Script work

Grandma = Dorothy

Edward: Dorothy's past love

A zoom up to the house (establishing shot) with a fade in/out effect of a flower in front of the house, zooming up to a window where the old grandmother is staring out of, but her gazing is interrupted by the arrival of her grandchild...

DING DONG, grandmother rushes down the stairs

Grandmother: “Hello lovely!”

Grandmother: “Hi nan! How are you?”

Grandmother: “I'm fine, thank you”

They both hug, and with a fade out effect, then a fade in of both the Grandchild and Grandma having a conversation of a past family relative who fought in the war.

The grandchild spots a piece of clothing...

Grandchild: "Oh Grandma, what's that?"

Grandma: “Oh, funny you mentioned that; that used to belong to your great grandad, and I thought you might like it”

Grandchild: "Oh, thanks nan! What was my great grandad like, what did he look like?"

Grandma reaches over to a photo album, while talking...

Grandma: "Well, come a sit over here, and I'll show you some photos of him back when he was going into war"

Grandchild gets up, and sits next to his Grandma to look through the photo album. They slowly skip through pages of the album, and the Grandma pinpoints one photo out in particular...

Grandma: "This photo reminds me of that time, when...."

After that sentence, the Grandma goes down memory lane, remembering a montage of happy scenes with her boyfriend, Edward. Clips of them spending silent times together, and clips of more productive times when they were dancing...

However, there is always an ending to things, and the Grandma also remembers when Edward had to go, as the air raid siren went off, meaning he had to go to war.

In the introduction to the video, you see Edward typing to Dorothy, his love. A speech will come into a scene, and it will be Edward reading out loud what he has been typing to Dorothy.

Dear Dorothy, it’s been two years and three months now, and the war is far from ending. You need to know I still love you, but also need to realise that I might not get out of this, so please, enjoy your life to the full. Have children, watch them grow old alongside you. I love you, and I miss you so much, love always..

Edward.

By Daniel Heighington