Script

“Faint of heart” By Mac Mitchell & Ellie Fitzgerald

FAde In:

bench shot

little to no dialogue in this scene. Opens with a fade to black to a wide shot of Svetlana sitting on a bench with an umbrella hat. Then while sitting and looking at the sunset begins to apply sun screen

Sweats scene

Ed is getting ready for his workout. Close up shots of him zipping up track suit and putting on a head lamp on. Also little to no dialogue in this scene. Mostly just atmospheric sounds.

Italian scene

This is a mid-shot of Svetlana walking past a Italian restaurant. There is more atmospheric sound in this scene however Svetlana makes a verbal display of disgusted as she walks by (i.e. dry heaving etc. )

The Bite scene

This scene opens with an establishing shot of the celery fields the locations where ed and svetlana meet. As point of view shot happens Ed cuts his hand and the shot directs to that. you hear atmospheric noise until Svetlana hits the ground with a thud.

Ed

What the-

                     (Turns to see Svetlana on the ground passed out)

                     (turns to get head lamp that fell off to get a better look at her)

          “whoosh”

                     (Svetlana is gone)

                     (ed looks around)

Svetlana

Cover it up, cover it up, cover it up!!!!!! (holding a band-aid)

Ed

How did you -

Svetlana

Comes with the territory.

Ed

Are you a -

SEvetlana

Yes, a vampire. What about it?

ed

Did you just -

svetlana

Faint? Yes. What about it?

 Ed

Were you gonna-

Svetlana

Bite you. Yes I was most certainly was.

 ed

Why’d you pass out? Low red blood cell intake for the day?

 svetlana

No… um its hard to explain. Its actually very funny actually. Well not at all (ed looks confused)well the sight of blood kind of… in a way… I gue-

 ed

Cut to the chase

Svetlana

Well I guess one could say the sight of it makes my blood run cold.

ed

How are you still alive then?

svetlana

Well I’m still kind of rather new at this thing.

ED

WAIT! Woah woah woah. You’re telling me I was almost stuck like this forever? (pats stomach)

               (bandaid falls off)

Svetlana

Oh my god

(faints)

Ed

Ummm. Well! It was super nice to meet and chat with you! I uh gotta bounce though so um enjoy to rest of your night

(turns around and uneasily walks away)

FAde Out:

the end