Script

                                                                      DREAMS

OVERVIEW:

ADVENTURE FILM

The film is based around a girl who has a series of dreams, and it is unclear at first what is reality. The story begins with her in bed, it is dark and she is sleeping. The shot is a wide framed zoom, slowly moving towards her face. She is restless. Cuts to a very very dark room. She is shouting, but is muffled. A hand on a window. Cuts again to a scene of her on a bicycle, slow motion, riding down a road. She looks happy. Cuts ‘raggedly’ again to the first dream - she sits up, vision is blurry, barely any light in the room. She goes downstairs to a typewriter. Camera deliberately hand held and shaky, to an angle as she walks down a corridor. Jump cuts as she progresses down. She is confused. She sits down at the typewriter and sees there is paper and ink in it. She types something. 

‘Hello.’

Nothing happens - then a whisper - ‘hello’

Close up of her eyes turning slowly around (suspense building).

She looks around, confused and scared.

She types

‘Who’s there?’

Nothing.

‘Who are you?’

Nothing.

She shouts ‘Danny is that you? Stop messing around!’

Nothing.

She narrows her eyes and looks around. There is no sign of anyone or anything, it is very quiet (and eerie).

On a moment of instinct, she looks back down at the typewriter and types ‘take me outside.’

Suddenly she finds herself outside, she opens her mouth and then closes it again. The weather isn’t good, it’s cold and she’s in her pyjamas. She is visually very shocked. She looks around; she’s definitely outside. She goes back in again and looks at the typewriter. It ‘looks’ at her’. She sits back down and types

‘make me a cup of tea.’

A cup of tea appears beside her. She is frightened but curious.

‘Who ARE you?’

Silence. But then

‘oh *characters name*, you know who I am’

She whips around fast (several angled shots of same whip) and sees a character in black standing by the 

door. She gasps-

(throughout scene it cuts back to the forever zooming in shot of her face as she lies in bed, gets more and more restless and frequent)

Cuts to gasp of her as she ‘wakes up’ again, back in bed. 

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She sits up very quickly and suddenly, rubbing her eyes. She gets out of bed and sees a sign on the wall

‘you have 60 seconds. put me up’.

She sees a canvas of a brightly lit city propped against the wall. She doesn’t understand what is going on; however she obeys and hesitantly goes to the canvas. There is a timer beeping loudly by it..

60..59..58…

She props it up and moves it slightly to the left – the picture is tilted, and she goes with it. At first it seems like she has just lost her balance – however it soon becomes apparent that when she tilts the picture, the room tilts with it. She is thrown against a wall, and still the timer is ticking. There is someone watching her from behind the door, the same figure as before. She turns around and it is gone (sees in mirror). She turns back and there is 20 seconds on the clock. She frantically tries to put the canvas up – she almost succeeds but it slips at the last minute and she is thrown across the room (tilt) and opens her mouth to scream and-
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Suddenly she is on a bike. She is riding down a lovely country rode, happy as can be. Something isn’t right though. Cuts back to her in bed. She hears birds tweeting but everything else is silent. She looks around frequently. There is somebody following her. She senses this and starts cycling very fast. There is a hot pursuit (although we only see the feet/hands of the other person). She pulls up outside her house, and recognising it runs in. Footsteps outside. She is very scared but determined to find out who it is. She peers over the edge of the table and sees the same man from the first dream with his back to her. She hides again, scared. He is dressed in black. She tries to run upstairs but he catches her. Cut to hand grabbing leg. Cut to hand raking up stairs. Cut to girl falling down stairs. Cut to leg scrabbling. Cut to girls face (reaction shot). She asks him terrified

‘who are you?!’

He takes down his hood (back to camera) and-

BLACK

Grave scene. 2 people walk to a grave, which we can only assume means that the girl died. Skips to figure in window. Pan to see girl cowering in corner, not actually dead - figure takes off hood, massive build of anticipation to find out who it is - but then it is a mask. Takes mask off mouth only and smiles evilly.

CUT TO BLACK

INT. LOCATION #1

CHARACTER 1:

Young girl, she is a teenager who has a Mum and Dad. She has a nice house in a village. She forgets what her Mum tells her and eats cheese before bed. She has quite a determined personality, not easily scared and she is strong.

CHARACTER 2:

The mystery man! He is not scary as such, just someone who frightens the girl. She never finds out who he was, and we don’t either. (There in order to provide us with a good chase scene and twist factor!)

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FIRST ENDING

‘Darling its school time!’ She wakes up and sees her Dad standing over her, smiling happily. She relaxes and says 

‘oh hi dad! Coming now.’

Her dad grins and walks out. Flashback to dream. She looks confused. She shakes it off and gets up. She is very happy that it is over and leaves, getting ready for school. She blurs and a figure is seen still watching her. Cuts back to her dreaming in bed and then goes fuzzy. Then cuts to her eating cheese and crackers before going to bed the previous night. Turns out she has had nightmares because of this. Cuts back to her remembering this the morning after in a flashback –she slaps her forehead comically. Turns to camera and says

‘Never eat cheese before bed’