Shooting script

NATALIE (17) an afro Caribbean girl exits her home, she stands in the open door frame and screams.

NATALIE

FUCK YOU

NATALIE slams the door and grabs hold of her bag which slides off her shoulder.

NATALIE

(VOICE-OVER)

Everyone around me has so many expectations; we are confide by so many rules and standards. I am constantly being judged by unrealistic standards. I am just me: I am not my brother, Mr Perfect, or my sister Miss Enthusiastic. I no longer want

to be restricted by things that shouldn’t be asked of me

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EXT. STREET – DAYTIME

NATALIE then goes towards the bus stop, she pulls out her phone to check the time, the time is 9:00am, she shrugs her shoulder and continues walking. NATALIE see the bus in front of her and positions her body to run. The bus drives off.

NATALIE

WHY bother?

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EXT. BUS STOP – DAYTIME

Long shot of Natalie standing at the top of the stairs.

Close up, Natalie running down the stairs.

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Extreme close up Establishing shot & long shot

Close up

NATALIE arrives at the bus stop, slouches down on the bench as she perches her bag beside her. She looks at her phone again

NATALIE

(VOICEOVER)

This is how I voice my frustration, social media... what’s the point mugging myself off venting my anger face to face if no one’s going to listen. At least this way, someone WILL see it

who sympathizes.

Tweets ‘I want today over already’ and puts phone in her bag. She goes into her bag and pulls out a box of cigarettes and a lighter; she struggles to light it for a while, and then smokes it.

CUT TO.

EXT. OUTSIDE HER SCHOOL – DAYTIME

NATALIE

(Voice over)

NATALIE “this is the last thing I need everyyyyy singleee dayyy (prolongs the pronunciation of these words) I swear the teachers have a vendetta against me, I really do try but boy

do they test me.

NATALIE storms into the front gate flustered and frantic.

INT. SCHOOL CORRIDOR - DAYTIME

She enters the school corridor and the teacher questions her.

MR SMITH

WHY ARE YOU SO LATE? THIS CAN’T BE A REGULAR THING IT IS GETTING RIDICLOUS. WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE THIS TIME?

NATALIE

(SCREAMS)

AH I CANT DEAL WITH THIS

Walks away angrily from MRS SMITH slamming the display board.

NATALIE

Over the shoulder shot Close up

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Extreme close up

Establishing shot

Long shot

Long shot and close up

Extreme close up

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(VOICEOVER)

See what I mean? Why don’t they just give me a break? And they wonder why I rebel against them all the time. They wonder why

I never listen and I’m so disobedient?

MRS SMITH

(Shouts)

Ummmm Natalie?

NATALIE stops walking and rolls her eyes in frustration.

NATALIE

(Shouts)

WHAT?

MRS SMITH

Can you come to my office please?

CUT TO.

INT. HEAD OF YEARS OFFICE – DAYTIME

MRS SMITH

Natalie, I’ve thought about it, and your attitude is just continuously deteriorating. You’ve had too many warnings.

NATALIE

(Interrupts)

What are you saying?

MRS SMITH

I’m not sure we can keep you here anymore; it doesn’t seem to be in your interests.

NATALIE

(Interrupts)

No but miss, it is in my interests I wanna stay

MRS SMITH

(Shouts)

NATALIE! You have had too many opportunities, it’s not working.

NATALIE

Close up

Close up of Natalie, long shot of Mrs Smith in the background

Two shot

Over the shoulder shot

Close up

(Shouts)

AH YOU KNOW WHAT, FINE! I’m used to not being listened to, have a nice life.

NATALIE storms out of MRS SMITH’S office and leaves school, she takes one look back at the school and then walks off angrily.

NATALIE

(Voice over)

Why does no one understand me? Or listen to me?

CUT TO.

EXT. ALLEY-DAYTIME.

NATALIE walks out of school; she falls to the ground, sitting with her legs crossed and her head in her hands. She stares at her bag where a bottle of vodka hangs out; she then takes the bottle out of her bag and swigs it quickly.

NATALIE

(Voice over)

If you’re judging me now, try being me

NATALIE continues drinking, she was crying with the makeup running down her face. She drinks a fair amount before throwing the bottle; it smashes into pieces. She leaves the alley.

CUT TO.

EXT.TRAIN STATION –DAYTIME

NATALIE walks in to the train station, she then boards a train

INT. TUBE – DAYTIME

NATALIE

(Voice over)

My parents already hate me, im the family hindrance, the let down, my dreams the hope is all shattered, my family do not believe in me. Now they’ve found out I got kicked out of

school, how could I go home? I couldn’t.

NATALIE on her phone, receives a text message from her mum, saying be home at soon. She then looks at the tube map. She then puts her earphones in and falls asleep.

Mid shot

Long shot

Close up & extreme close up

Over the shoulder shot

Close up

EXT. PARK – EVENING.

NATALIE sits there thinking, whilst simultaneously overlooking London in the distant view.

NATALIE

So here I am, lonely and isolated, no one caring no one listening, so what’s the point? Life’s becoming slightly untenable now; I can’t live without being listened to or

without being cared about. These people don’t understand the things that are going on in my life. My family don’t support me, they want me to be like my brother Mr Perfect and sister Miss Enthusiastic, but I want to be my own person. How can my

own family not understand me? The warmth they gave me was undeniable, it was like a ray of hope – like an illusion

before my very eyes I could see the shroud of protection being shattered, but now I don’t even have them! What is the point of life anyway, we’re born to grow old and lose all our uses, and become ostracised and disregarded so I’m missing nothing really, and no one will miss me that’s for sure. My life,

without definition seems like a hopeless spiral of protruding negativity. Now without meaning, without direction, without

guidance the emptiness is surreal.

NATALIE

(Voice over)

It’s time now, I’ve endured too much pain

INT NATALIE’S HOUSE, INSIDE THE SHOWER-NIGHTTIME

NATALIE stares in to the mirror, she simultaneously

NATALIE becomes more and more distressed as the argument continues, she then walks gets in the shower, fully clothed and turns it on.

Natalie shaking slightly she guides the blade to her wrists that have visible cut scars.

EXT FADE TO BLACK.

Establishing shot

Over the shoulder shot

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Close up & extreme close up

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