INITIAL NARRATIVE

ACT 1

1. The child is bumping down the stairs and as he hits each stair his clothes change to show that this is his everyday.
2. Cut to him sitting at the table with 7 cereal boxes at right angles lined up in front of him. He carries out a routine picking out certain numbers of certain cereals lining them up, stirring his bowl in a certain way (clockwise, anti-clockwise) etc.
3. Whilst he eats his breakfast his parents are moving around him doing chores. We plan to have the parents moving in fast motion while the child is eating at normal speed in front of them. This will show time passing behind him, however he is almost oblivious to it.
4. After the breakfast scene the boy will walk over to a giant lego sculpture and will begin to add more pieces taking the pieces from different colour coded boxes and taking great care over where he puts them.
5. The final part of act 1 is a shot just of his hands where he solves a rubik's cube in only a few seconds. This is to show the side of autism that means children often have above average intelligence.

ACT 2

1. Act 2 is clearly distinguished as we cut from black to a shot of a babysitter arriving who is around 18 years, noticeably younger than his parents. The child is reluctant to great the babysitter and watches his parents leave. His behaviour will make it obvious that he is now much more tense in the babysitter's presence, who may be over friendly and possibly patronising.
2. He watches the babysitter make him lunch which she is making in a messy way compared to what he is used to. He gets quite twitchy watching her make the lunch because he can't deal with the fact that it's not how he normally likes it.
3. He moves away to watch some kind of wildlife program.
4. When the babysitter brings over the food everything is mixed in together which he doesn't like at all. He begins to freak out properly and tenses up entirely, he lies on the floor breaking down slowly.
5. His starts off whimpering and tearing up, however it progresses to screaming and squirming on the floor. At the start we see the babysitter out of focus in the background until she notices him breaking down and rushes over trying to comfort him but in vain.
6. She tries different methods of calming him, such as bringing him water, while she is on the phone to his mother trying to explain.
7. The babysitter also gets very upset.
8. A montage could be used to show the boy in different places around the room, still very upset, showing that time is passing. This continues until the parents enter and try to calm both of them down. However the babysitter is very eager to leave.

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