From script to screen - New step outline

Step outline

Characters:
  • Dr. Hugo Brantly - Evil brain surgeon
  • Dexter - Dr. Brantly's cat sidekick
Start:

 Act 1:

 (Medium long shot) Scene opens with the camera at ground level facing a hospital door. 
The door then opens and Brantly exits, walking closer to the camera.
Brantly the stops.

 Noise of a television - News bulletin - Presenters talking

 Camera slowly moves up Brantly's body until it shows Brantly's face, it then stops and shows Brantly looking from left to right in search of the noise from the television.

 (Medium long shot) Camera showing Brantly from the waist up, the camera follows Brantly as he moves (to the right) down the corridor towards the noise.

 (Long shot) Brantly then stops and reaches for the door handle (to his left).

 (Close up) (from the door handle's perspective - Looking up at Brantly's face) Showing Brantly reaching for the handle and opening it.

 (Over the shoulder shot) Shows Brantly looking in the 'staff room' at the television.

 (Close up) of television showing the news bulletin talking about famous scientists worldwide going missing and missing persons cases have opened.

 (Close up) Brantly's face smirking.

 (Long shot) Brantly closing the door to the 'staff room', leaving the room. He backs out of the door way, walking away from the camera to a lift.

 (Close up) Brantly pressing the lift button

 Lift doors opening

 (Medium long shot) Brantly getting in the lift and pressing a button. Door closes.

 (Fly on the wall shot) in the lift - like a CCTV camera - shows Brantly slowly moving from side to side like he's impatiently waiting.

Act 2:

 (Point of view shot - Brantly) The lift opens revealing the hospital basement - lots of boxes and old machinery.

 (Point of view shot - Dexter) - low on the ground, as though Dexter is hiding behind the boxes looking through the gaps between them at Brantly. The camera moves slowly - the camera is tracking Brantly as he moves towards a room in the basement and opens the basement room door.

 (Long shot) Showing the side of Brantly while opening the door.

 Brantly - "YES!"

 (Close up) Brantly's face.

 Brantly - "Dexter! My work looks fantastic!"

 (Long shot - head height, as though Brantly is looking at the floor behind him) showing Dexter walking out from behind the boxes.

 (Close up) Dexter's neck while walking into the light - shows a speech device attached to his neck - shows that the device is working.

 Dexter - "I know sirrr, I always seem to make your creations bett.."

 (Long shot) Silhouette of Brantly's body in the doorway.

 Brantly - "ENOUGH!"

 (Close up) Brantly's mouth to the left of the shot- showing Dexter in the background to the right of Brantly's mouth.
Brantly - "The only thing that could ever make my creations better is me!"
Brantly walks away off shot (to the left of the camera) leaving Dexter to the right of the camera - sad expression on his face.

 (Medium close up) Dexter's face (still sad), camera then 'jumps' closer to Dexter's face.

 [FLASH BACK]

 (Medium long shot) Dexter being kicked out of the house by Brantly - Dexter goes off camera.

 (Medium long shot) Tools being thrown at Dexter by Brantly - Dexter running off camera (left).

 (Medium close up) Dexter on a chair testing the a prototype of the helmet for Brantly - then being zapped.

 [BACK TO CURRENT TIME]

 (Close up) Dexter's face changes from sad to smirking

 Brantly - "DEXTER!"

 Dexter - "Coming sir..."
Act 3:

 (Tracking shot) at the side of Dexter - showing him walking into the basement room.

 (Point of view shot - Dexter) Dexter looks from right to left - showing unconscious famous scientists with their skulls open, wires are attached to their brains which are then attached to Brantly's knowledge helmet - scientists tide to chairs - Brantly is shown sitting down in the middle chair with the knowledge helmet above his head.

 Brantly - "Turn it on cat"

 (Close up) Central - Dexter's angry face while walking to the isolator switch.

 (Over the shoulder shot) Dexter smirking looking over his shoulder at Brantly.

 Brantly - "Get on with it!"

 (Close up) Dexter's paws pulling the isolator switch down.

 (Close up) Knowledge helmet starting to lower over Brantly's head.

 (Medium close up) Dexter starting to run at Brantly, Dexter the jumps.

 (Medium long shot) Slow motion - Dexter is shown knocking Brantly sideways off of the chair and shows Brantly falling to the right onto the floor.

 (Close up) Dexter's head under the knowledge helmet - electric shock

 Electric shock

 (Extreme close up) Brantly's face in shock.

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