Children's Film - Final Copy

This is our final copy for our children's film opening sequence.

Storyboard & Shot List

Childrens Film Script

Barry Trotter and the Lost Scrolls

Script

The camera zooms in from a long, establishing shot to a mid shot of Barry who is levitating a stone with amazement.

HEIDI

(Walks towards Barry with books in her arms)

The stone flies towards Heidi and hits her in the side of the head

HEIDI

(Falls over crying)

BARRY

Oh Heidi! I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to hit you I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!

HEIDI

It’s okay Barry don’t worry, I’m fine, nothing the elixir of Calpol won’t fix!

BARRY

(Bends over to pick her up of the floor)

I feel so bad though, here have a sweet on me please, I insist there your favourites

(Takes some sweets from his pocket)

HEIDI

(Reaches out to take a sweet and eats one)

Eurgh, earwax and snot flavoured, I’m going to be sick!

(Runs over to the nearby bush and is sick by the side of it)

DOM

(Walks by whistling the Harry Potter theme tune, slips in the sick and falls by the side of the bush dramatically)

Woah! That’s disgusting!

BARRY & HEIDI

(Laughing)

DOM

It’s not funny at all; I’m lying in sick!

(Begins to pick himself up from the floor, sees something and falls back down again in amazement)

Oh great jumping magical toads!

BARRY

What!

DOM

(Reaches in and picks out the scroll from the bush and holds it above his head)

HEIDI

(Quietly)

It can’t be! Surely not

DOM

(Gets up and runs to Barry and Heidi)

BARRY

What is that, it looks like some kind of scroll

DOM

(Hands the scroll to Barry and they unravel it and hold it up so only the characters can see it)

BARRY

What is it?

HEIDI

(opens up one of her books at a random page and shows the characters)

It’s the lost scrolls of Haddenham!

This is a test shot where we found out how to crop one moving image into another. In our real opening sequence we will be levatating a stone with a wand however as we cannot actually do this we had to film two different shots from the same position. One shot is a character moving the wand and the second shot is of the stone levatating, in order to do this we tied fishing wire round a stone and held it from a high position. When we combined the images together we found that the camera had moved slightly and when cropping the person holding the stone out of the image the right side of the film looked slightly distorted. When we actually film we will ensure that the camera doesn't move so that the images match.

Props/Location

Props
Stone = normal stone (outside)
Wand = Stick (outside)
Multi-flavoured sweets = Skittles (Heidi)
Scrolls = Sahib's scroll (Sahib)
Levitating Stone = fishing wire (college)

Location
Art garden with a bench in some shots.