Script for After school special

 

Albert: The short film we are about to analyse is called “After school Special”,        

            directed by Jacob Chase

 

Luke: This short film has a giant twist to it, and upon reviewing it again, the         

           audience will pick up the directors intention throughout.

 

Albert: At the start we hear diegetic sound of the children playing which   

           suggest that the scene is going to be set in a playful area.

 

Luke: The sound fades in from the title sequence straight into the establishing scene. We have a panning camera movement, what then appears to be a point of view shot, looking down with an out of focus effect on a female protagonist. 

 

Albert: Upon the next shot, we establish a point of view shot from the women, looking up using a low angle shot. We then evidently see a child character, this establishes a mother son connection.

 

Luke: We can establish the setting as being a child play centre as soon as we get a medium shot portraying out female protagonist.

 

Albert: We have close up shot of the side of the female characters face. Theres is a pulling focus moving to the left of her face after we get dialogue from a new character. 

 

Luke:  The character is then focused on and we have an over the shoulder shot, we then establish this new character, and evidently we can see this man being a protagonist alongside the women. The over the shoulder shot of both was used to show the characters interacting.

 

Albert: Throughout the time the characters are converging, we have cuts in-between them, portraying the convocation as being normal, even though we  haven’t developed the overall purpose of what the female protagonist is saying.  

 

Luke: Dialogue is used to raise questions to the audience, we have her telling the male character she isn’t the boys mother, so we develop the idea of her being a child minder.

 

Albert: We then discover the female character as being a teacher, as the male character identifies her as teaching in his daughters school. We then build the idea she’s a responsible. The directors intention is to establish a connection between the setting and the female character, as well as her connection to the child.

 

Luke: We have a vary of close ups, as well as medium shots. We can tell alongside the combination of dialogue, we can tell the relationship between the man and the women characters is awkward until the man identifies her as a teacher. Props such as crayons and child like objects are placed around the setting, and so again we can tell this is a child area.

 

Albert: We can tell both characters are dressed middle class, and so obviously get the directors attention as wanting us to depict both characters as being perfectly normal. We can see the man has a interest that he wishes to escalate with the female character, as well as dialogue again being used to back that point.

 

Luke: He asks her for a date out, and she refuses as she is ‘seeing someone’. We then have a two shot depicting both characters towards the camera, we can identify the setting further as well as the emotions on one another’s faces after this rejecting moment.

 

Albert: At this point we can establish the idea of the female being with someone else, and so depict the males attempt as failing and her having no interest in him whatsoever. 

 

Luke: Once the man leaves we’re introduced to this boy character. He approaches the female character and we have close up shots of both of them talking. The shots were much more closer compared to when the man and women interacted. This suggests a more cautious and internment relationship.

 

Albert: The boy character could identify the man being interested in the women, and so depict the relationship being obvious to characters within the scene, and not just to the audience.

 

Luke: The boy then becomes demanding, and so makes him seem much more spoilt. This comes as a shock as we believe he would be polite and not demanding to his ‘child minder’.

 

Albert: We then have the female character not refusing any of his demands, and so makes the convocation appear easy. Meaning she’s not the type to say no.

 

Luke: After this conversation the boy approaches again, thanking her for a nice day out. But then uses explicit dialogue that describes their relationship and sends a huge shock to the audience.

 

Albert: We then have a close up shot of both characters holding hands under the table. We then have non diegetic sound played after, child laughing with a distorted feelings to it, as if the directors intention to this was to remind her of her responsibility, and also make the whole scene a lot more creepy.

 

Luke: We then have the kid walk off, and the camera zooming out from the women character. It becomes a wide shot, and we then see various children playing in the background, we then see a couple walking past the camera. This intention was the let the idea of this whole abstract sink in, and make the shock much more intense, as well as making the idea of this relationship repetitively wrong.