Group Screenplay and Scene

Group Screenplay and Scene Clip

(Conor O’Shea / Mitchell Davenport / Alan Watanabe)

Screenplay: ACT 3 - SCENE 3: BANQUO’S MURDER AND FLEANCE RUNNING MONTAGE

BANQUO’S MURDER

EXT. Castle Doors – Day establishing shot.
Shot 1
MURDERER 2 exits the front door to the left with a gun.
MURDERER 3 exits the front door to the left with two samurai swords.
MURDERER 1 exits the front door, stops and pulls out a sock and puts a nectarine into it and swings it multiple times before exiting to the left.
Shot 2
The Murderers enter their vehicle from the left side.
Murderer 1 gets into the driver seat.
Murderers 3 and 2 get into the back seats.
The car starts and backs out and then drives off the shot to the right.
Shot 3
Establishing shot of a street corner.
The Murderer’s car comes onto the shot from the left side and turns a corner onto the main street.
The car then parks on the side of the road.
Shot 4
INT. Car – Day
MURDERER 1: Who asked you to come with us?
MURDERER 3: Macbeth.
MURDERER 2: We don’t need to worry about him; he’s laid it out just like Macbeth said.
Murderer 1: Then join us; the sun is setting sending business men to their ruins, and our mark is approaching.
Murderer 3: Hold up I hear something.
Shot 5
EXT. Road – Day
BANQUO and FLEANCE enter on a road.
Camera zooms out to show Banquo and Fleance walking right by the murderer’s car.
The camera then zooms back onto Banquo and Fleance as they approach the camera and stop.
Shot 6
Shot of Banquo and Fleance on the side of the road.
BANQUO: Give us a light there ho.
Fleance hands Banquo a matchbox and a match.
Banquo strikes the match and the camera then zooms in on the match.
Shot 7
INT. Car – Day
Murderer 2: Then it’s him the others expected are all inside.
Murderer 1: His car is being brought around.
Murderer 2: A light!
Murderer 3: It’s him.
Murderer 1: Stand ready.
The murderers then exit the car and move towards Fleance and Banquo.
Shot 8
EXT. Road – Day
Banquo: It shall rain tonight.
Murderer 1: Then let it come.
Murderer 1 then strikes Banquo with a sock-nectarine.
Banquo staggers to the ground and Murderer 2 comes out and shoots him in the back.
As Banquo gets up Murderer 3 comes up from behind and cuts him with a samurai sword.
Shot 9
Banquo’s blood splashes on the ground and the camera then zooms in on it.
Shot 10
As Banquo lies on the ground dead Fleance gets on his scooter and leaves the scene to the left.
While this happens the Murderers run across the street into their car and exit the same way Fleance did.
Shot 11
INT. Car – Day
Murderer 1: Was that the wrong way to do it?
Murderer 3: That’s one down; his son got away.
Murderer 2: We’ve missed the main mark.
Murderer 1: Well let’s get back to Macbeth and tell him how much is done.
Murderer 3: Dude, what’s with the peach?
Murderer 1: It’s a nectarine.

FLEANCE RUNNING MONTAGE

Shot 12
EXT. Stadium – Day
Fleance is seen running up the steps of the stadium on the left side and then runs on the top of the stadium then down the stadium then up the stadium. The camera zooms in and out.
At this point the body of Banquo is seen next to Fleance as he runs up the stadium and the camera pans over to show Banquo’s body.
The Camera then moves back onto Fleance who runs down the stadium and out of the shot. The camera then zooms out.
Shot 13
INT. School Hallway – Day
Fleance is at the end of the science hallway as he runs down.
Then there is a poorly done slow motion scene where Fleance runs past the body of Banquo and then down the rest of the hallway and then exits the scene to the left.
Shot 14
EXT. Outside of the Cafeteria – Day
Fleance runs down the first few steps and then moves over the handrail.
He then runs down the side of the steps and does a 360 off of the little cement block on the bottom.
Fleance then runs past the body of Banquo and jumps onto another cement block.
After that he goes under a handrail and then over the handrail and runs off to exit to the right side.
Shot 15
Fleance is then seen running up the steps past the football field.
Shot 16
Fleance then stops at a chess-set where the legs of Banquo are seen.
Fleance then kneels down and looks at the set and knocks over Banquo’s pieces.
FLEANCE: King me.
Shot 17
Close up on the face of Banquo (who is dead).
Shot 18
Close up on the face of Fleance who looks deeply at the face of Banquo then runs off again.
Credits


SCENE CLIP


Due to school budget cuts the film has been downgraded and the sound crew has been fired.