Script

Scene 1

EXT-NIGHT-: Small woods near a local park. Long grass over grown weeds, man made trail created by people disturbing the area. Isolated and quiet

Mai- casual wear (hoodie, jeans)

Dead girl-white dress, bare dirty feet

Mai (main character) is walking her dog as she would any other day. The dog is acting strange, barks wildly and runs off. Mai follows the dog and discovers the body.

MAI

(Gasping, stopping herself from screaming, crying)

Runs away (footsteps and panting)

Scene 2

INT-DAY-:stereotypical home

Mai returns home from school and sees similar white dress to the one that was on the girl’s dead body

Mai-casual clothing, backpack

MUM

(Confused) What’s wrong?

MAI

(Without looking at her mum, blank look in her eyes)

[Stutters and hesitates]

Nothing

Scene 3

INT-NIGHT-:Inside Mai’s bedroom, stereotypical bedroom with a girly touch, sleeping with her door open. The white dress her mum showed her is hanging on the doorframe.

Mai-In pajamas

Mai finds it hard to fall asleep.

Inside Mai’s dream:

EXT-NIGHT-: same location she found the body of a dead girl

Mai dreams of being killed by hanging

MAI

(Twisting and turning in bed, gasping for air, panting, cold sweat)

Mai wakes up with bruising and scratches on her wrists.

Scene 4

INT-DAY-: Inside Mai’s bedroom

Mai chose to wear a short sleeve t-shirt, when looking in the mirror she realizes about the bruises and scratches. Mai in a hurry grabs a jumper/cardigan and rushes down the stairs and head for the door

INT: Living room of Mai’s house

MUM

Eat some breakfast before you leave

(As Mai opens the door)

MAI

(Calling to her)

-Sigh-

(When Mai shuts the door)

Scene 5

EXT-DAY-:Outside of Mai’s house

Mai not looking where she was going bumps into someone in the street and exposes her bruising. Mai quickly moves her sleeves back down.

STRANGER+MAI

Sorry (at the same time)

MAI

Ahh… No it was my fault I should have been looking where I was going

(Helping the stranger up from the ground)

STRANGER

No no, don’t worry about it

(Kind warm smile)

Mai continues to go to school and everything for the rest of the day was normal.

Scene 6

INT-DAY-: Mai’s home

Mai returns home after school to find out about the death of the stranger she bumped into this morning.

MAI

I’m home

MUM

I noticed (sarcasm)

How was your day?

MAI

It was okay

MUM

Did you hear about the hanging?

MAI

(Stutter) err…what hanging?

MUM

That woman, they think she killed herself but it doesn’t look much like suicide

(Mai with a worried look on her face, she thinks her mum found out about the body she discovered that night)

Err… down _________street/road

(Mum shows Mai the news article on iPad)

Scene 7

INT-NIGHT-: Mai’s bedroom

Mai-Pajamas different to the time before

Mai experiences the dream again (snippets of previous dream)

MAI

(Twisting and turning, gasping for air, panting, cold sweat)

Mai wakes up with bruising on her neck as well as her wrists this time.

Mai walks down the stairs with a jumper/cardigan as well as a scarf on.

MUM

Why are you wearing a scarf in this weather?

(Confused)

MAI

(Hesitate) errr…I’m not feeling well

[Pause]

Can I stay home today?

MUM

Mai, the world doesn’t stop just because you’re not feeling well

MAI
Please mum

(Desperate look on her face)

MUM

-Sigh- if you must

Scene 8

INT-DAY-: Bathroom, shower booth, home alone

Mai taking a shower (humming to herself) sees figure/face through steamed up glass. Mai wipes the glass and find there is nothing there.

Scene 9

INT-DAY-: Mai’s bedroom

Mai is drying her hair after the shower, her phone rings and she picks it up.

Mai’s friend wondering why she wasn’t at school today.

FRIEND

Ah, you little skiver, you are alive then?

MAI

(Awkward laugh to try and hide her worry)

Yeah, just feeling a bit crap

Friend

You all right? You sound a bit weird

MAI

(Spacey)

I was there…the bruises…it was an accident…he could sense it…the dress…I saw it…she’s after me, help me, HELP ME!

[Phone line is dead]

Scene 10

INT-DAY-: In her bedroom

Mai rocking herself back and forth in the corner while mumbling a nursery rhyme.

Scene 11

EXT-NIGHT-: the location Mai discovered the body

Lower body of the dead girl hanging, swinging, creaking

[THE HANGING]

close up of dead girls face with her eyes closed then  suddenly open and cut to black screen.

Production outline

Character list:

Dead girl/ghost-Lyla

Silent witness (main character)-Mai

Mum of main character

Main character’s friend

Stranger

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Mai was walking her dog in the woods at night like she usually does but her dog goes crazy, barks and runs off. Mai follows the dog and discovers the body of a dead girl (in a white dress, bare dirty feet). She’s scared and doesn’t know what to do, she panics and runs away.

One day after the incident she returns home from school and sees a similar white dress (flickers to seeing the body of the dead girl then back to normal)

Mum asks her what is wrong and she denies that something is wrong.

Night time on the same day, the white dress is hanging on her bedroom doorframe. She falls asleep and has a dream of being killed by hanging and wakes up with cold sweat, bruising and scratches on her wrists.

When she get is getting ready for school she decides to wear a short sleeve t-shirt (not realizing about the bruises and scratches). When she checks her outfit in the mirror she quickly grabs a jumper/cardigan to cover up the bruises.

Mai rushes out of the house, not eating breakfast, while she runs down the road she knocks into someone in the street and exposes her bruises.

Mai gets home after school that day to find out about the death of the stranger she bumped into in the morning.

That night, Mai has the reoccurring dream again (snippets of previous dream) and wakes up with bruising on her neck as well as her wrists.

Mum wondering why Mai is wearing a scarf in hot weather and realises something is wrong.

Mai says she is not feeling well and wants to try to stay at home, her mum has to go to work and she is left home alone.

 Mai goes to take a (steamy) shower to clear her mind and sees a face/figure through the steam. Mai wipes the glass and finds that there is nothing there.

Mai gets a phone call from one of her friends asking her why she wasn’t at school today and jokes about her still being alive. Mai’s friend realises from her reply that something is wrong and ask if she is okay. Mai starts listing things related to her witnessing the body of the girl (broken sentences, that will not make sense to her friend but the audience will understand). Mai suddenly realises the phone line is dead (signifying that something has happened to her friend).

Mai drops the phone and cuts to the fast pace editing of the ghost mentally torturing Mai.

·      Flashes of the reoccurring dream

·      The scene of the death

·      Bruises and scratches

·      The noose

·      Mai rocking herself back and forth mumbling the nursery rhyme (crying) to show she is slowly going mental

·      Shadow of the girl hanging in the room Mai is in

·      Mai talking to the ghost (holding herself)

Dead girl hanging on the branch at the scene of her death (creaking of the branch) focusing on the dirty bare feet of the girl.

Show the title of the film

Close up of the ghost’s eyes from close to open (with dramatic music)

Specific production concept

Production Concept

On the 19th June, we had a group meeting to discuss what genre of film we wanted our trailer and from that we started generating ideas for the concept. I created a mood board as a visual summary of the ideas we are most likely to include in our finished product.

Start of meeting-2:30

Generating ideas for the film trailer

People present:

Claudia Titterton

Helen Tsang

Abigail Vaiciukas

(Brooke Bartram, Rebecca Taylor)

C 2:32	Suggest future dystopia Illness that makes humans animalistic Normal human race dying out People turning against each other, worried about people being infected
A 2:38	Suggests haunting Invisible ghost Moving objects
R 2:40	Cryogenically frozen people
C 2:41	Stalking Related to impending doom
A 2:43	Crime Guns, stabbing, danger, murder Unusual way of murder-Hanging [possible suggestion]
R 2:47	End of trailer could use creaking noise and swinging
A 2:49	Death by hanging Murderer haunted by the ghost
C 2:51	Ghost of a girl who committed suicide haunting the house she used to live in
H 2:53	Chinese people being very superstitious Card readings Waking up with bruises caused by ghosts pinching you
A 2:56	People waking up with bruises around their neck as if they were hanged
H 2:58	Death in dreams Myth of people who died in their dream and due in real life The murder you see in your dream seen in real life e.g. on the street
B 3:01	Seeing the murderer at the end of your bed when you first wake up (when your eyes are adjusting, still blurry) and when you blink, the figure disappears and everything us back to normal
A 3:03	Having the person murdered hanging in the room of the murderer when their eyes and adjusting when waking up Ghost killing people because of their eye colour e.g. the murderers eye colour, the only thing seen by the victim before they were killed
H 3:08	Having a build up of bad things that happen to the victim before they were murdered e.g. child abuse and bullying, everyone hurting the victim having the same eye colour so the ghost go after people with the sane eye colour to get revenge

End of meeting 3:15

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