For our Short Film, we want to use minimal dialogue as we found last year this worked very effectively. We found this minimised making it sound amateur. Also we liked using music and foley sound as it made it sound more professsional and polished.
There will be an exchange of words when the gift is passed over from Harrison to James along the lines of;
'Have you got the package?'
'Yes, have you got the money?'
*Hands over money and in return gets package/gift*
'Cheers'
Also then when Carla is walking the dog, she will call her dog back when he goes to sniff the package and then she will be shocked. For example she may say
'Ooh what have you found Sammie?' Then pick it up and open it and say 'Oh my god!'
This is just a rough draft though as we will decide properly when we are filming and decide what dialogue works best.
Even if this is not revealed to the audience, you need to decide yourselves what is in the box, so that you can direct the actor to react appropriately. Have you seen the end of the film 'Se7en'? I won't reveal it if you haven't, but watch it to see a great use of object in a box! See also the reactions of others. DON'T just watch the end though!
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