like a party’s happening. ASTER You sure this is his house?
- 3. 3 Rachel Yeah… I’m sure. The girls walk up to the front door and ring the doorbell. A Blonde Boy (Stan) answers the door. STAN You alright? Come in. Were just through there. (Points to his right) SCENE 4 – INT, STANS’S LIVING AREA, NIGHT Mel and Aster walk through Stan and Rachel following close behind, talking indistinctively. They walk into a room where 2 other guys are hanging out. STAN Make yourself at home guys MEL James! Mel runs over to James and sits next to him Aster stands by herself, gripping her rose wine ASTER Where’s the kitchen? (lifting up the bottle) Glass (smiles awkwardly) STAN Just down the hall. Aster stands behind the counter in the kitchen looking out into the dark garden pouring a glass of wine. Billy stands in the door way looking at Aster. BILLY Not the massive Party you were expecting huh?
- 4. 4 Aster jumps slightly. Aster No not really (one sided smile) Billy (Walks down the steps. Pulls a box out of his top pocket) You smoke? Aster Um… Sure Scene 5 – EXT, STAN’S PATIO,NIGHT Billy and Aster walk out the patio doors and stand to the left of the room where everyone is. You can see Rachel and Stan flirting and Mel and James laughing. Billy Lights his cig and smiles at Aster. Aster looks down at the ground smiling. Time jump- “1 year later” will come on the bottom of the screen. SCENE 6 – EXT, FIELD, DAYTIME Aster and Billy are seen lying on the ground. Smoking a spliff. Billy lights a sliff in his mouth. He smokes it for a bit then passes it to Aster. Aster takes a toke. Billy’s phone rings. Billy (Pics up phone answers it) You alright Stan? Yeah… sure. Yeah mate be there in about 30 mins. SCENE 7 – EXT, PUB GARDEN, AFTERNOON Stan, Billy, James, Cam, Aster, Mel are all at the pub drinking pints. James I want coke Billy
- 5. 5 Yeah right James Wanna go halves? Stan I’ve already got some mate (Laughing) Billy How much? Stan (Laughing) enough! BILLY Is there enough for…? (Tilting his head towards Aster) While all this is happening Aster and Mel are just chatting indistinctively between them. Billy Aster come with us. Aster Follows the boys into the toilet SCENE 8 – INT, TOILET VARIOS LOCATIONS, NIGHT Time laps of Billy and Aster doing drugs with their mates. In Party situations. In quieter situations. Including Asters 19th and Billie’s 22nd. Slowly one by one mates just start disappearing around the circle. Until the last shot of the laps is just aster and Billy snorting lines off of a coffee table in a quiet apartment. SCENE 9 – EXT, OUTSIDE A PUB, NIGHT Billy coming out of his work. He then bumps into his dealer. Ben You alright Bill?
- 6. 6 Billy Yeah mate you alright? Ben Yeah Yeah… Look I’ve got Something in that you’ve got to try. Billy (With slight excitement) Oh right. What’s that? Ben You free now? Billy Yeah Ben Come with me. SCENE 10 – INT/EXT, BARN, NIGHT We see the two walk up to an abandoned barn three other guys sat on sleeping sacks and bags. Water bottles scattered about. Each of them looking ill and slow. Ben That’s Harry (pointing to his left) Jack (pointing behind) David (pointing to a dark corner) Billy (Nods slightly) Billy and Ben sit on a sleeping sac Billy Slightly above Ben. Ben pulls out a needle, spoon lighter and baggy out of his bag. He places the baggy on his knee. SCENE 11 – INT, APPARTMENT, MORNING
- 7. 7 We hear a door slam and thudding up stairs. We see Billy rushing into the bedroom. Billy (Shouting)Aster! Aster walks out of the bedroom door tired Wiping the sleep from her eyes. Billy Come here Billy takes her arm and leads her to the kitchen. Billy lifts her up onto the Kitchen side. Alt-J Starts Playing in the background. Aster You haven’t been home Billy I know. (Kisses her on the cheek) But I’ve got something for you to try. We see a detailed display of Billy cooking the heroin in a bent spoon. Lighting it with a zippo. He finally brings up the liquid in a hypodermic needle. Billy Do your Trust Me? Aster (Nodding her head) yes Billy Slowly puts the needle in Aster’s Arm. And then into his. Pushing the liquid deep into their veins. He then Kisses Aster on Her forehead SCENE 12 – INT, LOUNGE, DAYTIME Aster and Billy gradually walk to the lounge where they pass out on the sofas.
- 8. 8 SCENE 13 – INT, LOUNGE, DAYTIME Billy wakes up. He slowly crawls over to Aster. We see Aster lying still on the sofa beside him. White on her lips and her eyes wide and empty. Billy Aster. (Shaking her gently) Aster? (Shakes more viscously) Aster! FADE OUT: THE END