Official script

KARMA PRODUCTIONS

“Your Time Is Up”

OPENING SCENE

FADE IN:

ORCHARD #1 – EVENING

BLACK FLASH WITH BEATING SOUND, EXTREME LONG SHOT TO MYSTERIOUS BLACK SILHOUETTE (EVIL SPIRIT).

(PAUSE)

CUTS TO:

BLACK SCREEN WITH BEATING SOUND GRADUALLY GAINING IN SOUND LEVEL

CLOSE UP SHOT OF MAIN CHARACTERS FACE FROM SIDE (CHARACTER IS IN SHOCK) AS THEY LAY ON THE GROUND.

SHOT IS TO GRADUALLY FADE IN AND OUT ACCORDING TO CHARACTERS BREATHING

CUTS TO: 

FAST PACED EXTREME LONG SHOTS PULSING TO BLACK OF THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK SILHOUETTE FROM THE BACK OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS SHOULDER.

AS SILHOUETTE REACHES THE CLIMAX OF COMING CLOSER TO THE MAIN CHARACTER A TILT SHOT IS USED ON THE SILHOUETTE WHERE THE SCENE WILL FADE TO BLACK.

(PAUSE)

ACTORS HOUSE #2 – DAY

FADE IN LONG SHOT FROM BEHIND MAIN CHARACTER WALKING DOWN THE STREET TOWARDS THE HOUSE. CAMERA ADVANCES BEHIND CHARACTER AT A STEADY CONTINUOUS PACE WITH THE AIM OF ROTATING TO END UP TO THE RIGHT OF THE CHARACTER. AS THE CHARACTER IS WALKING DOWN THE STREET SHE TAKES OUT A MEDICINE BOTTLE UNSCREWS IT AND CONSUMES TWO TABLETS.

MAIN CHARACTER (VOICE OVER)

I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE ANOTHER NORMAL DAY… A DAY CONSTANTLY BEING TOLD I'M NOT QUITE RIGHT, THAT I'M DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS. MY MUM ALWAYS WAS TELLING ME THAT. I MISS HER SOMETIMES, I MEAN THE OLD HER, THE WOMAN THAT TUCKED ME UP AT NIGHT AND COMFORTED ME IF I EVER HAD A BAD DREAM.

CUTS TO:

CHARACTER ENTERING FRONT DOOR AND THROWING RUCKSACK ON THE FLOOR, CARRYING ON TO HER ROOM. CAMERA IS COMPLETELY TO THE RIGHT OF THE CHARACTER AT THIS POINT.

CUTS TO:

CLOSE SHOT FROM BEHIND CHARACTERS SHOULDER AS THEY ADVANCE TO THEIR ROOM.

FOR THE PAST COUPLE YEARS I HAVE HAD THIS VOICE THAT SEEMS TO COME AND COMFORT ME FROM TIME TO TIME WHEN I'M NOT QUITE FEELING A HUNDRED PERCENT. AT FIRST I WAS SKEPTICAL OF THE VOICE AND IGNORED IT BUT OVER TIME I LET IT CONNECT WITH ME MORE AND MORE. I GRADUALLY ACCEPTED IT TO THE POINT IT ALMOST BECAME MY BEST FRIEND. LIKE THE WORD SUGGESTS, ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END.

AS CHARACTER ENTERS THE ROOM SHE TURNS TO THE RIGHT, THERE IS A BOARD ON THE WALL.THE CAMERA AT THIS POINT IS JUST OUTSIDE THE ROOM TAKING A MID SHOT OF THE CHARACTER LOOKING AT THE BOARD WITH THE DOOR FRAME IN SHOT. 

CUT TO:

CAMERA FLASHING INTO A POINT OF VIEW SHOT OF THE BOARD. UPON THE BOARD IS A NEWS ARTICLE OF A WOMAN WHO KILLED HERSELF OVER HER DEAD CHILD ON THE 3^RD APRIL 1999. ALSO ON THE BOARD ARE PICTURES OF CERTAIN PEOPLE WITH THERE EYES SCRATCHED OUT, UNDERNEATH IS A PIECE OF PAPER WITH THEIR DATES OF BIRTH. 3^RD APRIL 1999. CAMERA PANS TO THE LEFT TO DISCOVER A PHOTO OF THE CHARACTER WITH THE BIRTH DATE 3^RD APRIL 1999 UNDERNEATH.

CAMERA ARCS ROUND IN FRONT OF THE CHARACTER, CLOSE UP SHOT. CHARACTERS FACE HAS A SINGLE TEAR ROLLING DOWN THEIR FACE. CAMERA THEN PANS SLIGHTLY TO THE LEFT OF THEM. THE SILHOUETTE IS THEN REVEALED TO THE AUDIENCE.

I WISH I HAD JUST SAID NO TO THE VOICE, I WISH IT WAS ALL IN MY HEAD.

SCENE FLASHES TO BLACK AND A MYSTERIOUS SOUND CARRIES THE END OF THE SCENE.

END OF OPENING SCENE.