This is the final script for our preliminary task. Though the camera shots and extra details are not necessary for a script, we incorporated them to help our understanding of what we had to film along with the storyboard.
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Preliminary Task Script
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Shot 1 A clock is ticking on the wall
Shot2 A tap is running in a toilet
Shot 3 The bottom of a door opens and the main character steps out. A peculiar object sits before the door. The shot only displays his feet and the object in front of him.
Shot 4 Camera slowly rises to reveal the rest of the character.
Shot 5 Shot zooms out to show a hallway littered with a trail of rubbish.
Down the middle of the long hallway, a trail of rubbish leads up to a pair of glass doors and continues round a corner.
Shot 6 Backwards tracking of the man curiously following the trail. He stoops down and examines the first two pieces of rubbish, confused.
Shot 7 The character continues to follow the trail through a set of doors and down 2 sets of staircases.
Shot 8 The camera follows the character and pans from left to right as he approaches a door, where the trail ends.
Shot 9 The character hesitantly reaches to open the door, wary and unsure. There is a match-on-action as the character proceeds through the doorway.
Shot 10 After the character enters the room, he closes the door and faces away from the entrance. The camera faces him from a distance.
The room is dark and the only light is streaming in from the hallway through the glass window on the door. The light is coming from behind the character and only his silhouette is visible, making it difficult to see his facial expressions.
Shot 11 The main character reaches hesitantly to his right to turn on the light switch.
The room lights up and a strange man is perched on a table in the back corner of the room.
Shot 12 Scott: Uhh, hello?
Minur: (jumps up in excitement, shouting) Ah HA! There you
are! The man of the hour!
Scott: (wary) Do I .. know you?
Minur: (changes from jolly to curious) Can I ask you a favour?
It’s really important to me you see..
Scott: (tense) Sure?
Minur: Can you help me clean my rubbish? It’s all over the
floor, and I can’t .. I can’t ..
The man’s voice breaks, and his lips begin to quiver. He releases a sob, and begins to cry hysterically. As he screams, the camera razor cuts to a close up shot of the main character screaming as he awakes from a horrible nightmare, and quickly jolts forward in shock.
The camera changes to a high angle shot and slowly fades to black, where a bottle/tube appears on the screen.
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