BLITZ Shooting Script

INT: Tracking shot: Dimly lit: The frame focuses on an underground cellar like bomb shelter in 1940. We track across various props from the era, for example, we see some shelves filled with tinned food, cereal boxes etc. We track across to propaganda posters on the wall; we pan across to a set of shelves where we track across boxes of food and tins. We pan down to a small table where we see a radio which we hear playing a speech of Churchill, some leaflets, ID cards, letters, ration books and newspapers. We track across the newspaper to see headlines of events that have happened in the war. We then track across to the bed where we see a little girl writing in her diary looking bored, but occupying herself.

Cut to a POV shot of her writing in her diary, this shows the audience the date. We then cut to a shot of the side of her diary showing her hand writing, lots of rough and sketchy pen movement is shown over laying each other to create a jagged and un-settling atmosphere.  We hear the sound of distant footsteps getting closer, and then the young girl is seen looking scared and shuffling to the end of her bed, hugging her knees screaming

Hattie:

‘No, No, please no’.

A bomb sound effect is heard. We then cut to black.

           

A few seconds pass until we hear the sound of someone breaking in to the shelter. A sliver of light is shown inside as the doorway breaks open.

INT: Tracking shot; Lit by torchlight. We see the bomb shelter from the previous sequence covered in cobwebs and some items have fallen off the wall. A man walks around the shelter his torch focussing on certain items. He starts off by looking at the shelves and the books on the shelves, then through the food and down onto the leaflets on the table. He leans over to a shelf to pick out a book and lets his torch hang by his side for a brief moment. In this moment we see the flash of a ghostly figure before he shines his torch around. He passes to her bed where he sees the diary she was writing in. He flicks through some pages before hearing a brief noise and shining the torch around the room. A book is seen to have fallen off the shelf and as he looks back to the diary the little girl appears right in front of his face.

Cut to black. White type writer letters of B L I T Z. Appear against the typing sound effect and some eerie music.