I have sort of planned out the story and how it will unfold. This is the plan. There will be 2 actors. 2 realms: 1 reality one imagery. filmed in 2 main locations, Chinese Garden for the red scenes and the rest in Bukit Batok. All filmed in less than 2 days.
progress report: the music part of the movie more or less has begun. I have told tim about the end song and would soon email Sonicbrat, local soundscape muscician to allow me to use his track '2 moons' for the film.
ok i havent really communicated witht he lead actors/actress yet because i am rather busy with school shit for the past weeks, alot of you can agree with me on tis cos we are on the same boat. But i am willing to sacrifice for this starting today because i have finished the structure of the script.
The script below is bound to change as usual. But most of the stuff will stay. Notice the script will get very detailed as time pass do check out for changes by the draft number and date beside it. Alot of directions will be added as soon as i write it down. But for now i think this version is readable enough to circulate.
I will also throw in the storyboarding. I have drawn it out already. I just need to scan it.
Blackberry theme: Future of Communication: The age when education makes up your youth. Where technology takes over your social life. You are blind to the social obligations as they pass you as you hide in your cave. Communication would then have to rely on fate. Only when fate comes knocking on the door, would you realize.
The words in red are filmed in colour.
The words in black are filmed in black and white.
WHEN YOU CAME OVER (LENGTH 5MINS)
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LOCATION A: A pathway, HDB flat lobby.
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
CAST: Girl
Flashing images of trees.../
Flashing images of HDB flats/
A figure(girl) stands in the field blindfolded hands holding textbooks. Hair flutters in air./
In view of legs running./
In view of her perspective, camera run towards a block of flats./
In view of her front, she runs and trips over something./
Blindfolded girl drops the books in her hands at the scene when she falls. She also begins to walk backwards. (Clip reverse of her walking front and looks down where the books have 'dropped' )/
In view from her level where she crouched after falling, she curses, wrenching her foot. She quickly stands up and runs off view./
Lift door opens, she dashes out, limping./
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LOCATION B: *HDB 2 sided doorway landing, Weenies'
CAST: Girl and Boy
Close up view of doorway. She digs her handbag on the shoe rack beside the gate of her home and cursed when she cant find her key. She rattles the lock and tries to knock on the door but no one was in./
Side profile of girl,Is there anyone in? I need to use the toilet now!” There was no answer. She could not believe this. She takes out her phone, calls but phone is not working, no reception. She waves her phone for signal but cannot get any. She grunts./
Close on legs, her legs wobbled and twisted into a knot and she started to hop on the spot finding balance in that posture./
Further viewpoint where we can see both doors of her house and her neighbors'. She looked at the neighbors door, considering whether she should use her neighbors. /
3
LOCATION 2: Dim Room
LOCATION B: Dark Studyroom
CAST: Boy
Flashing Images of rust, metal, corners.../
A figure stands in the middle of a room blindfolded. He is motionless./
A candle stood unlit on the floor camera rotates.(Lead in to a cigarette in hand in the next scene.)/
He is in a dim studyroom where the computer is the only thing lit. He rests on arm after awhile at his desktop as he finishes his stick. Bright light from outside screams for attention behind the curtains. (preferably silhouette shot)/
Front profile portrait view, he hears a knock. He turns to look at the direction of the sound. A bright light glows from the direction./
Candle rekindles (Reverse film technique.)/
Blindfolded boy 'walks into the dark' but when I reverse the clip, he is walking backwards out of the dim room and into Chinese Garden./
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
Flashes of camera moving through the grass./
Feet walking backwards. Camera follows./
Both walk backwards blindfolded and stop inches from each other(also using reverse technique), facing back to back./
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LOCATION C: Felicia's House
Using glass bottle effect to simulate peephole, we are in perspective of boy peering out at the girl fidgeting outside./
In view of inside the house, the door opens to capture girl's surprise when she realize it isn't the usual aunty but a dude./
From view behind the girl, He stared back at her. “May I help you?”/
From view from inside his house at her. Her voice higher than usual, visibly embarrassed. "I'm sorry I rushed out today and I forgot to take my keys and I need to use the toilet...” she smiled at him pathetically, holding her waist/
From view of girl, within the conversation, a glimpse of boy's reaction, looking at the locked door opposite./
From behind her, He does not look at her now, backs away to let her in. “Sure.” She kicked off her heels and scampered past him./
From front view shoulder up, she sits on toilet to 'relieve' herself, she looks around. She sees Soap bottles. An ivy green towel draped at a ledge beside a pair of jeans. A pair of toilet slippers. A magazine on the ledge. A shaver. A toothbrush in a cup. Singularity is being translated to the literal sense in following scene.../
Scene cuts to boy sitting on sofa alone and waiting, view front./
Same view, she appears/
View of her waist up, cam follows her. she is rather embarrassed but thankful.“I-I’ll go now.” she slipped her handbag onto her shoulder./
“Okay.” He stood up politely./
She turned and opened the door. That was when the umbrella holder adjacent to the door toppled down by her push. The umbrellas slid out in all angles./
He lunged forward. “It’s alright. I can”
“I’m so sorry.” She squatted down to pick up the umbrellas and broom but kicked off the stack of shoe boxes from the wire rack and it fell down too.
“Oh gawd...” She muttered under her breath. She wanted to kill herself. He must have thought she was a serious klutz.
But she noticed he wasn’t frowning. “It happens to me too all the time.” And the mess was cleared fast.
She stood up and opened the door. Peering out, she realised her sister still had not returned home.
“You can wait here in my place till she comes home.”
“Oh no, I’m fine waiting outside, I’ve disturbed you enough.” She said as she picked up her handbag again.
“No you have not.” He insisted.
He was too nice, she thought. At the gate, she turned back at him with a question that surfaced, “Doesn’t an old lady around her late fifties, white hair, and very chirpy, live here? I’ve never seen you before.” She said as she slipped on one of her heels.
“Oh you must mean my mum. She lived here but she passed on two weeks back.” he said looking at the photo of her on the wall near the door.
“Oh no…” She gasped again, covering her face in embarrassment. “I’m so sorry. I din mean to bring up-”
“-its alright.” He interrupted. “Anyway, I’m Eric.”
“I’m Cheryl.”
“Cheryl.”
“Yup.”
“You really should stay for awhile. I can get you a drink or maybe something to eat? I have tao hui jui.”
She pondered for a moment, looking sullenly at her own home that she was locked out of. She looked at him and he wore a look that made her smile.
“that will be nice.” She finally gave in.
She walked to the balcony to look at the view as he proceeded to the kitchen. She glances at him before he disappears into the kitchen. She turns and looks out of the windows.
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LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
Possibly from a high point zooming... into the 2: Girl turns to boy. (Both still blindfolded)/
“So, you staying here now?” saying loud enough for him to hear from the kitchen as she starts to walk.
“I actually live at Bukit Panjang. I decided to stay here to take care of my mum when she was in a really sick phase.” He said as he washes the cups and takes out the soya bean carton from the fridge.
We now see her taking photo frames of pictures baby photo, etc. “Now that she has moved on, I’m here to pack things up and plan on what to do with this place. I've been here for quite awhile already.”
“I have not seen you before.”
“I don't really go out much.”
“why?”
Pause. “I just dont.”
“So you’re selling the house?”
“Maybe. I stay beside where I worked. If I shifted all the way here, it would make no sense.”
“What do you work as? I'm still in uni. Final year.”
“I am an engineer. 2nd year into the job”
“Sounds good.”
“Yea.”
He brought a large cup of drink for her at the balcony. She smiles at him but he doesn't notice. The text 'It was a cold drink but it warmed her heart.' is on the cup. Camera turns away oddly and quickly to bring us to colour.
6
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
Girl removes blindfold with a smile.
She reaches out to feel his face./
She said and she drank a gulp. “Eric?”
He stopped and turned to look into her eyes.
“Yes?”
From the back view, we look at them look out of the window. “You married?”
“I’m not married.”
“You... have a girlfriend?”
“Erm...” He chuckled and gave her a puzzled look. It was then that she realized the inappropriate nature of her question in the conversation.
After an awkward while for the both of them, he managed to murmur a “no”.
“Wow. Living all by yourself.” She said twirling her cup, “Must be really lonely...” she said as she walked towards the sofa to sit.
Eric looked up. Suddenly the flat was a void to Eric and he could feel the emptiness of its corners. Wide view of the emptiness as he stood alone in the balcony.
7
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
Boy holds her touch because he felt it. But is still blindfolded.
“No I’m fine myself.” He glanced back at her, blatantly lying.
“Me too.” She said still staring into her cup, lying too.
There was a silence. She placed the cup down and began wrenching her ankle which still stung from the fall on the way home.
“Are you okay?” he said genuinely concerned.
“I fell.”
“I’ll get the first aid box.”
She winced at a sudden jolt of pain caused by her own wrenching.
“Let me see it.” He said as he returned with a green pouch of sachets and bandages. She was still in pain. He sat next to her on the right. She turned to him and propped her left leg on his lap.
He opened the pouch. They steal glances. He dabbed purple liquid on the affected area and wrapped cloth on her ankle. He smoothed the wrinkles on the tape out slowly. He then massaged her leg as he stared into her eyes trying to read her response to his physiotherapy.
“Ow!” She lunged forward. She grabbed his arm, wincing from the pain. Her head was just beneath his and he unintentionally kissed the top of her head.
8
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
He turns around from the touch of her hand.
He subsequently removes blindfold./
“It’s okay. It’s just a muscle tear.” He whispered tenderly.
There was a long silence as he continued to massage the area around the affected area.
“Thanks for everything Eric.” She muttered. There was a softness in her voice now and her hand loosened and slowly slid off his. He gripped her palm just before it left his And their hands that held settled down comfortably on the couch.
We see him look at her as she lay on the couch. A woman so close to him now. He forgot about the wound he was fixing as he admired how her hair flopped like frozen ocean waves on the couch. Her face read a beautiful grin.
“Cheryl… You should have left the door open. Your mum might have returned already.”
“Mmm.” She groaned listlessly obviously not listening. He realised she was comfortably lying back on the couch eyes closed and smiling. His body warmth resonated through her skin pores. The sky was a now a deep purple against the red setting sun.
Wide angle views of the house.
“Cheryl?…”
But there was no answer. She had fallen asleep there. In view of his back, we see him look out of the window
9
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
The two walked hand-held away from the camera. Camera focuses onto the near grass patch. Blindfolds lay on the grass.
END
Credits Pieces of paper on the grass?
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