Soap Opera Genre - Script - Langley Vale Sean Wayne Unit G342

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media
Script
Name of Production:- ‘Langley Vale’
Group Members (Full names):
 (1012)Imani Ayimba-Golding - Jo
 (1248)Jonathan Villacci - Mike
 (1159)Lucas Kirkland - Kane
 (1254)Sean Wayne – Norman
Fade in:
Scene: 1
Character name: Jo, Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye level - Panning shots of the downs and the
street (establishing shots.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Sound of Chopping on a chopping board.
Sound Bridge-
Tracey: “He’s not a kidnapper” (Desperate)
Action: Showing panning shot of the downs and the street. Fade to black and
back again in-between these shots

2. Cuts in:
Scene: 2
Character name: Jo, Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye level - Static camera when from looking at
Tracey's face to looking at Jo saying her line.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Jo: “If not? Who is?” (Stern/ Passive-Aggressive)
Action: Aunt (Jo) Kitchen, Chopping at the cutting board. Pause as saying
line look directly at Tracy. Then back to chopping.
Cuts in:
Scene: 3
Character name: Jo, Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: High Angle - Close up shot on hand with newspaper
showing Headline about a kidnap in Langley Vale
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
(Instrumental)
Action: Newspaper scrunched in hand, with the word “Kidnapping in Langley
Vale” title.

3. Dissolves in:
Scene: 4
Character name: Paige
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye Level - Camera tracking Paige as she runs
through the forest
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘I want love to, roll me over slowly…’
Action: Flask Back - Shows Paige running through the downs
Cuts in:
Scene: 5
Character name: Paige
Shot type/Camera Angle: High Angle - Static shot on red ribbon as it is
dropped (something of Paige's that is lost)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around…’
Action: The red ribbon falls from Paige’s hair
Cuts in:
Scene: 6
Character name: Kane

4. Shot type/Camera Angle: High Angle - Static shot, watching the hand pick
up the ribbon showing the kidnapper has the ribbon
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘I want love to…’
Action: Cuts back to the present time, see a hand picking up the red ribbon
that was dropped.
Cuts in:
Scene: 7
Character name: Norman
Shot type/Camera Angle: High Angle - Tracking Norman’s hand, Camera
backing away from Norman into a long shot in next shot
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Grab my fingers gently…’
Action: From seeing had picking up the ribbon to seeing a hand pick up a milk
bottle with red lid.
Continued Shot:
Scene: 8
Character name: Norman, Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye Level - Tracking Norman walking up to the
house with milk bottle in hand.

5. Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground’
Action: Norman walking with milk bottle in hand, trying to see if he can peak
through the windows to see Paige as he walks, Tracy watching Norman through
the window
Cuts in:
Scene: 9
Character name: Norman, Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye Level - Wrap around Norman looking for Paige,
stops when Tracey comes into view looking out through the window (OOS)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘I want love to, murder my own mother’
Action: Tracy and Norman eye contact, Norman immediately looks guilty. Tracy
watching with stern expression.
Cuts in:
Scene: 10
Character name: Mike
Shot type/Camera Angle: High Angle - Static shot as Mike walks past,
watching as you see the keys on the table and then suddenly they are gone
(view blocked by Mike’s body)
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Take her off to somewhere like hell or up above’

6. Action: Hand Grapping Keys (With red elastic band on the chain) as Mike walks
past out the door
Cuts in:
Scene: 11
Character name: Mike
Shot type/Camera Angle: Eye Level - Tracking shot focusing on Mike
walking to the bike, getting on and driving away
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘And I want love to…’
Action: Mike Exits the door, walks up to bike, gets on and drives away.
Cuts in:
Scene: 12
Character name: Mike and Kane
Shot type/Camera Angle: Sees Kane walking in opposite direction (from behind
Mike moving away from the camera
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Change my friends to enemies…’
Action: Mike and Kane move passed as mike drives past Kane walks in the
opposite direction

7. Scene: 13
Character name: Mike and Kane
Shot type/Camera Angle: close up shots of faces and expressions
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Change my friends to enemies…’
Action: Mike and Kane exchange glances as they move past each other
Scene: 14
Character name: Kane
Shot type/Camera Angle: Tracking shot of the red bad around Kane's wrist
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Show me how it’s all my fault’
Action: Kane walking down the street to the house, red rubber bracelet
around his hand. Focus on red band.
Scene: 15
Character name: Kane

8. Shot type/Camera Angle: Static shot watching Kane move down part of the
street.
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘I won’t let love disrupt, corrupted…’
Action: Camera watches Kane from across the road as he walks towards the
house.
Scene: 16
Character name: Kane Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Kane in the foreground, seeing Tracy in the back
ground looking at him
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Or interrupt me. I won’t let love disrupt corrupt…’
Action: Kane walks into the house (front door), Tracy standing in down the
hall, looking at Kane. (Deep and shallow focus)
Scene: 17
Character name: Kane and Tracey
Shot type/Camera Angle: Kane slamming the door behind him, in front of the
camera as he looks Tracey
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:

9. Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Or interrupt me’
Action: Kane slams the door behind him
Scene: 18
Character name: Everyone
Shot type/Camera Angle: Camera steady, having multiple people In the shot
showing some/all of their faces. People at different levels (some people
closer to the camera than others
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Yeah, I won’t let love disrupt…’
Action: Everyone at the pub gathered around a table/bench outside
Scene: 19
Character name: Everyone
Shot type/Camera Angle: cutting between people’s eyes looking at each other
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
‘Corrupt or interrupt me, anymore’
Tracey: ‘Where could my baby girl be?’
Action: people glancing at each other suspiciously

10. Scene: 20
Character name: everyone
Shot type/Camera Angle: Steady shot looking at people’s hands
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
(Instrumental)
Action: Focusing on peoples hand
Scene: 21
Character name: Unknown
Shot type/Camera Angle: Steady shot focusing on the closest persons hands
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:
Love Interruption’ – Jack White
(Instrumental)
Action: Closest hand in focus, reaches into pocket pulls out red ribbon,
hand clasps around the ribbon
Scene: 22
Voiceover/Non-Diegetic Music/Diegetic Dialogue:

11. Love Interruption’ – Jack White (instrumental)
“Langley Vale, coming soon, at 8:30 on weekdays to BBC2”
Action: Cuts to black
Shows Langley vale logo with BBC2 logo
End