section 6:character outlines and script

Character profiles


Janet
Janet is a 32 year old single mother who works in a butchers preparing meat to be served to customers. She also likes to paint in her spare time. She was a nurse but due to ill health she was forced to quit. After Janet and her husband split up, she was forced to look after Loraine (her daughter) by herself.

Loraine
Loraine is an 8 year old girl who goes to school, and is made to look after her mother as her mother due to her ill health. In her spare time, she likes to play with her pet rabbit, she likes to draw pictures for her mother and enjoys writing stories. She is a lovely, polite young girl who does well at school and never gets into trouble.

Detective hill
Detective hill is a professional detective who has been in the police force for 25 years. He is 40 years of age married with 2 children, in his spare time he likes to hike and is also a mountain climber.

Teacher
Miss Hornet is a 47 year old teacher at St Johns school; she lives alone with her dog who she loves dearly. In her spare time she enjoys to read or to go on walks with her dog.


Script
The first shot is an establishing shot of the house from outside, the camera then cuts to a close of a big bit of meat being chopped aggressively. The camera cuts to a mid-shot and Janet is seen to be chopping the meat and Loraine is shown to be drawing.

The camera shows Loraine drawing but she suddenly stops and looks up scared and slightly confused.

The camera shows Janet from a high angle chopping the meat in a different light, Janet is chopping until she gets distracted and cuts her hand on the knife and she cries out with pain.

Loraine then opens her eyes and shakes her head like it was a bad dream and looks back down at her drawing warily.

Loraine looks over to Janet cutting the meat with a look of fear.
Lorraine runs over to Janet and tugs at her dress, Janet turns around and looks at Loraine

Loraine: Mum be careful, don’t cut your finger on the knife

Janet: Don’t worry I won't honey

Loraine goes and sits back down and as she does Janet misses the meat and hits her hand with the knife and cries out with pain.

Loraine: I told you mummy

Janet goes off to the sink and washes the blood off her hand, she then looks at Loraine with a look of confusion and fear.