Script to Screen!
Online Greenlight Review!
Olivia Wilmore!
Contents!
1! Character Bio! 2! Logline! 3! Premise! 4! Step by Step! 5! 6! Script! Like for Like!
Character Bio!
MOTHER!
! When she was 20 years old, shy MOTHER met! FATHER at a summer festival. Intimidated by the mass! Crowds of Tokyo, herself being from a smaller rural! town, she nds it hard to meet and connect with! People. She instantly falls In love with FATHER, him! being the rst person to take an interest in her. They! marry young and she becomes a housewife, giving! up on her studies, the original reason she moved to ! Tokyo. He is her everything.!
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Character Bio!
FATHER!
! Charismatic and energetic, FATHER is used to getting! things his way. At the age of 24 he sees MOTHER at a! summer festival. He senses her inner turmoil and is! excited by the prospect of showing her how to live and! love. When he is forced to get a proper job and ! nancial issues kick in he is angry he can not easily! x his problems as quick as he used to, Although a! caring husband, He cannot help but feel a sense of! superiority over his timid wife!
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Logline!
Theres a ne line between love, life, and death!
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Premise!
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Two Tokyo residents barely in their 20s fall in love instantly as a summer festival in the middle of the city. One shy, one charismatic, it is the perfect recipe for an intense love affair. They marry, still young and inevitable nancial struggle calls for the husband to get a fulltime job. Unable to cope with the stress he takes his life, leaving his feeble wife to fend for herself. She must make the choice to overcome her tragedy, her succumb to the same fate. !
Step by Step!
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-Mum sees dad at roller rink in a park in Tokyo! -Dad takes her hand and they run of to take silly photos in photo booth! ! -Mum and Dad lying on a rooftop looking at stars together! ! -Mum and Dad with keys to new house! ! -Dad proposes to mum in the photo booth (this is seen through montage of photos)! ! -Dad starts at work, mum hands briefcase, waves goodbye! -Montage of Dad coming home from work looking more and more stressed, Mum looking more and more distraught ! -Dad stressed at desk, mum tries to reach over and touch shoulder but he lashes out! ! -Dad walking through suicide forest, disorientated, looks up at big tree! ! -Mum walks roller rink where they met and up to photo booth!
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-Sat in photo booth we see ghost of father, he hands her a ghostly rope! ! -We follow the mother being led through the forest by the ghostly rope to the spot her husband died! -Ghostly father attempts to place noose around her neck! -Mother refuses, Pan up to the sky! ! -When we pan back down we see Mother placing candles by the tree, as we zoom out to an aerial shot we see there is a line of candles and the way from the entrance of the forest.! !
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EXT. TOKYO ROLLER RINK PARK - EVENING! ESTABLASHING SHOT: View of some kind of summertime fayre, with ROLLER RINK in centre, blossom trees all around! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER leaning against roller rink rail LOOKS RIGHT! MEDIUM SHOT: FATHER smiles widely and hands drink! MEDIUM SHOT: large GRIN crawls across MOTHER's face! WIDE SHOT -PAN LEFT: Camera follows MOTHER and FATHER as then run past stalls, drink spilling as they run! WIDE SHOT: MOTHER and FATHER run towards camera and veer LEFT into photo booth! INT. PHOTOBOOTH! ! PHOTO BOOTH LENS:MOTHER and FATHER pose for 4 silly photos, Screen BLACKOUT for split second each time- STILL of photo shown! EXT. TOKYO ROOF - NIGHT! ! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER and FATHER lying on roof, hands behind heads! EXTREME WIDE SHOT - PAN UP: Tokyo skyline panning up to night sky full of stars, two are shining brighter than the others. FATHER's hand points up and point at the two stars in turn!
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MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER and FATHER laying next to each other, FATHER points at MOTHER and himself in turn. They kiss! EXT. NEWLY BOUGHT HOUSE - DAY! WIDE SHOT- PAN LEFT: MOTHER and FATHER stood out NEWLY BOUGHT HOUSE, FATHER shakes keys and both grin. Their gures are shadows on the house behind. As the shot PANS we see just the shadows of MOTHER hugging FATHER dramatically, kicking one leg in the air! INT. PHOTOBOOTH! ! FIRST STILL: MOTHER and FATHER big grins! SECOND STILL:FATHER taps MOTHER on opposite shoulder to where he is sat, MOTHER's head is turned opposite way as if to see who's tapping her! THIRD STILL: FATHER opens up small box with proposal ring inside, MOTHER's head still turned the other way! FOURTH STILL: MOTHER sees ring, hands clasped round mouth! FIFTH STILL: MOTHER and FATHER happy embrace! EXT. KITCHEN! ! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER hands FATHER brown paper lunch bag with "Good Luck!" written on it!
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MEDIUM SHOT: FATHER (who is in a SUIT holding a BRIEFCASE) happily accepts bag and runs towards door! MEDIUM SHOT: FATHER opens door enthusiastically after rst day of work! SAME SHOT REPEATS 4 TIMES EACH TIME FATHER! LOOKS MORE AND MORE DESHEVELLED AND STRESSED! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER smiling happily at FATHER's return! SAME SHOT REPEATS 4 TIMES EACH TIME MOTHER! LOOKS MORE AND MORE SHOCKED AND UPSET. ALSO IN BACKGROUND MORE BILLS CAN BE SEEN ON THE NOTICE BOARD! INT. FATHER's OFFICE! ! PAN SHOT: MOTHER's back in foreground looking into ofce, FATHER sat in darkened ofce behind, head in hand on desk, PAN to reveal more of FATHER! CLOSE UP: FATHER's desk covered in paper, empty bottles in background, FATHER hits st on desk! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER reaches hand towards FATHER, FATHER turns round angrily and throws bottle towards MOTHER! CLOSE UP: BOTTLE explodes against wall! EXT. AOKIGAHARA FOREST! !
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! WIDE SHOT CRAB: View of the Aokigahara forest. FATHER stumbling through trees in distance getting closer to camera. He is holding some rope which is winding through the trees.! MEDIUM SHOT: Shot focuses on teary eyed, angry looking FATHER, who is holding rope as he walks, Forest can be seen moving in the background as if he is walking.! CLOSE UP SHOT: FATHER's hand drop the end of the rope! CLOSE UP SHOT: FATHER is looking up. ZOOM OUT to reveal tall tree with hanging rope! ! EXT. TOKYO ROLLER RINK PARK - NIGHT! -It is Winter, dark and rainy- Pathetic fallacy-! WIDE SHOT: MOTHER walks slowly alone passed closed stalls. No one is on the ice rink. Same angle as previous shot where FATHER and MOTHER run together! MEDIUM SHOT: MOTHER walks sadly round corner towards photo booth, again same shot as previous! PHOTOBOOTH SHOT: MOTHER stares solemnly towards camera, FATHER's ghost comes through side of the booth and kisses MOTHER on cheek. She does !
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! not move. GHOSTLY HANDS come from the door of the booth and hands GHOSTLY ROPE to MOTHER. MOTHER takes hold of rope and follows it out of the booth! EXT. AOKIGAHARA FOREST! ! WIDE SHOT CRAB: View of the Aokigahara forest. MOTHER stumbling through trees the same as FATHER in previous scene holding the ghostly rope! MEDIUM SHOT: Same teary eyed shot as FATHER! CLOSE UP SHOT: MOTHER looks up at tall tree. ZOOM OUT to reveal FATHER's ghost perched atop branch with GHOSTLY HANGING ROPE. FATHER's ghostly arms extend and places GHOSTLY ROPE around MOTHER's neck! CLOSE UP SHOT: MOTHER side prole. Looking up at tree, GHOSTLY ROPE is slowly lifting her up. MOTHER closes her eyes and shakes her head and the GHOSTLY ROPE dissolves! WIDE SHOT: MOTHER runs in opposite direction through forest. PAN's unpward to night sky! ! PAN SHOT: PAN down to CLOSE UP of calm MOTHER knelt on oor with a line of CANDLES. MOTHER is slowly burning one of the PHOTO BOOTH PHOTOS. ZOOMS OUT to AIRIAL SHOT of forest, line of candles leading out of the forest.!
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