Short Story Script
Characters
New Driver = Sam
1st passenger = Jamie
2nd passenger = Joe
3rd passenger (victim) = Ben
1st Scene
The scene starts with a close up shot of Sam’s front door.
After passing his test, Sam runs out of his front door
Shout from inside: “Be Careful!”
Sam: “Yeah yeah, I will”
Puts his P plates on his car and gets in, and starts to play his music (music starts on film)
Reverses out and pulls away towards his friend’s houses
2nd Scene
Pulls up outside Jamie’s house and Joe and Jamie both come and get in the car. Congratulates Sam on passing.
Jamie: “well done mate” (shaking his hand)
Joe: “yeah knew you would do it”
Sam: “cheers lads, let’s go driving!”
Joe: “Let’s get stoned!” (everyone starts laughing)
Sam then pulls out a tin with cannabis in and smiles at the other two. They laugh and nod their heads.
Sam: “Here Jamie, roll a joint for us”
Hands Jamie the tin and rolling paper
Joe rings Ben and tells him they are picking him up
cuts to Ben when he’s on the phone
Ben: “oh did Sam pass then? That’s well good, didn’t take him long did it?”
Can’t hear Joe talking back
Ben: “ok then mate, I will see you in a bit”
Cuts back to the car and the music starts playing again.
3rd Scene
Cuts to outside bens house watching the car come down the road until it stops at Ben’s.
Sam gives Ben a beep
cuts to Ben walking out of his house and gets in the car
Ben: “well done mate!”
Sam: “cheers mate, got something to celebrate here if you want?” (shows Ben the joint)
Ben: “No I’m alright; you know I don’t do that. Please don’t smoke it if you’re driving, your just stupid doing that, you’re going to kill yourself!”
Sam: “Na I won’t, it’s a laugh. Anyway, where are we going?”
Jamie: “Let’s go Bromley, go for a little drive”
Sam: “great shout, let’s go!”
Music starts again and cuts to long shot of car pulling away and driving down the road.
4th Scene
Cuts to inside the car where everyone is smoking apart from Ben.
Joe: “This is good Sam, where did you get this from, need to get more of it for next time”.
Sam: “Yeah it is pretty good, I got it off my mate who I work with. I will speak to him see if he has any more.”
Ben: “You lot are so stupid, it’s just going to mess you up later in your life.”
Sam: “Oh Ben be quiet mate, you don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Ben: “Well when you all die young and have problems later on in life, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Can you not do it when you’re driving though, or you can drop me home?”
Jamie: “Here you Ben, have some of this, this will cheer you up.”
Ben: “You know I don’t touch that. Sam”
Cuts to long shot of car and speeds off down the road over the limit
5th Scene
Cuts back to inside of the car
Ben: “Sam, slow down! Are you trying to kill us or something?”
Sam: “We are going for a little cruise mate”.
Ben: “Take me home then, I don’t want to be in the car if you’re driving stoned!”
Sam: “Chill man, smoke some weed.”
Sam then speeds up more (camera on the speed dial showing the speed going up)
(still on the speed dial)
Ben: “Sam, slow down!”
Everyone else is laughing in the car
(Speed dial goes up in slow motion)
Everyone’s laughter is slow motion
Camera cuts to Ben close up on his face (his talking in real time, still slow motion laughter in the background)
Ben: “This isn’t even funny now, just drop me off here!”
Back to real time. Camera on Sam, he turns around to Joe and gets the joint from him
As he turns back around, goes to slow motion
Ben: “SAM!” (still focused on Sam and slow motion)
When Sam turns fully around, goes to real time and he swerves to miss the oncoming car and slides out of control.
6th scene
As he swerves camera is close up on Ben, everything goes silent (white background behind Ben) like this for 5 seconds
Then there is pictures of Ben from his life starting when he was young leading up to present day. Pictures are scattered around the page (slow song starts to play, starts quiet and as more pictures are shown the volume gradually increases)
7th scene
Music then reduces volume then sirens start playing quietly then gets louder and louder. Picture then cuts to the car crashed different views (photos, not video sirens die down and music starts playing again) then picture of the emergency bed trolley with Ben in the black bag zipped up (pictures slowly fade into each other, slow music playing in the background quietly, same song as before)
Music then gets quieter until it goes silent
Scene ends with a full size picture of Ben (most recent picture) white background with text at the bottom – R.I.P. Ben Fisher 02/11/1991 – 15/10/2009
8th scene
Next scene starts with Jamie lying on his bed listening to Ben’s favourite song thinking about everything that’s happened. He then picks up his phone and texts Joe. After he has text him, he puts his phone back and moves onto Joe.
Joe is out buying a man utd shirt with Ben’s name on the back to place where the crash happened. He receives the text (as he reads it, subtitles at the bottom of the screen for the audience to read) the text says “Joe, I can’t think straight! This is all messed up, why did he have to die? I am never doing any drugs again, not after what’s happened now. I haven’t heard from Sam, I wonder what he’s doing”
9th scene
Cuts to Sam
Sam is getting all of his cannabis and throwing it down the toilet and flushing the toilet constantly going a bit mad.
Sam: “Why why why? I’m so sorry! I hate you; you have messed up my life!” (referring to the cannabis as he gets another bag and throws it in the toilet)
His phone starts to ring but he leaves it ringing. (cuts to his phone) After 10 seconds of it ringing (Sam is still flushing the toilet) he then backs away from the toilet sits against the wall and just screams.
Sam: “Arrrrggghhh!” He does that for 3 seconds.
Cuts to full size pictures of all 4 of them as friends having a good time. 3 pictures.
Scene ends with the same music as when the crash was with the RIP picture of Ben again.
