Production Plan

Production Plan

Scene 1 – John is waiting outside a room for somebody in a hospital, looking anxious. A consultant/doctor then comes out of a room and starts walking down the corridor with John. Subtitles say “well John, we just need to finish checking the test results. It could be serious, but try not to worry at this stage”.

Scene 2 – Cut to him walking out of hospital and looking out on to the streets. “Don’t get any big ideas”.
Cut to him travelling home in the car, stuck in traffic. He looks nervous. Cut to shot of the Traffic Lights moving out of focus. “They’re not gonna happen”.
John could sing 1st half of line.

Scene 3 – He arrives home, makes a drink, looks out of the window and sees a crow/animal.
He tries to distract himself (watching T.V, reading a book, pressing a stress ball) but can’t stop thinking about it.
Intercut him trying to distract himself with images of death (gravestone, birds flying away, foreshadowing shots of him lying down on the path and the gangster looking down at him.)

Scene 5 – he then leaves the room for an early night. Cut to him in bed, fidgeting and sweating vigorously (having nightmares). “You paint yourself white”.

Scene 6 – More quick cuts of death and flashbacks of doctor. “Fill up with noise”.

Scene 7 – Cut in to the dream. He is lying on the floor, and then the gangster picks him up and pushes him in front. “They’ll be something missing”.
John could sing the line.

Scene 8 – Cut back to him sat on the edge of his bed, still sweating and looking worried. He gets up and tiredly walks downstairs. He then sits by the table and reads a letter from the hospital from the day before telling him to come in to the hospital. He falls asleep. “Now that you’ve found it, it’s gone”.
Could sing line.

Scene 9 – Cut back to dream. He is now jogging away from the gangster down a long path. “Now that you feel it, you don’t”.
He rounds a corner and runs for a while, then turns around and the gangster is still following him. “You’ve gone off the rails”.

Scene 10 – He keeps running. Cut to images of death again, flashback of doctor and hospital. “So don’t get any big ideas”. Could sing part of the line.
Cut back to him on path rounding another corner, but the gangster continues to follow. “They’re not gonna happen”. He sings the line.

Scene 11 – He runs around another corner and then stops, breathes, and thinks about doing something to stop the gangster. “You’ll go to hell for what you’re dirty mind is thinking”.
Could sing part of the line before he turns around.
On the final word of the line he rounds the corner to see if the gangster is still chasing him but he is right there in front of him.

Scene 12 – He wakes up at the kitchen table and phone is ringing. He answers it and it is the doctor/consultant. Subtitle - “Hi John, this is Dr Smith, your test results have come out positive. Your all clear”. John looks incredibly relieved – “alright thanks, bye”.
He puts the phone down and sits there looking hopeful. He gets up and walks away.

Cut to him lying in bed, not fidgeting or sweating anymore.

*shoot sections on the path, death references and bits where he’s fidgeting in bed handheld.
*Shoot sections at hospital, bits in car, and when all the parts in his house on tripod.




Day 1 Shoot the sections at his house.
The bits at the hospital (exterior shot of him walking out and looking across the streets.
Shoot the interior car shots and traffic light shots.
Shoot any death images (graveyard, birds flying away, bloody knife, crow etc)

Day 2 Film all the path section (windy road near college)
Film the bits with the doctor on a college corridor that resembles a hospital corridor.