短片剧本范例：The Night Ferry 剧本围读
一部完整的短片剧本范例，大声读出来：The Night Ferry，三页、五场戏、两个角色。听听有多少故事是用画面和声音、而不是用台词讲出来的。
在这一课中你将学到
- 什么是剧本围读，以及为什么专业剧组一定会做
- 一部三页的完整短片剧本读出来是什么样子，一场接一场
- 手表、引擎、指南针和照片这些道具，如何讲述故事
- 为什么剧本首先是画面和声音，只在必要时才是台词
- 如何为你自己的剧本做一次围读，并找到需要改写的地方
想找一个真正能 “听” 的短片剧本范例？这一课就是课程项目 The Night Ferry 的剧本围读，完全按照它在 ScreenWeaver 中的样子大声读出来，页面跟着声音同步滚动。
午夜零点零二分，老摆渡人 Elias 正要驶离栈桥，穿着黄色雨衣的 Maya 恳求他载她过湖。在五场戏中，从船舱，到大雾笼罩的甲板，再到黎明时的小岛港口，一台熄火的引擎和一个黄铜小指南针揭示出她的身份。三页纸、五场戏、两个角色，一个有开头、有转折、有结尾的故事。留意有多少内容是不用台词讲出来的，然后做练习：把你自己的剧本大声读出来，标出每一句让你卡壳的台词。这是免费剧本写作课程的第 6.3 课。
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英语旁白的文字稿。
0:04Before we polish and export, let's hear the whole thing. Professional productions always do a table read, the script read out loud from the first line to the last. You hear what works, and above all, what doesn't. Here is The Night Ferry, exactly as it stands in Screenweaver.
0:24Fade in. Exterior. The jetty. Night. Rain on black water. A single lamp swings above an old ferry. Elias, 60, white beard, coils a rope with slow, exact gestures. A hand -painted sign on the cabin, last crossing, 1145. He checks his pocket watch. 1202. He unhooks the mooring line.
0:50Footsteps on the wet planks. Maya, 20s, yellow raincoat, drags a battered suitcase down the jetty. Maya, wait, please, I need to cross tonight. Elias, no passengers after midnight. Maya, it's two minutes past. Elias, that's after midnight.
1:10She doesn't move. Rain runs down her face. He looks at the suitcase, then at her. Elias, sighing. Get in. Don't touch anything.
1:21Interior. The ferry cabin. Night. A tiny wheelhouse. Brass instruments, a thermos, a faded photo turned face down. Elias starts the engine. Maya sits on the bench, dripping. Maya, you've done this crossing a long time. Elias. Long enough. She watches him tap the old compass on the dashboard. Twice, before every turn.
1:47Exterior. The ferry deck. Night. Fog swallows the lights of the shore. Silence. The engine coughs, then dies. Elias, not tonight. Come on. He hits the engine housing. Nothing. Maya steps past him. Kneels, and hits it twice in the same spot. Maya, to the engine. Wake up, old girl. The engine roars back to life. Elias stares at her.
2:16Interior. The ferry cabin. Night. Later. Elias grips the wheel. His jaw is tight. Elias. Who taught you that? Maya. Someone who talked to his engines. Elias. Who are you?
2:34She doesn't answer. She opens her hand. A small brass compass, engraved E to M. She sets it on the dashboard, next to his. Two identical compasses. Elias's hand trembles. Elias. Maya. Hi, Dad.
2:54Exterior. The island harbour. Dawn. The fog lifts. Pale light on the water. The ferry glides toward a small harbour. In the wheelhouse, two silhouettes, side by side. Elias turns the faded photo face up. A man and a little girl in a yellow raincoat. Fade out.
3:18Three pages. Five scenes. Two characters. And a story with a beginning, a turn, and an end. Notice how much of it is told without words. The watch. The engine. The compass. The photo. That's what a screenplay is. Images and sounds first. Words when they matter. Your exercise. Read your own script out loud. All of it. And mark every line that made you stumble. Those are your rewrites.