Script for our Preliminary Task

Zom-com….

 

 

 

Humphrey and Bruce are sitting in detention with their teacher when something unusual happens.

 

*Scene opens with the ticking of the clock and the students Bruce and Humphrey In after school detention.*

Humphrey: How long till we finish?

 Bruce: Umm…

Teacher: Shhh!

Humphrey: Sorry.

Bruce: Five minutes

Teacher: Shhh!

*Zombie is at the door, Sam notices the Zombie at the door.*

Humphrey: There’s a Zombie at the Door…*Whispers*

Bruce: Sh**

*They look at each other and then at the zombie*

Humphrey: Miss…. Miss there’s a Zombie at the Door

Teacher: Shut up Humphrey 

Bruce: But-t Miss…

Teacher: Be quiet Bruce.

Bruce: Grab a weapon, I’ve seen this before in movies.

Humphrey: Like what

Bruce: Anything!

*The boys look around and pick up weapons. Humphrey picks up a chair and Bruce picks up pencil. Bruce looks at his ‘weapon’ and then back at Humphrey and then prepares to fight, with the pencil. The zombie is suddenly at the table and plays cat and mouse with the two students, until the boys realise.

Bruce: Hang on. Zombies can’t run.

*They look at the zombie and she shrugs. Sam goes around the table while peter tries to be cool and jump the table. He fails and does the walk of shame out of the door. Closing it on his way out. The Zombie turns and see’s the teacher and stands in front of the camera.

Teacher: screams

*The boys are walking away from detention, and hear the screams, they look back then to each other and smile, then carry on walking, leaving their teacher and the Zombie.*

 

 

*End credits and music continue as planned*

Description of Preliminary Task

Our preliminary task is a short sketch about two students, Humphrey and Bruce who have stayed behind with their grumpy teacher for detention. The boys are unaware that a Zombie roams the halls until Humphrey spots it from the door window. The two prepare for battle and the Zombie tries to attack. The boys then realise that Zombies can't run, and walk out, leaving their teacher with a hungry Zombie, as the boys walk away we hear a girl like scream coming from the teachers room, the boys smile and carry on walking realising that the Zombie has ate their teacher.

When shooting we decided to use our 180 degree angle when the boys are deciding what weapon to use, and our shot reverse shot from student to teacher. We chose this because we wanted to show the requirements as subtly as we could, and embedded into the storyline, not just one required shot after another. 
The choice of genre is 'Zom-com', we chose this because, within in a group we all enjoyed other films such as 'Shan of the dead' so we deiced to do a comedy which involved zombies.

Candidate Name and Number

Jade Jacqueline  Flack

8309