Giant Steps

Written By
Ian Garling

SCENE 1 - EXT. MID DAY ON AN ALIEN PLANET. MOON LIKE FLOOR,

LOWER GRAVITY THEN EARTH, BRIGHT UNWORLDLY COLOURS.

We see a space boot slowly land down infront of camera, moon

dust come up when landing. Shortly followed by other foot.
Camera resting on the floor

Space girl jumps over camera

CAMERA FOLLOWS
SPACEGIRL AS SHE
JUMPS OVER CAMERA
Space girl lands and pauses. She turns her head looking from
left to right slowly.
CAMERA IS POINT OVER
SPACE GIRLS SHOULDER
FOLLOWING HER HEAD
MOVEMENT
Space girl see's different groups of aliens playing.
CAMERA CUTS TO GROUP
OF ALIENS KICKING
METEORS - HIGH ANGLE
SHOT
Shows two aliens kicking meteor amongst them.
CAMERA CUTS TO A LOW
SHOT SHOWING ALIEN
SITTING ON THE FLOOR
Shows alien with long arms hiding round the base of a crater
and creeping round and pulling aliens girls hair who is
walking past.
CAMERA CUTS TO GROUP
OF ALIENS PLAYING
JUMP ROPE
Three alien girls are playing jump rope with lasers, one in
the middle, the other two spinning the laser
CAMERA CUTS BACK TO
SPACE GIRL

Space girl looks around still, left to right, at the groups

of aliens playing. She then strains to look into the
distance.
CAMERA CUTS TO THE
DISTANCE GOING IN
AND OUT OF FOCUS AS
IF SPACEGIRLS VISION
In the distance the space girl see's a space ship with a
space man working on it and her eyes light up with
excitement.She then loks at the groups of aliens in the path
to the space ship and her excitement tunrs into fear.
CAMERA SHOWS
DIFFERNT GROUPS OF
ALIENS IN THE PATH
TO THE SPACE SHIP
Space girl hesistates at first then slowly starts to jump
towards the spaceship. The first group of aliens she will
encounter are the ones jumping lasers.
CAMERA CUTS TO
BEHIND SPACE GIRL,
FOLLOWING HER
ACTION, THE JUMPS
Space girl does small hesistant jumps due to the lack of
gravity, all the way up to the group of aliens playing jump
rope.
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS PLAYING JUMP
ROPE
The aliens spinning the rope slowly stop and look at the
space girl. The girl in the middle of the ropes jumps out as
well.
CAMERA CUTS BACK TO
SPACE GIRL
Space girl starts looking at the aliens infront of her in
fear.
CAMERA CUTS BAK TO
ALIENS GROWING
We see the aliens grow in size.
CAMERA CUTS TO A
SIDE SHOT WITH

ALIENS AND SPACE

GIRL.
Space girl starts panicking and jumps through the lasers but
falls over the other side
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS SPINNING THE
LASER
Aliens start laughing at space girl. They are still growing
in size, almost blocking the light as they tower over the
space girl
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
GIRL
Space girl is still on the floor, look of fear in her face
crawling back then gets to her feet and then gets up and
does a big jump away from the aliens in the direction of the
space ship.
CAMERA FOLLOWS SPACE
GIRL JUMPING OFF AS
A LONG SHOT
Space girl looks back, realises she is a safe distance away
and stops jumping.
CAMERA CUTS TO FRONT
SHOT OF SPACE GIRL
Space girl looking scared gets her breath back. She looks
around towards the space ship. She sees two routes to the
space ship, one involves walking through the aliens kicking
meteors, the other involves walking past the bully alien.
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS KICKING
METEORS THEN THE THE
ALIEN BULLY THEN
BACK TO SPACE GIRL
Space girl looks back and forth at the two choices then
starts slowly jumping towards aliens kicking the meteor.
CAMERA FOLLOWS SPACE
GIRL FROM OVER THE
SHOULDER.
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS KICKING THE
METEOR

The aliens kicking are kicking meteors towards a big rock

which is block the way for the space girl to get to the
space ship.
CAMERA CUTS BACK TO
SPACE GIRL
Space girl looking at the aliens kicking the meteors starts
shaking with fear. Seeing the meteors going rocket fast into
the wall
CAMERA SHOWS GIRLS
PERSEPECTIVE OF
METEORS ROCKETING
INTO THE WALL THEN
CUTS BACK TO SPACE
GIRL
The space girl then looks at the space ship in the distance.
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
SHIP IN THE DISTANCE
THEN BACK TO SPACE
GIRL
The space girl terrified looks around at the other option
psat the bully alien, but the bully alien isn't there any
more.
CAMERA CUTS TO BULLY
ALIEN ROUTE THEN
BACK TO THE SPACE
GRIL
The space girls face lights up with excitment and she starts
doing big jumps to the space ship down the other route
CAMERA FOLLOWS SPACE
GIRL JUMPING CLOSLY

As the space girl is jumping along we see a shadow of a hand

creep up from behind her
CAMERA CUTS TO THE
SHADOW OF THE HAND
THEN FOLLOWS IT
TOWAARDS SPACE GIRL
We see an alien hand grab Space Girl on the shoulder then
pull her down to the ground

CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE

GIRL ON THE FLOOR
Space girl is on the floor. She hears a laugh and looks over
in the direction in which she was pulled over from.
CAMERA CUTS TO THE
DIRECTION SPACE GIRL
IS LOOKIING
We see the bully alien laughing and slowly start walking
towards the space girl while waving all of his arms around.
From Space girls perspective the alien is growing in size
looming over her.
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
GIRL
Space girl is trembling with fear while still on the floor.
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
GIRLS PERSPECTIVE OF
ALIEN WALKING
TOWARDS HER
As the alien is walking towards the space girl getting
bigger and bigger also while laughing we see a space man
land down from a big jump behind the alien.
CAMERA FOCUSES ON
SPACE MAN BEHIND
BULLY ALIEN
Space man creeps up behind the bully alien, who is walking
towards the Space girl, and he trips him up from behind
causing the bully alien to fall over.
CAMERA CUTS TO BULLY
ALIEN ON THE FLOOR
Bully alien looking angry turns around to look at who
tripped him up then sees the space man towering over him.
CAMERA CUTS BACK TO
SPACE MAN FROM BULLY
ALIENS PERPECTIVE
THEN BACK TO THE
BULLY ALIEN
Bully alien then looks scared and quickly runs off.
CAMERA FOLLOWS ALIEN
RUNNING OFF THEN

CUTS TO SPACE GIRL

Space girl, still slightly in shock, looks up at the space
man.
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
MAN
Space man slowly starts walking towards the space girl who
is still on the floor. He reaches out his hand to help her
up to her feet.
CAMERA CUTS BACK TO
SPACE GIRL.
Space girl hesitates then reaches out her hand and grabs the
space mans hand
CAMERA CUTS TO THE
HANDS HOLDING EACH
OTHER
Space man pulls space girl to her feet
CAMERA CUTS TO
SPACEGIRL
Space girl smiles and looks towards the space man
CUTS TO BOTH SPACE
GIRL AND SPACE MAN
FULL BODY SHOT
Space girl looks over towards the space ship, Space man also
looks over.
CAMERA CUTS TO SPACE
SHIP THEN BACK TO
SPACE MAN AND SPACE
GIRL
Space man and Space girl do big jumps over to the space ship
CAMERA FOLLOWS THEM
JUMPING TOWARDS
SPACE SHIP
Space man and Space girl arrive at the space ship.
CAMERA SHOWS SPACE
MAN AND SPACE GIRL
LOOKING AT THE SHIP
Space girl is looking at the ship with amazement and walks

up to it with her hand out to touch it.

CAMERA CUTS TO HAND
EDGING TOWARDS SPACE
SHIP BUTTON
A bell starts ringing loudly. Space girls hand and space
ship start glitching between space and real life.
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS WHO WHERE
KICKING BALL
Bell still ringing. Aliens who where kicking the ball glitch
in and out of being aliens and school boys kicking footballs
at a wall.
CAMERA CUTS TO
ALIENS WHO WHERE
JUMPING ROPE
Bell still ringing. Aliens who where jumping rope glitch in
and out of being aliens and school girls
CAMERA CUTS BEHIND
SPACE GIRL AND SPACE
MAN WITH SHIP
INFRONT OF THEM
Space girl and space man start glithing in and out of being
in space suits and being school children. Space ship starts
glitching in and out of being and and a toy until everything
is in real life. Bell stops. School girl and School boy turn
around.
CAMERA CUTS TO CLOSE
UP OF SCHOOL GIRL
School girl smiles and blushes
Fade to black.
END