Script

INT. HALLWAY TO AUDITION ROOM. DAY.

ROSIE (23) a petite brunnette is approaches the audition room, the hallway is dark with a blue hue giving a sense of gloom. She walks to the forboding door, as she pushes it open it creaks.

INT. AUDITION ROOM. DAY.

The sound is followed by the door slamming shut on itself. ROSIE walks to the centre of the shadowed studio room. The lights are chiaroscuro and highly contrasted. As ROSIE turns to look at the figure ALI (30)Pakistani broad Gangster/ hitman behind the desk at the front of the room, a spot light is shone in her face. ROSIE steps back blinking from the blinding light. The room is silent for a second.

Ali remains in the shadows and Rosie is central to the frame in the style of an audition tape. A red light starts flashing.

ALI

(Questions)

Rosie Thomson i take it yes?

ROSIE

(nervously)

yeah

ALI

(Instructs)

Can you move the chair to the centre of the stage please.

ROSIE fetches the chair, for a brief moment, she isn't seen, we see her from behind shortly after with the chair. She walks to the stage and places the chair off centre.

ROSIE

(Quietly)

OK

ALI

(Sarcasticly)

I did say centre

ROSIE

(apprehensively)

Sorry

ALI

(Instructs)

Take a seat please

ROSIE does as she's told, she looks behind briefly to locate the chair and she smiles and sits formally.


Ali walks towards Rosie.

ALI

(Instructs, muffled)

Okay,just relax

ROSIE

(Innocently)

Ok

As Rosie is sitting, she fiddles with her fingers on her knee. Ali walks towards Rosie.

ALI

(Sly)

Just relax Rosie. This is all part of your audition. Try your best to keep act as if this is a real kid napping scene.

Rosie is trying to avoid looking at him in order to keep her concentration. Ali moves behind her, out of her sight and is silhouetted against the light. ROSIE is gagged with force and she reacts by shaking her head and arms in panic trying to remove the gag. It is obvious she is acting, she tries to remain reserved to an extent, but it's as though she's connected to her chair.

Ali restrains Rosies arms with thick green hessian rope, it's very traditional and reminisent of the horror or noir genre. Rosies facial expressions become more intense with fear, her eyes are stressed open as she tilts her head back. She begins to rock the chair frantically. It is now clear the reactions are real. Rosies shoulders begin to thrust forward, back and forth. Ali Quickly installs a bag over Rosies head. She is hesitant for a moment before trying to scream under her gag. The sound is muffled and deep.

ROSIE

(extremely prolonged muffled)

No no

The room is filled with darkness and none of the characters are visible. But suddenly after this pause of inactivity; it is silent and Rosies bagged head becomes full frontal with a fade in, it is obvious her head is tilted backward, a shadowed hand is applying force to her neck and ROSIE emits a slight wimper. The hand slowly moves to Rosies chin. Ali places his hand on Rosie's shoulder as she struggles.

ALI

(a fake reasurance)

Relax Rosie.

As Ali holds rosies shoulder down to stop her moving and struggling, he swings back a hammer which is then brought down onto Rosie. Rosie is dimly lit by a red accent light* which follows her silhouette sharply.

FADE TO:

3. EXT. ALLEYWAY. DAY.

A fade in to a gloomy alleyway, the rain is heavy and street lights reflect in the mirrored pavement. Rosie is watching and looking around her frantically, her vision is distorted from the rain and her injury. Footsteps are heard from the character (Ali) carrying Rosie through the alleyway. Rosie is looking up to the top of the buildings with blinding lights shining like a surrealists moon, further distorting her vision. Graffiti, industrial waste bins and litter are scattered across the ground. the wind is frivolous, whipping the ground carrying rain and litter, whilst splashing in the puddles. Rosie's vision fades in and out of darkness.

FADE TO:

4. Ext. CAR PARK AND CAR. NIGHT.

A skyline loomes out from the shadows, the red lights are almost luminescent. Once reaching a point a quarter from the curb, its tires spin and screaches as it skids around the corner in a zigzaging fashion.

Treatment

Working Title: Psychopath.
Format: PAL, Edit Suites, DV

Synopsis:

Rosie has finished her degree at Leeds University and craves to begin her career in the film industry. An opportunity arrives and she is encouraged to audition for a new movie for an upcoming horror director. Rosie has known Chris for many years after working with him; he became obsessive over her company and this eventually led to Rosie issuing a restraining order against him. This further led to his arrest after anger had forced him to commit a series of murders. Chris organises a hitman to seek revenge on Rosie. The hitman, Ali (Asif) is taken by Rosies love; this story reflects their confusing and forbidden love. Chris escapes from prison and finds out about his injustice, his Hitman Ali (Asif) didn't kill Rosie. He tracks them down on a psychopathic rampage and attempts to do it himself but with Ali(Asif) in the firing line, his job becomes incredibly difficult.

Rationale: College Studio, Car, Dark Alley.

Resources Required: Costumes: Masks, Chair, Desk, Spotlights, Car, Hammer.

Budget: £0

Rosie is going for an auditionand is inevitably last to perform and she finds herself standing in a room, at a glance she sees the silhouette of a man sitting at a desk shadowed by high key lighting. A spotlight is cast onto the white walls where Rosie is standing. Anxiously she hesitates to speak to the figure.

From a camera filming her audition, this will be one shot, her instructions are to fetch the chair from the corner and place it central to the figure and pretend to be tied to the seat; she is gagged and a bag is forced on her head. She continues to act, thinking this is her audition piece when she is struck in the head with a hammer. She is daised (Point of view) blurred screen and she hears voices which are distorted. She is carried to the car where it is cut to a black screen where Rosie wakes up. The screen goes black and a series of cuts with a fast rhythm of Rosie trying to escape.

Pre-production Schedule

8th February - Finish treatment as a group
- Finish my individual spider diagrams for initial and final ideas
- Produce pre-production schedule

15th February - As a group plan the story board, which Matt will then sketch out
- Start to plan out our script as a group which i will then write out
- Plan location recee with skteches individually

22nd February - Create shot list for our teaser trailer
- We will decide on our costumes and create sketches for them
-Do lighting test shots

26th February - Create shooting schedule and call sheets
-Log sheet as a group

29th February - Sketches for the photographs