The short film script follows a protagonist who believes it is lucky that it is Friday the 13th. Scenes show him buying a lottery ticket and watching the drawing on TV with his ticket numbers matching. However, as he celebrates outside, a gust of wind blows his winning ticket down a drain. A passerby who witnessed this says "Friday the 13th, unlucky for some eh?" to the now devastated protagonist.

1. Short Film Script - Friday the 13th:
Good • The clip will start off with a panning shot of the calendar to show the days he has
Feeling - crossed off so far. An over the shoulder shot of the protagonist shows him crossing off
the 12th of April on the calendar so the audience can tell that it is Friday the 13th. (the
Florida
setting could show a bright sunny day to show the connotations of hope for the
playing in
protagonist)
the
• Get a point of view shot of him grabbing some money and putting it in his back pocket.
background
• Have a long shot of the protagonist running down the stairs grabbing his coat and
putting it on outside the door.
• Have a wide shot of him walking to the shop and going inside.
• Then skip to the setting of inside the shop where the protagonist asks for a millions
lottery ticket. Hands the money from his back pocket to the shopkeeper where he
receives the ticket. A close up on the ticket will be taken here and an over the shoulder
shot will be used when placing the numbers on the ticket until the ticket is put into his
back pocket.
• Fade in from the shop to where the protagonist sits down in the chair to watch the
lottery on the TV.
• Zoom into the person placing their hand on the button and cut to the anticipation on the
protagonists face.
• Have his fingers crossed as a sign of good luck to try and win the lotto.
• The first ball is released and the protagonist repeats the number out loud, whilst a close
up of the ticket showing the same number, this is repeated until the last number.
• Slow motion as the last ball is revealed to a shot of the protagonist’s eye looking at his
ticket.
• A close up of the celebration on his face, which zooms out to the low angle shot of him
staying up to show that he is in control of the situation.
• The protagonist says “Friday the 13th unlucky for some eh?” and the camera does a close
up of him kissing the ticket and takes his celebration outside.
• Wide shot of the calm and silent street, as he starts jumping up and down and doing a
Billy Elliot signature move (clap feet together).
• A cut to show the trees blowing in the wind to the protagonist letting go of the ticket as
it gets blown out of his hand.
• Close up of ticket and follow its trail as it goes to the drain. As following the ticket a
passer by is visible in the background but not clear.
• Close up of the devastated face of the protagonist shouting “noooooo!” and has a high
angle shot of him crouching down to see if he can spot the ticket down the drain. This is
Bad day to show that he has lost control of the situation and is in a powerless position.
-Daniel • As he goes on the passer by seen in the previous shot who has observed the incident is
Powter shown and closes up on her clover necklace (if have one, if not ignore the necklace part)
playing in and says “Friday the 13th, unlucky for some eh?”
the • And fades out as she walks away with her head high as the protagonist has his hands in
background his head in the foreground (shallow focus).