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Quir & Big- 2 Train writers

Written By

Alex Davies

The story of 2 prolific graffiti writers.

46 Mill Road Cambridge01223 45561

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EXT.DAY-HITCHIN VIADUCT

LONG LENS SHOT - ESTABLSHING SHOT

7 am on a misty morning. You can hear the birds. Facing south, looking along the viaduct. You see a train diagonally run past on the mainline to the east. Seconds later you can hear a rumble and there is a train coming towards the camera from the south.

THE SHOT FADES.

EXT.DAY-NORWICH VIADUCT

MID SHOT

FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER FACING THE VIADUCT. THE CAMERA IS BEHIND QUIRS BACK AND A TRAIN IS RUNNING OVER THE VIADUCT AS HE STARES AT IT.

QUIRTalking about his love for the railway. What it is that interests him so much about it.

OPENING TITLES

A black screen comes up. The titles appear one at a time after showing for 5 seconds in a white graffiti handstyle font.

2 train writers

Quir and Big

EXT.DAY-UNDER NORWICH RAILWAY VIADUCT

MCU

QUIRIntroduces his tag.

A 3-4 second clip of a QUIR piece at Anglia Square car park in Norwich appears.

QUIRWhy he started to write that tag. The reasons that name stuck with him.

INT.DAY-DERELCIT WAREHOUSE CAMBRIDGE

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MCU

BIGIntroduces himself as BIG.

An archived photo of BIG standing infront of one of his pieces with a dead dear and bottle of wine in his hands.

BIGTalks about when he started painting.

2-3 archived photos of old BIG pieces on trains to give you an idea of what he was doing.

EXT. MOTORWAY BRIDGE NORWICH

LONG SHOT

Facing south looking out along the train line with the camera behind QUIRS back as he stares out into the distance.

QUIRTalking about his first encounters with graffiti. What he remembers seeing as a kid that inspired him to pick up a can. He talks about seeing Diner and Blies graffiti in Peterborugh.

2-4 archive photos of Diner and Blies graffiti in Peterborugh. Show for 4-5 seconds each.


MCU

QUIRWhat effect seeing this graffiti had on him. Talks about painting on his own to start with

EXT. MILL ROAD BRIDGE

LONG SHOT

The sun is setting. Facing out towards Cambridge train station. 2 trains go past each other in both directions. You can see a lot of trains parked up in the background.

EXT.DAY-NORWICH BACKJUMP

SLANTED

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QUIRTalking about how he started to meet people and how he first started putting up graffiti.

QUIR stands next to the wire fence as the sun glares off the lens of the camera. He looks reflectively over the fence about the times he has had there painting trains.


MCU

BIGTalks about how his dad influced him when he was younger. Kicks off the rest of the story by saying ' and this is what happend'


MCU

QUIRTalks about when he first met BIG and how old he was at the time.

Archive photo of QUIR standing on top of a train when he was 15.


MCU

BIGWhat they started doing from then. Talks about the first train they painted together and who with.

1-2 archived photos of QUIR and BIG work together on trains, Show for 3 seconds each.


MCU

QUIRRemembering the first panel they painted together. What it was like and where.


MCU

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BIGTalks about the chaos that they caused together. What exactly they used to do.

Archived photo of QUIR and BIG standing in front of a train with their tags all over it. Show for 5 seconds.

Archived video of big stealing paint from a shop. Show for 3-7 seconds.

BIGExplaining they were just being kids having fun.

EXT.DAY-DERELICT FARM NORWICH

EYE LEVEL

QUIRTalks in detail about where he would be going to paint trains. What citys he would go to.

QUIR paints his tag on an old shutter of a building. Clip lasts for 5-6 seconds.


MCU

QUIRContinues to talk about where he used to paint.

EXT.NIGHT-ROOF NEXT TO CAMBRIDGE TRAIN YARD

POV

BIGHe gives his explanation as to why he prefers to paint trains and what it is he loved about it.

As he talks a train pulls up into the yard and the camera is behind his head as he watches it.

EXT.DAY-NEXT TO RIVER IN NORWICH IN THE WASTELAND

MEDIUM SHOT

QUIRTalks about the consequences being on his mind when he did it.

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EXT.DAY-CYCLING DOWN IPSWICH ROAD IN NORWICH

DIRTY SHOT

QUIRTalks about the paranoia of painting graffiti.


MCU

BIGGives his side of the story. Talks about how he didn't care at the time and how one of his friends got caught thinking that it was him when actually it wasn't.

2-3 archived photos of BIG painting trains. Show for about 4-5 seconds each.

EXT.DAY-FARM BUILDING NORWICH

LONG SHOT

QUIRTalking about how he felt bad on his family.

INT.NIGHT-CAR DRIVING IN DARK ROUND CAMBRIDGE

POV

BIGTelling the story of the night he got caught in great detail.

Reconstruction footage of a car driving around in the dark on the A14 towards Milton from Impington slip road and a boy painting under the blue cycle bridge in Milton in the dark and having to make a run for it.

EXT.DAY-SWEETCORN FIELD NORWICH

EYE LEVEL - LONG SHOT

QUIRTelling his story off how he got caught and raided by the police

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Reflective shots of QUIR walking through a sweetcorn field. You can hear the birds singing.

Cuts back to interview shot after 10-15 seconds.


MCU

BIGTelling his side of the story of when the police raided his house and he got arrested.

EXT.DAY-NORWICH VIADUCT

LONG SHOT

QUIRExplaining the consequces that he got for doing graffiti.

The shot shows him walking through the field next to the north side of the viaduct and when the train comes past he waves at it.

EXT.DAY-RAILWAY BRIDGE NORWICH

EXTREME LONG SHOT - PAN

The shot is from the top bank of the bridge looking all the way along. At the bottom you can see QUIR looking at the train going past. There is a lot of graffiti everywhere.

QUIRGiving his opinion on graffiti on trains.

The camera pans the train out of the shot.

INT.DAY-TRAIN

POV

The camera films the trains parked up in the train yard in Cambridge.

MF DOOM- BREAK EM OFF instrumental kicks in and the end credits apear on screen in a black bold font with black lines on the top and bottom of the letters

Shot BY...

Alex Davies

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Stephen Latchem

Thanks To...

Quir

Big

The music fades out.

FADE TO BLACK.

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