Final script
- 1. Senseless (Working title) By (Dark Arts) Productions Everyone has a good and a bad side
- 2. FADE IN FROM BLACK 1. INT. GOOD MILA AND BAD MILA IN OFFICE – AM WIDE SHOT (EERIE, TENSE PIANO MUSICPLAYS) BOTH MILAS ARE SAT AT THE TABLE, WITH THE BAD MILA ON THE LEFT SIDE IN A BLACK HOODIE AND THE GOOD MILA IN A WHITE JUMPER ON THE RIGHT. GOOD MILA fiddles with pencil; does not take her eyes off it. PSYCHOLOGIST “So Mila, how do you feel?” BAD MILA “So Mila, how DO you feel?” GOOD MILA “I… I can’t…” PSYCHOLOGIST “How is the bullying?” BAD MILA “Come on, just a little revenge. Nobody will notice” GOOD MILA “I can’t concentrate.” BAD MILA “come on, it’ll be fun!” GOOD MILA snaps her pencil BAD MILA chuckles, slowly gets off the table and walks away towards the front. (EERIE MUSIC GETS LOUDER) FADE IN BLACK FADE OUT FROM BLACK 2. EXT. MILA IN WOODS 1-DUSK FLASHBACK LONG SHOT
- 3. MILA Dressed in all black with her face hidden with the hood of her jacket making her appear almost unrecognisable (Heavy breathing) follows and then pushes BULLY 1 aggressively to the floor, MID SHOT OF MILA FROM HER SHOULDERS DOWN. FOLLOWED BY TRACKING SHOT OF HER HAND WITH THE KNIFE STABBING ONTO THE BULLY MILA kneels, takes a knife and fatally stabs once with no trace of remorse. FADE INTO BLACK WITH STING FLASHFORWARD FADE OUT 2. INT. IN MILAS HOUSE 1- DAY CLOSE UP MILA Wakes up (7:30am in white font on bottom right of screen) MILA (Panting heavily) MILA dressed in pyjamas, the distraught face slowly morphs into confusion from the strange nightmare. MILA busies herself by frantically searching for her phone, to her relief she finds and sees notifications on her phone. Subconsciously, she scrolls down her phone ignoring it with the nightmare still fresh in her mind. Mila throws her phone on the bed and gets up from bed. TRACKING SHOT OF HER WALKING TO BATHROOM JUMP CUTS TO SHOW HER ROUTINE LONG SHOT OF THE BATHROOM DOOR. CAMERA STAYS STILL. 3. MILA Walks into the bathroom in her PJs and looks in the mirror. MILA walks out with her outside clothes on. WIDE SHOT OF HER ENTERING THE KITHCEN MILA (Silently) Walks to the Kitchen to make toast. Mila uses her butter knife and cleans. FLASHBACK CLOSE UP OF MILA STABBING BULLY 1 CLOSE UP SHOT OF ATNIDEPRESSANT BOTTLE MID SHOT OF TAKING THE PILLS WITH WATER AND SIGHING
- 4. MILA (frantically) opens her bottle of antidepressant pills and takes a pill with water, hoping to calm her nerves. Mila sighs in relief. DISSOLVE FLASHBACK 3. INT – SCHOOL CORRIDORS 1– DAY MILA walks out of classroom BULLY 2 is behind BULLY 1 laughing, coming from the opposite direction. MILA Tries to run back but BULLY 1 catches her. BULLY 1 Holds Mila against the wall and grabs her neck throwing Mila onto the floor, BULLY 1 “F*cking finally” BULLY 2 “You little bitch” BULLY 1 “You’re worth nothing you little Bitch!” CLOSE UP OF MILA’S EYES MILA Looks straight into BULLY1’s eyes in fear. DISSOLVE INT- MILA’S HOUSE 2- DAY TRACKING SHOT OF MILA WALKING OUT OF KITCHEN LONG SHOT OF DOOR 5. MILA exits her house for work – DAY LONG SHOT MILA exits – DAY She walks out of the main house door for work (8:00am in white text on bottom right) MILA re-enters – EVENING (5pm in white text on bottom right) FADE IN BLACK 6. INT. OPERATING THEATRE
- 5. BULLY 2 Lying on the operating table, lights coming from all directions. MILA At a distance but walks closer to the patient struggling on the table, patient struggles to get out and silently cries, turns her head and blood is dripping everywhere, MILA Examines the body with her eyes and sees blood all over the clothes, she starts the panic and grabs the white sheet on top of the bully and chucks it on the floor. She sees BULLY chained up with blood everywhere. BULY 2 cries CLOSE UP OF BULLY’S FACE MILA hyperventilates then she screams from utter fear FLASHBACK, FADE OUT BLACK 7. INT – MILA’S HOUSE – DAY. And again the notifications wake her up. Her body still, petrified. She continues to hyperventilate. MILA Eyes arewide open, her corpse-like body dripping in perspiration, wipes her sweat. Notifications are still sounding, faster and faster. She picks up her phone, again reads through the notifications. Someone has died. CLOSE UP OF HER EYES READING THE TEXT CLOSE UP OF THE MESSAGE ON HER PHONE CLOSE UP OF TEAR COMING OUT OF MILA’S EYE MILA shakes her head, throws her phone on the bed and then gets up and sits on the edge and cups her face in her hands. She sighs and stands up to walk to the door. JUMP CUTS TO SHOW HER ROUTINE LONG SHOT OF THE BATHROOM DOOR. CAMERA STAYS STILL. 8. MILA Walks into the bathroom in her PJs. She feels a sort of panic and dizziness which makes her depressed. CLOSE UP OF MILA GABBING THE BOTTLE OF PILLS CLOSE UP OF HER FACE WHEN SHE SWALLOWS IT MILA takes the pills from the sink and swallows it, making her feel more calm. MILA walks out with her outside clothes on MILA Makes her toast, LONG SHOT OF DOOR
- 6. MILA Exits her house for work – DAY (8:25am in white text on bottom right) 9. MILA Re-enters – EVENING (5:05pm in white text on bottom right) MID SHOT OF MILA TAKING BOWL OF PASTA FROM KITCHEN LONG SHOT OF HER WALKING INTO LIVING ROOM. A ready-made bowl of pasta waits for her in the microwave. Mila walks into the living room, sits down and switches on the TV with the remote whilst eating her pasta. As the news plays in the background, NEWS JINGLE REPORTER “Breaking news coming in this morning, where two young girls have been brutally murdered in woods. Whilst making their way to school, some children came across the severed body parts of the victim which were scattered along Mile End Park.” WIDE SHOT ON RIGHT OF MILA HAVING PASTA NEWS REPORTER “After arriving at the crime scene, the police source stated that the deceased were 19 year olds Olivia Carter and Sophie Faldo.” Mila lifts her head AND THE FORK FALLS (she is shocked) at the sound of familiar names and looks to the TV. She sees both pictures of the bullies. (THE NAME OF THE BULLIES ECHO). HIGH ANGLE WIDE SHOT OF MILA LETTING GO OF HER FORK AND SITTING BACK IN SHOCK CLOSE UP FROM RIGHT SIDE OF FORK HITTING GROUND FROM BESIDE IT ON THE FLOOR WIDE SHOT, HIGH ANGLE MILA looks confused and shocked at the same time. Her head starts to spin as she races for the pills in the kitchen. TRACKING SHOT OF MILA TO KITCHEN CLOSE UP OF MILA’S HANDS MILA Rushes to her bag in to kitchen to grab her bottle of antidepressant pills to calm her nerves. Anxious to open the bottle of pills MILA ENTERS THE LIVING ROOM AGAIN
- 7. MILA opens the bottle of pills as she gets back to the living room The sound of the news reporter gets louder Her face is pale and shocked, and she is breathing heavily and shaking vigorously whilst opening the pills WIDE SHOT OF HER STANDING IN FRONT OF THE SOFA CLOSE UP OF TV, NEWSREPORTER TALKING NEWS REPORTER “The police are asking for help in identifying the suspect. Local authorities have found CCTV footage of the murder. Viewer discretion is advised as some may find the following content distressing.” CLOSE UP THE PILLS DROP FROM MILA’S HAND TO THE FLOOR ZOOMS INTO CCTV FOOTAGE 10. CCTV footage of a girl running away from a body. DISSOLVE IN FLASHBACK MILA is stabbing a body ruthlessly. WIDE SHOT OF MILA FOLLOWING BULLY BLACK SCREEN MILA PUSHES BULLY ON THE FLOOR BLACK SCREEN BULLY screams BULLY “help!” MILA continuously stabs the bully BLACK SCREEN 11. MILA gradually realises that she is the person running on screen. CLOSE UP OF HER EYES SHOOTING WIDE OPEN BLACK SCREEN FLATLINE SOUND EXTREME CLOSE UP OF MILA’S MOUTH
- 8. MILA Begins to smirk. FADE TO BLACK EXTREME CLOSE UP OF MILA’S FACE PSYCHIATRIST “Mila?... Mila? Mila, who am I talking to?” MILA face is senseless, she looks a little angry. She then directly looks at the camera. CREDITS ROLL The End.