Script - Straight to the Moon

Straight to the Moon

EXT. BEDROOM- EARLY AFTERNOON


Extreme close up of MIA's eye closed. Smears of dark makeup around her eye. Her eyes flutter open. The camera slowly zooms out to reveal her bedroom.

Cut to short takes of flash back scene as camera zooms out.

Areal shot. Mid side shot She looks around the room and gets up. Cut to under the bed. You see her feet walking about, and then leaving the room


close up of MIA looking at herself in the mirror. MIA looks sadly at herself, and traces the makeup stains and bruise on her left eye on her face with her hands.

Cut to short takes of flashback scene.

MIA shudders.

Close-up on the Phone as it vibrates Focus on phone, with MIA in the background blurred, MIA picks up phone, reverse focus to MIA in focus and the fore ground blurred . Mid shot of MIA looking at the phone

Cut to extreme close up of the text message she has been sent: 'PARTY. 26 REDGROVE DRIVE. YOU GAME?'. Mid shot to MIA looking at the phone with a careless expression. Camera cuts back to the extreme close of the phone showing her reply 'I'M THERE'.


ACTION: MIA getting ready for the party.


Fast cuts. Close up of eye shadow being applied. Close up of lip gloss. Close up of stocking being pulled on. Close up  of hair being done. Close up earring’s on Same camera angle as mirror mid shot, but MIA is fully changed for the party.

 


EXT. PARTY SCENE

Description of overall scene;

Blue and red contrasting lighting. Short fast cuts. In front of MIA’s face, showing her expression. Discontinuity editing. Loud diegetic sound. Flashes of the party with short and shorter cuts to increase tension. Combination of close up and mid shots

Flashes

MIA is kneeling in front of a table of a line of shot glasses, filled with red liquid, drinking them in a line from left to right

-      Close up shot  

MIA is in a corner with people pushing into her( 4 people on each side, walking past her, 2 people behind her facing away from the camera talking)

-      Close up shot

MIA dancing in a careless way, a little apart from the people surrounding her.

MIA is in the centre of the shot.

-      Mid shot

MIA is sitting alone on the stairs with a bottle of clear liquid. She swigs it and shudders. Swigs again.

-      Mid shot

-      Close up shot

MIA is knelt is front of toilet being sick.

-High angle shot.

MIA wipes her mouth and leans against the bath/heater and begins crying into her hands.

-      Mid shot

-      Close up shot

EXT. OVERDOSE SCENE

Tracking shot from behind as MIA walks down the hallway, she then stops at the end of the corridor. Close up shot of MIA staring at the camera. Expressionless.

Mid to long shot of 2 men and 1 woman are crouched on a couch with a silver tinfoil packet, preparing heroin. Cut to a close up of the man opening up the tinfoil, beginning to light it.

Cut to mid shot of MIA looking at the teen, high angle, then walking towards the camera, enveloping it.

Cut to shot of group of teens, with the camera panning from left to right then right to left across their faces, with smoke covering their expressions.

Slow tilt from the needle to MIA

Mid shot of MIA’s face slowly smiling.

Lighting fades to saturated. Frame effects- misty

Face to lesser close up from the side

Fade to same lesser close up of rocking

Camera follow MIA as she falls , then zooms in to extreme close up of her eye.

 

EXT. Rewind

The first three scenes are played backwards.

EXT. Bedroom rerun

Extreme close up of MIA’s eyes closed. Smears of dark makeup around her eye.

Her eye flutters open. The camera slowly zooms out to show her bedroom

Cut to

Mid shot from mirror of MIA walking towards the mirror. Close up of MIA looking sadly at herself, as she traces the makeup stains and bruise on her eye with her hands.

Close-up on the Phone as it vibrates Focus on phone, with MIA in the background blurred, MIA picks up phone, reverse focus to MIA in focus and the fore ground blurred . Mid shot of MIA looking at the phone

Cut to extreme close up of the text message she has been sent: 'PARTY. 26 REDGROVE DRIVE. YOU GAME?'

Mid shot of MIA from the mirror looking at the text as she slowly looks up at the camera and her eyes widen in realisation.

EXT. Flash backs

Tracking shot following MIAs boyfriend from behind as he walks towards her sitting on the edge of her bed looking up at him.

Close up shot-

MIA before she is hit.

High angle shot –

MIA’s boyfriend backhands her as she moves out of the frame.

Mid shot-

MIA’s boyfriend grabs her shoulders and rams her into the wall.

High angle shot-

MIA on the floor after she has been hit looking up at the camera.