Live Evil Final Script
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The document is a manuscript for the movie "Live Evil" and contains 5 scenes. It begins by introducing Rebecca watching a mysterious DVD about 3 teens who died. The movie shows the teens in a park at night, getting separated, and being dragged away. Back in real life, Rebecca goes to the same park and encounters the caretaker. The movie then shows Rebecca in the park fighting her attacker. In real life again, Rebecca gets lost in the cemetery and is attacked by an unseen force.
Live Evil Final Script
- 1. Page |1 LIVE EVIL - Manuscript By Erica Ghezzo & Anika Chowdhury Scene 1 REAL LIFE Interior: REBECCA’S HOUSE, KITCHEN - MIDDAY Black screen fades into a establishing shot of Rebecca’s house then cuts to a close-up shot of newspaper on table, which allows the news headline “3 Teens, Victims of Mysterious Death” and related photos to be clearly visible. Door bell rings. Mother :( asks) Rebecca go answer the door for me please. Rebecca :(unenthusiastically) ok mom. Newspaper is suddenly covered by a book. Rebecca gets up from chair and leaves room. This is shown by the camera zooming out of the newspaper and stopping into a mid-shot of kitchen. She opens the door and walks out of the room - shown through a match on action shot. After she walks out of the room the door slowly swings back - shown through a mid-shot of door. The company logo appears on the screen, and then disappears when the door closes. The screen goes black. Interior: CARETAKER’S HOUSE - MORNING Fade into an establishing shot of caretaker’s house then cuts to a medium close up of caretaker’s hands wearing gloves, which allow the distinctive bracelet on his wrist to be clearly seen. Caretaker is putting a DVD into a black DVD case with Rebecca Lucky written on the cover. Non-Diegetic: Quiet violin eerie music plays on the background. Interior: REBECCA’S HOUSE - MIDDAY Cut to the front door of Rebecca’s house with the same black DVD case on the floor - shown through a wide shot at the same time the violin plays again then fades away. Rebecca walks into the frame and walks towards the door; this is shown through a mid-shot. She bends down to pick up the DVD - shown through a point of view shot. A trailing, mid-shot is used as she gets up and walks into the living room. She places the DVD into the DVD player — shown through a point of view shot. A wide shot of living room is used to show her sitting on the sofa and watching the movie. The shot cuts to a wide shot of the TV where the film can be seen. In the movie there are three teenagers with equipment walking in a park. The camera zooms into the TV as ‘3 hours’ later appears on the screen of the TV. Scene 2 MOVIE Exterior: MOVIE, PARK - NIGHT Camera handheld, point of view shot, shows two teenagers sitting in a circle telling each other ghost stories. Point of view shot constantly cuts between the two teenagers to show their reactions to the stories - Medium close up is used. Handheld, camera tilts upwards to show female friend getting up to go look around the park. 15 minutes later appears on the screen. Handheld camera tilts upwards to show male friend getting up from his seat. Error! Reference source not found. Manuscript for LIVE EVIL
- 2. Page |2 Male friend: (teases) I’ll go check why she’s taking so long … You know if I go you probably won’t see me again … in one piece that is. Rebecca: (jokingly) Okay just make sure you don’t conveniently fall over when something chases you. (Voice pitch, becomes distorted) 15 minutes later the following caption appears on the screen ‘Kevin goes to look for friends’, then ‘10 minutes...’ appears on the bottom of the screen. Rebecca becomes worried and decides to look for her friends. Handheld, panning shot of park which is now found out is a cemetery is used as Rebecca looks around for her friends. Rebecca: (shouts) Kris! Amber! Kevin! (Voice pitch, becomes distorted) Along with this, is some eerie music building up louder. Rebecca is suddenly knocked down and the camera falls on the floor facing her. She begins to crawl over to grab it but before she can, she begins to be dragged away from it by something — shown through the cameras point of view shot. Rebecca: (screams) NO!!! Screen fades to black Scene 3 REAL LIFE Interior: LIVING ROOM – AFTERNOON Extreme close up that slowly zooms out of Rebecca’s face to show her reaction after watching the film. She stops the movies, gets up grabs her jacket - shown through a cut-in. She then leaves the house - shown through a handheld wide-shot. Rebecca is walking down her street obliviously - shown by a hand held tracking wide shot of her back - this changes to a mid shot of her side and then into a dolly zoom of her front MONTAGE - (Movie and newspaper) “Flashback” There’s compilation of clips showing the actors of the film that she just watched as well as the close up shot of the newspaper article (no sound used) Quiet eerie music playing in the background Rebecca nods her head for reassurance that everything’s okay and it’s just a co-incidence- shown through a mid-shot which cuts to a extreme close up of her expressions just as she realises that she has ended up in the same cemetery as the movie - quick flashback to the part where she saw the cemetery in the film she watched. Eerie getting louder during the previous shots and sudden silence and everything freezes at the cemetery gate shown through a very wide shot Error! Reference source not found. Manuscript for LIVE EVIL
- 3. Page |3 Interior: REBECCA’S LIVING ROOM - AFTERNOON Wide shot of the living room followed by an extreme close up of the remote control on the pillow. The camera pans to show Rebecca’s mother entering the room. Wide shot continues to show her sitting down on top of the control by accident which make turns the film back on again- TV shown by a mid-shot. The camera then zooms into the TV to indicate that the next seen is in the movie. Scene 4 MOVIE Exterior: MOVIE, CEMETERY - NIGHT The camera’s point of view shows Rebecca escaping from the hands grip by kicking villain and gets up, she grabs the camera and runs- shown through Handheld camera As Rebecca is running, she trips and falls over. “Flashback” Rebecca: (jokingly) Okay just make sure you don’t conveniently fall over when something chases you. (Voice pitch, no longer distorted) “Back to present” Rebecca: (screams) Handheld camera point of view shot shows Rebecca’s blood splash on the lenses, which obscures the view. The screen fades to black. Scene 5 REAL LIFE Exterior: CEMETERY - AFTERNOON Wide-shot of cemetery shows caretaker emerging from behind a wall. The shot cuts to a mid shot of him smiling. Caretaker: (nonchalantly) Can I help you? Cut to a point of view medium close up shot of Rebecca. Rebecca: (stutters) Where’s the way out?” Caretaker points in a direction to show her the way out — shown through a mid-shot. There is a cut-in to his hand pointing, to show that he is wearing the same gloves and bracelet as that he wore in scene 1. This shot cuts to an over the shoulder medium close up shot of caretaker smirking while Rebecca can be seen over his shoulder walking in the direction he pointed to. The scene fades out. Exterior: CEMTERY - NIGHT Error! Reference source not found. Manuscript for LIVE EVIL
- 4. Page |4 Rebecca gets lost and begins to hear weird sounds as she walk forwards — a trailing, Dolly zoom. The camera does a 360 degree point of view, wide shot of Rebecca. This then cuts to a point of view pan, slanted wide shot. The camera then zooms on to her feet where we see a dissolved hand grab her ankle. MONTAGE- (film and cemetery) She struggles to find something to hold onto, in order to prevent herself from being dragged into the soil. This is shown from different shots that vary from a high angle shot of her on the floor to an extreme close up of her scared and desperate facial expression. Cut- in of her hands reaching out for something to grab are also used. “Flashback” The camera’s point of view shows Rebecca escaping from the hands grip by kicking villain and gets up; she grabs the camera and runs- shown through handheld camera “Back to present” Rebecca breaks free using the same means as she did in the movie — shown through an extreme close up of her feet. She then gets up and begins to run, this is shown through a dolly zoom. She then bumps onto the caretaker who grabs her arms in order to prevent her from leaving the cemetery — shown through two-shot which cuts to a high angle point of view shot of the caretaker. An extreme close up shot of the caretaker’s hands is used to show him suddenly loosening his grip on her arm, this cut to an extreme close up shot of his shocked expression followed by a cut in of his feet where we can see the dissolved hand grab his foot. The screen then fades to black. Error! Reference source not found. Manuscript for LIVE EVIL