This is the script for our documentary that we worked on together.
Scene 1: [Rachelle draws storyboard)
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.
I would go around biking in front of my house, I always enjoyed feeling the wind against my face in the evening air.”
Insert photographs of victim during childhood and neighbourhood [put grainy filter on pics]
Scene 2: [Jasmine draws storyboard)
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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CukIcWw8vnM
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: [Jasmine draws storyboard)
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: [Rachelle draws storyboard)
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:
[Rachelle draws storyboard)
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” with some improvisations and the camera blurs Harper 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)
[Jasmine draws storyboard) 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? [Title card]
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