WALK ME HOME1
By Kayla Hart2
Cast List3
Narrator (Voice of Kaleigh)-Bethany Franck4
Kaleigh-Bethany Franck5
Sarah-Jasmine Osiowy6
Peter-Josh Leesman7
Parent8
Extras (Hallway and street scenes)9
INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY10
Students are going to their lockers after school. As a voice is narrating the scene, the camera begins to focus on one specific girl (Kaleigh) going to her locker.11
Narrator: I have many memories that can make me smile when I think about them, but not many are as etched in my memory as one specific October afternoon.12
(By this time, Kaleigh has opened her locker, and is putting her books in her backpack)13
Narrator: I have always been lazy. I always got a ride home when I should have walked. On this day, however, I had no choice. The strange thing is that logically, I should have walked with Sarah (Sarah walks by and waves to Kaleigh, Kaleigh waves back). Instead, I walked alone.14
Cut to:15
EXT. STREET16
People are walking in all directions, and camera is focused on Kaleigh. She is walking alone, holding a sweater and hat.17
(Kaleigh looks both ways on the street, first to the right, then the left. 18
(Head on shot of Kaleigh walking toward camera. Peter is walking behind her, quickly catching up.)19
(Peter walks up and smiles)20
Kaleigh: Oh, hello (smiles) I saw you back there, and I figured you’d be able to catch up. Your legs are a lot longer than mine.21
(Both smile)22
Narrator: And so started the happiest year of my life, and a walk I would always remember.23
Cross fade to:24
(Later on in the same walk)25
Peter: There’s my old school. Hey…why didn’t you go there?26
Kaleigh: I did, but I left in grade two because my mom didn’t like the teacher.27
(Characters continue walking, talking, and smiling, but without audio to allow for the narrator to talk again.)28
Narrator: I felt so comfortable talking to him, and I started feeling something for him, I just didn’t know what yet.29
(Audio returns, girl looks down street)30
Kaleigh: This is my street.31
Peter: Oh okay, see ya then.32
Kaleigh: Bye33
(Cut to frontal shot of Kaleigh walking, smiling, slightly blushing)34
Cross fade to:35
INT. HOUSE36
Kaleigh walks in37
Kaleigh: (to parent) Hello38
Parent: Hello. How was school?39
Kaleigh: Pretty good (smiles)40
(Phone rings, Kaleigh answers.)41
Kaleigh: Hello42
(Camera stays on Kaleigh during the whole conversation while you hear Sarah’s voice.)43
Sarah: Looks like Kaleigh’s got a new BOYFRIEND!44
Kaleigh: (rolling eyes) What are you talking about? HE started walking with ME.45
Sarah: So? I was yelling “OOOOOH” after you guys the whole time.46
Kaleigh: (confused and shocked look) Really? Then it’s a good thing we didn’t hear you.47
Sarah: You SO like him.48
Kaleigh: (slight smile) Uh…no I don’t. But anyway, I have to go, so I’ll talk to you later.49
Sarah: (mocking) Okay, BYE!50
Narrator: I hung up the phone not really knowing what to think.51
(Kaleigh hangs up the phone slowly, with a confused look on her face)52
Cross fade:53
Kaleigh getting ready for bed54
Narrator: I don’t know when it happened, but sometime between that walk and when I went to sleep, I realized she was right. I went to sleep thinking about him.55
(Kaleigh in bed with eyes closed, smiling)56
woke up thinking about him57
(Cross fade to Kaleigh in bed with eyes open next morning smiling)58
And walked home willingly the rest of the year.59
(Four quick shots of Kaleigh walking and Peter catching up. Cross fade between shots, and have actors wearing something different to show that it’s four different days.60
Each one has Kaleigh smiling as she hears his footsteps, and when he catches up, she looks at him with more of a composed look on her face.)61
Cross Fade to:62
INT. BEDROOM63
Kayla comes in smiling, puts backpack down, and reaches for her phone. She dials a phone number, and sits in a computer chair, turning on “Walk me home” by Mandy Moore.64
(For phone conversation, have back and forth shots of Kaleigh and Sarah)65
Sarah: Hello66
Kaleigh: Hello (sing-song like, with smile)67
Sarah: How was your walk? (Smirking)68
Kaleigh: Very good (big smile)69
Sarah: I knew you liked him. I know you better than you do.70
Kaleigh: Yeah, I know…I like him so much! (Smile, and squeak) Sorry…that must have been loud…71
Sarah: Oh no problem, I think it’s cute.72
Cross Fade to:73
INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY74
Narrator: Even on days when I should have been crying,75
(Kaleigh walking really sad, hears Peter’s footsteps, and smiles)76
Walking home with him gave me ten minutes when I could forget. Even after I turned onto my street77
(Show Kaleigh turning onto her street, waving bye, with no audio)78
I still had something good to remember, and something to keep me optimistic. He gave me something to look forward to every day; he never knew how much he brought to my life.79
Cross Fade to:80
EXT. STREET81
Kaleigh is walking home alone, Peter is about a block and a half behind, and Sarah is about a block behind him82
(Close up on Sarah smiling like she has a plan)83
Sarah: (yelling) KALEIGH!84
Kaleigh turns around, sees that Peter is a block and a half behind her, and smiles because she knows what Sarah is doing.85
Kaleigh: (also yelling to cover distance) YEAH?86
Sarah: (still yelling) DO WE HAVE ANY FRENCH HOMEWORK?87
Kaleigh: NOT THAT I KNOW OF!88
(By this time, Peter has caught up)89
Peter: Hello90
Kaleigh: (smiling) Hello (somewhat sing-song like)91
(Close up on Sarah looking satisfied)92
Narrator: Sarah helped me out a lot that year…93
Cross Fade to:94
EXT. SAME STREET95
Kaleigh is walking home alone; Peter nowhere in sight, Sarah catches up to Kaleigh.96
Sarah: Dude he’s not coming…97
Kaleigh: You never know…Are you sure he’s not coming at all…?98
Sarah: Not that I can see…unless …(shocked) wow…I think that might be him…99
Kaleigh: Is it? Sarah, help me stall!100
Sarah: Um…Okay…Let’s stop here and I’ll pretend I’m telling you something…101
Kaleigh: Okay, you keep watching him.102
Sarah: (mouthing and doing hand gestures, trying to hide that she’s looking directly at Peter) He’s moving pretty fast (smiles).103
Kaleigh smiles and nods.104
Sarah: (as Peter is directly behind Kaleigh) So, I’ll just talk to you about that later.105
Peter: Hello106
Kaleigh: Hello (smiling, obviously)107
Cross Fade to:108
EXT. SAME STREET109
Kaleigh walking, Peter catches up. Scene without audio.110
Narrator: One day, after months of walking home with him, and liking him more and more each time, I decided to be bold…and reach for his hand as we were walking home.111
(Kaleigh has really nervous look on her face…slowly tries to move her hand closer to his, but Peter is not paying attention to his hand, so he can’t tell…Cut to close up of Kaleigh actually accomplishing it.)112
And to my surprise, and utter delight…He didn’t pull it away.113
(Close up of Peter’s face, surprised at first, but then smiling. Cut to a behind shot of them walking holding hands)114
From then on, walking home with him was never again just by a chance that I tried to control. We always had someone to walk home with, and for me, that was all I could ever ask for.115
Cross Fade to:116
SUPER CORNY MONTAGE117
(Done with cross fades, to happy music)118
Kaleigh walks up the school stairs really tired, but she turns through the door, sees Peter hanging out with some mutual friends, and they wave to each other, and she walks to her locker smiling.119
Kaleigh is hanging out with Peter and some other friends, and she leans on her locker, and Peter comes up and leans on the locker next to her, smiling, and sliding down to be her height.120
Kaleigh and Peter are walking outside, and he lends her his hat (Make it obvious it’s cold out).121
Group sitting in Key City Theatre seats, Peter sitting behind Kaleigh. Kaleigh curls up into the seat like she’s going to fall asleep, and Peter pokes her. (Shot of Kaleigh head on as she opens her eyes from being poked, then shot of Peter smiling, and back to Kaleigh smiling too).122
Kaleigh gives Peter a Christmas card, and he gives her a hug, catching her off-guard (from the side), so she smiles, but cannot return the hug.123
Kaleigh and Peter sitting together in the movie theatre, waiting for it to start, and they compare the sizes of their hands.124
Finish montage off with one more clip of Kaleigh and Peter walking home.125
Author notes
This was for my film class midterm. We had to write a screenplay and direct it and edit it ourselves. This is kind of in between how I actually wrote it and how it actually turned out. I had to switch some scenes around cuz my lead actress cut her hair in the middle of the project, so I adjusted those accordingly, but some of the lines got changed in filming just cuz the actors kinda said them differently, but I kept those the way I had intended.
It's the true story of a crush I have. Every single thing in this story is true (even the pathetic ways 'Sarah' helped me out...) except the scene where I 'reach for his hand'. The reason I had to add in a fictional scene was because I still like him, so there is no ending...so I had to have some ending to it. The montage all actually happened, and they were all just simple things, but they make me smile to remember.
Anyway, enjoy 
kayla*
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I always wanted a voice-over because I felt voiceover would help us care about the character. But I would like more if you used it so that it would help expand the script.
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