Camp Out
Written by
David Jones
Fade in:
EXT. DARTMOOR – DAY
A lone car is driving on a road in
Dartmoor. It’s slightly misty or foggy.
Jump
cut to:
INT. CAR – DAY
DAVE, amateur survivalist, late
teen’s, driving down a road, inserts CD and turns up the volume.
VOICE of CD
Step 4 of exploring the wilderness is to allows have a safe
route back to civilisation. This can be done by checking your map regularly.
DAVE, looks at map on phone, no
signal on phone, looks around for signs on country on.
DAVE
(mumbles)
C’mon Dave don’t get scared. You can do this.
DAVE, parks car on side of road,
gets out of car, holds phone in air.
DAVE
(worried)
How can there be no bloody signal? Right, guess I’m gonna have
to do this the old fashioned way.
DAVE, starts walking towards hill.
CROSSFADE
TO:
EXT. HILL – DAY
DAVE, walks towards top of hill,
stumbles on uneven floor, climbs rock face, stands on top of hill.
DAVE
(shouts)
Hello?! Hello?! Hello?!
(FADES)
DAVE, shrugs, begins walking down
hill
CROSSFADE
TO:
DAVE, walking, yawns, gets key out,
unlocks car, gets bags out of boot, shuts boot of car, wipes eyes, quickly
looks at hands, looks through rear view mirror of car, keys locked inside.
DAVE
(aggressive)
Eerrgghh!
DAVE, picks up bags, walks towards woods.
CROSSFADE
TO:
DAVE, walks through woodlands, sees
a lake, drops bags and walks to lake.
DAVE
Meh. Why not?
DAVE, gets fishing rod out, prepare
fishing rod, looks determined, casts line, line gets caught in tree, he climbs
up tree, tree branch breaks, Dave out of shot.
DAVE
OWW!
DAVE, prepares fishing rod, looks
determined, casts line, hook catches his hat, hat gets soaked in lake.
DAVE
Oh for fuck sake! Well if I’m gonna get it I might as well make
the most of it.
CUT
TO:
DAVE, in underpants, towel wrapped
around hips, looks determined, places shower cap on head, holds bar of soap,
drops towel, walks towards water, feet touch water, he stops, he quickly turns,
picks up towel, sits on rock.
DAVE
(teeth gitter)
C’mon Dave. You can do this. What would Bear do? What would he
do?
DAVE, breathes slowly, closes eye
lids
(Insert emotional Bear Grylls speech. Duration 10 seconds max)
DAVE, opens eye lids.
DAVE
Fuck it.
DAVE, drops everything, runs into
lake, stands up in lake, looks behind him, sees soap.
CUT
TO:
EXT. LAKE – BAR OF SOAP – AFTERNOON
DAVE
(shouts)
Oh for fuck sake!
DAVE, walks to soap, picks up soap,
looks around
DAVE
(sighs)
Fire.
CROSSFADE
TO:
EXT. CAMP SITE – EVENING
DAVE, looking confident.
DAVE
Let’s do this.
INTERCUT MONTAGE OF DAVE CREATING
FIRE AND BUILDING TENT
CUT
TO:
DAVE, tent on fire, big flames, he
lies down and falls asleep.
THE END
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