Script breakdown of Third draft

Character List:

Teacher : Mr Bently
Mother
Shania
Tia
School children + 10
Doctor voices (not seen)

Plot

Teenage girl who recently has been suffering from extreme pressure, from school and domestic issues, as a result she has developed schizophrenia. As a side affect she has conjured an imaginary best friend and the audience are only aware of this at the end of the movie. During the self –revelation of her condition she realises that she has killed her teacher.
Ext. Playground

Shot of children’s feet running around.

Int. Unknown room

This shot is through the lens of a grainy old security camera.

A school girl walks in the room and stands over the body which is in a pool of blood. The person turns around and looks at the camera.

Shot changes to the image of the security camera and then a close up of the lens.

Int. Classroom

The lens image and merges into a shot of a person’s eye. (Tia)
Pan out to reveal the character slumped on the table, bored and sitting next to a girl who is quite perky and attentive.
The next shot is a wide shot from the back of the class which indicates – to the audience- they are in a classroom.

Then the character Tia has a flash back.

Int. House (any room)

Mum in front of Tia shouting

Mum: Listen Tia, I’ve been getting phone calls from your school saying that you are well underachieving in all you other a levels. I will tell you now. Don’t think you will ever being study that… media thing you want to do if you don’t get A *’s in ALL of your subjects! Are you…..

(Teacher’s voice morphs into the mother’s)


Int. Classroom

There is an initial establishing shot is from the side profile of Tia and the teacher leaning over the table.
The next shot is a shot reverse shot from behind the teacher
Teacher: Are you listening… Tia! Oh daydreaming again I see.

(Medium shot of Shania with the profiles of Tia and the teacher as Shania, slumps back into the chair, folding her arms and rolling her eyes. Then back to the establishing shot.

(Point of view shot – teacher close into the frame) Let’s be truthful do you really think you going to achieve anything in life with that kind of atrocious attitude, young lady. Establishing shot) You sit there thinking you bloody know it all, with that stupid smug look on your face, you’re pathetic-

Shania: You know what… Mr BENT , Oh I mean Mr (aggressively and accentuates) Bently, I just had enough of, you always having some fucking thing to say. No one wants to hear it… (Leans on table edging closer to the teachers face) so SHOVE it where the sun don’t shine... Oh you already have.

Shania stands up and slams her chair into the table. She turns back and motions for Tia to follow. They leave the classroom with the peers in total shock and silence. Shania stride out of the room while Tia lingers behind with a more reserved body language.

Blackout

Voice over of Doctor: It’s the third time this month Tia, that you’ve had a blackout, I can’t see any sign of any physical sign of a problem

Voice of Tia: What you mean… like inside of me.

Int. Bathroom

Tia recovers on the floor of the bathroom in the arms of Shania. Shania doesn’t seem fazed, giving the audience the illusion that she has experienced this before.

Shania: (calmly) Go and wash you face babe.

Tia does what she is told and follows Shania out of the door.
Once the door is closed the camera reverts back to the sink that once appeared clear and reveals bloody water. It is from this point onwards, where the audience should start to get an awkward and sinister feeling.

Int. Hallway

Tia: So how long was I out for?
(Silence)
: Shan… What’s wrong?
(Silence)
: Why are you not talking to me? (They enter a classroom)

Int. Classroom

They take a few steps inside (the camera pans left; behind the two students and reveals a body on the floor)
(The horrified reaction on Tia’s face is shown)
(Flick to a medium shot of the calm and nonchalant Shania gazing at the body.)

Shania: (frustrated) Stop crying. I don’t know why you’re trying to block out what you’ve done.

Tia: (Stutters) what… you mean… I’ve done?

Flash of images and the audience are taken to the flashback of…

Int. Unknown room

This shot is through the lens of a grainy old security camera.

A school girl walks in the room and stands over the body which is in a pool of blood. The person turns around and looks at the camera. This time we realise the person in the camera is wearing a broach. Once we immediately capture the item (jump back to a real- time extreme shot of the same broach).

Tia instantaneously touches her broach and stains it red. (Extreme close up as we witness the stage of realisation) She screams and grabs her face (medium shot) – smearing blood on it. Feeling the moisture on her skin, she looks at her hands (extreme close up) which is covered in blood.

She pants and stutters and she starts to mouth words as if she is going to call for Shania.

Tia: Sha…

(Point of view shot) the camera spins around searching for Shania.
(Repeated Arc shot) As Tia continuously screams
Wide shot – She runs for the door and frantically tries to open it. (Close up of the door handle turn red) – The noise of keys is present at this point

(Extreme close up of her hand going inside her pocket and withdrawing a key)- Which also turns red.) Close up of the confused look on Tia’s face.

Production Team
Azzees
Chidi
Titi
Kit