Friday, 8 January 2010

Plot 2

Point of view shot from in side a car, watching as they go deeper and deeper into countryside. As the journey progresses the daylight begins to fade.

The car turns into the driveway of a large house - it is twilight.

The family of 3, one child and two adults, enter the house not knowing what is about to happen to them. They carry in all their luggage, the camera tilts down as the bags go down and you hear a creak, then the door slams. Reaction shot - all three character's heads snap towards the door, the little girl says "Daddy!" looking frightened. The dad replies "The winds are strong down this way, don't worry about it" while putting on a brave face.

Ending idea one: Woman's face in a cupboard - the only light coming from the crack - and she is very frightened. We hear "Mummy, where are you?" in a very innocent, little girl's voice. Camera switches to facing down the third story stairs where the little girl has stuck her head around the corner and says "Mummy...come on mummy, i only want to play." she walks up the stairs slowly. "Can you remember the lullaby that you sing to me every night? Sing it to me mummy." girl starts to sing a child's lullaby - either 'sleep, baby, sleep', 'twinkle twinkle little star', 'A-fishing' or the typical 'ring a ring a roses' - while slowly walking up the hallway. As she gets to the doorway of the room that her mother is hiding in she is finishing the song. She slowly turns toward the room and as she does a big grin comes across her face. She walks across the room and the camera switches to inside the cupboard again to see the mother closing her eyes and mouthing the Lord's Prayer. The girl pulls the doors open and says "Found you mummy!" The screen and sound cuts out.

Ending idea two: The scene flashes forwards a few hours, the camera tracks up the stairs and down the corridor towards a bedroom. The audience watch as the camera peeks round the door seeing a shadow of a small child. The camera then tilts up seeing the mother in the cupboard dead and bleeding, then the camera pans across seeing the little girl with a knife in her hand, singing and smiling. The screen then goes black, showing the film title.

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