Thursday, 8 December 2011

Opening Scene treatment

Possible tag lines: When you least expect it, Ready or not, Hope to die first, When time runs out; there's no where to run, You'll hope to die, He's watching you.

The writing in blue is the different shots we intend to use.

Girl 1 - Tara
Girl 2 -  Amy

(Includes some dialogue but not much. Music is prominent.)
[Establishing shot of the house] Starts with two girls in a house, alone. [Mid shot of two characters] Character number two says "Where are your parents? Which girl number one replies with "They're away for the weekend, so girly night in." The two girls then walk to the sitting room to watch some TV. [Mid shot as they walk into the other room] (TV has fuzz to show light in their face without having copyright issues of playing a different film in our film.) [Shot from behind the sofa]Girl number 1: "I swear I just saw something at the window, it might be next door checking on me. One second." Girl number 2 replies: "Okay see you in a minute."
[Scary music starts playing as she walks out of the sitting room]
[Zooming in shot to the window] Walks past a window where she sees a face in the dark which is not recognisable [Bad guy is at window, watching the girls.] Thinks she is seeing things, so goes to the door to investigate. [High angle shot]
[Cuts to match on action] as she opens the door and walks outside. [Canted angle tracking shot/ tracking shot] her walking towards a bush. Perspective cuts to bad guy in the bush, with an [over the shoulder shot], and loud breathing that can only be heard to the audience along with the music. [Side angle shot] As she looks around, something quick flashes across the screen and music suddenly has a very sharp edge to it.

[Behind the sofa shot] Scene then cuts to girl number 2 who is still in the sitting room. As girl is watching scary film, [close up] of bad guy's feet can be seen going up the stairs quietly, with no sign of girl number 1. [Mid shot] All of a sudden girl number 2 hears a creak coming from the stairs [Extreme close up of her ear], so goes to investigate and sees the door open [Long shot], so goes outside and calls her friends name. She does not see her friend so she decides to go upstairs thinking the creak she heard was her friend. [Low angle shot] to see her walking up the stairs, then turning left. Goes completely silent, "you're the last one left" and a loud piercing scream can be heard. Shot cuts to a bloody hand going down the window. [Mid shot] Black screen title fades in, then out.

News report is then seen which describes a serial killer that has struck again, but police have no leads in their investigation and he is still on the look out. Police quote "This is the hardest case I've ever been on, the man has never been sighted. The only way we know who he is, is by his signature bloody hand down the window of the house he has attacked." Scene fades to black.

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