Example Scripts

Example Scripts.

OUR GIRL
EPISODE 1
DRA C981L/02
BY TONY GROUNDS
POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT10:00:00 EXT. SALISBURY PLAIN.
10:00:00 MUSIC IN - NAPALM
A helicopter flies overhead.
The rear operations group are on exercise.
10:00:06 BBC LOGO
We see MOLLY DAWES caked in mud on her 'mission specific' training
– battlefield simulation. We see soldiers firing weapons with
explosions echoing all around.
Molly runs to a ‘battle casualty’ to check his pulse and gets
a message into her ear piece and looks around.
RADIO VO
Private Dawes. Report to the O.C.
10:00:22 CAPTION: OCTOBER 2013
10:00:23 INT. ARMORED VEHICLE/EXT. SALISBURY PLAIN
CORPORAL JACKMAN and MAJOR BRICE are sitting in the armoured
vehicle watching the training sessions. They watch as Molly comes
over to them and stands to attention. Corporal Kelly drake is
with her.
MAJOR BRICE
Relax Dawes.
10:00:25 MUSIC OUT - NAPALM
She does.
MAJOR BRICE (CONT’D)
Bit cold out there, isn't it?
MOLLY
Yes sir, tayter's sir.
MAJOR BRICE
You’d better go and pack your sun
cream Dawes. You're off to Afghan
and it's 47 degrees.10:00:36 MUSIC IN – DORI

Example 2
Common
EXT. ROAD - NIGHT 1 2010 1
Three young men (Tony Wallace, Colin McCabe and Kieran
Gillespie) hurrying from a pizza parlour to a parked
car.
Johnjo O’Shea (17 years old, vulnerable) is at the
wheel, a rap song blasting away. They yank open the
doors and pile in.
TONY WALLACE
Drive!
JOHNJO O’SHEA
What’s happened?
Colin McCabe berating Kieran Gillespie throughout...
TONY WALLACE
Drive!
JOHNJO O’SHEA
Right!
They screech off.
CUT TO:
2 EXT. ROAD - NIGHT 1 2012 2
Colin McCabe and Kieran Gillespie in the back. Tony
Wallace with Johnjo in the front. Sheer panic...
COLIN MCCABE
You stupid prick, you’ve dropped
us all in it now, you stupid
bastard, you stupid brain-dead
bastard...
JOHNJO O’SHEA
What’s happened?
COLIN MCCABE
You’ve dropped us all in the
shit, you prick. You crazy twat,
you mad crazy...
KIERAN GILLESPIE
He was asking for it.
COLIN MCCABE
...twat.
(to Tony Wallace)
I warned you about this prick,
didn’t I?
KIERAN GILLESPIE
He was asking for it. Right?
COMMON by JIMMY MCGOVERN As at: 5 June 2013 P1