Short film script

1. Alone
by
Brad Tocque
Name: Heath Park
Address: Prestwood Rd, Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV11
1RD
Phone Number: 01902 556360

2. FADE IN:
EXT. SCHOOL. DAY
We are greeted with a wide shot of the school. The school
is deserted but Billy has stayed behind after school in
the Library. Billy is now walking home from school. He
continues to read the book “Boy in striped Pyjamas”.
A montage of him walking home is choreographed to sad and
lonely violin music.
Billy finds 20p on the floor, picks is up and puts it in
his pocket. he picks it up with a slight smile on his
face because he seems to think that the 20p was left
there for him by someone. He then continues the walk
home.
BILLY
Ooo thank you very much
He carries on walking home, he acknowledges no one who
walks past him or who he sees. He knows how anti-social
people of the modern-day have become and accepts it.
He then reaches his house and opens the door to his
house.
INT. HOME. DAY
Billy opens the door to his house and begins to walk
upstairs. He doesn't seem excited at all to be home. He
seems more concerned with the house rather than happy to
be home.
BILLY
Hello Mom

3. .2
Mom is sat in living room watching the tele and
completely ignores her son. Billy seems slightly
concerned but doesn't bother confronting his mom about
her status. Billy acts as if he is used to being ignored
by his mom and walks up stairs. He opens the door to his
room and closes it. He sits on his bed and opens his bag
and starts to carry on reading his book. The character
from the book begins to read some of the extract. He
reads that Bruno feels lonely and feels as if he has no
one to turn to.
Billy Voice over
*Reads extract from book about bruno feeling lonely*
The scene slowly fades to black. Billy falls asleep while
the voice over distorts and fades away.
The sound of an alarm clock goes off and Billy suddenly
wakes up to the ringing. He turns the alarm clock off and
sits at the side of the bed contemplating his existence.
he then gets up, heads downstairs with his bag and his
book .
He heads downstairs for the door.
Billy
Bye Mom
As he says his farewells he stops and stares for a moment
at his mom who is asleep and in the same position from
last night but this time with empty alcoholic beverage
bottles on the floor and tables.
EXT. PARK. DAY
He heads towards the park and finds a bench away from
people. He sits on it and pulls out his book from his
rucksack and begins to read from where he thinks he left
off. Before he can find the page, his book is flung out
his hands and lands across the park.

4. .3
Billy says nothing and avoids eye contact with the person
who did it, as if he already knows who it is. The bully
stands there for a few moments and then wonders off as if
his work is done.
Billy then picks up the book, dusts it off, sits back on
the bench and again starts to contemplate his existence.
Billy
As sad as it sounds, books are my only friends in this
world.
He looks around at his surroundings and realises places
like this are not for him. He looks at his book.
Billy
Places like this aren’t for us anyway.
He packs his stuff up and heads for the woods where he
thinks he will be alone. He goes towards the woods.
EXT. WOODS. DAY
Billy starts to walk through the woods, looking for a
place where he can be alone and isolate himself away from
the world.
As he is walking he notices a whispering voice that seems
to be near him.
He nervously looks around, but he notices nothing. He
carries on walking ignoring what he just heard. As he
walks further the whispering is heard again.
Billy
Hello?
He smiles because he believes someone is interacting with
him for once. He continues to look around but again sees
nothing. His smile wears off as genuinely no one is
around him.

5. .4
Billy
Sorry, I'm not used to fun and games.
Your making me feel uncomfortable.
Billy begins to get very anxious and nervous in the woods
as there is till no sign of anything. There are short and
quick snapshots of different areas of the woods and also
some first person shots of pan movements looking around.
There will also an arc shot then followed up with a
trombone shot of Billy. This will when Billy realises
what is talking to him.
There will then be a close up of the specific bottle.
This bottle will have not been in the surroundings
originally. Billy looks at this bottle in confusion, then
looks around, and then back at the bottle.
Billy
HA! Im going insane.
Billy walks over to the bottle. He picks up the bottle
and examines it in confusion. He scans the area again
because he refuses to take in that a bottle is making him
insane. He looks at the bottle in a disgraced look, and
again refuses to believe that a bottle is messing with
his head.
Bottle
Billy!?
Billy drops the bottle and takes a few steps back. He
takes a few seconds to bring himself together. He goes
back towards the bottle, picks it up and starts to speak
to the bottle.
Billy
Hello?
There is a long awaited answer for the reply. Billy waits
patiently for the voices to start again.
Billy
Hello? Was that you? Can you speak
bottle!?
He again waits patiently for the reply. As soon as he is
about to come back to reality the bottle speaks.

6. .5
Bottle
Billy. There is no point in feeling sorry
for yourself.
Billy
What!?
Bottle
In times in need you have no one to turn
to!
Billy
You’re a bottle what do you know. Bottles
dont feel emotions. You know nothing.
Your just plastic.
Bottle
I may be a plastic bottle, and i may not
be human. But what you know about being
alone, i know too. A bottle has nowhere
to go when its been thrown out. A bottle
is unable to speak to other bottles.
Bottles cannot move, see, hear, think.
Bottles are never companied by anyone.
But you, you are human. You can see, hear
and think. You can make places to turn
to. Friendship is a responsibility, not
an opportunity.
Billy
But I dont. I have no friends, no family
and that is rectified by the fact that
I'm talking to a bottle.
Bottle
Put yourself in the shoes of others. Your
mother. She is lonely. But she has a
reason to be. Your fathers passing cannot
dent your relationship. It needs to be
closer than ever, and only you can change
that.
Billy
But how. She doesn't speak t-
Billy turns around and back again only to find that the
bottle was gone. Billy then turns towards the camera.
Billy
Lets go get my mom back.
Billy walks towards the camera and just as he is about to
exit the shot it freezes and the title comes back up.

7. .6

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