Script

 

The Concert

By Romilly Boyle 

1. INT. House - Morning: Establishing shot of protagonist's bedroom. It's around 10/11 in the morning and we see her asleep in bed.

 Alarm goes off

We watch her wake up, walk over to their calendar and cross off a day with a pen.

We view a close-up of this calendar while they rae doing it and we see two events written in under two days. On the Saturday is 'Tom's 18th' and then on the Monday we see 'Big Concert!! 4pm', which is highlighted and circled around

Cut to:

Piano room

We see her practicing the piano, with some cutaways

Cut to:

2. EXT. Common / public space outside - daytime

The protagonist is talking with their friends and laughing, we go in further to hear the conversation.

Dialogue is irrelevent except for 3 things to be mentioned:

1. Tom's party

2. How loud the music will be at his party

3. Her concert on Monday and its importance

Cut to: INT. House - Protagonist's bedroom - Evening

She is getting ready for the party and as she is about to leave she opens the draw. A pair of earplugs are in there. She looks at them and decides to leave them and walks out the room.

Fade Out

Fade in:

4. INT. Party - Evening / Night

Colourful lighting if decide to film inside or shadows if filming from outside

The protagonist is at a part and they're dancing. The music is very loud

Friend: (yelling in their ear) THE MUSIC'S SO LOUD!

Protagonist: (Not hearing them) WHAT?

We then hear a very faint ringing and the music fades out, as the rinding gets louder and the shot fades to black.

Fade out

Fade in:

5. INT. Original bedroom again - Morning - similar to first scene

The ringing is still present as the shot fades up from black to the protagonist asleep again.

We hear the alarm but as we cut closer to the protagonist the alarm suddenly stops / cuts out

The ringing fades but is still present as they wake up, look at their alarm weirdly and gets up to cross off Saturday on the calendar. We see 'Final Concert again'

They go back over to their alarm and wonder why it didn't go off, putting it close to their ear, confused. 

Their sibling comes into their room and starts speaking to them 

Sibling: Mu- ys nee o et p ow (Mum says you need to get up now)

We hear fragmented speech as we switch point of view

Protagonist: What?

Sibling rolls their eyes and walks out of their room

Cut to: 

6. INT - Piano room - same time

They go to play the piano, hit some keys and do not hear anything. They attempt to play louder but it sounds worse. We cut from inside and outside where we hear nothing or bad piano playing

Scene fades out with them looking worried, breathing heavily

Cut to:

7. EXT. The common again, meeting their friends

Its the same day and she is seeing her friends to talk about the party last night. 

She walks up to them and they start speaking to her but we hear nothing / fragments depending on the POV

Protagonist: I can't hear

Friend 1: What?

Protagonist: I can't hear. My hearings gone from last night 

Friend 2: Oh my God.

Friend 3: It's OK. That's happened to me before. It comes back after a few days

Protagonist: What?

Friend 3 repeats is slower and clearer

Protagonist: But my concert is tomorrow

(beat)

Friend 2: Its OK. You know it all off by heart anyway

Friend 1: And your hearing might come back before

They all agree but are slightly nervous.

Fade out

Fade in:

7. INT Concert setting - MCT?

Presenter: And now, please welcome - Protagonist name (undecided) - on the piano

Applause from audience

Protagonist is on the side, and the applause turns to ringing, with a long tracking shot of them walking on the stage and sitting down t the piano while hearing ringing.

They move their hands to play

Cut to Black

End.