After meeting with Chris and going through a few possible options we decided on a Voice over to add an alternative layer and insentive for the story to progress. He mentioned in conversation about a Police officer and Hannah and I both liked this idea and initially started planning to add this to the film.
I spent the Evening, while Hannah had to go to work, researching police interviews and interrogations for wording and specific protocols that happen. I found some interview transcripts from a murder case and notices how the Police Officer seems to repeat a lot of what the interviewee says and gets them to reconfirm what they have just told him very regularly.
Kip Kinkel's Confession Transcript
Bruce Daniels Police Interview
Visually Hannah thought up the use of a cassette tape to symbolise the recording of the interview and showed me this video (link below) where they uses a film reel. I really like this as is brings your out of the story world into another location without even showing another location, almost putting the audience in a similar situation to the characters being in an unfamiliar location.
The Bureau - Video Game Trailer
When looking through some ideas I came across this video on youtube and I really like the part at 01:15. Throughout this piece they use the style of stop motion to create movement and I really like this part at 01:15 as this could be something similar that we could show in a scene of one of the characters going to the bathroom to take some drugs. This is a simple things to create as we could film with a steady cam and then in post I would create the jumps.
Another idea I thought up was to include a recap scene in which the police officer can go through the events that have been told so far in the style of Shaun on the Dead. I think this will add a slight breathing space in the story for the audience and will help add emphasis on the story that the police officer tells and what actually happens.
After doing this research I started to create a rough version of the Voice over script. I then went through all this with hannah showing her the other clips I found. At this stage we Skype called Alli to get her help with the script as she would be better at writing the characters answer as she was more familiar with they way of speaking from writing the initial script. Here is the a copy of the initial Voiceover Script that Me and Hannah created before going through it with Alli:
Initial
Ideas
Play up until “Road
Trip”
Freeze frame on Hugh
Police – hold on a
Minute, can you say that again and clearer
Wooshh back to
beginning
Isa (worried) – Well,
Me and Rhian were just out on the balcony. She was having a cig and Hugh just
turned up.
Police – He just
turned up?
Continues playing
normal, Rhian’s lines – What you doing here babe?
Hugh (over his part) –
My auntie went away you see so I thought it’d be nice to go away for the
weekend.
BLACK SCREEN
Police – Okay… so can
you run me through when you picked up Lucas ……… …….?
Hugh – HAHAHA is that
his middle name
Police – can you please
just answer my question (repeats question).
Hugh – okay well once
I had the girls we went straight there …
Starts playing half
way through Hughs lines then cuts on Lukes HEEYYY line
Runs through scene
till Rhians line “lets go then! Come on!”
Hugh – They didn’t
realise Luke was able to come so was like a little surprise form them. They
were excited sort of thing.
Police – repeat what
Hugh says about the girls happy Lukes there.
Continues to play at
Rhians line - I cant believe you invited him
Plays though till end
of split screen.
Isa – talks through
arriving, - add shots running in door
Luke – says bring
loads and contributed
Plays out on Rhians
line – Luke? What are you contributing to this trip?
BLACK SCREEN
Police ask about the
night
Go through night scene
Isa say about went
toilet and could hear Luke snoring but went back to sleep??
Police – okay .. lets
go back a bit earlier on in the after noon ….
Cuts to Luke telling
story
Freezeframe as Rhian
comes in saying look whats I’ve got.
Police question isa
about the Nos?
Hellium
Continues to play out
nos sequence
BLACK SCREEN
Police – The next day
when you woke up what did you do?
Luke – When I got up everyone
else was up outside having breakfast so went out and joined them …
Runs through scene in
morning – wagwannn!!!
CUTS TO BLACK SCREEN
AT END
Police – asks about leaving girls
Isa – Explains going
off
SHOWS GETTING DRUGS –
POV – YOUTUBE
Police – Lets back up
a second. Ask why they left?
Isa – Well, we were
all just sitting in the kitchen …
Runs through scene
Police – So … says
another version causing them to leave. (go shops or something)
Isa – Yeah that what
happened.
Hand police sum up
what happened so far – shaun of the dead style re cap …. So what happened next?
We found remains of LSD in your possession. When did you take it?
Luke – Explains taking
it no effects
Shots of in forest
tripping
(got burned)
WHAT IS THAT??
Must be fake.
Montage
Planned to have BBQ so
went to go find him
Shots of them shouting
Luke?!
Here is an updated version once talking through with Alli on Skype to get her view on how the characters would word things:
VOICEOVER SCRIPT
Plays through film up
until “Roadtrip”
Freeze frame on Hugh
next to car
POLICE – Hold on. Say
that again, clearer this time.
WOOSH rewind back to
beginning
ISA– Well … Me and
Rhian were just on the balcony … She was having Cig and then well Hugh turned
up.
POLICE – He just
turned up?
Continues scene until
Rhian’s Line – What’s going on babe?
Hugh (over his part) –
well my auntie had a free house … so I thought I’d take them there to chill out
after exams.
BLACKSCREEN
POLICE (Over
establishing shots of flats) – Okay … so can you run me through when you picked
up a Lucas Gaylon Haywood
HUGH – Snigger. Is
that is middle Name ….?
Cuts to WHEYYY
Runs through car scene
up until Rhians Line – “Come on, lets go then”
HUGH – They didn’t
realise Luke was coming … so … you know it was like a little surprise for them.
POLICE – so they were
excited to see him?
Plays out scene, Rhian
– I can’t believe you asked him to come.
POLICE – So .. How did
you spend your evening at the cottage?
LUKE – Oh … was just a
chilled evening … had a few beers/ had a cuppa
Clips of Luke and Isa
POLICE – so going back
to that afternoon. did anything unusual happen?
ISA – oh
no … not really
Shot Luke telling
story
Rhian comes in –
freeze frame
POLICE – oh so what
was in the balloons?
ISA – Oh no its was
just hellium …
POLICE – Right
(doesn’t believe)
Carries on with scene
BLACKSCREEN
POLICE – The next day
when you woke up what did you do?
LUKE – Went outside to
see if anyone wanted a coffee.
Run through morning
scene
BLACKSCREEN
POLICE – So where were
you at 12 pm
HUGH – well … we were
all just sitting in the kitchen …
RUN THROUGH SCENE
POLICE – So … you made
pizza and played on the xbox?
HUGH – Yeah that’s
right.
POLICE – You left the
kitchen, where did you go?
ISA – oh, Rhian had a
bath so I just watched TV in my room for a bit.
SHOTS OF COKE
POLICE RECAP –
LUKE – stuttering –
ermm well … yeah … no … no it was … erm … it wasn’t even real. I got ripped of.
It didn’t even work …
SHOT OF TRIP
HUGH – We wanted a BBQ
and he was taking ages so we thought we better go get him.
LOOKING FOR HIM SHOTS
POLICE – So how was
the BBQ?
HUGH – Oh it was dark
by the time we got back so didn’t bother
SOUND OF WHISPERING IN
NIGHT SCENE – Rhian: “Well where did he go?” Hugh: “Fuck knows, how am I
supposed to know?” Rhian: “It’s not like we can ask him, he was that off his
head he won’t remember.”
SHOT OF ISA GOING IN
LUKES ROOM
TIME LAPSE OF SUNRISE
POLICEMAN – And at
what time did you leave the cottage?
ISA – About midday…
SHOTS OF CAR DRIVING
(CLOUDY DAY) – DIEGETIC RADIO SOUND
CUT TO BLACK
FADE IN TAPE DECK
(WITH RADIO CONTINUED AND TAPE CLICKING ADDED)
SOUND OF RADIO FADE
OUT AND JUST HAVE CLICKING
HUGH – Sorry… How
long’s this gonna take? Visiting time’s nearly over and I need to go see Rhian/my
girlfriend…
CUT TO BLACK – TAPE
REWINDS
CREDITS ROLL –
TRANSCRIPT STYLE (TONAL SOUND PIECE INFLUENCED WITH CAR CRASH)
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