from Christopher Robinson
to sylviatoyindustries
date Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:14 PM
subject Re: Beat 3 Actor's Script with shot setups numbered
Hello Sylvia, I think this is a pretty good representation of what we
discussed yesterday-
Beat Two Continued…
(On the subject of why K left home and went to live on the other side of town.)
K is fixing dinner for her husband; he is sitting at their table
reading a Russian newspaper.
a. Wide shot of K as we hear a bell sound, she walks to the oven and
takes out a chicken. (It is a whole chicken like the kind they sell in
China town.) We follow her (Medium shot with the hand held as she sets
the chicken on the table and smiles.
b. Close up of the chicken as it rest on the table.
c. Medium shot of K’s husband as he say’s, “Is this it? All you made
was a chicken?”
d. Medium shot of K as she says, “I am sorry I didn’t know that you
wanted any sides.”
e. Medium shot of K’s husband as picks at his chicken and say’s, “Its okay.”
f. Fade into an extreme close up of his mouth as he picks the chicken
with his hands, cut in to him putting the chicken in his mouth. Fade
out to a close up as we watch him chew, he eventually lets it dribble
out from his mouth in a lame attempt at spitting it out.
g. Wide shot of the two of them as they watch the food fall to the
table and they stare at it. The camera goes to a medium shot of K who
asks, “What’s wrong with it?”
h. Wide medium shot of husband as he says, “Nothing.”
i. Medium close up shot of K as she lays her head down and mumbles,
“Nothing you just spit it out.”
j. Medium shot of K’s husband as he laughs. “It’s just a little dry.
(We hear sobbing from the other side of the table, but keep the camera
on K’s husband, who says, “Its okay you’ll get better.”
k. Wide shot of the two as K looks up and say’s. “My mother never
taught me to cook like the other mothers did.”
j. Medium shot of K’s husband as he says, “its okay.”
k. Wide medium shot of K, as she covers her face and mumbles, “When
you talk to me like this it makes my whole world go black.”
l. Wide shot of the two as her husband smiles, “I said that it is okay
I know you will get better.”
m. Close up of K’s face as she grows more discontent, it scrunching up
until she fumes. We can hear her husband trying to comfort her in the
background, he says, “Everything will be fine you are my wife and I
married a beautiful woman that gets better with everything she tries
and I know that you’ll get…”
n. Wide shot of K as she knocks glass’s and a candle enroot to the
chicken, she picks up what remains of it. (Fade out into a very wide
shot) as she runs over to her husband, as she raises the bird up he
asks, “What do you think you are doing?”
o. Close up of K’s face as she raises the chicken up in the air, cut
in to the chicken in her hand, then back to her face as it swings
down.
p. Wide shot of the two as her husband gets hit.
q. Over the shoulder shot as her husband gets hit again.
r. Wide shot as he eventually falls to the floor, K stands over him
and hits him with the chicken until he passes out.
s. She bends down and pokes at him, when he doesn’t move she begins to
scream, “What is wrong with me? I have never hurt anything in my life,
why did I hit you my love? What is wrong with me?”
t. Extreme close up of her face as she looks up at the ceiling.
u. Fade out to medium shot as we follow her with a hand held camera
and watch as she grabs for some of her things and rushes out the door.
End beat two.
