Saturday, 24 January 2015

Script for Daylight Robbery




DAYLIGHT ROBBERY

By

Sarah-Jane Kelly





  

1. EXT. AERIAL VIEW OF TOWN. DAY.
zooms into outside of a bank branch where a tied up dog yawns
                                                DISSOLVE TO
2. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
Five people waiting impatiently in a queue {OLD LADY, MOTHER, TEENAGER, YOUNG DAD and CHILD}                
                                                PANS OUT

3.INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
the back of the BANK TELLER can be seem as she struggles to get her computer working (sighing, from the Queue)
                                                CUTS TO

4.INT. FANCY OFFICE. DAY.
The back of a wing- backed chair behind the desk, the Q can be seen in a CCTV monitor, hand from chair picks up phone from desk
                           MAN
                It's time!
                                                FADE TO

5.INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
ROBBER bursts through the front door, with a "gun" in his pocket and quickly approaches the Q
                                                CLOSE UP OF
6. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
ROBBER steals house and car keys from YOUNG DAD
job applications and dole money from TEENAGER
Jar of coins with "college fund" on it from MOTHER
Pension book and packet of silvermints from OLD LADY

7. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
ROBBER then approaches the bank counter and takes money from the TELLER, putting it in the sack marked "Loot" along with other items taken. ROBBER Exits the shot to the left.

8.INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
Back of ROBBER can be seen as he pushes button for elevator
                                                CUT TO

9. INT. ELEVATOR. DAY
ROBBER (shifts nervously on feet and checks watch) as elevator ascends                                          FADE TO

10. EXT. BANK BRANCH WITH LOOMING SKYSCRAPER ATTACHED
Camera pans up from branch to top of skyscraper

11. INT. CORRIDOR. DAY
Elevator doors open as ROBBER exits and goes in through a door marked "JUNIOR EXECUTIVE"

12. INT. CRAMPED OFFICE. DAY
ROBBER hangs his scarf on a rack and removes banana from his pocket and leaves it on the desk

                     MALE VOICE
                Junior!?! (bellows)                  CUT TO

13.INT. CORRIDOR. DAY
ROBBER exits cramped office and knocks on next door office and opens door (meekly)                                     
                                                     CUT TO

14. INT. FANCY OFFICE. DAY
Hand from wing-backed chair beckons ROBBER forward and points to seat. ROBBER approaches and takes seat in front of desk. Wing back chair slowly revolves to reveal the MAN 
                                                     UP SHOT
ROBBER hands loot sack to MAN

15.INT. FANCY OFFICE. DAY
MAN swivels chair around to reveal a safe behind him. He opens the safe a puts the sack on shelf full of cash entitled DAILY PROFITS (below is a shelf entitled staff wages empty except for a few packets of peanuts)

16. INT. FANCY OFFICE. DAY
MAN swivels back around to face ROBBER, lifts his coffee mug from desk and shakes it at the ROBBER. ROBBER'S hand lunges for cup
                                                CUT TO
17. EXT. SKYSCRAPER AND BRANCH BELOW. DAY
Camera pans down from top of skyscraper to branch

18. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
ROBBER exits elevator and sees a MAN with "Irish Water" on his t-shirt fitting a coin box to the water cooler that is in front of the Q, with a sign that reads "78c per drop" ROBBER salutes man


19. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
ROBBER approaches Q, takes a take-away coffee from new MAN IN SUIT who has joined the Q, and pours it into MAN'S mug, he then takes bottle from MOTHER'S pram and squirts in some milk

                                                PAN OUT

20. INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
OLD LADY is now at the counter with the TELLER, she throws her eyes upwards as ROBBER passes behind her heading back to the elevator

                                                ZOOMS IN
21.INT. BANK BRANCH. DAY
TELLER is stamping book with "TAKEN" for another weekly entry of pension and silvermints

                     OLD LADY
           It's the same thing every week in here....daylight         robbery!





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