This script is just a broad example of what we want our actors to follow. We plan to use this to guide the actors with lines and adjust the lines to how what we think would work best. We also do not think we will film in order, so we can still change the script and shot list. To be honest, some of the lines will also be added while filming to see what will fit best.
For the shot list, these are just some ideas and what we want to try and include. These are some of the shots that we plan to have in our film.
SCRIPT:
Coach: Now that you're on the beam I want you to do a backwards kick, I want the dismount to be clean girls, toes pointed arms straight
Girls stand in line and perform the stunt (main girl does it perfect everyone else has flaws)
Other classmates look annoyed at the girl.
Coach: Well, done ______, guys look at how she kept her toes pointed and core tight, that's how everyone should be doing the kick. Now I need everyone to practice this skill for the next 10 min.
Girls go into their own group; main girl goes with her two friends.
Friend 1: Hey that was super good, how did you get the kick down so quick.
Friend 2: yeah, please show me how, I can’t keep my arms straight while I'm in the air.
Main Girl: I don't know I guess I'm just naturally good at gymnastics.
Main Girl: Gymnastics is so fun and easy, I love it.
Girl says easy, very excited about being there and being good.
~Transition~
Coach: Girls, I need you guys to be looking better, this is not good enough for competition,
Coach privately talking to the girl during practice.
Coach: I'll suggest you stay after practice, and practice your technique, for competitions because right now you're not good enough
Main girl: Okay I get it.
Looking at a professional gymnastic
Main Girl: Why can't I do that.
Main Girl: Why am I not good enough.
Looking back at herself in videos
Main Girl: This is not good enough, I hate it.
In the car
Main Girl: I can’t keep coming to gymnastics anymore.
Mother: You have to keep going, look how far you have gotten
Main girl: But it's gotten harder, I can't get the routines right.
Mother: You just need to practice more, you can’t quit over that, it's a dumb reason
Main girl: It's not only that-
Mother: Stop, you aren't leaving gymnastics, I've paid too much for you not to continue, come on you're going to be late.
~Transitions~
Main girl trying a technique over and over again, after so much she stops and becomes sad from her failures.
Coach: Hey, what are you still doing here, we ended practice two hours ago… do you need a ride home
Main girl: No, I am fine thanks, I been trying to get the new technique down, I haven't been able to
Coach: I understand, your legs were not straight enough during practice. I expect you to be better at this, you were the best when you started, what happened.
Main Girl: I promise, I'll be perfect for the competition.
Coach: You better if not you're out of the team.
Main girl: I can't do this anymore.
SHOT LIST:
Over the shoulder shot from the little kid looking at their coach explaining the skill.
Mid/long shot of the little kid doing the skill perfectly.
Mid/long shot of the rest of the girls doing the same skill just not as good.
Same sequence of shots but in another event.
Close ups of the main girl's face showing the excitement of being in the gym.
Close up of girls rolling her eyes at the girl.
Mid shot of them rolling their eyes and showing them getting annoyed at the girls “perfection.”
(More shots of her as her younger self enjoying gymnastics)
transition from young to old: showing them doing a skill when they’re younger and zooming into their hands or feet and then when we zoom out, they’re older.
(Shots of everything getting harder, her friend's kind of doing better than her)
Over the shoulder shot of her looking at a video of a professional gymnast doing what she does.
Over the shoulder shot of her analyzing the videos of her doing gymnastics.
Two-shot of coach and the girl having a talk.
Series of different shots of her practicing on her own to be better and improving on her own.
Over the shoulder shot of her looking at her phone
(Still enjoying gymnastics but kind of falling more and not doing it correctly)
Transition from middle to older, show her falling.
Close ups of her falling (like stick it)
Long shot of someone coming in and finding her after practice
Two shots of them two having a conversation
Different sequence of shots showing her crying and talking to herself wondering why she is not good enough.
Mid shot of her having a breakdown to her mom or parents that she can’t do it anymore, yet her mom forces her.
MAYBE: A shot of her and her mom in the car, telling her that she has to keep going and stuff.
MAYBE (for the very end, do a close up with a zoom in and then put a bunch of flashbacks of when everything was simple and easy, and t just ends)
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