Here is the script and storyboard for our documentary project (Script done by the whole team, storyboard done by Jasmine and Rachelle)
Screenplay for Where did Christopher go?
google docs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKYrjuezsNSg7w4a-FJ_84P0sOkLqcQlDvy9CM5i6_E/edit?usp=sharing
Scene 1:
At the start of the scene, there will be a black screen with
text saying for example “On 19th July 2023, Christopher was finally found
after going missing for 2 weeks. At the police station, he told the authorities everything that happened.”
Long shot of road, camera moves and follows Christopher going
into the street of the house, track/truck camera movement of Christopher,
camera stops as Christopher stops right in front of the house (the entire time this plays out, Christopher is voicing over this and reading his
narrative)
Narrative [use jocy’s microphone for thompson’s voiceover]:
“I’ve been living in this neighbourhood for most of my life, for the most part, it’s always been so peaceful and quiet.”
Insert photographs of victim during childhood and
neighbourhood [put grainy filter on pics]
Scene 2:
Interview
Reporter: Hi, sorry to take up your time but are you Harper?
Harper: I’m sorry what’s this for?
Reporter: We’re with the news, we have permission to ask around
the neighbourhood about the recent disappearance of Christopher Yong.
We've been told by your schoolmates that you live in the same neighbourhood
as Christopher?
Harper: Yeah, I do.
→ camera following Jasmine home, she goes into her house and
unpacks (sits down/uses laptop)
RECREATION using a different actress – options: Rachelle
Harper drops bag → opens her laptop on table → types christopher on laptop
Stable shots + neutral lighting
Voicing over this scene:
Reporter: What’s your routine like when you go home from school?
Harper: I don’t know, I guess I go to my room, get on my laptop and do my
homework?
Reporter: Do you meet with him often at home or in your neighbourhood?
Harper: No, I’m pretty sure I live on a separate street from him.
Scene 3:
Fullscreen TV interview with an interviewer interviewing Harper about the situation/crime, the reporter asks her about how she lives in the same neighbourhood and what she feels and thinks abt the crime.
Questions asked during the interview (answers are semi-improvised to have a bit more realism)
J-cut back into interview
Reporter: How do you feel about the disappearance?
Harper: improvise
Reporter: Were you close with the victim?
Harper: improvise
Scene 4:
Interview heard from the tv
Door opens and Harper walks out, hearing the interview (she’s clearly panicked and alarmed because she slipped and messed up on tv about the interview) on tv in her living room downstairs.
RECREATION
Heard from the tv:
Reporter: Do you know anything about the disappearance?
Harper: improvise improvise improvise -- But i did see him a couple days ago so
Reporter: Wait, a couple days ago? He disappeared a week ago.
Harper: No, no yeah sorry weeks ago sorry I’m losing track of time, you know, with school and this whole crime.
Reporter: Right. You were saying?
Scene 5:
scene 4 audio fades and turns into background noise - thompson voices over.
→ Christopher says sumn like “i didn’t think i’d end up here” and the camera
blurs jasmine and focuses on the basement door downstairs
Overlapping interviews of other students talking and getting asked about
Christopher
Cuts into one interview
Music becomes unsettling and eerie (volume starts getting louder and louder)
Clips of pictures of the crime scenes, evidence and all flashes with camera clicking sounds rapidly.
Harper: I don’t know. Where did Christopher go?
Boom title card
Storyboard - Jasmine and Rachelle
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