For our visualisation task

1. INT. KITCHEN - MORNING
A clock ticks on the kitchen wall. Eggs boil on the hob.
Stanley’s mother’s fingers tap. Toast pops up. The buttered toast
is cut into soldiers. The top of a boiled egg is removed with a
spoon. The sounds of all this combine in an ordered rhythmic
symphony.
Stanley’s father sits at the kitchen table reading a tatty paper.
Stanley enters wearing childish clothing, far too small for his
skinny but gangly frame, and joins his father at the table.
Perfectly on cue his mother arrives with his plate of egg and
soldiers and places it in front of him. As Stanley begins to eat
she pours a cup of tea for his father and sits down.
Stanley eats contentedly. He looks over to his father who smiles
at him and then goes back to reading his paper. The father
jerkily turns the page every few seconds… rather too fast to be
actually reading it. He seems much older than in the photo - his
skin is blotchy and dry and his movements very rigid but Stanley
seems unaware of his poor health.
Stanley is half-way through his food when the cuckoo clock
chimes. He turns to it and sees that it is 9 o’clock. He jumps up
and leaves the table. His mother turns to the space where her son
just was and smiles at the empty chair. Like Stanley’s father she
appears to have aged significantly since the photo was taken.

2. Consider:
● furniture/props
● decor/style
● colours
● how the production design might reflect the characters
Draw your ideas and/or search the web to find some images which most closely match what you
are thinking. Google images and Pinterest are good tools to find pictures.
Create a ‘set’ from your ideas and images. Label it clearly. Include the necessary details from
the screenplay extract.
Share your ideas and look at the choices made by other learners. How do the different choices of
settings affect your reading of the scene?