It took around an hour- to two hours to finalise the scripting for our trailer, 'The Taking'.
We have decided to base our trailer on an American mainstream trailer, this gives it a more realistic feel.
during filming we did try out two different versions of the voiceover, a British accent and a standard American accent. Listening to both of these, we found that the American worked best for our genre and type of characters. We also asked our main actor what accent they feel best doing, they also said American.
We also added the sound of a clock ticking in the background, this portrays the characters regrets as time has changed the way she now lived her life. We have decided to keep the clock ticking as we feel it gives a good effect to the rest of the voiceover.
Our script is now in the vocabulary of the United States. We feel this will work well. I also thought we needed some American names for our characters in our script, so when the actors are performing, they will feel their character. The more they get into their character, the better they will perform so that we can capture this well.
Our script consists of three pages,
‘The Taking’
Characters:
Emily: Madison-Eldest
Conor: Cody-Second Eldest
Michael: Tyler-Younger brother
Holly: Zoey-Youngest sister
(Voiceover of Madison
during the 8 quick
scenes)
Madison: “I find it funny how time passes; I always thought that bad
things came to those that had broken the rules in life- I was wrong...”
“January
25th, 2014 is when things changed. My family, I took for granted..
Something I regret. I suppose I learned my lesson the night my Mom went to
work..”
Black Screen
Shot of the Mom walking into the living room
Mom: “Right, kids I’m off to work. Madison can you
come here for a minute please?”Mom walks out to kitchen and Madison follows
Madison: “I’m supposed to be going out tonight?!”
Mom: “Stop sulking please, it’s only for a couple
of hours. Help your Mom out a bit?” Madison grunts
Madison:“Well am I going to say to Aspyn?! We were
supposed to be going out? I’m always the one to babysit.”
Mom: “Don’t start.” Mom walks off towards the door
“Be good, you two, stop fighting!”
2 kids come back out to kiss Mom goodbye
Mom: “I won’t be long.”Door closes
Black Screen
Pans of all watching a film
Slow pans of two children fidgeting and facial expressions show
signs of boredom
Madison shows signs of frustration
Madison: "Can't you two just
be quiet? I can't hear anything, if you're gonna be noisy go away!"
Tyler: “Were bored, can’t we just go outside?"
Zoey: “Pleaseeeee?”
Madison is on her phone, not concentrating on what’s going
around her
Madison: “Yeah, if it shuts you
both up!" Spoken in frustration
Shot of Children putting on hats and scarves
Cody:”Did Mom say that they were allowed out?”
Madison: “I dunno.. They'll be
fine.” Cody has looks of concern on his face
Black Screen
Cody:“I think you should call them in?”
Madison: “Yeah alright, I’ll go
see, pause the film will you?”
Cody Pauses the film
Black Screen
Madison comes back in with fright in her eyes
Cody: “Where are they then, did you find them?”
Madison looks frightened and stares for a moment
Madison: “I can’t find them... I’ve
been everywhere, around the block twice, down the road, up to the park… I can’t
find them anywhere.”
Everything turns silent for a moment..
Cody: “What.”
Madison starts to panic and runs to grab her phone and puts on
her coat
Cody: “Where are you going?!”
Madison: “I need to sort this
myself. I shouldn't have let them out."
Cody: “Shall I call Mom?”
Madison: “No, I can sort this
myself, Mom will go mad.”
Cody: “But-“
Madison: ”No Cody! I need to do this by myself.”
Madison slams the door shut
Black Screen
Phone starts to ring
Cody picks it up to answer
Cody: “Hello?”
Shot on Cody ^^
Muffled voice on other end
Cody starts to feel sick
Cody: "Why?! You need to, we are going to be
in so much trouble, they could be dead for all we know?!"
Cody starts to cry
Madison: "Don't say that! I will find them, I
promise." (Through tears)
Shot on Madison ^^
Cody: "I think we should call the
police.."
Shot on Cody ^^
Madison: "No Cody! If we do that-"
Madison breaks off and she starts screaming and crying down the
phone, During this there is no sound of Cody.
Madison: "Cody?! Cody are you
there?!"
Shot on Madison ^^
Shot of a walking shadow passing by house
Phone breaks off and "The other person has cleared..."
is said.
Title of The Taking
Climax has been reached and trailer will end in cliff-hanger.
This shows the different conventions of the script, we hope to see this work well.
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