Shooting script for 5 minute story
- 1. Shooting Script for 5 minute story Action: The camera is doing a panning longshot as it follows Zoe who is on her way to her lesson in R301. The camera will be set up on the stairs just outside R301 to capture Zoe walking into the room from a height angle. Action: the camera will be positioned behind Zoe (over the shoulder shot) as she opens and walks through the door. She will walk in look towards where Alex and Dan, smile at them and then walk towards them and sit down next to them. Zoe: hey guys. Dan: Hi Zoe! Alex: Hey! Zoe: What are you both talking about then? Dan: The weekend! Where did you disappear too Saturday? Zoe: Sorry, me and James left early and went back to mine; I think we both drank a bit too much. Dan: Hmm, well he better of looked after you! We know what he is like. Action: the camera will be aimed at Zoe, Dan and Alex showing them all having their conversation. The camera must have the door in shot as well this way we can capture Zoe’s expression as James walks through the door. Zoe will look at James with a nervous expression on her face as he walks through the door. Zoe will keep looking at James until his eyes meet hers. Zoe will turn away from James when he looks at her. The camera will do a panning medium shot as it follows James as he walks over to his group of friends and sits down with them. Zoe will go back to watching James. Dan: (tapping Zoe on the shoulder) Did you hear what I said? Zoe: No sorry what did you say? Alex: He asked you if James treated you alright that night. Zoe: Yeah it was fine, stop being so negative about James; he’s not a dick like you all keep saying he is. Action: The camera will pan across from doing a medium still shot of Zoe, Alex and Dan having their conversation and will travel to the door to show the teacher walking in and walking towards her desk and sitting at it. Teacher: Alright people, settle down. Open your textbook on page 78 please. Action: The shot of the teacher will black out to give the impression to the audience that the lesson has started. We will not film what goes on during the lesson.
- 2. Action: the opening shot will be a medium still shot of the teacher sitting behind her desk. This will give the impression to the audience that the lesson has just ended. Teacher: Alright, before you leave make sure you save your work and IL see you this afternoon. Action: The camera shot has now changed to a medium still shot of Zoe sitting at her chair. In the shot you can see people leaving the classroom including Alex and Dan. James will walk into the camera shot heading towards the door where Zoe will grab his arm. Zoe: James, I need to talk to you about something urgent. Can you meet me outside R3 block in ten minutes? James: (brushing Zoe’s hand of his arm) can’t you just tell me now. (He sounds irritated) Zoe: No! I need to talk to you in private. (She sounds stressed because James isn’t being very cooperative) James: ok ok, this better not be waste of time though, I was planning on meeting Ed. Action: James turns away from Zoe and walks out the door. Zoe follows 5 seconds after James has walked out the door. Action: The location has now changed from the classroom to the wooded area outside R3 block. The opening camera shot shows a still medium shot of Zoe sitting on the wall waiting for James to show up. She looks stressed out (if she wants Zoe could be smoking a cigarette to add the effect that she is stressed about something) Action: The shot has now changed to a long shot of Zoe sitting down in the same spot still. She looks up (She has just spotted James arriving off screen). Zoe then stands up and starts walking towards where James is. The camera will do a panning long shot as it follows Vicky walk towards James. The camera will stop panning When Zoe and James meet each other halfway. Action: The camera shot has now changed to a medium still shot of James and Zoe facing each other. James: Ok, so what is this urgent news you have to tell me? (Sounding sarcastic) Zoe: I’m pregnant. James: Don’t joke, that’s not even funny. Zoe: I’m not messing around with you, I really am pregnant. I can prove it from the pregnancy tests. And I… (James cuts Zoe of mid-sentence) James: You’re not fucking pregnant, and if you are then you must have been screwing someone behind my back because I used condoms.(His emotions are showing as angry and he is 100% in denial of being a father) Zoe: James, condoms don’t always wo… (James has cut Zoe of mid-sentence again)
- 3. James: I knew you were cheating on me you slut, and now you want to land me with some other guy’s baby. Go and beg some other man to be your baby’s father figure, I’m out of here. Action: The still medium shot starts panning, following James as he walks away from Zoe who is trying to keep up with him. Zoe is clearly upset. Zoe: James, you’ve got it all wrong in your head, just stop a min… James: (laughing/ with angry emotion) your pathetic, wait till I tell Ed about this. Action: The camera is still panning/ following Zoe as she follows after James. James is in the corner of the shot but disappears when he fastens his walking pace to get away from Zoe. The camera stops panning and becomes still medium shot of Zoe as she stops chasing after James. Zoe: (yelling after James) please you mustn’t tell Ed, or anyone. James: (yelling from off camera) fuck off. Action: Zoe is still standing at the spot where she stopped chasing after James. The emotions on her face show that she is trying hard not to cry/ look upset. However her facial expression changes quickly to a faked smile as she spots Alex and Dan walking towards her. Dan: We’ve been looking for you, why are you here. Zoe: (lying) I needed a cigarette. Alex: right, well were going to town for munch if you want to come. Zoe: Yeah, sure IL come along with you guys. Action: The opening shot for this sequence shows Zoe, Alex and Dan sitting down on a bench by the river at Henley on Thames. They are eating and drinking (is optional if any of them wish to smoke, would add to effect). Take note that Zoe is looking gloomy and his looking down at her shoes. Dan: yeah I heard from people who went there last year that it wasn’t as good as the year before. Alex: I don’t know about you, but I’m defiantly going to go to a different festival this summer. Action: Dan who was facing Alex at the time from a conversation they had been having before the opening shot turns and faces Zoe sitting on his other side. Dan: Zoe what’s wrong with you, and don’t tell me your fine because I can tell from your face that you’re not fine. Zoe: (Zoe continues staring at her shoes for 3-5 seconds without saying anything. This gives the audience the impression that she is thinking of something to say.) Me and James have split up. Alex: why did this happen. Zoe: I’m not that sure myself.
- 4. Dan: To be honest with you Zoe, I never liked James. Alex: Yeah, he was always a prick to me whenever I talked to him. He’s one of those vain guys who only think about themselves. Zoe: Trust me I believe you now. He completely switched on me when I told him I wa… (Zoe cuts off from what she’s saying when she realises she almost spoke about her pregnancy. She will look at the floor after she makes this mistake) Alex: What were you saying Zoe? Zoe: (looking back up) I forgot what I was going to say. Dan: (standing up from the bench and looking back down at the other two) Come on we need to get to lesson. Action: Zoe and Alex stand up and follow Dan out of the shot of a medium still shot which was directed at the bench. Action: The opening shot for this sequence is a medium tracking/ panning shot of Zoe, Alex and Dan just outside the door of the classroom about to enter. Dan: We aren’t late are we? Alex: nah, were fine with time. Action: After Alex has said this sentence, he and Dan enter the classroom. The camera stays aimed at Zoe with a medium still shot of her standing outside the door. She looks nervous and is hesitating about going into the classroom. She puts her hand on the door handle and turns it as if she is about to open it. Action: The camera angle has changed. The camera is now on the other side of the door doing a medium still shot of Zoe as she opens the door and enters. However Zoe stops once she has stepped a few feet into the classroom. She has a look of shock and horror on her face. The camera angle then changes to a still medium shot of the whiteboard which is located in the classroom. There is all kind of abuse written on the whiteboard that relates to Zoe being pregnant. The camera angle then changes again to an over the shoulder shot over Zoe’s shoulder showing all of the people in the classroom laughing and sniggering. And then a chant of “slut” being repeated breaks out. Music: A music track will now be played because there is no more dialogue for large amount of time. Action: The camera changes once again to a panning shout just outside the classroom that captures Zoe running back out the classroom looking very upset she carries on running through the double doors.
- 5. Action: The opening shot for this sequence shows Zoe sitting in a wooded area still looking very upset. She is lighting a spliff where we make a montage of filming her smoking the spliff using different camera angles. Action: This shot is a medium still shot of Zoe with her head in her hands; she then lifts her head from her hands and then starts aggressively punching herself in the stomach where her baby would be. She does this for about 10 seconds then quickly stands up and pulls out her phone. The shot changes to a close up shot of the phone screen showing that Alex is calling Zoe, She presses the hang up button. The camera angle changes back to the original medium still shot of Zoe as she gets up and walk out of the shot. Music: Sound track now stops playing. Action: an over the shoulder shot which follows a college student as he walks into the toilets. He opens the closest cubicle door he gasps in shock and cries out. The camera looks into the cubicle so you can see the legs dangling in mid-air (where Zoe has hung herself) College student: Oh shit, I need help here. Someone call an ambulance. Action: The camera will slowly start backing out of the toilets facing towards the cubicle where Zoe has hung herself. This will capture all the students running into the toilets and gathering round outside. Finally the camera will pan around when it reaches outside the toilets where it will show a close up shot of James’s face in complete shock. The screen will then black out.
- 6. The teacher then walks in. When lessons are over Zoe grabs James as he’s about to walk past and explains to him that she needs to talk to him in private about something serious and that he should meet her outside R3 Block in 20 minutes. James grudgingly agrees and walks out the classroom door. Zoe also heads outside the room and heads to the back of R3 block. We watch Zoe nervously shifting around as she waits for James to turn up. When James walks up he’s the first to talk. He tells Zoe that he doesn’t want the relationship between them to carry on any more. This causes Zoe to get very emotional and makes her shout out what she’s been trying to tell James all morning “I’m pregnant!” James stares at Zoe for 10-15 seconds in silence after she says this and then finally speaks saying that he thinks Zoe is bullshitting him and after that he says even if Zoe is pregnant it defiantly isn’t his. He walks away angrily not looking back at Zoe. Zoe sits down looking like she’s about to burst out crying but has to resist doing this and instead puts on a brave face because Alex and Dan have spotted her and heading her way. They say to Zoe that their heading down into town to get something to eat and ask Zoe if she wants to join them. Zoe agrees and follows them down into Henley. When they are in town sitting down on a bench eating and drinking Alex asks Zoe why she has been so quiet. Dan then asks Zoe what’s wrong and why she looks so sad. Zoe didn’t want anyone knowing she was pregnant, not even her friends so she kept quiet about that. She did tell Alex and Dan about James breaking up with her though to help mask what she was really upset about. Alex and Dan comforted telling her that they both thought James was a dick and what had happened was likely to happen and that it was better it had happened sooner than later. When Zoe walked back into lessons she was almost back to normal until she opened the door to the class room and realised everyone was quiet and looking at her. This when Zoe noticed the white board which has all kinds of horrid language and pictures drawn on it, all relating to how Zoe was pregnant. About 5 seconds after Zoe had taken everything in on the white board nearly everyone was laughing at Zoe except Dan and Alex who stood a distance behind Zoe. The teacher walked in and told the class to hush down. And saw the insulting language on the board and rubbed it off with a disapproving look on her face. Zoe sat down with Alex and Dan but could tell that even they were embarrassed to be with her. Alex and Dan had put more distance between themselves and Zoe and were not talking at all to her. This is when Zoe got a ping on her phone which made her sigh with relief knowing she had something to do that could distract her from everything else for a minute. Her face changed to a shocked expression when she realised it was a group invitation to a group about Zoe and how she was pregnant. This was the last straw for Zoe as she picked up her bag and charged out of the lesson.