The Script.

This is a rough script written by Alice

'(Young boy emerges from large house­)
Voice Over William:

William Arthur Swift. Aged 11. Brown hair, brown eyes. 5 Ft 2. Slightly above average height for my age. But then again my IQ is slightly above average too. I use the word slightly to retain some modesty but i can be honest i guess. My IQ WAY above average.I listen to classical music. Hobbies are for kids. I have intellectual ‘interests’. Like string theory, and psychoanalysis. The kids in my class are preoccupied with weekly disco’s and social interaction. I am interested in these things too. 

(Cut to medium long shot of awkward disco scene)

I like to sit outside the disco and monitor body language in correlation to gender, age, and time of night. I like to make graphs. Like I said, I am interested in social interaction. Just not in a way that means I have to socially interact.So basically my life is as rich as a chocolate fondant. Rich with academia and skills, not saturated fats. I have tried to integrate myself in with my class at play time. I agreed to participate in handball at lunch. 

(Cut to shot of him in playground awkwardly not catching a ball/being hit in the face with it.)

It didn't pan out how I expected. 
I like to set challenges for myself. I have this task at the moment which is pretty much the most important of my year so far. I have to deliver a letter. The few episodes of postman pat I was exposed to as an infant warned me never to trust the postal service. This is something I have to do myself to ensure maximum success. It’s for Lucy Evans. Ash blonde female, around 4 ft 1 on my table in literacy, hair smells faintly but pleasantly of strawberry laces. 

(Cut to slightly blurred close up of Lucy Evens flipping her hair)

I like her a lot. This amount of human attraction is unusual for me, a new sensation I almost dismissed before deciding it will probably enrich my intelligence if anything. If my plan works I can do tests on her, with her, whatever. I guess she has the classic good looks that statistically I should be falling for at this age, and she is probably the most intelligent of the girls in my class. Which is not saying much, but she did a very accurate sketch of a velociraptor once which impressed me. I asked her to do it after school and bring it in for me the next day. A little test before I went through with this letter thing. I needed to know she was perfect. She might have traced it but I guess if she did then that shows problem solving ability. Unable to sketch dinosaur; trace it. She did it without any question though which I liked. She must be a pragmatist. I can sketch a dinosaur. 

(looks to right of street and sees two young boys playing 'curby' 
shakes head)

They have it all wrong. For starters he's never going to hit that curb, the trajectory is way off. They are waisting their time. They'd be better off catching up on this weeks maths homework. I'm not a betting man but i'd put at least 10 pounds on that they haven't even started the sheet. And it's double sided..
Anyway, this letter is revolutionary. It is vital. I am carrying it with greater care than a mother to a child, I am suppressing my anticipation to eliminate any unwanted hand shaking or leg wobbling as to not smudge the penmanship. I will deal with those emotions later. Nearly there now, the final stretch. Lucy Evan’s door in sight. I know exactly how this will pan out, I have planned this moment every inch from the time taken to reach destination 3 minutes 45 seconds.To the exact angle I should post the letter through the box to make sure it lands face up at a right angle to the door in maximum eye line of someone walking down the stairs to collect the post. Someone like Lucy.'

I am very pleased with this script, Alice obviously has a very clear idea of what she wanted the film to be like in her head. We had a meeting to discuss the script and we have decided to have little flash backs or moments where we get to see things that William is talking about, away from the original real time narrative for example, where he talks about the children playing curby, implying he's not that interesting, we could have a shot of him getting hit in the head with the ball. Or when he talks about the dinosaur we could have shots of both dinosaur pictures (that I will draw). We are going for a light hearted film, with elements of comedy, I'm very excited to get into production.