Broken Silence: Script

Scene 1 Memory Dream (shrooms)

EXT

A girl is playing in a play park, picks up her camera and takes photos of random things. She runs towards us, stops and looks sad, then walks away. We hear a voice telling here to come back.

(We establish the significance of the camera and the importance of the relationship between the daughter and the man.)

Scene 2 A day in the life 


EXT & INT

A man wakes up in bed, has breakfast, goes to work, then comes back home. Next day he picks out a different tie, has breakfast, goes to work, then comes back home. He has the same routine everyday.
Its dinner and he breaks down. Supported by his arms on the table he cries, his wife tries to comfort him.

(Establishes that he is getting on with his life, despite the huge loss but there is still something missing)

Scene 3 Photographs 


INT


He his sitting in a darkly lit room at a desk. The desk is scattered with photographs and there are boxes on the floor. He is looking through the photographs which are photos which his daughter took. He specifically takes some photos and puts them in to an album.

Scene 4 


INT

Flash back. Inside an unknown room, it is dark and dreary. We see the girl walking around with her camera on her own in this room. She hears hurried male voices coming from the next room, she peeks around the door frame and takes a photo. The people inside are quiet as they suspect someone is there.