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Slugline	INT.LIVING ROOM -NIGHT
End Point in Last Scene	First Scene
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Leo James
Point of Scene	To confuse the audience and intrigue them with what is happening.
Conflict	How each character think completely different
Ending/Central Question	What are they doing that needs so much caution? Who is at the door?
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on cinematography. Tracking shots and long takes will be used. An over the shoulder shot will be used too. The scene will also contain high angle and low angle shot, pans and close up shots.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark walks into Leo's house (tracking), Mark shouts at Leo, (camera) as Mark is shouting the camera moves into a close up low angle shot of him. Mark shouts “YOU CAUSED THIS, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, YOU DID THIS" the camera shows a Dutch angle on Mark (Camera). Leo pushes Mark and moves to the right, away from him, the camera pans towards Leo as he moves away (camera). Leo shouts back "WHAT THE HELL MAN, WHAT DID I DO? YOU SAID YOU'D HANDLE IT". They hear a knock at the door and both look towards the door with confused faces as if they know but don't know how (camera).

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Slugline	INT.PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	The screen went blank after the knock at the door
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Doctor Morgan
Point of Scene	To make Mark's condition known
Conflict
Ending/Central Question	Why was he in there?
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on the character of Mark. It will show his condition and why he was in there. Mid-shots, overhead shot, close ups and long shots will help show this.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	A long shot of the exterior shows the institute where Mark is staying (Camera). The camera follows through the window showing Mark lying down on the psychiatrist's chair discussing how he feels about being released. As he speaks the camera moves to an overhead shot of Mark (Camera). The psychiatrist begins writing down with a happy look on his face, mid shot of the psychiatrist (Camera). The psychiatrist then releases him from the institute. This is shown through a close up of the paper which reads "clinically sane" (Camera).

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Slugline	INT.LEO's HOUSE-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	Mark left the institute
Characters in Scene	Leo James Lewis Taylor Billy Lloyd
Point of Scene	To establish the type character Leo is
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus on the character of Leo and will establish the type of character he is. The character will be explored through the mise-en-scene e.g. the way he dresses, the way he speaks, the way his house looks and the friends he has. Close up shots, mid shots and overhead shots will help establish this.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Leo is with his friends smoking, an overhead shot (Camera) will show the smoke rising and everything that is spread throughout the room. The room is a mess, bottles, blunts, cigarette butts all around the room, the whole place is just not a nice place to be, the furniture is ripped, broken or otherwise damaged (mise en scene). The camera then switches to close ups of bottles on a low angle (Camera), with cigarette butts next to the bottles, the furniture has holes and is torn (mise en scene). The camera shifts focus (Camera) to the people behind, Leo, Lewis and James. The smoke in the room is building, no one is speaking because they are taking hits from the bong they have. Leo is wearing an oversized black, red and yellow hoodie, baggy black jeans and a beanie (mise en scene). Leo is a slim and average size person. Lewis is taller and has an average build, wearing a black jacket, baggy jeans and has messy hair. James is wearing a black and blue tracksuit and a black snapback backwards (mise en scene). The room has low key lighting (mise en scene) coming from the light bulb that is flashing above the three characters.

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Slugline	INT.PYRAMID ENT.-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	The screen reverts from spinning colours to appear
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Leo James Billy Lloyd Lewis  Taylor
Point of Scene	To show Mark's decent into psychosis
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	This scene will focus the editing and will show a montage of things that ended in Mark going to an asylum. It will also contain a parallel action of Mark and Leo's lives.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	The scene will begin with a backwards zooming close up of (Camera) Mark Nable, revealing his old job as a manager of the successful company (Mise en Scene), Pyramid Enterprises, the company sold weapons to the government. Leo is then shown to be a student at the time (Mise en Scene), learning about the weapons trade and the major distributors, including Pyramid Enterprises. It is shown through the long shot of the school (Camera). Next, a montage (Editing) begins with Mark being fired for misjudging the power of a weapon as shown through an email, Leo is kicked out of the college he is at which is shown through him being sent to the head and him shown to be shouting furiously then papers hit the table and zoomed in, Mark gets fined (Camera) for the damage the weapon caused shown in the mail and Leo gets an eviction notice. Mark then flips out destroying everything he can get his hands, moving outside and attacking everyone he sees with things like fence posts, car bumpers and bottles he finds on the street floor. Leo breaks down and then gets the heroin he has hidden away to calm himself down (Camera).

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Slugline	INT. MARK'S HOUSE-NIGHT
End Point in Last Scene	Montage just finished
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable Jennifer Nable
Point of Scene	Mark tells his wife about his being fired and the damage he caused, with the fines
Conflict	Husband and wife financial crisis
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	The key micro element of this scene will be the sound and dialogue as it will help the narrative.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark walks into his house, tracking shot,(camera) and sits down in front of the TV, a shot-reverse-shot(Editing) of the wad of fines and bills in his hand. Jennifer asks "where did all that come from?" to which Mark replies "Work". She then asks" you were fined because of work!??" in a very temperamental way. The music at this point is slow with occasional bumps of high notes (sound). Then Mark will slowly say “I got fired." Jennifer will show incredible anger with this and say “What?? How??” Mark replies “Faulty weapon", Jennifer then says "These fines??" Mark says “Faulty weapon". Jennifer then exclaims their financial state and that they couldn't pay the fines.

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Slugline	INT.MALL-DAY
End Point in Last Scene	Switches from the Nable house to the mall
Characters in Scene	Mark Nable  Leo James
Point of Scene	Introduces the two main characters to each other
Conflict
Ending/Central Question
Key Micro Elements	Cinematography is the focus of this scene and will have different types of shots. Shots such as the over the head shot, tracking shot, two shot and mid shots.
Scene Description focusing on key micro aspects	Mark is walking through the mall, tracking shot (Camera), and meets someone who recognises him, Leo. Two shot (camera) of them both is shown as they speak about who they are and what they've done. The next few shots will be the mid shots (camera) of both characters as each them talk.