Script

First version of my Script.








Script Idea
By Grace Stewart
Version 1

EXT: ON A QUIET DIMLY LIT STREET. FEW CARS DRIVING PAST.
CAMERA IS FOCUSED ON THE MOVEMENT ON THE STREET, CAR ZOOMS IN-FRONT OF CAMERA BLOCKING ITS VIEW.
CAMERA LOCKS ONTO AND FOLLOWS A STUDENT AS THEY WALK DOWN THE STREET: STUDENT SEEMS COMFORTABLE AND UNHURRIED AS THEY WALK.
OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT: STUDENT TURNS DOWN A SIDE ALLEYWAY.
CHANGE TO MID- SHOT SIDE VIEW OF STUDENT WALKING THROUGH ALLY.

STUDENT: (whistling to self)
THE SOUND of a can skittering across the ground, makes the STUDENT pause in their WHISTLING.

STUDENT: (LOOKS OVER THEIR SHOULDER)
Hmm?

Seeing nothing but the empty alleyway the STUDENT shrugs resuming their WHISTLING and continues walking.

(CHANGE TO OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT AS STUDENT TURNS AROUND)
A cat HISSING AND YOWLING breaking the silence causing the student to whirl around and scan the alleyway.

STUDENT: (SLIGHTLY NERVOUS) Hello, Is someone there?

Quiet followed the question.

HIGH ANGLE SHOT
Student turn back in the direction they are going and picks up into a jog, they have only taken a few steps when a LOUD SWOOSHING sounds behind them, they break into a sprint the only sound that can be heard now are their FEET HITTING the ground and their HEART THUMPING in their ears.


HIGH ANGLE PANS DOWN TO AN OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT.
(WE SEE A DARK SHAPE FLIT ACROSS THE STUDENTS PATH.)
CAMERA STAY BACK IN A FULL BODY SHOT

STUDENT skids to a halt, spinning and searching all around the alley.
STUDENT: (Gulps in air then speaks in an angry tone)
          If this is someone’s idea of a joke it is not funny!

THE STUDENTS EYES DART AROUND TRYING TO CATCH SIGHT OF WHAT EVEN MADE THE NOISE.
THE CAMERA CAN SEE A DARK SHAPE JUMPING THROUGH SHADOWS JUST OUT OF SIGHT OF THE STUDENT, A SWOOSHING FOLLOWS EACH JUMP.

 CONT
STUDENT: (Angry tone but voice shakes with nerves)
S-seriously, just come out! I won’t hurt you.

THEIR FACE CHANGES FROM ANGER TO FEAR AND THE SWOOSHING NOISE GETS LOUDER.

CONT
STUDENT: PLEASE! Just leave me alone! I don’t have anything you want!
(SCRUNCHS EYES CLOSE AND PUTS HANDS OVER THEIR EARS)

The SWOOSHING sounds dies down and we can no longer see the DARK SHAPE moving around.
THE STUDENT SLOWILY OPENS THEIR EYES BUT KEEPS THERE HANDS OVER THEIR EARS.
CAMERA CHANGES TO POINT OF VIEW
Eye’s on their feet they see an empty can roll towards them and bump into their shoes, following the path that the can had taken, their eyes come to rest on their shadow on the wall.
OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT
STUDENT: (Confused) Huh?
They look around
CONT
STUDENT: Was I just imagining things? (Laughs) I must be more tired than I thought.


After making a few silly gestures at their Shadow still chuckling under their breath the STUDENT turns to leave.
CAMERA IS FACING THE STUDENT IN A MID SHOT AFTER THEY TURN, LOOKING JUST OVER THEIR SHOULDER.
We see the SHADOW behind them form glowing eyes and a sinister grin, it pulls forward out of the wall (and forms a solid body), reaching it clams a hand down on the STUDENTS shoulder.
CAMERA ZOOMS FORWARD TO A CLOSE UP OF THE STUDENTS FACE.

CUT TO BLACK.
(STUDENT SCREAMS)

Ideas

Ideas for what the shadow could look like,

 Looking at scene's 

Reworking Ideas

Script

I chose to work with the Shadow Puppet Idea

My Tutors told me to look more into the fear aspect and characters.

Characters:

• Student would be the live action part.
• The Shadow would be 2D until it reaches outs of the wall then parts of it would become 3D.
  Most likely just the hands so it would not be to hard to model.

Because the person who would be playing the Student would probably be around my age i asked a few friends about what scares them.

What scares them?

• The unknown - supernatural 
• Jump scares
• Loud noises

Where is a place they would not like to be alone in the dark?

• Large buildings, Eg: Abandoned, run down.
• Large field 
• Empty park
• Lonely street
• Alleyways

Which these in mind I looked at what the shadow could be, and also my setting.

Shadow would stay mostly unknown because most people found it scarier when they didn't exactly know what happen, because it gives the mind a lot of room to imagine the worst.

My setting in the beginning was an alleyway but now it could be an alleyway late at night. 

Production Studio

  Production Studio


  Idea's

• Putting life into a page.
  A drawing coming to life and leaving the sketchbook.
  
• Shadow Puppet
  Actor is walking home and gets a fright in alley only in the end to see their own shadow. 

The genre for the first would be fantasy, and the second would be fantasy and horror.