This is slightly different, as I've been wanting to try my hand at screenwriting, and decided to go with writing a trailer for a movie I would like to see.
When it comes down to it, this is for my own benefit. If others like it, awesome. If not, you can blame the person that inspired me to write it! As always, feedback is welcome.
IN PROGRESS NEWS
SHOW (a la Larry King, et al.)
We’re treated to
lined or grainy news footage showing a slight sliver of light in the daytime
sky. Over this footage, discussion takes place over a recent satellite
explosion. Overplaying the footage is what seems to be a broadcast
transmission.
TRANSMITTED
VOICE
…Please,
tell our kids…
(static)
HOST
That,
of course, being the last words received from
the
station. Really moving stuff.
GUEST
(solemn)
Absolutely.
HOST
And
you, doctor, feel this will have no impact on the
future
of our space program as it exists now?
GUEST
Quite
the opposite, in fact! What more revitalization
could
NASA’s program need than the Galatea incident?
I
posit tha…
(cut
off)
CITY STREET
A camera quickly pans around,
showing the scene of a grisly traffic accident. In the background, a school bus
is overturned and bursts into flames as the camera squares onto a female
reporter.
REPORTER
(horrified)
Frame
me in this.
(adjusting
position)
What?
(composing
breath)
We
interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcast
to
bring you breaking news from the heart of the
city.
Here, moments ago, this bus that you see behind
me
overturned when struck by another vehicle.
(turns
as more sirens get closer)
A
fire team has arrived to…
(screams
and ducks)
At
this time, the bus completely erupts in flames. Children can be heard screaming
from within. The cameraman focuses on the bus, then beyond to the rescue teams.
One firefighter stands dumbstruck after hopping down from his engine, then
falls to his knees, as if losing all hope.
CAMERMAN
(offscreen,
framing firefighter)
What’s
that? What’s he doing?!
REPORTER
(now
offscreen)
What?
What do you mean?
(looks
into camera as comes into frame, then away)
The
horror of these incidents can affect even the
bravest
among us.
At
this, the camera zooms, as the reporter was talking, the fireman’s eyes have
become points of light, but now we see that they almost seem to blaze like the
bus’ fire.
FIREMAN
(mouthing)
No.
A
scream of displaced air takes place as the fire is sucked out of the bus and
toward the fireman. He opens his eyes and mouth wide, as if to scream, but no
sound other than the torrent of flame can be heard.
With
the last of the flame, the shot draws in as the fireman seems to literally eat
the fire. His open mouth shape held by flame as the camera seems to pan back
out into blackness to reveal the spot as the open part of a capital “A”, which
then turns black as the letter itself shifts to bright yellow.
“ABERRANT”
Music
picks up here, dramatic, classically cinematic. Snippets of action, preferably
NOT included in film shown here, to highlight the sheer number of Novas in the
world. One of the first clips shown is of the Fireman’s eruption.
Caestus
Pax holding a building erect while inhabitants escape. A woman sneaking about
and teleporting to evade baseline or Nova security. A boardroom; a woman at the
table’s eyes flash and everyone else at the table nods and signs a form as she
smiles.
Camera
seems to pan out some with every snippet, becoming walleye as it does, then
resolving to the world. A man “stands” above it all, seen to be in orbit as he
rotates past a satellite. Divis Mal is revealed in half-light of the distant
sun and smiles.
Screen
blacks.
Date
of release.
Property
ownership and production companies.
End
trailer.
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