Shooting Script

‘Phone Calls’

 

Written by Emma Gannon, Chloe Higgins and Chantelle Walker

PINK-10/12/12 BLUE-11/02/13

 

1.     INT-ESTABLISHING SHOT OF ROOM IN A MENTAL REHILBITATION HOSPITAL WITH LOTS OF DIFFERENT PICTURES AROUND THE WALLS.

 

ESTABLISING SHOT TURNS INTO ARC SHOT WITH BLURRED FILTER. HIGH PITCHED MUSIC BUILDS IN THE BACKGROUND.

 

2.     INT-CLOSE UP SHOT ON A PICTURE OF BRIONY ‘KRISTEN STAR’ WITH A TARGET MOVING AROUND IT. YOU CAN HEAR THE CAMERA ZOOM IN AND OUT (making the illusion someone is looking in/ watching) MUSIC CARRIES ON FROM PREVIOUS SHOT BUT IS TURNED DOWN. THE TITLE ‘BRIONY ANN DILLON’ APPEARS.

 

3.     INT-CAMERA ZOOM OUTS OF PICTURE ONTO ANOTHER PICTURE WITH TARGET SAYING ‘MUSIC BY CHANTELLE WALKER’

 

4.     INT-SAME ON A PICTURE OF THREE GIRLS, TARGET, TITLES SAY ‘EDITED BY EMMA GANNON, CHLOE HIGGINS, CHANTELLE WALKER’

 

5.     INT-PICTURE OF A GIRL, TARGET, TITLES COME UP ‘WRITTEN BY EMMA GANNON’

 

6.     INT-PICTURE OF THREE GIRLS, TARGET, TITLES SAY ‘PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY EMMA GANNON, CHLOE HIGGINS, CHANTELLE WALKER’

 

7.     INT-CAMERA TURNS AWAY FROM WALL OF PICTURES INTO AN ESTABLISHING SHOT OF A PATIENT IN BED WHILST SLOWLY ZOOMING IN. THE PATIENT WAKES UP AND TURNS ON HER SIDE TO FIND A VOICE RECORDER WITH A SIGN SAYING ‘PLAY ME’

 

8.     INT-CLOSE UP SHOT OF HER CONFUSED FACE AND TURNS INTO ESTABLISHING SHOT TO SHOW HER GETTING OUT OF BED.

 

9.     INT-POINT OF VIEW SHOT OF HER PRESSING PLAY. RECORDING SAYS IN DEEP, LOW VOICE ‘LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY. THE HOSPITAL YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN IS GOING TO BE BOMBED IN A MINUTES TIME ONCE THE RECORDING IS FINISHED. BUT FIRST RUN TO THE LOCKERS THERE WILL ONE BE UNLOCKED ONE, TAKE THE TIME AND RUN. DON’T ASK QUESTIONS. DON’T HELP OTHERS. JUST RUN.’ ENDS WITH A LONG BEEP.

 

10.  INT-ESTABLISHING SHOT OF BRIONY RUNNING OUT OF THE ROOM IN A SHOCKED, SCARED, CONFUSED STATE. THERE IS DEEP BREATHING AND A HEART BEAT PLAYING. SHE RUNS DOWN THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS.

 

11.  INT-MID SHOT. BRIONY REACHES THE DOOR BUT IT’S LOCKED. SHE REMEMBERS SHE WAS MEANT TO GO THE LOCKERS THINKING THE KEY COULD BE IN THERE.

 

12.  INT-ESTABLISHING SHOT OF BRIONY RUNNING DOWN THE CORRIDOR.

 

13.  INT-CLOSE UP SHOT OF BRIONY SEARCHING THROUGH ALL THE LOCKERS. FINDS THE RIGHT ONE, OPENS IT AND SNATCHES WHATEVER IS INSIDE.

 

14.  INT-ESTABLISHING SHOT OF A CLOCK ON THE WALL, CLOSE UP SHOT OF BRIONY’S FACE.

 

15.  INT-ESTABLISHING SHOT OF BRIONY RUNNING BACK DOWN THE CORRIDOR. THE HEARTBEAT GETS LOUDER AND FASTER ALONG WITH ALL THE OVER MUSIC.

 

16.  INT CHANGES TO EXT-SHE REACHES THE DOOR OPENS IT AND JUMPS OUTSIDE. THIS IS IN SLOW MOTION.

 

17.  THE SCREEN DIMS TO BLACK AND YOU HEAR A LOUD EXPLOSION.

 

18.  THE FILM TITLE APPEARS ON THE BLACK SCREEN ‘PHONE CALLS’AND FADES OUT.

 

19.  BLACK SCREEN, BEEP MONITER STILL GOING ON.