The Script

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THE SCRIPT!

To be honest its not done and its in a very early rough draft stage, and only the first 2 scenes have been written. Now this is not out of procrastination but rather my group members and I spend a lot of time rewriting scenes as we think of new ideas, probably more time than we should be spending. Although after one whole class of brainstorming, refining, and taking in suggestions from other groups, we finished a rough draft of the first 2 scenes we are proud of. I say rough draft as we are always open to new changes if need be or if we think of something that we think would improve the script and how it develops tone, character, or even if its humurous. Enough with the talk, here is Scene 1.

Scene 1:  

(Extreme Close Up on News Reporter talking on a screen about the Major Fraud happening in the state of FL with a slow zoom out capturing the room with the person doing the Fraud and we can see his setup but face hidden) 

 

News reporter: “We are interrupting the regular program for urgent news that just came in, Investigators just revealed they have discovered a huge embezzlement fraud occurring right here in the state of Florida.” (Extreme Close Up)                                    

News Reporter: Agents and officials are moving fast to identify the person behind this major fraud 

(Zoom out to see “criminals” figure watching the news report) 

News Reporter: Local government officials are preparing statements which will be aired live soon

(News reporter keeps babbling and the sound fades out during the zoom out) 

(Low Medium Shot of Criminal in his dark messy room with multiple monitors and the tv screen playing the news and we can see him on the phone. Bank Accounts and Stocks on the monitors.) 

Criminal/Mystery Character: “Transfer the money to my account in the next 3 hours”. (Very Low Faint Voice) 

Sound: Low intense music when camera fully zooms out, News channel still playing, Criminal

    -END SCENE

While the script itself is short, the stage directions give instructions on what the scene is actually going to look like. We planned this scene so that it relies more on the setting, camera angles/movement, and overall lighting to convey tone rather than rely on dialogue. This is very similiar to movies like John Wick where their opening relies on visual storytelling. Although the script for scene 1 looks short, we plan for it to last around 15-30 seconds with the use of slow camera movements, and also we assume that we will have last minute changes or even improv when recording scenes so we added extra time when making these scenes. to give room for creative freedom. Now for Scene 2.

Scene 2: 

(Medium shot of government officials in a room with low lighting talking about who to send to arrest and cuts to a close-up of the case files which shows the main 2 characters.) 

Government official 1: Boss, we just got word of our guy's whereabouts, we need to act fast if we want to catch him, but I have bad news.

Government official 2 (Boss):  Well whats the bad news, and why haven't we sent our 2 best undercovers yet? This shouldn't be a question to ask me; those 2 should have already been on their case.

Government official 1: Thats the bad news, our 2 best guys just left for a mission up in Tallahassee for a wanted drug trafficker fugitive around 5 days ago and contacting them now to come down to Fort Lauderdale would mess up their whole operation and they could potentially take too long to get here and the guy we're looking for now could get away in that time. That could jeopardize 2 missions and we dont have time for that.

Government official 2 (Boss): God damn it just send someone. This man has stolen billions from our government and its citizens send anyone for Christ's sake. Who is our next best choice for finding this guy?

Government official 1: Take a look boss, these guys have a 100% catch rate being undercovers, they have experience in the Fort Lauderdale area and already have some ties with powerful people, I think they would do the job right.

(Offical 1 opens a case file showing the two main characters and shows the boss)

(Sound: dialogue with theme song as case file opens)

   -END SCENE

Now this part of the script is not lengthy to say, but it relies heavily on dialogue to get the message across. Theres not much to say about this as this scene is stritly used to introduce a problem, and a "solution," which actually just turns out to be a bigger problem as the agents sent to catch this guy are numbnuts and just get themselves captured creating an even bigger problem. I think this scene sets the stage for irony as it plays up these 2 characters as some hotshots who can catch this evasive criminal, but in the next scene it immediately cuts to the 2 agents pulling up to the address of where the criminal is, but then missing the house and having to reverse, which immediately acts as a sort of comedic releif and is really where the intro of the film starts.

I am very excited to see where this script goes, and of course, changes will be made. This is by no means a final draft, so if you're reading this dont be surprised if any dialogue, sound choice, or anything in the mise-en-scène in the film differs from the script.