Script

Story Time

EXT -a dark and wooded lane. - There are a group of children running around and playing. The shot is off their feet moving around in a circle. The rhyme “ring around the roses” is being played over the top as if the children are chanting it. There is a grainy effect and the movement is in slow motion.

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EXT- same location.- The children are now running away from the stationary camera which shows them playing tag. Long shot. The same rhyme is playing. 

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EXT-same location.- The camera is now spinning and showing their heads and shoulders. The same rhyme is playing.

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INT- A young boy wakes up from a dream and looks frightened. It’s a close up of his head. There isn’t an effect. Its light.

 TITLE PAGE “From the Producers that brought you The Ring”

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INT- There is a close up of a radio. A broadcast is playing over the top.

“The body of a boy has been found at a local school.

The body is believed to have been buried for a long time.

Local detectives are treating the death as suspicious. “

As this is playing, there are several shots of teenagers.

A boy peeking through the library books.Extreme close up.  It is light.

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A shot of the back of a girls head looking on to a field. She is in a tree.

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A boy working in the library.

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A shot of a girl sat in a car, darkness. Long shot.

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A long shot of a figure in darkness. He is wearing a hoodie so its hard to tell if its boy or girl. They are holding a torch and frantically searching for something. A rustling noise frightens him.

“Hello?”

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A black shadow runs across the camera which is looking at the figure. Medium shot/ Crabbing shot.

“”Whose there?”

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A tracking shot running towards the figure as if it were a monster or creature.

Muffled screams follow.

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The shot of the torch falling to the ground. The camera is stationary.

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An extreme close up of a boy holding a phone. He has been crying and has blood on his face.

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Darkness.

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A group shot outside in the woods. It is light.

“it was an accident”

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A medium shot of a crying boy. A different one to before. He is led on his bed.

“scream”

Ring around the roses is now being chanted again.

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A low angle shot of a dripping knife.

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A tracking shot of a girl running through the woods.

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A shot of a girl hiding. Darkness.

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Close up of a crying girl.

TITLE- Storytime-  Rated 18

My Preliminary Poster

As my poster is based mainly on children and the theme of books, I have decided to go against the conventions and opt for a more sinister approach. I am choosing to create a poster by hand and then scan it in.

As my theme is related to children playing, I have decided to create a poster that looks like a childs drawing. This drawing will show the title, the release date, the actors, and the tag line.

My poster will look like a childs drawing and will have a bloody hand print on it. This will add to the feeling that this movie will be a horror flick.

Below is the process of making my poster.

Here is what I decided to do for my poster.

 

Heres a hand made version of what I hope my poster will look like. As you can see , I have included a child style drawing and a bloody handprint. 

Here is the first attempt at making one on photo-shop.

 

I need to add a studio logo, a release date and the bloody hand print. I may change the  sun to a moon instead to tie in with the theme of darkness. 

I then ended up with this as an attempt. I don't like the way in which the colour has become saturated in the image.

I then chose to adapt an image from google and came up with this. I felt a blood spatter would be more effective than a handprint as it would leave the audience to their own interpretations. The addition of blood on my poster has created an eerie moment for what should be completely innocent.

After playing around with this idea I began to realise that my research did not support the idea I had. I then decided that I wanted to leave the childs drawing idea behind. Instead, I was going to use pictures of my actors of now and when they were children. I feel this is effective in blending in the theme of children without it being too explicit. The poster above would be a starter poster, eg, more likely to be in a press release.

After studying posters like these :

Films like these feature children and teenagers and so they have clear agendas when making posters. 

I paticularly like the sorority row poster and so I have decided to use a similiar idea.