14 Days Of Isolation Script
Introductory Scene:
Dimly lit science classroom. Camera is in the centre of a rather large double table. Lights flicker on and a solitary figure walks slowly into the scene. He seems solemn and quite depressed. He pulls up a nearby chair and sits down. After a brief moment, he turns to face the camera…
Guy (main character): Two weeks ago, the school was filled with people. Students and teachers roamed around constantly and Turton bristled with activity. Everyone went home for a long, relaxing break. Everybody, except me. I now find myself trapped from outer society. Alone, with limited water supplies and no food whatsoever. Looks like I’m stuck inside this classroom for the rest of the six week holidays.
Scene ends.
Scene 1: Hard Times
Montage (mix of footage and music: no dialogue). Camera is at the right side of a window next to the double table. The window blind is closed, and the room is quite dark…
Guy enters into the shot and walks towards the window. He slowly begins to open the blinds, until fully open. Light enters the scene, and Guy peers sadly out of the window, looking from left to right. He pauses here for a few seconds, before eventually walking out of the shot…
Camera is now positioned at the left side of the window, focused on the classroom. Guy walks from the window to the other side of the classroom.
Camera is positioned at the right hand door of the classroom, as Guy begins to take down chairs on the right hand bench, as if a class was about to start. The camera does not move, and he trails further and further away, until stopping at the window and walking back towards the camera…
Guy finally sits down at the same seat he sat on before. He stares at nothing for a second, before cradling his head in his hands and slamming his fist down on the desk. He then slumps down with his arm- outstretched forwards across the desk…
Scene 2: A Brief Conversation:
Camera is located on a nearby desk, focused on another adjacent desk. On the adjacent desk, there is a large tap central to the camera. After a few moments, Guy enters the shot, a water bottle in his hand.
Guy: Well Jacob, you’ve got to understand that I don’t want to be in this situation any more than you do.
Guy takes a seat central to the camera, and unscrews the top of his water bottle.
Guy: We’re just going to have to live this way. We’re not dead, that’s the most important thing.
Guy turns on the tap and fills up his water bottle. He gestures with the bottle to his left, where Jacob supposedly is.
Guy: Do you want a drink?
In Guy’s mind, Jacob doesn’t answer him, and Guy turns away looking frustrated and upset. He stands up and pushes his chair underneath the desk. He grabs the bottle lid and walks out of the shot.
Scene 3: Bed Of Solid Wood
Camera is focused on the central classroom bench. Guy enters to the right of the shot, takes his shoes off, and puts his coat on the bench.
Camera shot changes. Guy is now more central to the shot, and the tables are seen from the left side. Guy climbs onto the desk and lies down, pulling his coat over him.
Camera shot changes to the opposite side. Guy is lying down.
Shot changes to big close up on Guy’s face. His eyes are closed as he tries to fall asleep.
Scene 4: A Peaceful Dream
Music plays softly in the background. After a few seconds of darkness, Crosby beach is visible, a lone statue in the distance. Guy enters close to the camera, from the left and surveys his surroundings. He turns away from the camera and walks in the opposite direction. Camera does not move, and, after about ten seconds, Guy stops, looks back while shielding his eyes from the sun, and walks back towards the camera.
Transition begins from Guy walking back towards the camera, to Guy walking away from the camera. This time, the camera follows Guy in a sort of hand-held fashion. It isn’t too still, but at the same time, not too shaky. Guy walks towards the statue for about half a minute, and then the music fades out.
Transition swaps to a shot of Guy standing quite close to the statue, and he begins to speak, looking away from the camera and occasionally towards the statue.
Guy: These statues resemble me. Alone and solitary, split up from each other over great distances. But for these few statues, there is no reunion. They will never meet each other, speak to each other, and are forever condemned to be separated from their own kind.
Scene fades out into roughly five seconds of darkness.
Scene 5: A Terrible Nightmare
Camera focuses on a field in Fornby, with a lone figure visible in the distance. Rather dramatic music begins in the background, which suggests that either something is wrong, or something is going to happen. After a couple of seconds, Guy enters the scene from the left and looks around. He sees the figure and begins to behave strangely, looking rather distressed. He looks back towards the camera.
Guy is fixated to the spot in fear. The figure looms closer and the music changes dramatically. The figure begins to slow down and stands directly in front of Guy, to the right of the camera. Guy holds out his arm in fear, shaking slightly. The scene fades to black.
Scene 6: The Absence Of A Friend
Camera is focused on Guy’s face in a big close up. He wakes up with a start, eyes wide and gasping for breath. The shot lingers for a second before changing to…
The two desks which Guy is sleeping on are now visible. Guy picks up his coat and casts it aside, moving towards the edge of the desks.
Guy: Jacob, I just had the weirdest dream ever.
Guy gets off the bench.
Guy: This man, this strange man walked towards me.
Guy holds his arm out, gesturing.
Guy: He just stood there right in front of me. Then, I woke up.
Guy looks around as if puzzled, or looking for something.
Guy: Jacob? Jacob.
Guy exits the shot, looking for Jacob.
Camera shot switches to head of the classroom. A long desk is visible, and one of the desks Guy was sleeping on in the background. Guy enters the shot and looks underneath the desk.
Guy: Jacob? Jacob, this isn’t funny. Jacob?
Guy hurries towards the camera and out of the shot.
Camera switches to another longer desk, and Guy rushes to the end of it.
Guy: Jacob? Jacob?!
Guy walks towards a side door, tries it, then walks away slowly. He exits the shot.
Side shot of the main classroom door. Guy enters the shot and tries the classroom door. He knows there is no chance of it opening, but to his immediate surprise the door opens slightly. A smile covers Guy’s face, his eyes wide in disbelief. He tugs at the door again and again until it finally swings open. He slowly walks round it.
Guy: I don’t believe it.
He goes to the other side of the door, and finally regains himself.
Guy: I’m free!
He hurriedly closes the door behind him and the scene finishes.
Scene 7: The Return
Camera is near the end of a long corridor. Guy has closed the door behind him and is visible on the right of the shot. In the distance, the same man from his nightmare is now in reality. The problem is, Guy hasn’t yet noticed this.
Camera changes to an over the shoulder shot of the man. He starts moving and the camera follows him. Music starts softly in the background, screeching violins.
The shot changes to in front of the man, and walks backwards as the man carries on.
A medium close up of Guy follows. He sees the man, and the happiness on his face has been replaced by horror at seeing him. After a few moments, he retreats out of sight.
Shot changes in front of the man once again.
The camera is just behind the man, as he pushes a set of double doors open to the area Guy has just been. He turns to where Guy has gone, and walks down a set of stairs. We can clearly see a knife behind his back, which suggests he has murderous intentions.
He reaches the bottom of the stairs and walks slowly forward, the camera following him in an over the shoulder fashion. Visible in the background is Guy, struggling uselessly to open a blue door, which is clearly locked. The camera moves closer to him in a medium close up of his hand wrestling with the door handle.
Guy finally gives in and lets go of the handle, sinking helplessly lower and lower to the ground, an expression of terror engraved on his face.
The camera switches, as if to show the scene from Guy’s point of view. The man walks forward slowly and bends down to face Guy level to level. He smiles in manic glee, and the film suddenly ends there, proposing a cliff-hanger ending and making way for the credits.
By Paddy Johnson 10S1
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