Scripting for dialogue scenes

Internal: Asylum

Shot of syringes and any other medical props being placed onto a tray. Long shot of Nurse Cecilia walking down asylum corridor. Cecilia opens cell door and turns on the light. Cecilia enters with tray and as she looks around confused and worried expression crosses over her face. Cecilia drops tray and glass smashes. Cecilia’s legs are shown being pushed apart by somebody else’s [patients], and focus on Cecilia’s arm held against the wall. Camera focuses out from the door closing back in the corridor and zooms out, as diegetic voice of Cecilia’s screaming and shouting “No” echoes.

Estimated seconds: 20



External: Asylum Grounds

Doctor arrives at Asylum. Walks up grounds steps and knocks at front door, using knocker. Knocker must be focused on ready for relation back to it at end of trailer. The door creaks open, and the doctor enters.

Estimated seconds: 5



Internal: Asylum

Shot reverse shot sequence. Over the shoulder shot of the doctor sitting down as he stares at the person’s shoulder viewing.

Doctor:

How are you feeling?

Boy:

-Silence-

Doctor:

Where are your parents now, [name]?

Boy:

I don’t know who they are.

Estimated seconds: 15



Flashback sequence;

External: Train Station

Silence from actors. Only sound is a train arriving. Cecilia and her father the Head of the Asylum on the other side of the platform, wide shot. Cecilia hands over a baby in white blanket over to her father. Train goes past, and then once it goes past, Cecilia disappears.

Estimated seconds: 10



Present day;

Internal: Asylum: Head of Asylum’s room

Doctor is searching for documents. Finds file and opens it. Searches through documents until he finds the boy’s name with his birth certificate, showing name of the boy, and the father unidentified, and the mother’s name: Cecilia.

Estimated seconds: 10



Internal: Asylum: Head of Asylum’s room

Doctor:

You need to tell the boy who his real mother is!

HoA:

I needn't tell the boy a thing.

Doctor:

He’s going his whole life thinking his parent’s have given him up by choice!

HoA:

Leave, now!

Estimated seconds: 15

Internal: Asylum: Front side room

Doctor opens a side door after looking around as he brings the mother in.

Doctor:

Your son. He’s escaped.

Estimated seconds: 10

Montage of shots: 1-2 seconds each: Including:

-          Long shot of all the rooms empty

-          Someone running with a knife [unidentified]

-          The mother screaming “No! Stop!” [same thing she said to the patient who violated her]

Estimated seconds: 15-20



Internal: Asylum: Front room

Camera zoom out quickly from front room to outside the asylum focusing on the door as it slams, and then focus on the knocker once again [iconography]



Intertitle:

Enclosed



Intertitle:

Coming soon

[Or together instead of separate?]



Internal: Asylum