Opening Scene Final Script

It is a grey, cloudy November morning, and a boy of about 16 walks along a pavement to school.

The first shot is a Tracking over the Shoulder shot of a boy named Ashley walking into school, turning his head slightly to the side, a cloud of condensation is released as he exhales. We’ll use this tracking over the shoulder shot to show where Ashley is walking too. He walks into school looking at the floor and barely looking up.

A panning long shot is then taken from his side, showing him walking slowly along the pavement. He walks along pavement and barely looks up.

He stops walking (and from in front of him) a Panning medium shot is taken that pans from his feet upwards, to the vacant, zombie-like expression on his face.

We then return to the medium shot and he walks out of the shot.

We will use a low angled wide shot as Ashley slowly walks down a corridor for a few steps till he is in the middle of the corridor. A extreme long shot will be used of everyone walking around him, showing him isolated. The crowd around him move quickly (sped up to fast motion in editing) while the boy just stands perfectly still and blinking, unaffected by everything around him.

The next shot is a medium long shot of the boy sat in a classroom. The occupants of every other seat around him chat animatedly to each other (some even talking to each other through him, as if he isn’t even really there), yet he stares down expressionless at the table.

We then cut to Ashley stood in another corridor as the school bell can be heard, outside the classroom he was just in. An OTS shot of a surge of people rushing towards him will be shown, and Ashley still stands there, staring towards the ground without a move. The people filter around him until he is alone again, then there is a close-up as he sheds a tear.

There is then a long shot of him walking down a dimly lit hallway. He stares out of a window as if he has seen a ghost from his past. The camera then cuts to what he is looking at, a long shot of a girl outside, talking and laughing with friends. At this point, the boy pulls his phone out of his pocket, and there is a cut-away of his phone as he looks at a text message that simply reads ‘sorry Ashley, i don't think me and you are working out. its not u, its me x'.