Thursday, 11 October 2012

'10 Minutes' Screen Play Format


INT. Main character's bedroom. Night

MAIN CHARACTER. Prepares himself and slumps into bed falling asleep immediately. 

INT. Bedroom. Day

A calendar is present, on the bedroom wall, showing that today is the day of his final exam.

The following day he wakes up 10 minutes late at 8.10am on the day of his final exam, due to not setting alarm. He panics and rushes out of bed.

INT. Main character's house corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Rushes to the bathroom and begins banging on the door which is locked.

INT. Bathroom. Day

BROTHER. straining on the toilet seat

 BROTHER
"sorry mate I'm gonna be a while"

INT. House corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Frustrated, slumps himself against the wall, impatiently waiting for the bathroom. After a time laps brother walks out of the bathroom, allowing the main character to enter.

INT. Kitchen. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. walks into the kitchen to grab a bowl of cereal before he leaves, as he is about to pour his milk into the cereal, he realises that there is no more milk left.

INT. House Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Leaves the house

EXT. Street. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Makes his way to the bus stop, he places his bag on the floor and checks the bus time table, oblivious to him, a man creeps up to the bus stop grabs the bag which contained the main characters valuables and makes a run for it. Main character realises his bag has gone missing but it is too late, the thief was too far away. Main character is now forced to walk to school, making him late.


EXT. Outside school. Day


MAIN CHARACTER. Reaches the school gates which are locked, he is now unable to take part in the exam, he is devastated.

INT. House Corridor. Day

A letter is received through the post containing the final exam results, he had failed.

Scene rewinds back to the beginning.

INT. Bedroom. Night

MAIN CHARACTER. Sets his alarm and prepares himself for sleep. Fortunately this time he wakes up on time.

INT. Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Strolls into the bathroom, before his brother has a chance to get there.

INT. Kitchen. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Has his breakfast, a bowl of cereal

INT. Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Leaves the the house and shuts door.

EXT. Street. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. makes his way to the bus stop, on his way there he crosses paths with a hooded figure (The man who had previously stolen his bag) He therefore avoids getting robbed. He finally reaches the bus stop and catches the bus on time.

EXT. Outside school. Day

MAIN CHARACTER manages to get to school on time, and enters.

INT. Exam hall. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. writing up the exam.

INT. Corridor. Day

A few months later, a letter is slotted through the letter box (Final exam results)
MAIN CHARACTER. walks towards the letter, opens it which reveals that he had successfully passed the exam.





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