3RD DRAFT SCRIPT

Script 3rd draft for king and country

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At this point everybody changed jobs a little and I became the scriptwriter. I worked on descriptions of the possible stock footage that we wanted to use, as well as descriptions of our own footage that we already had as well as planned to shoot. A time lapse of clouds in the sky is there to show the passage of time as well as a couple from the 20s doing the charleston dance before that to show all the light and happiness in life that was lost by the young soldiers who went off to war, proper performance shots were thought of collectively and written up here.

A modern day parallel is written in the narrative footage with the soldier before he goes off to war seeing the woman he will later marry at the bus stop, and later of him nervously buttoning his coat post-war leaving the house. He is no longer the same, and cut with stock footage of war in Afghanistan to give some context he looks over an old graduation photo adding pathos to the lines 'my pale schoolyard chums away lost country's call' - this cuts to footage of the names engraved in the war memorial, reflecting war times past and present and the great loss that soldiers have made for this country.

The second chorus is cut frantically between performance and narrative, with a loud noise shocking the already jumpy veteran with camera shots in uncomfortable close ups showing his anxiety and stock explosions, the camera spinning at a three hundred and sixty degree angle to show his inner turmoil. Another scene shows him waking up having nightmares with his wife shaking him awake, these narrative scenes are to show that he is no longer a normally functioning individual within society but rather tormented by the loss of his friends and the great suffering he has seen and is having difficulty adjusting - showing a real human being as opposed to a two dimensional character which glorifies the soldiers loss while airbrushing out all of the pain. At this stage the script is still being worked through, ideas being placed in and practicalities of the ideas being tested out, and it is not complete for ideas near the end and the beginning of the video isn't entirely decided either.