Main Brief: Script

Opening Sequence

Caroline is walking down the road with earphones in. The music is faint, but loud enough for the audience to know she is listening to something. Her music stops and she looks at her phone to see a call from an unknown number. She picks it up but there is no-one on the other line.

Caroline : Hello? Is there anyone there?

Hangs Up

For God’s sake.

She sighs and carries on walking. As she nears the end of the road, she looks up to see someone, dressed in black, on the path to the church. She takes her earphones out.

Caroline : Are you okay?

Other person turns around and main character gasps. Sudden cut into flashbacks of the two girls out together, laughing, having fun etc. The main character opens her eyes and sees that the other person is gone.

Caroline : Rose? Rose?

She spins around, looking for the person she just saw. Final shot over the shoulder of the antagonist, still looking at the girl, but from a distance.

Mini Brief: Pre-Production Script Writing

Before filming we needed to write a script for our sequence. We wanted to include as many conventions of the thriller genre, so our first move was to have two roles: the antagonist and the protagonist. In our sequence the antagonist would have clear power and authority over the protagonist. We wanted to create suspense by writing dialogue that alluded to something not known by the audience. For this we thought an interrogation scene would be great, as we could then work in violence (a convention in thrillers) and film in a small cramped environment with low lighting to mimic an abandoned building (another few conventions of thrillers.) We wanted to finish on a cliff-hanger as that would create tension and replicate the feeling viewers would have if they were watching a clip from a feature- length thriller film. In our script "I" stands for interrogator (Antagonist) and "H" stands for hostage (Protagonist).