Planning - Script Mockup

MEDIA FILM OPENING SCRIPT MOCKUP – JARED STEWART

We see a black screen…

HOPE PRODUCTIONS appears on screen while both mellow sounding police sirens and song (Radiohead) begin to sound.

LIGHT ROOM FILMS replaces previous text, the sounds continue.

Cut to footage of police car wheel spinning, the sirens are now less mellow and crisper sounding

Cut to tripod shot of police car passing revealing a school, the sirens fade with the car and we are left with the music.

Very slow zoom into the school just before cutting to a ground level following shot of our lead character walking down a corridor.

Camera pans up to character’s face for a brief moment then continues round to an over the shoulder shot revealing a hallway with a few students staring at our lead.

Cut to shot of student face staring in disgust.

Cut or quickly turn to Jacobs’s face.

JACOB: What?

Cut back to the students faces start laughing (camera is moving with lead)

Reverse shot of character going through door. Stop outside door. Medium close-up of character, sigh and walk on.

Jacob walking down path, telescopic cuts (while chorus of song is playing.)thud sound effects with each cut

on final telescopic cut, cut to title reveal.

Cut to various shots of drug use/ trading happening, shaky camera movements, multiple cuts showing the drugs, knives, guns etc.

Cut to establishing shot of druggies and Jacob walking on path beside.

Druggies look over at Jacob and shout.

DRUGGIES: OI! What you lookin’ at school boy? (Laugh)

Cut to Jacob continuing his journey ignoring.

Stopped in his tracks by well-built dealer, looks around, sees all weapons being reached for (depth of feel shot)

DRUG DEALER: Jacob Law?

JACOB: terribly sorry, do I know you?

DRUG DEALER: My boss has some questions for ya, so you’re coming with me.

All characters look at each other in silence, we see extreme close-ups and medium close-ups showing tension.

Jacob begins to sprint.

The Druggies run after him, the Drug dealer stays and raises a phone to his ear.

DRUG DEALER: that Law boy, we’ve found him.

Transition to a dark room shot of kingpin on the phone, at a desk. Puts phone down and picks up gun to shoot toward a target

Title KINGPIN appears on screen with gunshot.



the section of the script in green is the section that I cut out of the script due to over complication and new ideas for the first part. Now instead of the drug sequence I will be adding more detail to the scenes of the lead character walking out of school.