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- 1. (In the shadows) by (Lauren Parkes) Name (of company, if applicable) Address Phone Number
- 2. SCENE ONE FADE IN: EXT. HOUSE - AFTERNOON We pan across an average looking semi detached house, the road is pretty quiet. We hear music, quietly at first but then becomes louder, we see a car pull up outside the house and then sound the horn. Seconds later a girl, Violet, appears from the house. We have a shot of her locking the door, close up on the key and the lock. We then have a shot from afar showing her approaching the car and entering it, getting in at the front passenger side. At this stage it looks like it is coming from the point of view of something/someone that is watching. INT. CAR - AFTERNOON As the girl gets into the car we see the other four friends, including one other girl, Rebecca, and three boys, Stanley, Benjamin and Charlie. They are all laughing, having general conversations which aren’t concentrated on. VIOLET Running late again, I see, hm, Stan? What was it this time? STANLEY (laughing) oh, c’mon, vi! Y’know me, when am I not late for anything? Blame those three in the back, anyway. (Points to Rebecca, Benjamin and Charlie) CHARLIE (Overlapped) As if you’re blaming me! Ben was the one that wanted something to eat! REBECCA (Overlapped) It was these two who wanted to go! BENJAMIN (Overlapped)I was hungry!
- 3. .2 Violet shows disappointment in them, but as Stanley turns to her and smiles cheekily for approval it makes her disappointment break and she laughs. We then cut to outside the car, from a far, we see the car pull away, head down the street and we hear the music playing again, loudly but then becomes quieter, as the music becomes quieter the screen becomes darker. Again, this comes from the point of view of something/someone watching them, we can tell this as it is slightly shakey. SCENE TWO FADE IN: INT. CAR - AFTERNOON We see this scene through a camera that belongs to one of the friends. Charlie is holding the camera, we see him recording himself as he checks himself out. He places an arm around Rebecca, pulling her closer, he’s still looking into the camera, smiling cheekily as we see Rebecca trying to push him away and get out of the camera shot. REBECCA (Covering her face and laughing) CHARLIE! you need to stop! stop it! CHARLIE (still holding onto Rebecca) Don’t act as if you don’t love it! REBECCA (Hiding her face still) Just get the camera out of my god damn face! The camera moves and turns around so it’s facing Violet and Stanley in the front, We concentrate more on their dialogue. We can hear the other three talking in the background but no specific conversation can be heard from them, just mumbles. VIOLET (Quietly talking) we can’t do that to Ben, thats so cruel, Stan! STANLEY (Quietly talking) Don’t act as if it wouldn’t be hilarious, admit it Vi, seeing the panic on his face, you cannot deny the humour!
- 4. .3 VIOLET (Quietly talking) not gonna lie but it would be pretty funny (She laughs quietly) But We can’t, Stan, that’s so cruel, y’know he’s going through a tough time right now, we couldn’t - I couldn’t! Stanley looks at Violet quickly for a split second, making himself appear sad, before turning back to the road, he still has a frown on his face. VIOLET (Sighs and talks quietly) fine, fine, I’ll text the plan to Becca, get her to show Charlie, but I still hate this idea, we always do this sort of thing to him… We see a smirk form upon Stanley’s face and Violet pull out her phone, showing remorse for Ben but giving in to Stan’s plan to make him happy. What she is texting appears to the side of the screen. VIOLET (Texting) Don’t let Ben know, this is Stan’s idea… We’re going to hide from him in the forest… Tell Charlie. REBECCA (Texting) omg! that’s an amazing plan, can’t wait to see his face!! The camera turns back around so we see Rebecca and Charlie again, they are smirking and giggling to each other, it then turns to Benjamin, back to them still smirking and then to Benjamin, we hear them laughing and Benjamin is clearly confused. SCENE THREE EXT. FOREST - AFTERNOON Scene starts panning over the forest that the group of friends are going to. We see a familiar car park up in front of it, we know the group of friends have arrived. The next angle is from inside the forest looking out as we zoom in to get a closer view of the car and see the five friends getting out. We then realise by the movement of the view we are getting that somebody or something is still watching them and has followed them.
- 5. .4 SCENE FOUR EXT. FOREST - AFTERNOON We will see this through the camera belonging to one of the friends. This time Stanley is holding it, keeping it on the two girls in front of him. Rebecca and Violet are leading the group deep into the forest, they are gossiping, the three other boys are trailing behind. We see Benjamin approach the girls and stand next to Violet, putting an arm around her and joining in on the conversation. We hear Stanley whispering to Charlie to hide in the forest, but to stay close behind. Rebecca turns around and smirks as she realises that Charlie is gone. She turns and whisper to Violet who then looks back. VIOLET STAN? where the hell did Charlie go? STANLEY What do you mean where did he go? he’s right behi— Stanley turns around, he pretends to have a shocked expression as he has an understanding of what is going on. STANLEY For god sake, I’m not his keeper! I dunno? He’s probably got lost or something, I’ll try and phone him? This part we see from the point of view of whatever is watching the group. He pulls his phone out, there is no reception, he holds it out, trying to find reception. BENJAMIN (Smirking) Just like the lion king, look; NAAA SAVEN YAAAAAA! Stanley, Rebecca look at Benjamin disapprovingly and then at each other, but Violet laughs at his attempt of a joke.
- 6. .5 SCENE FIVE EXT. FOREST - AFTERNOON We see the group slowly split, one by one they each disappear into the forest. Finally it is only Violet and Benjamin left, we see this being recording through the trees from Stanley recording with the camera. We see Violet look directly into the camera with a sympathetic look, we can tell she doesn’t want to do this but we see Stanley make hang gestures infant of the camera encouraging her to do so. As this happens we see a shadowy figure move in the bushes/trees behind Violet and Benjamin, the friends don’t see this but Violet hears movement and turns around quickly. VIOLET Ben? What was what? Ben? Seriously, I’m scared, what was it? BENJAMIN (sighing) Spose I’ll have to go and check… She sends Benjamin a head to check if it’s safe to go but as he does, Violet also goes into the forest to hide. We see the hiding friends, excluding Violet, snap twigs and rustle bushes as they watch Benjamin continue to walk through the forest. SCENE SIX EXT. FOREST - AFTERNOON We watch as Benjamin stops in his tracks, we hear the other friends quietly giggling as we watch Benjamin looking around, again we see a shadowy figure moving behind him, this time coming out of the bushes and pushing him. This scene is viewed from the friends camera again. BENJAMIN (shouting) C’mon guys, this isn’t funny any more!… Guys?… Guys! c’mon you need to stop this. Benjamin begins to panic. He frantically looks around, He notices the shadowy figure in the background. BENJAMIN Is that you? Stan? Charlie? Just come out… wait… what? who.. what are you?
- 7. .6 We still hear the friends giggling in the background, but we also hear mumbling between them. VIOLET (quietly) Guys, I feel bad, c’mon! STANLEY (laughing) Just a few more minutes! violet, this is hilarious… We see Violet make eye contact with Rebecca, they both show sympathy for Benjamin. Rebecca shakes her head and looks to the floor, seeing how much of a panic Benjamin is in. Rebecca gives Stanley a stern look. We see Rebecca walking out from her hiding place, Violet follows shortly after. REBECCA (Shouting) Ben! Over here! VIOLET (Shouting) Ben! We see Benjamin turn around, a look of relief is shown over his face. The two girls are laughing, Benjamin then shows embarrassment. Violet hugs him. Stanley then appears out of the bushes, laughing loudly. STANLEY Oh my god!… Jesus christ… Ben!… that was fucking hilarious! I can’t cope! You were.. so.. so scared! BENJAMIN You know what? I was just pretending, I knew you were hiding from me, so I thought I’d go along with it, especially when you pushed me.. STANLEY (Laughing) yeah, yeah, if you say so.. wait? we didn’t push y- VIOLET wait, guys? Where is Charlie? REBECCA He’s probably just trying to freak us out, you know what he’s like.. VIOLET (sighs) yeah, true, he’s such an idiot, let’s just keep walking he’ll turn up in the end.
- 8. .7 SCENE SEVEN EXT. FOREST - AFTERNOON We see the friends walking deeper into the forest. This time Violet is holding the camera. She concentrates on the sky, the trees and the birds but we hear the conversation in the background. REBECCA Just come on out, Charlie, this is getting boring now… BENJAMIN Just leave him to it Becca, he’ll get bored in the end! STANLEY (Loudly talking) I’ll just drive home without him! We hear Charlie scream. All four friends stop in their tracks. The camera held by Violet pans over Rebecca, Stanley and Benjamin who appear in shock. They all start running, we can see this through the camera. When the friends slow down, we see a shadowy figure moving through the bushes, the friends don’t see this. We hear Charlie shout/scream again. The screen goes black. SCENE EIGHT This is a montage, through the entirety we don’t see faces we see everybody from behind, apart from Charlie and Rebecca. We see Charlie with a girl, We can tell they’re a couple. We see their happy memories but between each happy memory is Charlie with another girl, it is Rebecca. We see a female, dressed all in black, put on a black jacket and gloves and put the hood up. We see her following the group of friends all day. We see her hit charlie over the head. We see her dragging him. He wakes up. We hear him scream. The screen goes black and the scene fades in and out, symbolising Charlie’s consciousness, whenever Charlie and the girl talk. When faded in it’s blurry so we still can’t see the girls face clearly. GIRL Why did you do it, Charlie..(fade out) Four years.. (fade out) four years, down the drain… (fade out) I can’t do this anymore… (Fades out)
- 9. .8 CHARLIE (heavily breathing) I’m sorry… (fades out) please… (fades out) She means nothing to me (fades out) you’ll regret this… (fades out) it doesn’t have to be this way… (fades out) please… (fades out) The screen remains black now. We hear Charlie pleading with the girl. CHARLIE (panicking and pleading) Please! No! Stop! Please, please! No! No! Stop this! Please, I love y— It goes silent for a few seconds, the screen remains black. Then when we finally fade back, we still hear no sound but we see what is happening. This is from Charlie’s point of view, he is on the floor still. His vision is still a little blurry but becomes more clear this time. We see the girl with a gun, pointed to him, then she points it to her head and fires it. The sounds then comes back we hear the gun shot, then Charlie shouting/screaming. He rushes to her body on the floor. He holds it in his arm. The shot moves out, away from them and then fades black.
- 10. .9 SCENE INDEX +* SCENE ONE 1............................................... SCENE TWO 2............................................... SCENE THREE 3............................................. SCENE FOUR 4.............................................. SCENE FIVE 5.............................................. SCENE SIX 5............................................... SCENE SEVEN 7............................................. SCENE EIGHT 7.............................................