This is the Script for our soap trailer.

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media
Script
Name of Production:- ‘The Wells’
Group Members:
 Hannah Hughes – Director
 Asuka Young - Director
 Chris Jacobs - Producer
 Esme Quantrill - Producer
(Mum = Gloria, dad = Alex, girl = Holly)

2. Scene: Number 1
Character name: child (Holly)
Shot type/Camera Angle: MLS, angle: eye-level, static.
THEN: LS, angle: eye-level, tracking shot (after a cut).
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
*Non- Diegetic Music* - ring a ring o’ roses. OR can be diegetic, by
the child singing it?
Diegetic Sound: swing noise
Action: The child skipping forward with a cuddly toy
End
Scene: Number 2
Character name: child (Holly) & murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: POV shot of the gun to the child, close-up,
pull focus, angle: eye-level.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
*Non- Diegetic Music* - Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown): -coming in after
the ring’ o roses faded out.
Diegetic sound: Heavy Breathing of the murderer
Action: Black clad man, hipshot of weapon POV. Focus shift
from weapon to girl. Female character powerless to what the
male character is doing to her.
End
Scene: Number 3
Character name: child (Holly) & Cuddly Toy
Shot type/Camera Angle: Close-up, static, angle: eye-line/high
angle.

3. Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Diegetic sound: a thump on the ground as the doll falls.
*Non-Diegetic Music:* - Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Girl drops toy to floor in slow motion, hits ground with thud.
This is what the girl reacts like by dropping her toy its shows her
being shocked, to see what she’s seen
End
*CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘PRIDE’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 4
Character name: child (Holly) & murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: High angle, Long Shot.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & sons (Broken Crown)
Action: : bad guy looking down at the woman he’s just wounded, medium
long shot to give perspective of what has just happened
End
*CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘HATE’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 5
Character name: Mum (Gloria) & Dad (Alex)
Shot type/Camera Angle: In eye-level, a two in shot, (hand held?)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & sons (Broken Crown),
Gloria: “I don’t love you anymore!”
Action: Mum screaming at Dad,

4. Dad listening furiously. Eye level/ over two in shot to express the
tension and portrayal of emotions between the two characters.
End
CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘LUST’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 6
Character name: Mum (Gloria)
Shot type/Camera Angle: OSS, Eye-level, Close-up to the mirror’s
reflection
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Mum putting on red lipstick.
Focus on reflection of mum putting lipstick expresses that she
could be having an affair.
End
*CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘SLOTH’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 7
Character name: Dad (Alex)
Shot type/Camera Angle: Long shot, high angle, pan, (slow zoom?)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Dad giving up and falling down to floor. Full shot showing the
reaction of the dad finding out his daughters been kidnapped
End

5. *CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘GREED’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 8
Character name: Dad (Alex)
Shot type/Camera Angle: OSS, High angle, zoom in on note.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Dad receives ransom note. Focusing on the dad getting the
ransom note with OSS shot of male character
End
*CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘GLUTTONY’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford &
sons soundtrack
Scene: Number 9
Character name: murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: Birds eye / high angle
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & sons (Broken Crown)
Action: bad guy scoops money into arms. Focus on the money with an over
the shoulder shot of the male character still hidden by hood
End
*CUT TO SCREEN WITH WORD ‘ENVY’ –CU (a sound effect?) + Mumford & sons
soundtrack
Scene: Number 10
Character name: Dad (Alex)

6. Shot type/Camera Angle: ECU of eyes reflecting to the mirror inside
the car.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:*Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & sons (Broken Crown)
Action: dad watching his wife go to the bad guy because she knows him.
Focus on an eyeline match in the reflection of the car mirror
End
Scene: Number 11
Character name: Mum (Gloria) & murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: Establishing shot, low angle (This is just
a small cut)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic Music:*
-Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Mum (Gloria) going into the murderer’s house (but never see his
face)to let the audience know what the dad is looking at
End
Scene: Number 12
Character name: Dad (Alex) & Murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: Medium shot, eye-level. After a cut: close-
up of dad’s reaction to the man without hoodie.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:*Non-Diegetic Music:* -
Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown) AND/OR *diegetic sound effects of two
men interacting?
Action: Man grabbing another man. Dad getting bad guy. Unmask bad guy.
Focusing on the pull off the hood of villain with over the shoulder
shot exposing Dad’s reaction

7. End
Scene: Number 13
Character name: Murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: A long shot, panning from left to right.
Angle: eye-level – TO: medium shot from a low angle.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: Diegetic
sound effect of the swing swinging, *Non-Diegetic Music:* -Mumford &
sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Swing and man walking away
Focus on the swing creepily slowly swinging with a medium shot from a
low angle
End
Scene: Number 14
Character name: Murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: Medium long shot, panning from left to
right centering the murderer
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: Diegetic sound effect
of the wind, *Non-diegetic soundtrack faded away / ended*
Action: Man sitting on ‘The Wells’ street sign, the bad guy disguising
his image from public with hood using a medium long shot.
End
*A voice over*: “The Wells - brand new soap coming soon Thursday 8:30, only on BBC Two” .

8. Scene: Number: (between other scenes)
Character name: Holly, Alex, Gloria, Murderer
Shot type/Camera Angle: High angle with Over the shoulder shot,
Medium Close-up.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue: *Non-Diegetic
Music:* -Mumford & Sons (Broken Crown)
Action: Shots of the girl being pushed by other characters: Static,
focusing on the hands that pushes.
End