Based on our ideas we put forward in our one page pitch, we created a screenplay to use throughout the making of our thriller film. This screenplay is for the first couple of minutes of our film only, not the whole 120 minutes we proposed in our pitch. We included location, setting and time of day, details of where the camera is in each scene, we introduced key characters and included a short description of who they are/what they look like, and we included key dialogue between characters and details of their actions and expressions like I mentioned in my previous blog post about how to write a screenplay.
The therapist office consists of little by way of furniture apart from a desk with a chair on either side. The lighting in the room is pretty dark (could be filmed in black and white).
Two characters appear in the scene. The therapist (Amy Hall) and her patient (Beth Newton).
THE CAMERA SHOWS A VIEW OF THE DESK, SHOWS AMY'S HANDS ON HER LAPTOP. SHE CLOSES THE LID.
MEDIUM CLOSE UP: AMY LEANS FORWARD ON HER HANDS TO LOOK AT A PATIENT OPPOSITE HER. THERE IS A SHOT REVERSE SHOT BETWEEN THEM AS THEY START THEIR DIALOGUE
Amy: (calmly) why don't we start at the beginning?
Beth: (avoids eye contact and brings the sleeves of her jumper over hands to show nerves) It was only supposed to be a game, a story. It wasn't supposed to be real.
Amy: What wasn't?
Beth: Raven Black...
CUTAWAY: THE CAMERA CUTS TO BETH READING A NEWS ARTICLE.
CLOSE UP: THERE IS A CLOSE UP OF THE NEWS ARTICLE THE HEADLINE READS 'ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? - MORE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES IN HALLOWS WOOD. IS THIS THE WORK OF A HUMAN OR OF SOMETHING MUCH MORE SINISTER.
CUTAWAY: BACK IN THE THERAPIST OFFICE (CUT ALWAYS CONTINUE THROUGH THE SEVENS KEEPING A FAST PACED FEEL TO THE OPENING AS WELL AS KEEPING A NARRATIVE GOING)
2.
INT. THERAPIST OFFICE - DAYTIME
Beth: The story goes...that years ago a girl died in the woods, she was in her early teens but as the legend has it she was but a child in her mind. No one knows how she died but people say her presences is strongly felt there...in Hallows Woods...
EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING
Beth holds a camera pointing it at two friends as they walk through the woods together. The footage is filmed by the characters themselves.
Friend 1: Do you think she'll appear?
Friend 2: Don't be stupid. It's just a story.
Beth: So where have those people gone?
INT. THERAPIST OFFICE - DAYTIME
Amy: You spoke of people going missing.
Beth: (nods) Apparently if you Went to the woods and said her name three times she'd appear.
EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING
Friend 2: Say her name then.
Friend 1: I don't want to, it's Beth's story not mine.
Beth: (laughs slightly) Aw, you scared mate?
3.
Friend 2: (mockingly) Do you want us all to say it together?
All: Raven Black. Raven Black. Raven Black.
INT. THERAPIST OFFICE - DAYTIME
Amy: Was this the game you spoke about?
Beth: (nods) She was supposed to appear and then you're meant to sing a lullaby and she goes away...goes to sleep...like a child would...
Amy: What happened to your friends?
EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING
For a moment nothing happens the characters continue their walk along the path.
Friend 2: (nervously/scared) What is that?
THE CAMERA PANS SUDDENLY TO SHOW A FIGURE IN THE TREES DRESSED IN A LONG WHITE DRESS/NIGHT GOWN. SHE IS TALL WITH LONG HAIR AND A PALE FACE THAT APPEARS TO BE CRACKED LIKE PORCELAIN. THIS IS RAVEN BLACK. (JESS EMMINGHAM). THE CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON THE FIGURE.
Friend 1: (screams)
Beth: (not really believing what she's seeing.) Oh my god...
Friend 2: it can't be...
Raven slowly starts to move towards them, the two friends slowly start to back away. Beth stumbles and falls onto her back.
4.
INT. THERAPIST OFFICE - DAYTIME
Beth: The story said that if you didn't finish the game she took you...
EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING
Raven: (creepily singing Oranges and Lemons...)
Beth: (scared) we have to play the game...
She moves the camera around to show her friends leaving, they run off and disappear leaving her stood alone. She turns the camera back showing Raven still getting closer to her.
Beth: (to her friends) come back... (Her voice breaks in fear before she turns back to Raven deciding she must finish the game alone. She shakily sings) Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement's...
INT. THERAPIST OFFICE - DAYTIME
Amy: You finished the game...
Beth: But they didn't...
Amy: Your friends were taken by a ghost?
Beth: It was real...She was real...if I hadn't played she would've taken me too...don't you understand?
Amy: I understand that you're scared...but she's gone...
Beth: Is she though?
Amy: (Sits back, looks at something behind Beth) almost definitely...
THE CAMERA MOVES OVER BETH'S SHOULDER TO REVEAL IN THE DOOR.
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