Final script

FADE IN:

BLACK SCREEN

NARRATOR
You turn left,

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INT. CAR – DAYTIME
Quick shot of the indicator – it gets flicked down.

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EXT. CAR – DAYTIME
The camera is looking at the windscreen from the outside; the character turns the wheel to the left. The ticking noise of the indicator can be heard (2 sets/4 clicks).

NARRATOR
Then right,

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INT. CAR – DAYTIME

Quick shot of the indicator – it gets flicked up.

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EXT. CAR – DAYTIME
The camera is looking at the windscreen from the outside; the character turns the wheel to the right. The ticking noise of the indicator can again be heard (2 sets, 4 clicks).

NARRATOR
And then left again.

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INT. CAR – DAYTIME
Quick shot of the indicator – it gets flicked down.

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EXT. CAR – DAYTIME
The camera is looking at the windscreen from the outside; the character turns the wheel to the left. The ticking noise of the indicator can be heard (3 sets/6 clicks).

NARRATOR
Coffee, after coffee, after coffee

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INT. KITCHEN – EARLY MORNING
Hip-hop montage style cuts showing close-ups of making coffee.

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INT. KITCHEN – EARLY MORNING
Over each word (next piece of narration) a different action is shown – pushing down the top of the coffee machine, pouring the coffee, empty cup being put on the table.

NARRATOR
Black [pause] no milk [pause] no sugar

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INT. CAR BOOT – DAYTIME
The camera is in the (shut) boot of the car, looking diagonal (mostly upward).

NARRATOR
Open,

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INT. CAR BOOT – DAYTIME

The boot opens and the character reaches inside and begins to pick up his coat and newspaper.

NARRATOR
Shut,

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INT. CAR BOOT – DAYTIME

The boot is open and looking out at the character, he shuts the boot, submerging the camera in darkness.

NARRATOR
Open.

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INT. CAR BOOT – DAYTIME

The boot opens and the character reaches inside and picks up his coat and newspaper – the shot is repeated from the first boot opening, but it carries on for the remainder of him picking up and holding the newspaper and the coat.

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EXT. OUTSIDE THE TRAIN STATION – DAYTIME

The character walks toward the entrance to the train station, and puts on his coat while doing so.

EXT. IN THE TRAIN STATION, ON A BENCH – DAYTIME

NARRATOR
And then, you wait.

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Shots of the character sitting on a bench, jump-cuts between him reading the newspaper, fiddling with it, and looking around the station.

NARRATOR
And that’s my life.

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Character notices a pair of shoes across the station; looks up, tilts head slightly.

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A pair of black shoes sit neatly on a bench over on the opposite platform.

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Character looks down at his own shoes, then back up again at the shoes on the platform.

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A shot of the shoes on the bench, this time from slightly further away. The character walks up to the shoes, and just before touching them, a train hurtles past. Once it has passed, we see the character has disappeared, and so have the shoes.

NARRATOR
They say, ‘you never really know someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes’.

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EXT. SHOT OF THE STAIRS LEADING OVER THE TRACKS – DAYTIME

 A tilting shot; the camera moves up as the character walks into shot, places the shoes down, and proceeds to walk up the stairs and towards the exit.

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