Here is a rough film script for an opening scene of our original film idea, which was a horror film set in some woods the main characters would be teenagers. The horror aspect of the film would be that they were going to be gradually stalked, hunted and killed by something living in the woods possibly a werewolf or monster of some kind. However we have now decided against that idea although it was fairly well thought out we decided that:
A) It is not very original and similar story lines had been done many times before.
B) It would be hard to film killing or monsters scenes (although possibly the audience never sees the monster) with a low budget and has the danger of looking tacky or poorly bad.
C) It would be hard to establish characters so the audience grows attached to them in time to care or not care about them being killed and it would be difficult to fit everything in to five minutes.
Either way i thought it would be useful to post our first draft of the opening scene as a way of showing are progression.
Opening Scene
The film opens with an establishing shot of a long landscape of fields and pasture on a sunny autumn evening, in it sheep are running across the shot in the distance. This peaceful image is quickly ruined when the shot cuts to a close up of a path from inside some bushes on the side of the path. Suddenly something runs closely past the camera because of the blurred image, at this stage the viewer is not quite sure if the thing that ran past is a person, if is chasing something or if it is being chased.
The shot changes to a mid-long shot again from some bushes but this time looking down the path a boy runs down the path towards the camera with a scared expression on his face, The shot jumps to a worm eyed view from a babbling brook bank with the water in line with the camera but the camera pointing up. The boy runs through the brook all the time panting with a look of fear and exhaustion on his face his foot splashes in the water and he runs passed the camera and out of shot.
Then in a mid-long shot he runs out of the wood and into the open field the boy looks around him and then continues to run still breathing heavily with fear, the camera pans round tracking the boys as he runs past the camera and off through the field.
The next shot is a long shot from a birds eye view (We are going to shoot this from up a dead fallen tree at the edge of the field) the boys runs past and back into some woods as he does so the camera tracks him. The next shot is a extreme long from down a small hill in the wood, the boy trips and roles to the bottom the camera then switches to handheld and it walks up to the boy slowly as he squirms at the bottom of the hill .
As the pursuer gets closer and closer to the boys and the boy (still on the ground) tries to move his body back but half frozen with fear and half because of an injury he has done himself from falling down the hill he can not get up the boy begins to shot form help.
Boy
HELP!…HELP ME!…SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!
The Camera cuts to a close up of the boy’s terrified face.
With no reply and the pursuer over him now he shouts out in fear and desperation.
NO!…NO!…NOOOOO!!!
The camera dramatically cuts from the close up of the boys terrified face back to a peaceful scene this one an early morning long shot of a quiet farm. The sun is rising and the sheep are beginning to wake.
The camera jumps to a close up of a post a bird flies on to it. It then cuts to a long shot of a field where a group of teenagers are walking down towards camera with camping equipment tents, sleeping bags ect
END OF OPENING SCENE
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