Comparison between fish tank(2009) & trainspotting(1996)
Script
1. Draft 1 (Yellow)
Scene 1 –
Brainwashed
(Panning)
Yassin waking up *stretching*
(Panning)
Eye line match- through the room *walls shown
journalism certificates all over Newspapers hanged on*
(Tracks in)
a picture of a newspaper (focuses)on the date (2003)
and then (graphic match) shows a TV showing the same
story with the date (2013)
Calendar in the background and then tracks back to show
the father watching.
Scene 2 –
(Tracking)
Yassin going downstairs picks up the paper from the
table
(Panning)
*the mother cooking – panning top when Yassin comes
in*
Says: „good morning‟
*his mum listening to Radio*
Yassin says „blah, blah, blah...‟
*shuts it off, as his father comes in the background*
(Tracking)
The father says: “So are you not going to change your
mind?”
*opening the fridge*
Yassin: „I didn‟t waste 26 years of my life getting
educated to end up brainwashed.‟
*walks of towards the door and picks up the newspaper
with him*
Scene 3 –
(Tracking)
*Yassin walks out of the house and throws the newspaper
in the ben* saying „bullshit‟.
Scene 4 –
2. Location is shown outside a coffee shop crowded buses
and cars drive by *Yassin going into the café*
Yassin: „regular coffee, please.‟
*Goes in towards
the casher.
*Group of old people shown.*
Group of old men: *shouting* „you know it‟s true‟
*Group of old people discussing the same issue on TV*
Yassin: „brainwashed...‟ *Yassin gets out of the café
angry*
(Tracking)
*Yassin picks out his phone and camera tracks the phone
till he chooses a number to call*
Yassin: „come pick me up to the airport‟.
(Close up)
Yassin‟s face talking on the phone
(Focuses on his hand) * Tickets to Syria*.