Planning - The Script

Here is the script for our trailer. Those parts in Bold are character speech and those in italics are what is happening within the trailer as well. We have included both as we wanted to do an overall script for the whole of our trailer. 

Script for film trailer:

Non-Diegetic Sound: Background Music and sound effects throughout.

A long shot shows a woman kneeling down next to her husbands grave, she is dressed in black and is crying whilst holding her husbands army hat, she also is holding her stomach to indicate that she is pregnant.

Main Character (Female): Crying

The shot then changes quickly to a point of view shot looking down at the hat and grave whilst the sobbing becomes louder.

Main Character (Female): Crying becomes louder

(Birds eye view on grave)

This shot then does a close up on the womens eyes, which have obviously been crying. The camera then shakes and blurs slightly to reveal the next shot which is the same close up on the women’s eyes but this time the tears have gone and you can see that she is overwhelmed with happiness. Her crying from the previous shot changes to the crying of the baby.

(Shot fades to tearful eyes)

Baby: (crying)

Nurse: Congratulations! You have a healthy baby boy.

The mother looks down at her baby and has a beaming smile on her face to show how happy she is.

Mum: My beautiful baby, Jack.

This then cuts to a shot of the woman and baby walking into their house, match on action shot of her walking into her house.

A Shot of her looking down into the cot happily.

Quick shots then cut to the baby who has died in the cot, a point of view shot, close up shot..

Overlapping, Sreams of mother, As the shots of the baby, a doctor's voice over

Doctor: I'm sorry, theres often no cause of cot death, theres nothing you could have done.

A black screen will then show the film distributer titles.

Mum: there is then a close up of the mother of the baby in bed drifting off to sleep, crying her self to sleep.

The camera tilts towards the ceiling, whilst fading into her dream.

In the dream there is a mid shot of the babies cot with a figure of a person leaning over the cot holding something, as if to go and suffocate and therefore kill the baby. However, whoever it is is unclear.

Her alarm clock goes of, which wakes her from her dream

Mum: She jumps up, upset by her dream and alarmed by what she saw

Alarm of her clock fades, replaced by the sound of a police car siren

Shot pans police car and the police man gets out, a close up shot shows him.

Quick cuts to the titles of the actors name

Mum: You have to believe me, this wasn't an natural death! SOMEONE KILLED MY BABY

Door slams as police leave, she sobs

Quick Cut to close up on her sleeping face, again camera tilts towards the celing as she again has a dream.

The dream becomes clearer but still distorted

From the makers of...Distorted appears on the screen

As the trailer comes to an end, the Mum runs towards the camera, close up of blood shot eyes, a door slams as she is restrained into a white mental institution room.

zoom out to show the mental institution room

Title appears

D.I.D You?