A teenage girl named Megan goes to sleep one night in her home in England. She wakes up the next morning in France, in the body of a teenage girl named Amelie. Megan realizes through searching on Amelie's computer that she has switched bodies with Amelie after dying in her sleep in England. Unsure of how or why this happened, Megan must now navigate living Amelie's life in France, dealing with the confusion and uncertainty of her new situation.
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FADE IN:
ACT 1 SCENE 1: INT KITCHEN - EVENING
It is autumn/winter evening time in the south of England in the
new forest in 2015 and the Nelson family (mum, dad and daughter)
are just clearing up the kitchen from dinner and their teenage
daughter is off to get ready for bed.
The camera pans across to revel the new forest.
TITLE: âTHE SWITCHâ
MEGAN, a casually dressed teenage girl with long brown curly hair
is sat at the head of the dining room table just finishing her
dinner with her parents sat either side of her opposite each
other.
MEGANâS MUM, a casually dressed woman in her early 50s.
MEGANâS DAD, a smartly dressed man in his early 50s with not that
much hair.
MEGANâS MUM
(After taking a mouthful of food)
Can you please up me clear the table and wash
up after dinner darling?
MEGAN
(Sounding tired)
Yeah ok.
MEGANâS DAD
Thankyou Megan, just make sure you remember to
put away the dishes from lunch.
MEGAN
(Sounding tired and fed up) yes dad.
MEGAN
Takes her last mouthful of food and stands up to begin
collecting the plates and bringing them over to the sink)
- Megan walks out of shot away from the table holding the
plates.
ACT 1 SCENE 2 â INSIDE THE KITCHEN
Jumps to Megan putting the last couple of cups and plates in the
dishwasher and turning it on.
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MEGANS MUM
Thank you for that Megan.
MEGAN
Thatâs ok, I think Iâm going to head off to my
room now
MEGANS MUM MEGANS DAD
Ok goodnight darling. Sleep well.
ACT 1 SCENE 3 â INSIDE THE HALLWAY AND BEDROOM
Megan heads off down the corridor towards
her bedroom and the camera follows behind
her until she closes her bedroom door behind
her.
MEGAN, walks towards her desk and grabs her laptop
and goes to sit on her bed, opening up the laptop
and turning it on.
She then proceeds to do work on her computer. We see
her scrolling through social media on her phone
whilst she is watching a film on her laptop. On her
phone we see flashes of her name to reinforce this
characters existence.
We then see her put her laptop away and head to the 17.
bathroom to wash her face and put her pyjamas on, 18. after
slowly heading back to her room and getting into bed then
checking her phone for one last time before turning her
bedside lamp off and shutting her eyes.
As she shuts her eyes the camera perspective switches to a
POV shot as if the audience is looking through her eyes and
on screen we can see her eyelids shut in front of the
camera. The screen then goes black.
The screen is black for around 20-30 seconds, in the
background for the first 10 seconds we hear a flat line
beep sound to infer to the audience the death of the
character.
The flat line sound then begins to fade out and we hear the
faint voices of the French parents of Amelie begin to talk,
subtitles will be on screen to translate the following
dialogue for the rest of the film.
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She then rushes over to the desk in her room and logs into
the laptop and opens google and searches what she thought
her name was before, to find an article in the local
newspaper about her tragic and unexplained death in her
sleep, the camera then does a close up on the date of the
article being 2015 then zooms into the date on the laptop
being 2020. She then frantically searches âwhat is my
current locationâ and it shows she is in the south of
France.
The camera flips to a close up shot of her face looking
worried and scared with a couple of tears rolling down her
face.
AMELIEâS MUM
[Subtitled on screen](In French calling from another
room)
Are you ready yet?
Es-tu prĂȘt?
AMELIEâS DAD
[Subtitled on screen](In French calling from another
room)
Come on! You are going to be late!
Allez! Vous allez ĂȘtre en retard!
Amelieâs wipes the tears off of her face with her sleeve.
[The song Pieces by Bethany Driscoll starts to play.]
Amelie gets dressed into a hoodie and jeans and slips her
shoes on.
As her shocked face turns to face the door so does
the camera at the same time. On the back of the door
the camera zooms into a 2020 calendar then the
screen goes black.
Amelie them grabs a backpack and slings it over her
shoulder then looks back once before closing the door
behind her.
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EXT: We see a shot of a car driving off down the road.
INT: Amelieâs head is leant up against the window of the
car staring mindlessly out of the window at the French
countryside.
EXT: Cinematic shots of the French countryside.
Amelie then looks down and grabs out of her bag a picture
of her past self which she printed off of the article.
The screen goes black
FADE OUT:
THE END
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