Planning - Script

I have chosen to continue with the Film Idea 1 as I think, for the limited resourses I posses to create this promotion package for a film, that the other two ideas would be too demanding to make an effective package of trailer, poster and magazine front cover.

The plan of Film Idea 1 is...

A successful business woman has a near death experience in a car accident which leaves her husband and two children dead. She is given leave of work due to the tragedy and begins to see a teenage girl wearing the same red hoody her teenage daughter was wearing on the day of the accident.Every time she sees this girl someone close to our main character is killed in ever more gruesome ways. Convinced this girl is a ghost of her daughter doing this to punish her for the car accident, and tries everything from priests to scientists, all who end up killed by the girl.Eventually the woman decides that the ghost wants her to die, otherwise everyone she cares about will be killed instead, and about to kill herself police stop her.It is slowly revealed in fact that she herself is the murderer and her guilt has driven her insane and her mind has conjured up this ‘ghost’ to relieve her guilt.She is taken to a mental hospital, however at the end of the credits back at the mental hospital the doctors have been killed and there is blood all over her room with her sitting in a corner laughing.

From this I have created a script for a trailer I think would be suitable to attract this Film Ideas target audience and create a fanbase for the films release.

The Script
Interior Shot:
Living Room:

A blank screen with a fade cut to the producer’s logo. A fade cut to static for 5 seconds, it then abruptly cuts to an establishing shot of a dark living room clearly at night. The establishing shot is from one corner of the room, and in the corner to a left is a woman sitting on the floor, knees to chest with her arms around her knees sobbing.

Woman: (Talking apparently to herself) Why me? It was an accident. (A 2 second pause) someone please help me, please (she whispers).

A sharp cut back to static for just a second this time and cuts to an extreme close up of the woman’s eyes, peering over her knees. Another quick cut to static for 1 second. Another cut to the original establishing shot from the corner of the room, there is a slow knock on the door from the opposite end of the room, the door opens and a man walks in and sees the woman sobbing.

Man: What’s wrong? (Really concerned tone and he walks over and kneels down in front of her to see if she’s okay)

Cut to static again for 1 second and a cut to a point-of-view (POV) shot from the womans perspective looking up at the man showing her weak position. To the side of his shoulder, behind him, there is a girl wearing a red hoody holding a knife, from the angle it looks like this girl is above the man showing how she now has control over his life.

Woman: No! (In a scream)

Cut to a black screen – a slash sound a woman then screaming. Then a fade cut to the title ‘Someone is There’. Another fade cut to ‘Coming Soon’.