Dr Who: The case of the Temporal Phase Reversal
Written by Miss Ferguson, Ms Emery, Jessica and Kelly.
Bad Soundtrack Productions
3 minutes duration for Manaiakalani Film Festival
1. Int. Tardis. Out of time.
The Tardis is out of control. The Doctor and his companion, with K9 are rocking and rolling.
2. Ext. Space. Out of Time
The Tardis is spinning in a time warp in space
Tardis sound
3. Int. Tardis. Crashed.
The Doctor and companion, with K9, are sprawled on the ground. They are freaking out!
The instrumental panel is flashing.
Companion: Dr, what was that? (screaming like a banshee)
4. Ext. Quad. Day.
They fall out of the Tardis door into the Quad. Doctor pats himself and straightens his bow tie.
Doctor: Bowties are cool.
Students and teachers are walking backwards. An angel stands in the background.
Random student stops in front of the Dr.
RS: <Morning (<=backwards)
Doctor: What? What? What?
5. Theme song (appallingly sung by crew) and opening titles
6. Ext. outside TC. Day.
Est shot of traffic driving backwards.
Shot of school.
7. Ext. Quad. Day
Doctor and companion, with K9, are standing in the quad. Everybody else is walking backwards. A weeping angel can be seen in the background. Hands over eyes.
Doctor sonic screwdrivers a passing student and then peers at his sonic.
Doctor: We seem to be caught in a temporal phase reversal. Earth, 21st Century. It’s Tuesday. I like Tuesdays.
He stares at his screwdriver.
Companion: Doctor. What’s a temporal phase reversal?
Doctor: A temporal phase reversal is a fluctuation in the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey continuum of everything.
8. They start walking around the quad, forwards, scanning the backwards students. The weeping angel is closer.
K9: Doctor, there’s an angel.
Doctor: Shut up K9, we’re busy with the temporal phase reversal.
9. Ext. Emerging life. Day
Doctor and companion, with K9, turn the corner and horrors, there are 3 Daleks.
Daleks: Alert! Alert! You are the Doctor, the oncoming storm. Enemy of the Daleks!! You must be exterminated.
The Doctor and companions turn and then turn back. Their faces are horrified.
Companion: What should we do Doctor?
The Doctor puts his hand out and grabs their hand.
Doctor: Run!
10. Int. B-Block. Day.
Montage of running through corridors, up stairs, in one door and out another.
11. Int. Dalek control room. out of time.
Doctor flings open a door to the control room ( Harris’ office) and sees Mr Harris, the Dalek controller, surrounded by Daleks and hostages. A parade of students, like robots, turning and marching. All wearing the correct school shoes. An Angel stands in the corner.
Harris: Seize the Doctor and his companions! They’ve got incorrect shoes.
The Doctor glares at his shoes.
Doctor: But I bought these from Number 1 Shoes down the road.
12. Doctor pulls out a jammy dodger.
Doctor: Let us go or this tardis remote control will zap you back into the space-time continuum.
Harris: We have been waiting for you Doctor. Put that jammy dodger away, we have seen it before. We have these regulation shoes for you.
He pulls out a box of black leather school shoes and flicks the blue switch on the side of them.
13. Flashback:
Ext: Quad.
Day
Doctor remembers the switches on the shoes and the angel.
14. Int. Harris’ office. Day
Doctor: Huh! Nah...
Student clones grapple him.
Harris: Doctor. We have the technology. We shall rebuild the human race, in our own perfect image.
Doctor: You think Daleks are perfect? How are you going to get those shoes on me? You don’t even have arms!
Harris: We are superior in intelligence to humans. We have perfected our Temporal Phase Reversal programme.
15. He turns his netbook around and shows the Doctor. It reads “Temporal Phase Reversal” in big, red letters. With a flashing bloop.
Harris: We have got the App installed in Google Chrome.
He types with T-Rex hands.
Harris: We are uploading it now to take over the world through Google and we wILL exterminate, exterminATE, EXTERMINATE!
16. Companion stares at the Angel.
Companion: Doctor!
Doctor: Ssh! I’m thinking.
Companion stares at Angel.
Companion: Doctor!
Companion slaps the Doctor to get his attention.
Doctor: What?
He turns and the Angel is at his shoulder. Holding out a note.
Doctor reads the note and smiles.
Doctor: Mrs Pamaka wants to see you. In her office. Now.
17. Int. Corridor. Day
Harris slumps to the office.
We hear the bosses voice, as he enters the office “What have you been doing now Mr Harris?”
18. Int. Mr Harris’ office. Day
Doctor sonics the netbook. And a countdown starts on the netbook from 10.
Doctor holds out his hand. Companion takes it and they run.
19. Boom!
A burning building is exploding.
20. Ext. Quad. Day
Students coming to and wondering why they have been walking backwards. They take their shoes off with joy, throwing them into the air.
21. Int. Tardis. Day
Doctor and companions at console turning knobs eating a bowl of fish fingers and custard.
Companion: Where to now?
Doctor waves a blue diary.
Doctor: Spoilers.
22. Tardis noise. Credits.
The End
Props:
Planning :
Tardis console - use the lectern from the stage - add levers and buttons and things that go ping and boing!! - handles / whirly things.
( look at children’s toys in the op shops - we can spray paint them more suitable colours / hand held kitchen tools? )
Dalek Control Room ( Harris’s office ) - black out the windows / cover the walls / need dalek roundels. ( what shall we use for the wall coverings? - fabric?...if it is cheap enough )
Shoe boxes - send round a staff email to collect as many as we can.
Possibly use christmas fairy lights for flashing effect?
Time vortex...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t7GbgsJsDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQY4zbNVVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLE88LcwqQ
Sonic Screwdriver sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs1FQOw5QI4
Inside the Tardis noises...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iqLVCj0fE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObZQ3HbngO8
Tardis taking off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8M-8BqTGs
Background Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VmOZ4Ppj8 - the doctor theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ7vO7QGSxg - dalek theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8dj3Ay5Vi8 - fish custard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-FabWDS9wE - victory of the daleks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmW_MFl8D_g - “the same sonic” - generally good background music
General Sound effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybEx2G4UL8 - scanner
Quadwrangle-er
Outside the box
Box, what box?
Binable
First filming day Wednesday 28th August - Quad Wrangle
4. Ext. Quad. Day.
They fall out of the Tardis door into the Quad. Doctor pats himself and straightens his bow tie.
(Staff room - phone booth binable- midshot)
(L/S) (Little tardis -with Jess (&costume) /Dr falling from behind in the Quad)
(C/U) Doctor (Niko &costume): Bowties are cool.
(W/S) Students and teachers are walking backwards. An angel (Levi &costume) stands in the background.
(M/S-2-shot) Random student (Fiu & shoe) stops in front of the Dr.
(M/S-2-shot) Fiu: <Morning (<=backwards)
(M/S) Doctor: What? What? What?
7. Ext. Quad. Day
(W/S) Doctor and companion, with K9, are standing in the quad. Everybody else is walking backwards. A weeping angel can be seen in the background. Hands over eyes.
(L/S) Doctor sonic screwdrivers a passing student (Fiu)
(C/U) and then peers at his sonic.
(M/S) Doctor: We seem to be caught in a temporal phase reversal. Earth, 21st Century. It’s Tuesday. I like Tuesdays.
(C/U - over the shoulder) He stares at his screwdriver.
(M/S-2-shot) Companion: Doctor. What’s a temporal phase reversal?
(M/S-2-shot) Doctor: A temporal phase reversal is a fluctuation in the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey continuum of everything.
(W/S) 8. Doctor/Jess start walking around the quad, forwards, scanning the backwards students. The weeping angel is closer.
K9: Doctor, there’s an angel.
(M/S) Doctor: Be quiet, we’re busy with the temporal phase reversal.
13. Flashback:
Ext: Quad.
Day
(Green Screen - Pt England) Doctor remembers the switches on the shoes and the angel.