1st Script Draft
INT: Interrogation Room-Night
(The HERO is strapped to the chair struggling with his tethers and blinded by a solitary light hanging by his head. Mysterious cuts and bruises mark the HERO’S face).
(The door opens the INTERROGATOR enters and moves towards the HERO)
INTERROGATOR: Sitting comfortably, now I am running out of time I need to know where your little girlfriend is hiding (pause) now.
HERO: I don't know who you are talking about,where I am or whats going on. Just please let me go I promise I won’t tell anyone what happened here (pause) just please let me go.
(The HERO is greatly distressed and close to tears).
(The INTERROGATOR slams his hands down upon the table).
INTERROGATOR: (shouting) Where is she ? (pause) you are trying my patience, I am going to ask you once more where is (shouting) the girl ?
HERO: (deeply distressed) Let me go please, just let me go, let me go, let me go, (screaming) let me go.
(The INTERROGATOR draws a pistol from his pocket).
(The HERO begins to struggle more ferociously with his bindings).
INTERROGATOR: (raising the pistol to the HERO’S head) You have to the count of three, or I am going to pull the trigger (pause) one.
HERO: (screaming)Please let me go, just let me go.
INTERROGATOR: Two.
HERO: (intense screaming) Help please somebody help me.
INTERROGATOR: Three.
(The lights cut out and return shortly after ,we see the INTERROGATOR in the chair with blood dripping from his mouth. The HERO is standing in the doorway he cuts the lights and leaves.)
2nd draft script
INT: Interrogation Room
(The HERO is strapped to the chair struggling with his tethers and blinded by a solitary light hanging by his head. Mysterious cuts and bruises mark the HERO’S face).
(The door opens the INTERROGATOR enters and moves towards the HERO)
INTERROGATOR: I am running out of time I need to know where your little girlfriend is hiding (pause) now.
HERO: I don't know who you are talking about,where I am or whats going on. Just please let me go I promise I won’t tell anyone what happened here (pause) just please let me go.
(The HERO is greatly distressed and close to tears).
INTERROGATOR: (shouting) Where is she ? (pause) you are trying my patience, I am going to ask you once more where is (shouting) the girl ?
HERO: (deeply distressed) Let me go please, just let me go, let me go, let me go, (screaming) let me go.
(The INTERROGATOR draws a pistol from his pocket).
(The HERO begins to struggle more ferociously with his bindings).
INTERROGATOR: (raising the pistol to the HERO’S head) You have to the count of three, or I am going to pull the trigger (pause) one.
HERO: (screaming)Please let me go, just let me go.
INTERROGATOR: Two...Three
(The lights cut out and return shortly after ,we see the INTERROGATOR in the chair with blood dripping from his mouth. The HERO is standing in the doorway he cuts the lights and leaves.)
Final
INT: Interrogation Room-Night
(The HERO is strapped to the chair struggling with his tethers. Mysterious cuts and bruises mark the HERO’S face).
(The door opens the INTERROGATOR enters and moves towards the HERO)
INTERROGATOR: I am running out of time I need to know where your little girlfriend is hiding (pause) now.
HERO: I don't know who you are talking about,where I am or whats going on. Just please let me go I promise I won’t tell anyone what happened here.
(The HERO is greatly distressed and close to tears).
INTERROGATOR: (shouting) Where is she ?
HERO: (deeply distressed) Let me go please, just let me go, let me go, let me go, (screaming) let me go.
(The INTERROGATOR puts down the wrench and and picks up a drill from the floor).
(The HERO begins to struggle more ferociously with his bindings as the INTERROGATOR advances towards him).
INTERROGATOR: (raising the drill to the HERO’S head) You have to the count of three, (pause) one.
HERO: (screaming)Please let me go, just let me go.
INTERROGATOR: Two...Three
(The scene cuts into darkness the only sounds are the whirring of the drill and the apparent screams of the HERO).
Script testing
What is the activity and what conflict is evident?
Our Media Product involves a brutal interrogation of our hero at the hands of a mysterious and a highly violent INTERROGATOR who is attempting to extract information relating to one of the HEROS female accomplices for an unknown purpose.
A metaphor to explain the scenes subtextual meaning
The night time setting suggests evil and fear within the scene as well as the bruises on the HEROS face clearly showing violence and abuse.
The expected structure of events
Following the introduction the HERO escapes and attempts to hunt down the woman he was questioned about in order to obtain information to why he was captured and what relationship she had shared with him and in doing so recover his lost memories, whilst attempting to avoid detection by an organization seeking to kill him.
What does the scene contribute to the whole film and its hypothesis?
It contributes a high level of tension and fear, which builds up to a climax for the beginning of the film. This section encapsulates the dark and violent nature of Our Media product with perfect clarity.
What key emblematic imagery do you hope to capture?
They key imagery we have captured would be shots of the drill emphasizing the violent nature of the scene. Another key image would be the shot of the HEROS face in deep distress and another of the aggressive face of the INTERROGATOR this highlights the difference in power and status of the two characters.
