Pre-Prodoction - Preliminary Task - Script.

Individuality

Written by Samantha Bean

Draft 2

FADE IN.

1.  Int – Bare room – Night.

(EXTREAM CLOSE UP) PAULS eyes are the only thing that we can see. They are starring ahead intensely. It is dark room so the whites of his eyes are starring out at the camera.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

Choices in life can lead to many things. There like forks in a continuing road. Take the left you end up in one destination, take the right you end up in a completely different destination. Your choices you make define you, they make us who we are.

(EXTREAM CLOSE UP) PAULS face appears in the screen. His face is not registering any emotion. He is staring straight ahead as though he is in a different world.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

You build your life on the decisions that you make every day. Weather to have take away or to cook a balanced meal. Weather to smoke that first cigarette or to say no. to walk away from the offer of drugs and the bet or to shake their hand and make the deal.

(CLOSE UP) Now see PAULS tops of his shoulders in the shot as we see part of the room. We can see a little light coming in through a window. It appears as though he is in the middle of nowhere. He is still just looking ahead. The camera starts to turn around PAULS face. We see something red on the side of his face.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

There all forks in our existence road we call our lives. As an individual I have made choices that have been the wrong ones. Ones that have not only damaged me but also the ones that I held close to my heart. I end up in situations. Places that I shouldn’t be in… Felt emotions that I should not have felt… emotions I should never have placed on others.

(MID-SHOT) We now see all of PAULS shoulders in this shot to see him breathing slowly and shallow. We see more of the room and see that he appears to be on his own and in the middle of the room. Not being able to move.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

I was the one that made you give up. I made you make that choice. I made you choose between life and death. I made you choose that fork. I was the one that killed you. (A tear falls from PAUL’S eye)

(LONG SHOT) You see all of Paul, he is sitting in a chair in the middle of a bare room. He has his hands behind him and his feet tied together. There is a little blood trickling down the side of his face, tears are falling down his eyes. There is something laying behind him. Another piece of rope on his lap.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

And what do I have to now? Nothing. Nothing but looking back at my road to see regret and death and forward to see no more forks. Just a dark bare room where I am tied up with my choices in life.

FADE TO BLACK.