Shot List
• Mum and child walk along a path, into a park, this shot is from behind them.
• The scene doesn’t change until they reach their destination, which we can show using different shots.
• Theres a shot ofmums and childs feet as they walk into the park, close up.
• Camera peds up to show them holding hands, still close up.
• Camera zooms out to show them finding somewhere to stop.
• The child sits down, with use of multiple shots for continuity.
• Mum starts to play with toys with the child, but her phone rings.
• She tells child to play on her own for a bit because she needs to answer the phone. (THIS LINKS TO THE FOLLOWING BIT, BECAUSE SHE CAN SAY HALF OF THIS IN ONE SHOT AND HALF IN THE NEXT)
• She gets phone out, its an over the shoulder shot, but the focus is still on the child.
• When she finishes telling the child to play on her own for a bit, theres a focus pull and the focus is on the mum.
• Still with the child in the shot, the camera shows the mum answering the phone, saying hello and walking away from the child so she doesn’t overhear.
• The camera pans to follow the mum for a few seconds and then swivels slowly back towards the child, sitting there intently playing with her toys.
• The next few shots are of the child placing her toys where she wants them to be, or even brushing their hair if the toys have hair.
• The camera shows the mum in the background, on the phone, making angry hand gestures, and shouting, as though she’s trying to get a point across to someone on the phone who just isn’t understanding it.
• Once the audience understand the mum is arguing on the phone, it cuts back to the child on the floor who has picked up two of the toys, the mummy and daddy toys.
• She starts making up a story for them, which a lot of different shots will be used for.
• Once or twice during the childs story, there are shots showing the back of the mum, still on the phone.
• After a bit more of the story, the mums phone conversation finishes.
• She walks to the child to tell her that they have to go, the audience finally see the mums face which has cuts and bruises on it.
• The child has both toys in her hand and is trying to make a decision on which toy she wants to leave/take home. She decides to leave the dad toy and take the mum toy home.
• She gently puts the dad toy on the floor and skips off towards her mum, clutching the mum toy to herself, hugging it.
• The camera slowly pans back to see the dad toy one last time, and fades to black.
Script
This script is entirely voiced by the actor taking the role of the young girl. She is creating a story with her toys as mum and dad characters and she is speaking for both of the toy. It’s simple and only uses easy words as she is just a young girl.
Dad: Wheres my dinner? I wanted chips, not celery!
Mum: Celerys healthier than chips.
Dad: Are you saying I’m fat?
Mum: No, no, I just meant...
Dad: I know what you meant.
Mum: No, you don’t understand.
Dad toy hits the mum toy.
Mum: Ow, ow, no, please stop.
Dad: You’re a waste of space.
Mum cries.
Dad toy hits the mum toy again.
Mum: Please stop, you’re hurting me.
Dad: (changing subject) You don’t even have a job!
Mum: I’m sorry!
Dad: How am I meant to watch tv without the money to buy a good one?!
Mum: I have to look after our daughter too!
Dad: You can’t even afford my beer , for Gods sake.
Mum: Our daughter is more important than beer!
Dad hits her again.
Dad: Shut up! I’m talking! You do EVERYTHING for that kid, but nothing for me!
Mum toy faces away from dad toy.
Dad: Who is more important? That kid or me?!
Mum: Please don’t say that
Dad: WHO?
Mum: I can’t choose!
Dad: Liar! You choose her don’t you? After all I’ve done for you, you choose that kid.
Mum: No! She’s youe daughter too.
Dad toy fights with mum toy, longer this time.
Mum: What have you ever done for me?!
Dad: YOU’RE LIVING IN MY HOUSE.
Mum: (quietly) Our house.
Dad: What?!
Mum is silent
Dad: What did you say?!
Mum: It’s our house.
Dad fights with mum toy so violently that the girl makes her fall to the floor.
The rest of the toys story continues with the mum toy on the floor and the dad toy ‘standing’.
Dad: Is it still our house?
Mum toy is silent.
Dad: ANSWER ME!
Mum: (weakly) No honey, it’s your house.
Dad: Don’t you have something to say for yourself?
Mum: I’m so sorry.
Dad: Ok. Theres something else too?
Mum: I’ll get you some beer and chips?
Dad: Ok but thats not what I wanted to hear...
Mum: (quietly) I love you.
Dad: Thats better, idiot.
Dad toy kicks mum toy.
As soon as the scene with the toys finishes, the child’s mum comes back over to the child after finishing her phone conversation, and tells her that they have to leave.
While writing the script, I had the idea that when the Mum toy ‘says’ she’s sorry, the camera could cut to a side-angle shot of the real mum, saying the same thing while she’s on the phone. The words of apology are said twice, and I think this could really start off the idea that the child’s story and real life are linked together.
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