Below is a copy of the script:
Script
Storyboard 2
Frame 4:
Newsreader (Claire?):
It is the 21st May 2002. Reporting live at Dover Silver screen
cinema where there has been an unexpected fire which broke out early hours of
the morning. Police are now investigating.
Frame 6:
Newsreader (Rob?
Becky?): 21st May, 2012, I’m Becky...here with cinema owner John
Harrow. John could you just explain what’s happening with your cinema right
now?
Cinema Owner: Well, there’s going to be no films shown
here today. First thing this morning the power just went. To be completely
honest I don’t understand.
Storyboard 3 (Michelle in her room talking about the
documentary)
Frame 2:
Michelle: Hello,
my name is Michelle, I’m 17 years old and I’m investigating the occurrences on
the 21st May at Dover Silver Screen cinema. Year after year these
unexplained events keep happening at that cinema, on THAT date. (Speaks faster) I mean, fires, power
cuts, missing people, it’s crazy.
So, I’ve got a contact. I found this guy on the internet
called Mr Arnold who is more than happy to show me around the cinema, but get
this, he used to work there back in 1953 and he was there the night the group
of 15 disappeared. Well, went missing. He’s going to meet me at the cinema in a
few days. So, maybe I’ll finally find out more and create an amazing
documentary, I hope so! People might think I’m crazy for investigating this,
but I’m a film maker and there’s always a story behind everything. You just have to look deep enough. The 21st
May is no ordinary date, here in Dover and I’m not going to accept that it is
just a coincidence. I know it’s not. (smirks)
so here it goes! (moves closer to the
camera and switches it off.)
Frame 6: (Outside the cinema waiting for Mr Arnold to
arrive)
Michelle: (sigh)
Where is he?
(Pans camera left to right
then turns around and Geoff is standing there.)
Michelle: (Shocked) Ahh, you scared me. Sorry
about that. (laughs) Hello, nice to meet you. I’m Michelle. (Shakes hand)
Geoff: (Shakes hand) Hello Michelle, shall we
go in?
(Michelle follows
Geoff into the cinema)
Storyboard 4
Frame 4,5,6: (Inside the cinema)
Michelle: Thank
you so much for coming down here. Let me introduce myself properly. So, I’m a
student film maker and I have a fascination with this cinema and the date, 21st
May. I’m creating a documentary because I believe that since the 1900’s, unusual,
dangerous things keep happening here (quick pause) on THAT date, nearly every
year. And you, you worked were here when that group of 15 went missing during
the viewing, back in 1953 (pause) on the 21st May, so, I really want
to know more?
Geoff: I
understand. Yes that date was quite the talk when I worked here. And yes, I was
here when that viewing went missing. (Sigh)
It was an unusual time.
Michelle: I can
imagine. Well today I want to find out more and get your account of the whole
situation, if that’s okay?
Geoff: Ask what
you like Michelle.
(Geoff begins to walk
over to the ticket booth and stands behind the counter.)
Geoff: I’ve
missed this place. (laughs)
Michelle: (confused as to what Geoff is doing)
Huh, yeah, well it is a lovely cinema?
(Rhetorical question)
(Rhetorical question)
Storyboard 5
(Inside the viewing part)
Frame 2,3
Michelle: So, where were you the night the people went
missing? I’d like to know everything.
Geoff: It was 7
in the evening. (Says quite loudly)
Things were normal; I took their tickets, showed them to their seats, made sure
that everyone was happy, I did my job. Shortly after, Ron, went up to the
projector room and started running the film, I was outside, like normal. It was
about 10 minutes when I started to notice the smell of burning. A very intense
smell. Hard to forget actually... I was worried, I didn’t know what I was going
to see, perhaps a fire blazing, so I ran quickly in to the cinema. I wanted to
see Ron there smiling away as usual, enjoying himself, despite the fact how
much he hated where he was. His job. But I burst through the doors and there
was no fire (pause) but there were
also no people. They were gone, missing I suppose. I didn’t understand. I don’t
understand. (Puts hand on head looking
distressed)
Cuts to people in the
town being interviewed.
Storyboard 6
Frames 1-3
Geoff: It seemed
like the 21st May always brought sadness here at Silver Screen.
Michelle: Yeah,
wow, that’s a lot to take in, yeah. (Nodding pleased, as he is confirming her
suspicions of how unusual things happen on that date.)
Geoff: How about
a tour?
Frames 4-6
Michelle: So how
far does this cinema go back? (Points
camera around)
Geoff: Did you
know?
Michelle: (startled) What?
Geoff: 1818 21st
May..(slowly)
Michelle: Go on..
Geoff: This
cinema wasn’t always a cinema. It was once the old town Gaol.
Michelle: A gaol?
Geoff: yeah a
Gaol. 15 smugglers were captured on that date, 21st May and dragged
here. Their loved ones were enraged. Angered. They couldn’t believe that their husbands, their dads, brothers, sons were locked away. Do you know what they
did?
Michelle: (croaky
voice) what?
Geoff: They formed
a mob; they smashed into the Gaol to break their loved ones out. They started
with the door, the smugglers were moved to the most secure cells, but that
didn’t stop them, did it? The mob literally pulled the prison apart. Fire,Tiles,
stones were pelted at the troops, all to free their loved ones. (Nods in agreement and then pauses)
Eventually some of the smugglers were released (pause) but others were caught in the riot and weren’t so lucky, (looks away) so I hear. Many were
killed and they never got to unite with their loved ones again.
Michelle: What
happened next?
(Michelle slowly
walks nearer to him, intrigued by the conversation.)
Storyboard 7
Frames 1-6.
Geoff: The mob
continued to rampage into the night,(begins
to get louder, passionate) smashing windows, fighting for the Smugglers
freedom.
Michelle: Are you
okay? (long pause)
Geoff: (exhales) it must have been a horrific 21st May.
Michelle: I never
knew any of this. It’s perfect; I mean, it’s true, true that that date has
always been here, lingering…Waiting for something to happen.
Geoff: But
anyway, I don’t like to talk about it. You never know who is listening. (Walks off a little bit)
(Michelle stands
there wondering what he meant)
(Suddenly a fire
alarm goes off)
(Geoff stops walking)
(Michelle moves camera down)
Michelle: What is
that? (concerned)
(Points camera back
up)
Geoff: (professional) Sorry, I need to go and
deal with this, wait here please.
(Cuts to black
screen)
Interview:
Michelle: What
have the staff been like in the cinema throughout the years?
Jean: The staff
have always been fine. The rumours about the cinema are simply that. Rumours.
Storyboard 8
Frames 4-6
(Outside the
projector room)
Michelle: Mr
Arnold, If I may , why do YOU believe that these terrible things keep happening
on the 21st May ? I mean every year there’s always something that
happens, fires, floods, people going missing…But why?
Geoff, Stares blankly
at her.
Geoff: follow me
Michelle
(Enter projector
room)
(Geoff reaches into
the drawer and pulls out a plan of the Gaol)
Michelle: What is
this? (Zooms in on plan)
Storyboard 9
Frames 1-4
Geoff: This is a
plan of the gaol, (pause) where I think everything started. This place
has never been the same since. See, (points) look at the cells, the halls,
imagine the feel of being there. The foul atmosphere. It must still linger in
these walls here today.
Michelle: what do
you mean?
Geoff: (abrupt) what
I mean, is that, I bet before 1818, the 21st May was just another day at this
site. Nothing bad would happen. Nothing.
(Michelle starts
zooming in on the tattoo)
Michelle: What
makes you think that?
(Silence. Geoff
realises she is looking at his tattoo)
Geoff: Excuse me?
(Michelle jumps and
then returns the camera to his face)
Michelle: Sorry,
I, just noticed that, ‘Liberty Forever’ on your hand, what does it mean?
(Geoff walks out and
shuts the door)
(Michelle pulls out a
chair and sits down)
(Michelle starts
talking to her camera)
Frames 5-6
Michelle: there’s
something very strange going on here. I’m feeling slightly out of my depth, the
way he gets so mad. Why? Why did he react that way to such a simple question? I
think I need to get out of here; this is way too intense for me.
(Walks over to door,
tries opening the door, door won’t open)
Michelle: what
the hell, he’s locked the door! (panicked)
Hello? Mr Arnold?
(Starts shouting and
banging on the door, sits on the floor distressed)
(Suddenly hears
banging)
(Stands up to open the
door again, this time it opens)
(Heads towards the
cinema entrance. There is a man standing at the door, she opens it)
Storyboard 10
Frames 1-3
(Man) Sorry I’m late, I’m Andy, I’ve come to
give you the tour…wait… how did you get in?
Michelle: Tour?
I’ve just had the tour with Mr Arnold
Andy: I am mr
Arnold
Michelle: No,
I’ve just been shown around by Mr Arnold!
(lowers camera as she
is looking around for him)
Michelle: (to self) where
are you? You were just here!
Andy: Look I
don’t know what you’re talking about. Just calm down.
(Michelle faces wall)
Andy: Are you ok?
Michelle, crying and
confused staring at the wall.
(Cuts to STORYBOARD
10 BOX 5)
Storyboard 11 (back in her room after discovering the
photograph of Mr Arnold as a smuggler)
Frames 3-5
Michelle: it’s been
three days since I visited the cinema. I’m confused, unsure, scared (pause) at
what I have found. It’s him, it was him in that picture, but it was him who
gave me the tour. But he died, he died in 1818 and I saw him, I know I saw him!
Pause
(Calms herself) But I’ve
been doing some more research, it’s all I could do, I haven’t been able to eat,
sleep… it’s just all I’ve been thinking
about. All what he told me about the Smugglers and how some were killed and the
riot? It’s all true. Every bit of it, I have books to prove it. I believe, (choke
up a bit) I believe that… he was one of the smugglers. One of the unlucky ones.
‘Liberty forever’ it was on him…(the writing from the book appears on the
screen fading across her face) And it was also in this book. It all was.
Maybe I broke the
cycle for that horrible horrible date and things will finally rest at Silver
Screen. Or maybe I didn’t and maybe it wont. but what I do know is that it
happened, he came to me. He showed me everything. (Puts her head down) But some
things. (Sigh) Theyr’e better left Unanswered…
UNANSWERED TITLE
APPEARS.
(Eerie song starts
playing whilst the credits roll)
THE END.
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