Film Script...

The Remote Chase

by

TAHLIA SWEET

FIRST DRAFT

APRIL 2011

© TAHLIA SWEET, APRIL 2011

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1.   INT. DOWNSTAIRS  LOUNGE/STAIRCASE. DAY.

The scene is in colour; two characters are sitting on a couch in a lounge-room and are watching television. There is an upbeat piano music in the background for the Silent Film effect that lets us know there will be a chase coming. Character number one is Jasmine and Character number two is Abbey. Jasmine is on the left of the couch and Abbey is on the right. Abbey starts off with the remote and Jasmine snatches it from her grip, then the remote is snatched back and forth multiple times and abbey is the last to snatch it.

The scene pauses and turns to black and white on the two characters where the title ‘The Remote Chase’ appears. This is on the screen for five to ten seconds.

The scene un-pauses and Jasmine snatches up the remote and gets off the couch running away from her competitor on their left. Abbey gets up and follows Jasmine in the chase.

Jasmine is running from the lounge-room down a hall and passing the kitchen along her way with Abbey close behind her. After passing the kitchen Jasmine and Abbey turn a corner and begin racing up the stair case to the upstairs area.

2.   INT. STAIRCASE/UPSTAIRS HALL. DAY.

Jasmine and Abbey are running up the stairs, Jasmine is in front of Abbey still. The girls turn left at the staircase Abbey is chasing Jasmine down the hall and into a room where they both enter.

The doors have a Scooby Doo effect where they enter one door and exit another.

After entering into the room together, Abbey and Jasmine exit different doors close by together and bump into one another. The girls land on the floor and the remote is in no one’s control, Abbey looks at Jasmine and takes the remote and runs of down the hall which Jasmine chasing her.

3.   INT. UPSTAIRS HALL/UPSTAIRS LOUNGE. DAY.

Jasmine is chasing Abbey down the second set of the hall into the upstairs lounge where there sits circular foot rest in the centre of the room. Abbey enters the room first and runs in circles around the foot rest a few times with Jasmine following. Abbey then stands on the foot rest and covers her eyes, Jasmine still continues to chase around the foot rest not noticing Abbey in the centre. Abbey comes to realisation that Jasmine has not noticed and runs off to the closest door

Abbey has run into the door where Jasmine begins to chase after her. The door shuts. Jasmine is now followed by Abbey, they are exiting the door down the hall; it is seen that the other door is down the hall. They run down the first part of the hall where they run behind a cornered wall.

After disappearing behind the wall, the girls reappear from behind the camera in the upstairs lounge. They run past the camera and down the seconds part of the hall, Jasmine is in front of the chase. They run down the second part of the hall, turn a corner, run down the first part of the hall and behind the cornered wall where they have again disappeared.

With Abbey in front, the girls are running the same way they came from, down the first part of the hall, around the corner and back down the second part of the hall where they run past and behind the camera.

Abbey reappears first by herself and runs into the door that is right next to the upstairs lounge, she shuts the door behind her.

Jasmine then appears and looks confused because she doesn’t know where Abbey is. She makes an assumption, goes down the second part of the hall and enters the door.

4.   INT. DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE. DAY.

After entering a door upstairs, Jasmine has exited a door near the kitchen, part of the downstairs lounge. She looks around and can see that she is not where she is supposed to be and goes through the door she entered through and exits.

5.   INT. UPSTAIRS LOUNGE/UPSTAIRS HALL. DAY

Abbey exits the door she had entered and can see that Jasmine is nowhere to be seen and does a cheeky grin.

6.   INT. STAIRCASE. DAY

Jasmine now has the remote and is running down the stairs with Abbey close behind her. Jasmine is stopped by Abbey at the foot of the stairs and turns around with Abbey a couple of steps higher than her. When the girls have stopped, the music stops and the colour has returned to the screen.

ABBEY

Why don’t we just play X-Box?

JASMINE

But we only have one controller though.

ABBEY

SHOT-GUN!

The music has returned and so is the black and white effect because the chase is back on.

Abbey is in front and bolts up the stairs with Jasmine close behind her.

Credits have appeared on the screen with television look to it. The credits will mention the director, writer, creator, who was involved in the film and ‘Occupied Productions’.

THE END!