3rd draft of opening sequence script.

1. Persona Non Grata
By
Marnie Green
Original Screenplay
Fine Arts College 2016 02075860312

2. 1 EXT.LOCATION.DAY 1
Fade from black to establishing.
She does not live in a highly populated area. Its a
suburb. Its relatively quiet with countryside and rural
landscapes. Theres lots of greenery and fields. This will
give context, establish where she lives. There will be
sounds of birds and nature. It will be subtle and not too
loud. Will be heard when giving establishing shots.
show house and nature with backwards nature noises
soundtrack.
2 IDENT 2
Distributor Ident:
Microwave films
3 IDENT 3
Production Co. Ident
Marginal Films
4 INTER TITLES 4
Microwave (INFRARED) Films
In association with Film London
Presents
A Marginal Films Production
SOUND BRIDGE: the sound of needle beginning the record of
Symphony No.3- Johannes Brahms, the rustle of paper.
JENNIFER V/O
(off screen)
Ethel Constance Genevieve
(reading obituaries)
5 INT.BEDROOM.DAY 5
A very neat and perfect looking soulless bedroom.
Perfectly placed objects adorn the room.
China dolls, statues, vases, frames on the walls. A small
single bed neatly made with pink duvet cover.
(off screen) Hear her reading names of obituary.
In the corner of the room is a simple homemade tent made
from two chairs and a sheet, there is no light coming from
the sheets, it is partially blocking any natural light
entering from the windows. Jennifer is sitting within.
(CONTINUED)

3. CONTINUED: 2.
JENNIFER V/O
I don’t like to talk about the
things most other kids talk
about.
I don’t like talking about boys
or other meaningless topics
but i guess nothing is
meaningless to me. And thats part
of the problem.
6 INT.TENT.DAY 6
Inside the tent is Jennifer a ten year old with black
curly hair and brown bug eyes. She is in her old
fashioned, floral dress and heavy face makeup. She is
reading the obituary in the times. She is reading aloud
each name in differently toned voices to match how she
imagines the people spoke. She draws pictures and creates
stories of each name she reads from the obituary. She is
surrounded by items. A globe of the world, a vinyl record
player and a stack of encyclopaedias.
There is one obituary she is obsessed with. His name was
Sir Nelson Fordman. He lived on her road. She creates
stories about what she imagined his life to be. Creates
sketches. Writes stories. What he looked like and what he
did in his life was created in her mind. She decides to
find out more about his life. She keeps it all to herself.
She wants to see if her imagination could become a
reality. This will not be shown, but suggested.
Towards the end, vague and subtle stair creaking will be
heard. A knock at the door will pause Jennifer in her
tracks. Her mum enters the bedroom.
mum v/o
Jennifer, time for lunch.
Mums viewpoint shows us two chairs with Jennifer sat
in-between. No blankets. No globes or record player or
books or newspapers.
Has Jennifer managed to dismantle all of her prized
possessions or did they never exist to begin with.
Jennifer runs downstairs, mum looks at the chairs and
turns to walk downstairs.