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Friday, 23 April 2010
Short Film Script
Baba Yangu
a. BRICK LANE PEDESTRIAN PATH. DAY, LATE MORNING.
b. Twenty-year-old Ashley is walking down the road speaking to the camera about his absent father and pregnant girlfriend. He is an intelligent young man and is seen wearing a casual outfit of jeans, shirts and jumper carrying a back pack with a book in his hand. Ruby waits future down the road waiting for her queue to deliver her lines.
c. Brick Lane
d. ASHLEY
e. (TURNING TO LOOK AT THE CAMERA)
f. You see with mine I don’t want to miss a second of their life, I mean what’s worse the fact that I know him and he hasn’t taken a minute to get to know me, at best I should be grateful that I know who he is, how many in this world never get to know a part of were they come from. So I’ve got myself in a situation, well situation is putting in lightly I’ve got myself in a compromising situation in all aspects I want to turnaround and tell her to get rid and we can carry on with life the way it was but I don’t want to be known for that you know the guy who so inhuman. I mean this farsard I’ve been putting on is taught to keep up. Besides all those things I don’t want to be just another number in a static lest I can do is learn from my situation and man up but for now am going to look out for number one that’s me at least give this life a chance in this world.
a. BRICK LANE PEDESTRIAN PATH. DAY, LATE MORNING.
b. Ruby is seen walking talking about her relationship with her father. Matt waits future down the road waiting for her queue to deliver her lines.
c. Brick Lane
d. RUBY
e. (RUBBING HER RIGHT HAND)
f. I’m what they like to call a daddy’s girl. I love my dad to bits. He is actually the greatest man in the world. I hear all my friends talking about how their dad were never there and how some of them never even knew who their fathers were.
I could never imagine what life would be like without my daddy. He inspires me, comforts me and always gives me the confidence I need.
Lately though, all my relationships have been failing on me. None of these boys seem to understand my situation. I’m looking for my daddy’s love in them, but the only man who could give me that love died of cancer two years ago today. I don’t see how I can live without my daddy’s love.
a. BRICK LANE PEDESTRIAN PATH. DAY, LATE MORNING.
b. Matt is walking down the road delivering his lines about his relationship with his ex-girlfriend.
c. Brick lane.
d. MATT
e. (HOLDING A SMALL TEDDY BEAR)
f. You leave you home in the morning take you time kiss your beloved goodbye and check that the kids are fine. At the back of your mind your not thinking that this would be the last time I’d get to see them let alone this will be the last time that were ever be a family together.
She took everything away from me in a flicker of an eye said she didn’t love anymore and can’t stand me and now I can’t even see my own children.
“…. incapable at providing”
that what the court ruled, now my situation has changed but Maria finds it fit to turn my children against me, all I want is a relationship with them move away from what I had when growing up at lest stay true to myself, I always said I never wanted to be a father like the one I had, but the chance I had to prove that was taken away form me.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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