Shooting Script

Shooting Script

(non-linear narrative)

1. Interior, night, black and white close up tracking shot of scalpel scraping across a metal surface, eerie metallic scraping noise, half-fades in and out with a heartbeat sound effect. Short extract from a song giving an ominous feeling.

2. Interior, night, black and white mid-close up low angle of dark shadowy figure raising the scalpel and slashing across the screen. Sharp slicing sound effect as the scalpel is moving across the screen. Quickly fades to white as the scalpel moves across the screen.

3. Interior, night, no longer in black and white, John preparing for the operation, putting on the gloves and surgeons coat, can hear him breathing heavily. Long shot of John in the bathroom from the doorway, cutting to a mid-shot of John looking at himself in the mirror after splashing water in his face followed by voices swirling through his mind, mid shot of John putting on his coat for the operation and a close up of him putting on the gloves, followed by a gradual zoomed-to extreme close up of the gloves. Natural sounds throughout the scene, quiet song playing in the background as the camera zooms in on the gloves carrying on into the next scene.

(Multiple voices in John’s mind)

Even you can’t do this

You can fix anybody, but not this time

There’s just no way you can pull this off

4. Zooming out from the gloves, revealing the sky. Long shot of John and his father when he was a kid. Saturated colour throughout the scene, soft focus. Child's laugh. John staring at the sky with his father asking about the world.

John:I want to help people when I grow up, dad
John's father: You will son, you will. What do you want to be?
John: A doctor...