Script for Killer in the Woods

int.bedroom - day

Clothes are scattered on the floor, shoes swayed around the room...

Shot of the floor, revealing the owner of the room, Joe an avid camper by choice, energetic, clever and somewhat funny.

His left hand shaking uncontrollably as he packs his bag, some sort of compulsion or something else..

He looks around his room, he focuses on a framed photograph, of himself and a girl...the 2 looks happy on the photograph. - Slow zoom on the photograph,

accompanied by flashback-esque inaudible dialogue,almost ghostly, - "You never took care of me!" "it's always about you isn't it?"

with a deep low dark music..and low wind ambiance..

he picks up the framed photograph

suddenly, a woman, comes walks into the room,his mother.

Mum

Joe, this place is a dump...

(she notices that joe's looking at the photo)

*sighs* You gotta let it go sometime..it's not worth it.

Joe puts the frame on his bed, and turns around, the sad expression on his face still seen, through the happier face that he's trying to mask himself.

joe

(Trying to smile)

It's hard to let go sometimes...

Mum walks to joe and hugs him.

mum

I know baby..

mum gives him a little kiss on the head.

Joe

Well, I better continue packing.

mum

(standing up)

Ok..clear up before you go.

joe

Ok.

Mum leaves the room,leaving joe alone as he packs his bags.

He picks up the frame with his right hand..and takes another look at the photo, his left hand starts going on spasm. A clear link between what's in the photo and his hand.

BRIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG BBBBBBBBBRRRRRIIIIIIIINGGGGGG.

CLANG CLASH..Sounds like the phone was dropped.

Mum

(from downstairs)

Joe it's for you!

Joe

I'll take it up here mum, thanks

Joe walks out of the room,

int.corridor,next bedroom - day = Continuous

Unlike the bedroom before, Joe walks into a cleaner, civilized looking bedroom.

He picks up the phone.

joe

Hello?

Danny

(trying to imitate ghost face)

What's your favorite scary movie?

Joe

What the hell? who is this?

Danny

How do you wanna die, Joe?

Joe

Danny? Danny? is that you? you homo?

Danny

(Breaking his voice from laughter)

No, it's not.. oh shit..Alright?

Joe

Yep yep, almost done packing,you?

danny

I'm going by Jon's house,

joe

oh alright, meet you guys by the park? got the booze right?

DANNY

Don't worry about that, We'll see ya later then.

Joe takes the photograph out of the frame and puts it in his bag. followed by a knife.


ext.park - dusk

The sun clears low, clouds starts to pile, seems like the sky's about to cry..

Jon and Danny walks side by side on the pavement, bags on their back and camping equipment.

Joe walks by himself, on the other side of the pavement.

the 2 parties, meet at the entrance of the park, and exchange pleasantries.

ext.park, campsite - dark

Sounds from the burning fire are heard, heaps of leaves from the distance starts to swirl and crackle as Joe, Jon and Danny sits around the Campfire exchanging stories

Danny

(Continuing a story)

Yeah, I remember that one.

Jon

Right? *laughs* that was like a year ago, right?

Danny

Yeah..

Danny glares at Joe, Joe looks out of place, not at the moment, he seems preoccupied.

Danny

Joe, you ok?

Joe, just stares blankly at the campfire

jon

Joe?...JOE!

Joe tilts his head sideways,

joe

Yeah, I'm fine.

He stands up.

Joe

I'm gonna g-get more wood for the fire.

danny

we'll go with you.

Joe

Nah, nag I got it.

Joe walks off

Jon

Oh yeah, when's Emma getting here?

Danny

I don't know... I'm not really sure that's a good Idea to be honest.

jon

But he invited her, he's trying to-

danny

be the bigger person? If I didn't know better I'd say he's gonna kill us.

Jon chuckles

ext.deep in the woods - night

Joe, still a bit preoccupied, not knowingly he walks deep in the woods.

He sees a piece of wood on the ground, he kneels to pick it up,

joe

(sinister)

That's a good size

He scans it thoroughly.

EXT.PARK, CAMPSITE - DARK

Jon and Danny's getting anxious because Joe still hasn't returned.

Jon

Where the hell is he?!

danny

He must've gotten lost or something, or a wolf..

jon

Yeah...a wolf..

danny

Seriously though, should we go look for him?

jon

I'll go, you wait here, is emma still coming?

danny

Yeah, I think so.

Jon stands up, putting his backpack on.

danny

Give me a call when you find him?

Jon takes his phone out,

jon

I'm drained.

danny

Oh crap..I'll be here anyway.

Jon walks on.

Leaving Danny all alone.

Danny takes his phone out, he calls emma

danny

Hello?

emma

Alright Dan, where are you guys?

Danny

Why where are you?

Reveal emma, carrying a folded tent

Emma

I'm by the woods,

Scratchings are heard by the campsite,

Medium close-up on a piece of wood being held by an unknown person, the person wears a black robe, like the one that Ghostface wears in the Screams.

Danny

Well wait there, I'm gonna come get ya.

Danny goes in the tent.

Out of the blue, The person goes inside the tent, and through the shadow from the tent, Danny's Fate is revealed.

Danny is hit repeatedly by a wooden branch, blood splatters on the tent, by and on the fire.

EXT.DEEP IN THE WOODS - NIGHT

Jon walks through the woods, dodging obstacles that comes his way, he uses a flashlight to see clearly, but all of a suddenly it starts turning off, running out of battery.

Jon

Oh fuck.

Jon keeps on walking, he bumps onto a person, the "unknown" person,

jon

What the fu-

Jon gets stabbed on the forehead.

He slowly falls to the ground.

EXT.by the woods - night

Emma walks slowly around the trees waiting for Danny to pick her up, The winds starts picking up, she's starts getting scared, some scratchings and ruffles are heard, then:

Joe comes out of nowhere, carrying a wholesome of logs.

Emma

(Awkward)

Hi

joe

(awkward)

Hi. Wha-what are you doing here?

emma

You invited me remember..

joe

No, not that, what are you doing HERE.

emma

Oh, Danny called about 10-15 minutes ago said he was gonna come get me.

Joe

Oh he probably got lost, Well I did.

Emma gives off a tiny chuckle.

Joe

Well we better look for camp.

Emma

Ok

EXT.PARK, CAMPSITE - DARK

The fire rattles on profusely as blood flows through and around the fire.

Emma and Joe walks up to the camp, not paying attention to the fire.

Emma walks straight to Danny's Tent.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

A Shriek filled with terror and mortify, coming out of Emma's mouth.

Joe drops the logs and goes to Emma's Aid.

Joe

What?

Joe sees Danny's Body

Joe

What the Fuck..

Emma hugs onto Joe

Joe

Call 999!

Emma takes her phone out

Emma

I'm out of battery!

She throws her phone to the ground,

Emma notices a bloodstain on Joe'e shirt

Emma pushes back slowly, trying not to raise suspicion.

she looks at Joe with great terror.

joe

What?

Joe looks at his shirt

Emma starts walking back

Joe

What the fuck, where-

Joe looks at the logs and sees that on of the logs was stained with blood.

joe

(confused)

I didn't-i didn't..what the fu-

Joe falls on his knees crying,

joe

(tears in his eyes)

I didn't do it.

Emma keeps creeping backwards away from Joe.

Joe reaches his arms forward, trying to get her to believe him.

Out of nowhere the "unknown" person hugs Emma and shoves her to the ground.

Joe

Emma!

emma

Joe!

The unknown person presses a knife on the back of her neck.

Joe

Whoever you are...please don't!

Unknown

(in a screechy voice)

Why? Do you love this girl?

joe

I did..but please..

UNKNOWN

So you're saying that she was your past?

Joe

Yes!, uhm NO!

UNKNOWN

What IS IT?!

joe

I don't know...please don't..

the unknown person, takes the hood of his robe off,

revealing Joe's mum.

Joe

(Confused,stricken)

Mum...

Mum

Yeah, This Bitch Hurt you, she tore your heart apart..her and that bastard danny.

Joe

Mum..

Mum

(Maniacal)

Listen to me Joe, no one hurts the people I love, especially my little boy!No one! No one! NO ONE!

joe

Mum ! Don't! Please!

mum

Why should I let this bitch Live?

Emma cries

Emma

(Crying)

Please, I'm sorry, So so sorry

Mum

Too late you little slut.

Mum slits Emma's through, blood drips out of her neck, still holding emma's hair

Joe Falls to his knees...shocked..stricken...mortified.

He stands right back up, walking up to mum.

Joe

(looking her in the eyes)

Mum, thank you..

Joe takes the knife off of Mum and hugs her.

Joe

But this hurts more than what they did.. and this is about to hurt even more..

Joe stabs mum in the sternum..

Mum gags off blood.

Joe hugs onto his mum's lifeless body, crying..screaming.. Camera slowly stows away from them...

The End.

DVD COVERS

 In this post going to talk about the similarities between the following Dvd Covers

 

All Dvd covers (above) feature the title of the film, giving the audience the most important information of all, the name of the film. The covers all share a constant theme in terms of colour, in The Thing, a colour Blue and White is used in give off a Sci-fi feeling, the exorcist uses The (shadowy) black and (yellowish) white to connote it's genre, same as in Nosferatu, and in Se7en, they used The deep yellow colour with black shades in the background, highlighting the Deadly sins in yellow text. 

Another thing which all the covers have in common is that they all have a dominant component within the cover which grabs the audiences' attention, in The Thing the figure of the man in the Eskimo suit is the component which caught the Audience's attention, because back when the film was released, there was very little, if not any, horror films were based in the Antartic, in the Exorcist, the very artistic composition and shadow is all that was needed, in Nosterafu, the Picture of Max Schreck (Nosterafu) is the Stimulates the interest of the audience, especially at the time the film was released (which was 1922), and Se7en, you might think that it's the 2 photo's of the 2 Oscar Nominated actors that grabs the Audiences attention, and if you thought that, you might be right, the actual 7 sins listed in a bullet point manner in the middle of the cover doesn't do alot to interest alot of  people, although it's clever in a way so it doesn't give out alot of information about what you're about to see, the 2 notable faces on the cover is what the Dvd sales "Bank'd" upon as they knew the 2 were quite bankable at the time (still now).

Initial Ideas

Ideas for my short film:

A Slasher Film

A Zombie Film

or

A Super natural.

For the slasher film the idea we came up with is a Friday the 13th/Keeping Mum mash up set in the woods, at the moment this I think will be a good idea, as a script is already in the works.

For the Zombie Film, a Prequel to my AS Media Film, the UnEncountered.

and

For the Supernatural Short Film, A possession of some sort. A script is also in the work.

What I've Learnt from my Textual Analysis

Media A2 What I've Learnt from my Textual Analysis

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Textual Analysis #3

In this essay i will be evaluating the short film, Autonomy, by David Tree, which I found on Youtube, about a man, who’s looking for a way to get out of his life’s repetitive cycle.

The film autonomy is about a person who wakes up every day and is faced with the same routine, same job and the same exchange of pleasantries with the same people over and over and over which quite frankly he’s getting tired off, the film’s genre is a somewhat typical one, as a good amount of short films out there dwell on everyday life, reality. The narrative of the film is quite simple a man is simply bored, sad and trapped in this thing we call life and he tries to find happiness through dropping everything he’s worked for, his job, his house, etc, and moving away to find adventure, to mould his life away from the thing it’s becoming.

The film had very good cinematography. In the opening scene a crane shot was used to show a train passing by, this shows that the film’s a well financed product which means it has the prospect of being an overall good short, which grasps the viewer’s attention. As the film carries on a medium shot of the main character is shown, through a medium shot, he’s sat down, inside the train, the glass window capturing his reflection, the shot was also focused well on the main character slightly blurring the background. The Film is accompanied throughout by a Voice over of the man, this adds a “Shawshank”-ish feel to the film as if he’s talking directly to the audience, walking them through everything that happens. The last scene I’m going to talk about is the Bathroom suicide scene, the main character was making his way into the bathroom, looking for Carla, as he opened the bathroom door, blood meets his eye sight, a first person shot of the sink is shown, covered in blood still fresh the shot then swings left to the bathtub revealing Carla lying looking lifeless in the tub filled with blood and water, the shakiness of the camera work and the flash cut editing intertwined with the  mixture of the high pitched ring and the low pitched drum sound, adds tension and terror into the scene, it also puts us in the same position as the main character, what he felt, what he heard, what he saw.

The throughout the film, the main character was represented to be depressed and trapped by his white collar job routine, seeing the same people, doing the same things. In a way he is portrayed to be strong willed to be going off his route to a lifetime of boring office conversations and same train rides but with the financial stability, to a more unstable fun filled, eventful life, this shows him to do what not a lot of people venture to do, and that’s take a risk. His situation could also be looked at from a different angle, the way his life goes at the time before he left everything was stable,  he was well off, compared to situation of other people around the world his life was good,  keeping this in mind, he could be thought of as a person who’s never content, given his current situation is repetitive but he’s living and healthy which is more than other people can say or do.

The film is a good example of a good script and good directing making a very good short film, I loved it from start to finish, the editing in the bathroom scene was delicate but hard hitting with the sudden flash out white with the strong hitting sounds of the low pitched drum sound and high pitched ringing interfaced with the shaking camera work made the bathroom scene the best part of the featuring. All in all the film was very well directed, the music went beautifully well with the pictures that was moving on screen and the editing and cinematography just rounded up a great short film that is Autonomy.

Textual Analysis #2

In this essay I will be evaluating the short film “What’s Virgin mean?”  by Michael Davies, which I found in Youtube, about a Mother faced with a difficult question brought forward by her daughter.

The short film, What’s Virgin Mean?, is about a mother facing the question,  “What’s a Virgin?” asked by her curious young daughter, the whole film happens in a kitchen set, in which the mother and daughter is positively and stereotypically portrayed, the mother being a hard working housewife and the curious and innocent daughter shown to be doing , what it looks like her homework.

The whole short film is based on a simple idea, and simple dialogue infused with the director’s camera work and somewhat acceptable acting (from mum). The Film starts off with 3 close-ups on 3 items, an oven, a radio with the mother’s hand mixing something in a saucepan with the depth of field focusing on the Radio, slightly blurring the hand as it motions on, this sets up the place where the scene is taking place, a kitchen, then we are shown a close up of a hand drawing with a crayon on a white sheet of paper, after that show we are immediately shown a 2 shot of the characters, mum and daughter, the depth of field focusing on the mum as she says the ingredients to the dish she is preparing standing near the oven, and the daughter, sitting behind her by a table full of condiments , the daughter is blurred on the said shot but not so much as to make her an invalid part of the story, after that shot the daughter throws out the question “What’s virgin mean?” the film carries on with the conventional conversation camera work and editing, as the mum tries her best to answer the question that her curious daughter threw at her. Right after the mum answers the question,  she thinks she’s out of the woods, then the daughter asks her another question...”so what’s extra virgin mean?”

The film I think is successful because of the mise-en-scene, setting, camera work and acting, the mise-en-scene and setting made the short more believable and humorous as the daughter asks the second question, there would only be another setting that a script similar to this shorts’ would work and that’s a supermarket, a place where Extra virgin/virgin oil might visible, this short wouldn’t be as powerful performed in a different setting like a park or school, given the same lines in the script is followed. The very believable acting from the daughter strung up the semi-mediocre acting brought forward by the mother, the daughter’s acting I think is one of the strongest area of the film. The camera work of the film is conventional, nothing special in terms of shots, but in terms of the use of the depth of field and aperture, the way that all the shots focused on things that was the centre of attention(except for a few).

This short film is a good example of how a good short film can be achieved with a simple narrative thrown in with (a) good camera, work and great acting, without the ultra believable acting by the daughter the film wouldn’t have been the same, the way she played the curious, innocent child was just phenomenal, and the clever set/mise-en-scene (table full of condiments = “so what’s extra virgin mean?”, which contributed to the narrative of the film, and ultimately the films’ success.