production script for short film called billy

1. PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
E/S
Establishing shot of the school, which is deserted.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy coming out of the front doors of the school and
him walking out of the shot.
C/U
Close up of Billy walking down the street.
M/S
The close up turns into a mid shot as Billy comes to a halt and
takes his bag off.
C/U
Close up of him unzipping his bag.
C/U
Close up of his face.
C/U
Close up of him pulling out Boy in striped pajamas.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face, which shows a keen interest in the book.
M/S
A tracking shot of Billy walking home.
C/U
A close up of Billy walking home. He comes to a stand still
C/U
Close up of his hand unzipping the bag and pulling out a ‘Boy In
Striped Pajamas’ from the bag.
C/U
Over the shoulder of him examining the book.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face of him examining the book, and then he
walks out of the shot.
M/S
From across the street we see Billy continuing his journey home.

2. PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
M/S
Mid shot from behind Billy who is still walking home down a
street,
M/S
Mid shot of Billy walking towards his front door on his driveway.
Billy gets his keys and puts them in the camera as if the camera is
the keyhole.
C/U
A close over the shoulder shot of Billy entering this house and
opening the door and walks in his house.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy taken from the top of the stairs of Billy walking
up the stairs.
C/U
A close up of Billy’s face as he is ignored by his mother.
M/S
Mid shot of him walking up the stairs to his room.
M/S
Mid shot of him opening the door to his room, while taking the
book out of his bag and lying on his bed.
C/U
Close up of Billy reading an extract from the book.
C/U
Close up of the book he is reading with the voice over still going.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face yawning and beginning to tire.
C/U
Close up of the book, blurred vision and swaying camera
movement to represent the tiredness. Vision fades to black with
voice-overs voice becoming distorted.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy leaping up from his bed towards the camera as
the alarm clock rings.
“Hello Mom!”
“And then the room went very dark and
somehow, despite the chaos that followed,
Bruno found that he was still holding
Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the
world would have persuaded him to let it
go.”
PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
C/U
Close up shot of the alarm that is going off, angled so you can see Billy
slightly blurred out he turns the alarm clock off.
M/S
A mid shot that follows and pans Billy walking down the stairs and
walks towards his front door.
C/U
A close up of Billy’s face before he opens the door to look back at his
mom where she stayed the whole night.
M/S
Mid shot of the same frame of when he first saw his mom on the sofa.
C/U
Close up of him turning around and opening the door to his house.
M/S
Mid shot of him walking through the park.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy walking towards and sitting on a bench.
C/U
Close up of him pulling out his book from his bag.
C/U
Rotating shot of him starting to read the book with a blurred figure
walking towards him and knocks.
C/U
Close up of the book that has just hit the ground.
C/U
Back to the same close up with the blurred figure, over the shoulder
shot. It stays like that for a few seconds until he walks out of the shot.
C/U
It then shows a close up of Billy’s face and his emotion.
M/S
There is then a mid shot of those tracks him walking towards the book
that was thrown.
Bye mom.
PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
C/u
Close up of his hand picking up the book
C/U
Close up of him looking at the dirtied book and wiping the book.
M/S
Mid shot of him walking back to his bag and talking to the book.
C/U
Close up of Billy as he looks at the book again.
C/U
Close up of Billy putting the book into his bag.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy walking towards the woods.
M/S
Another mid shot of Billy walking towards the woods
M/S
Mid shot of Billy walking through the woods.
C/U
Over the shoulder shot of what he is seeing in front of him.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face establishing his surroundings in the
woods.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face as he turns around.
M/S
Mid shot of the surroundings showing nothing with Billy in the
middle scanning the surroundings.
C/U
Close up of Billy as he turns around with a not so familiar smile on
his face. But his smile slightly fades as he starts to realize that no
one is around him.
M/S
Slowly moving tracking shot of Billy navigating through the
woods from the side.
As sad as it sounds, Books are the only thing I have.
Places like this aren’t for us anyway.
• whispering voice *
Hello?
Sorry, I’m not used to having fun and games. Your making
me feel uncomfortable.

4. PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
HA! I’m going insane.
Billy!?
Hello?
Hello? Was that you? Can you speak?
Billy. There is no point in feeling sorry for yourself.
WHAT!?
In times of need you have no one to turn to.
C/U
Close up of Billy’s face as he starts to get agitated and anxious
about the fact the no one is around him.
M/S
Mid shot of the woods which shows nothing.
C/U
Close up of Billy scanning another part of his surroundings
M/S
Mid shot of another part of Billy’s surroundings.
M/S
Mid shot of Billy in the center of the screen. A whispering voice
calls Billy and as it happens the trombone shot happens.
M/S
An arc shot of Billy being scared and scanning his surroundings.
The pan slows down and rises towards his head and slows down
until it stops because of a bottle in the distance.
Shift Focus
Shift focus of a close up of bottle which then focuses on Billy in
the background.
C/S
Close up of Billy as he waits for a response.
C/U
Close up of the bottle.
C/U
Close up of Billy who is confused.
C/U
Close up of the bottle.
C/U
Close up of Billy.
C/U
Close up of the Bottle.
PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
C/U
Close up of Billy
C/U
Close up of the bottle.
C/U
Swaps to Billy
C/U
Close up back to the bottle.
C/U
Close up of Billy.
C/U
Close up of Bottle.
C/U
Close up of Billy.
C/U
Close up of the bottle.
C/U
Close up of Billy
C/U
Close up of the Bottle
C/U
Close up of Billy.
C/U
Close up of the Bottle.
You’re a bottle what do you know. Bottles don’t feel
emotions. You know nothing. You’re just plastic.
I may be a plastic bottle, and I may not be human. But what
you know about being alone I know too. A bottles has
nowhere to go when its thrown out.
A bottle is unable to speak to other bottles. Bottles cannot
move, see, hear, think. Bottles are never companied by
anyone. But you are human. You can see, hear and speak. You
have people to turn to. Friendship is a responsibility, not an
opportunity.
But I have no friends, no family and that is rectified by the
fact that I’m talking to a bottle.
Put yourself in the shoes of others. Your mother. She is lonely.
But she has a reason to be. Your fathers passing cannot dent
your relationship. It needs to be closer than ever/ and only you
can change that.
But how? She doesn’t speak t-
Get rid of the book…
Well then id really be lonely.
But then it allows you to communicate.
What if I don’t want to? What if I prefer my book to people?
What i-
Well then live the rest of your life in silence.

5. PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
M/S
Transitions to a Mid 2 shot of the Bottle and Billy standing by a
barrel of fire.
C/U
Close up of Billy as he looks at the book before he throws it into
the fire.
C/U
Close up of the Book being thrown into the fire.
C/U
Close up of Billy. He walks out of the shot after a couple of
seconds. As he walks out of the shot, the bottle has disappeared. It
slowly zooms in on the emptiness and cuts to a black screen.

6. PRODUCTION SCRIPT
Working Title: Billy Date: 6.11.15
AUDIOVIDEO
M/S
Transitions to a Mid 2 shot of the Bottle and Billy standing by a
barrel of fire.
C/U
Close up of Billy as he looks at the book before he throws it into
the fire.
C/U
Close up of the Book being thrown into the fire.
C/U
Close up of Billy. He walks out of the shot after a couple of
seconds. As he walks out of the shot, the bottle has disappeared. It
slowly zooms in on the emptiness and cuts to a black screen.