Live Evil
Manuscript
Scene 1 REAL LIFE
INTERIOR-REBECCA’S HOUSE, KITCHEN-MIDDAY
Black screen fades into a Close-up shot of newspaper on table, which allows the news headline “3 Teens, Victims of Mysterious Death” and related photos to be clearly visible. Door bell rings. Newspaper is suddenly covered by a book. Rebecca gets up from chair and leaves room. This is shown by the camera zooming out of the newspaper and stopping into a mid-shot of kitchen. She opens the door and walks out of the room, after she walks out of the room the door slowly swings back—Shown through a mid-shot of door. The company logo appears on the screen, and then disappears when the door closes. The screen goes black.
INTERIOR-CARETAKERS HOUSE- MORNING
Fade in of a medium close up of caretaker’s hands wearing gloves, which allow the distinctive bracelet on his wrist to be clearly seen. Caretaker is putting a DVD into a black DVD case with Rebecca Lucky written on the cover.
INTERIOR-REBECCA’S HOUSE-MIDDAY
Cut to the front door of Rebecca’s house with the same black DVD case on the floor —shown through a wide shot. Rebecca walks into the frame and walks towards the door; this is shown through a mid-shot. She bends down to pick up the DVD— shown through a point of view shot. A trailing, mid-shot is used as she gets up and walks into the living room. She places the DVD into the DVD player—shown through a point of view shot. A wide shot of living room is used to show her sitting on the sofa and watching the movie. The shot cuts to a wide shot of the TV where the film can be seen. In the movie there are three teenagers with equipment walking in a park. The camera zooms into the TV as ‘3 hours’ later appears on the screen of the TV.
Scene 2 MOVIE
EXTERIOR-MOVIE, PARK-NIGHT
Camera handheld, point of view shot, shows two teenagers sitting in a circle telling each other ghost stories. Point of view shot constantly cuts between the two teenagers to show their reactions to the stories—Medium close up is used. Handheld, camera tilts upwards to show female friend getting up to go look around the park. 15 minutes later appears on the screen. Handheld camera tilts upwards to show male friend getting up from his seat.
Male friend: (Teases) I’ll go check why she’s taking so long........You know if I go you probably won’t see me again...in one piece that is.
Rebecca :( Jokingly) okay just make sure you don’t conveniently fall over when something chases you.
(Voice pitch, becomes distorted)
15 minutes later appears on screen. Rebecca becomes worried and decides to look for her friends. Handheld, panning shot of park which is now found out is a cemetery is used as Rebecca looks around for her friends.
Rebecca: (shouts) Kris!....Amber!
(Voice pitch, becomes distorted)
Along with this, is some eerie music building up louder.
Rebecca is suddenly knocked down and the camera falls on the floor facing her. She begins to crawl over to grab it but before she can, she begins to be dragged away from it by something — shown through the cameras point of view shot.
Rebecca: (screams) NO!!!!!
Screen then fades to black.
Scene 3 REAL LIFE
INTERIOR-LIVING ROOM –AFTERNOON
Extreme close up that slowly zooms out of Rebecca’s face to show her reaction after watching the film. She stops the movies, gets up grabs her jacket- shown through a cut-in. She then leaves the house- shown through a handheld wide-shot.
Rebecca is walking down her street obliviously- shown by a hand held tracking wide shot of her back-this changes to a mid shot of her side and then into a dolly zoom of her front
MONTAGE (Movie and newspaper)
“Flashback”
There’s compilation of clips showing the actors of the film that she just watched as well as the close up shot of the newspaper article. (no sound used)
Quiet eerie music playing in the background.
Rebecca nods her head for reassurance that everything’s okay and it’s just a co-incidence- shown through a mid-shot which cuts to a extreme close up of her expressions just as she realises that she has ended up in the same cemetery as the movie- quick flashback to the part where she saw the cemetery in the film she watched.
Eerie getting louder during the previous shots and sudden silence and everything freezes at the cemetery gate shown through a very wide shot.
INTERIOR-REBECCA’S LIVING ROOM-AFTERNOON
Wide shot of the living room followed by an extreme close up of the remote control on the pillow. The camera pans to show Rebecca’s mother entering the room. Wide shot continues to show her sitting down on top of the control by accident which make turns the film back on again-tv shown by a mid-shot. The camera then zooms into the TV to indicate that the next seen is in the movie.
Scene 4 MOVIE
EXTERIOR-MOVIE, CEMETERY- NIGHT
The camera’s point of view shows Rebecca escaping from the hands grip by kicking villain and gets up, she grabs the camera and runs- shown through Handheld camera
As Rebecca is running, she trips and falls over.
“Flashback”
Rebecca :( Jokingly) okay just make sure you don’t conveniently fall over when something chases you.
(Voice pitch, no longer distorted)
“Back to present”
Rebecca: (Screams)
Handheld camera point of view shot shows Rebecca’s blood splash on the lenses, which obscures the view. The screen fades to black.
Scene 5 REAL LIFE
EXTERIOR-CEMETERY-AFTERNOON
Wide-shot of cemetery shows caretaker emerging from behind a wall. The shot cuts to a mid shot of him smiling.
Caretaker: (nonchalantly) can I help you?
Cut to a point of view medium close up shot of Rebecca.
Rebecca: (Stutters) Where’s the way out?”
Caretaker points in a direction to show her the way out — shown through a mid-shot. There is a cut-in to his hand pointing, to show that he is wearing the same gloves and bracelet as that he wore in scene 1. This shot cuts to an over the shoulder medium close up shot of caretaker smirking while Rebecca can be seen over his shoulder walking in the direction he pointed to. The scene fades out.
EXTERIOR- CEMTERY- NIGHT
Rebecca gets lost and begins to hear weird sounds as she walk forwards — a trailing, Dolly zoom. The camera does a 360 degree point of view, wide shot of Rebecca. This then cuts to a point of view pan, wide shot. The camera then zooms on to her feet where we see a dissolved hand grab her ankle. She screams and the camera rapidly zooms out into a bird’s eye view shot. After her scream can no longer be heard the camera then slowly zooms back into the soil to show that it has been meddled with, and indicate that she has been pulled inside.
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