FINALIST: Lynn English High School | Submission #1

The mistakes you make on that one special night can affect you and the ones you love for a lifetime...

Lynn English High School
Dance. Don't Chance.
By
Eddie Martinez, Neil Whittredge, Alexander Funez, and Caleb Michel

Scene 1

(The first scene opens with a shot of the sun setting, the camera pans to look over a cemetery and an unknown young man standing across from a grave with his face unseen. Fade to next scene...)

Scene 2

(The next scene fades into three students walking in a school corridor. They are excited that their prom night has finally come. The scene interrupts the middle student named Eddie who is speaking.)

Eddie (Middle Student): I know man we're about to make up for all those parties we missed on Friday nights and what not man.

Neil (Left Student): It's going to be crazy!

Alex (Right Student): You guys are telling me!?

Neil: My girl is going to be looking fine tonight too!

Eddie: Heck yea man!

Alex: Get out of here, there's going to be parties...

(Fade to next scene.)

Scene 3

(Scene fades into Caleb, Alex, Neil, and Eddie leaving a hall at the end of their prom night. The boys are aroused and aren't ready to end their night. As they walk out of the doors the excitement continues. Eddie interrupts the excitement.)

Eddie: Oh, hold on...where are we about to go now?

(Close-up on Alex)

Alex: Yo, I heard Crazy Steve's having a party!

(The excitement continues, this time Neil interrupts.)

Neil: Whoa, whoa, whoa...we got to pre-game first bro.

(The boys pause to think for a quick second. They all join each other in excitement.)

Alex: You're right...

Caleb: You're right!

All: Aaahh yeeaaa!!!!!

(The boys leave in excitement and plan to meet at a later time. Scene fades out.)

Scene 4

(Scene is shown through Eddie's point of view in the passenger seat of Neil's car. This scene shows Neil making his mistakes while driving. He is drunk, attempts and fails to put his seatbelt on. There is a heartbeat. He drinks from a beer can. Another heart beat. He then pulls out his phone to text and there is the third and last heartbeat. The screen cuts to black and screeching tires sound as the car speeds off and crashes.)

Scene 5

(The last scene returns to the cemetery and the young man standing across from the grave turns out to be Neil, who was the underage drunk driver of the car accident on prom night. Caleb and Alex come into the scene and join Neil who is looking and grieving at the grave of their dear friend Eddie. Caleb speaks...)

Caleb: We made a lot of good decisions that made it a special night.

Neil: But it only took one bad decision, to ruin in all...

(Fade to black, and then titles appear on screen that read, "Dance. Don't Chance.")

The End.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Prom
• 2011
• Lynn
• English
• High
• School
• Bene
• Sullivan