Monday, 28 January 2013

Script Second Draft

Second draft. Some significant changes to the structure and ending. Further revisions to come!


The Divided
Gary Welsh
INT - Workshop - Afternoon
Fade In
Black screen, flickers to a view of a room. It's the creators workshop. We are looking through the eyes of Rob, a sentient robot and our protaganist. There's a heads-up display over-layed on the screen. A warning about backup power  running low flashes on and off in one corner and the screen occasionally has a garbled flicker as he looks around the environment.


Cut to
We cut to an external view, looking down at the robot. He is slumped against a wal. The doorway of the workshop is on his right. There is a largish hole in his chest plate where he has been shot. He looks down at the wound then moves his hand to it.
Cut to
He looks to his right and we cut to his POV and can see outside through the doorway into a yard.
The shot pans counter clockwise as he looks to his left. The pan stops when he focuses on a human foot showing from behind a work desk.
Cut to
A shot from behind the workdesk looking up. Rob walks into the shot and is looking down.
Cut to
Rob POV shot. We see an old man. Dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. This is the creator. The man who ran the scrapyard and who build Rob and Six.
The shot pans up a nd to the right where we see an image capture/photo display unit. The screen is damaged. The image is one of the creator Rob and Six happy together.
Fade to Black
Fade In
EXT - Scrapyard - Day
It's a different time. Earlier. The workshop is cleaner and brighter. Theres no dust or debris or damage anywhere and the man from the previous scene is alive.
Shot of the creator building Rob. Rob is just a torso at this time. The creator pulls back a little and smiles. Six appears from one side behind the creator with some salvaged parts. The creator looks up and smiles at him.
Cut to
Close up of a piece of scrap sitting on a metal fence/table. A bug crawls into the screen from one side. The scrap gets shot off.
Cut to
Rob and Six taking turns at shooting scrap from the table with a pistol. The creator sits in a rocking chair behind them smiling.
Cut to
The three of them posing for the photograph we saw earlier.
Cut to
Shot of the 3 from behind looking at some blueprints the creator has pinned up on a wall for a new robot.
Cut to
INT- Workshop - Night
Close shot of Rob and the creator working on a new robot. Its jsut a head at the moment. Six appears the door of the workshop with more piece to use but he is too large to fit through the door. The creator and Rob are too absorbed in what they are doing and dont even notice Six.
Cut to
EXT - Scrapyard - Day
Six is alone in the yard standing holding something in his hand.
Cut to
Shot of Six hand. We see the bug.
Cut to
Closeup of Six face. He is studying the bug.
Cut to med shot of six. We cant see his palm but we see him close his fist.
SOUND
CRUNCH
He opens it again.
Cut to
Shot of the hand with the now not moving bug.
Cut to
Close up of six face again.
Cut to
INT - Workshop - Night
Rob moves to the door of the workshop and looks out. Six is just standing still in the yard, staring away into the distance.
Cut to
Long shot of the town, in the distance.
Cut to
Close on Six face. He is studying the town almost like he was the bug.
He turns his head slowly to look at Rob. Holds the look for a second then looks back to the town.
Fade to Black
A gunshot sounds.
SOUND
BANG
Cut to
INT - Workshop Small Room - Night
Close on Rob as his eyes light up and he reacts to the sound.
Cut to
Shot of Rob coming round a doorway and stopping suddenly.
Cut to
Shot of Six standing by the work desk holding the gun. The creators leg is visible from behind the table.
He looks at Rob then turns the gun on him and fires.
Cut to Black

EXT - Scrapyard - Early Evening
Fade to
Fade to Rob burying the creator outside. It's an aerial view. He is standing over the grave (a pile of stones) of the already buried creator
Cut to
Then we can cut to a closer view, midshot of Rob standing over the grave. He puts a hat on. It's the one the creator always wore. He has the gun and gun belt on too. He turns his head.
Cut to
POV shot. We see the town in the distance. We also see the backup power still flickering and substantially lower now.
Cut to
Aerial shot. A shot of the town in the distance. Its a few miles from the crash site/scrapyard. In the foreground below us we can see Rob. Maybe this shot can start low and behind Rob and track up.
Fade to
EXT - Town - Dusk
Rob arriving at the town. We can see its lifeless.
Cut to
Rob walking into the settlement. He pauses in the middle of the street and looks around. We see the trail of death that Six has left. There are corpses and damage strewn around the street.
Cut to
Shot of the Salloon. The sign flickers "End of the Road".
Cut to
INT - Salloon - Dusk
Shot of the salloon entrance from inside. The door that still works slides open and Rob limps in.
Cut to
Close on Robs eyes.
Cut to
Rob POV shot. The shot pans across the setting. Sitting on the stage is Six.
Cut to
Closeup shot on Six' eyes. They flicker to life. He looks up. Six utters a mechanical shrill laugh.
Six
1.                 Mechanical laughter
Cut to
Shot behind Rob. Six is visible in the background.  Six stands and is shrouded in shadow with highlights gleaming off one side of him from the windows and his eyes. Six starts towrds Rob slowly. Rob unholsters the gun.
Cut to
Close on Six again. Rob now has the gun pointed directly at him.
Cut to
Closeup of Robs eyes.
Cut to
Close on Six eyes.
Cut to
Profile shot. Rob on the right and Six on the left with the bar in the background.
Cut to
Closeup of the trigger as rob squeezes it.
Cut to
Close shot of Robs head. His eyes are dark he has run out of power.
Cut to
Close on Six. Like he is studying Rob as with the bug.
Cut to
Six plugs a cable from his battery into the open wound in Robs chest where Robs battery is.
Cut to
Profile shot of the two as before. With the gun still aiming firmly at Six head. Robs eyes start to light up again.
Cut to
POV shot from Rob. The gun pointed right at Six head.
Cut to Black
A gunshot sounds
SOUND
BANG

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