Defaced Final Script

DEFACED – SCRIPT

[Opens with a long shot of the entrance to the mental asylum. The shot alternates between long shots and medium shots of the asylum corridors, with the alternates between the shots of LILLY in the corridors. The effect of Sepia is used to show the alternate time periods and the diegetic sound effect of matches being stuck is used to show the change in scenes. It then moves to a medium shot of Lilly on the floor of a room, with drawings surrounding her. It changes to a medium close up of her hands lighting matches and of her blowing them out. The camera cuts to a close up of the match as its being struck; the camera then pans down as the match falls to the ground into a puddle of petrol. It then cuts to a blurred point of view shot of the corridor where patients are running with the sounds of screaming echoed in the background. The camera cuts to a medium low shot of a patient sitting against the wall, blood dripping from his head and arm where he has been attacked. The shot alternates between the shot of him and a medium two shot of the patient and someone else’s legs. The camera cuts and pans down to a staircase where there is a dead patient laying with a pool of blood under her head, with shoe marks on her face. It then cuts to a low medium shot of LILLY in the field running with three other patients, with the sound of heavy breathing in parallel to the sound of sirens in the background.]

Title Sequence – IN A VILLAGE

[The scene opens with a medium long shot of a car moving down a drive way. It cuts to CHARLOTTE who is slowly reading a newspaper, and though we cannot hear her speaking we know from her expression that she is concerned]

CHARLOTTE [mumbles looking off out the window] …And it was burnt down one year ago, only a few patients escaped and were never found.

[The camera pans and shows the other group members; MARK, who is sat next to CHARLOTTE driving and SARAH and LEWIS in the back holding hands whilst giggling under their breathes.

LEWIS [holding SARAH’S hand, leans in to her] Ooh, and we’re staying the night nearby, scary…

[SARAH looking over at LEWIS, smiling, LEWIS leans in and tickles her, they both laugh]

[The camera cuts to a medium shot of the car driving then quickly cuts to a low angle medium shot of the trees and road ahead of them before returning to the car. There is a slight slow motion to this shot as if to emphases the happiness of the situation. It then cuts to a medium two shot of the couple holding hands and then cuts to a close up of the hands. It quickly cuts to a close up of MARKS driving; his expression is slightly confused, similar to that of CHARLOTTE.]

Title Sequence – THERE IS A SECRET

[There is a high angle long shot of the village. It then cuts to a medium shot of the car parking. CHARLOTTE is the first to emerge from the car. There is a medium close up on her face and the camera pans as she looks around.]

CHARLOTTE [Point of view shot of the park square]: Wow, its quiet…

[Close up on the swing as it moves back and forth overlapped with the diegetic sound of a rusty swing]

MARK [Over the shoulder shot of CHARLOTTE looking off at the park, whilst MARK focuses on something in the distance, again MARK looks confused as if he has been there before]: You’re telling me…Charlotte, do you know anything about this place?

[Before CHARLOTTE can speak SARAH interrupts her]

SARAH [Cuts to a medium shot of her holding hands with LEWIS as she emerges from the car. Camera pans as she moves with LEWIS, bags in hand.] : I think it looks cute. [It then cuts to a wide shot of the group moving towards the B&B through the park] Let’s go and get our room…

[Close up of B&B sign and then darkness. It then cuts to a medium shot of LEWIS and SARAH in the bedroom of the B&B. LEWIS is standing behind Sarah with his arms wrapped around her. They then move so that LEWIS is facing her sideways to the camera.]

 [Cuts to a medium shot of MARK standing outside of a caravan, alternating between him and the door. The shot of the door is a medium shot. As the door opens there is a medium shot of the gap in the door, revealing small streams of light. It cuts between scenes of MARK slowly walking into and down the corridor of the caravan. There is a focusing on the surroundings to display the idea of something forgotten. There is suddenly a fast paced cut of a negative image which trembles into the next cut of what appears to be MARK, dressed in a white t-shirt, sitting in the corner of the caravan hall, head buried in his knees, surrounded by bloody handprints, leaves and puddles. MARK reaches for the blood in a close up, as if he believes he is in a dream. There is then a distorted extreme close up of MARK’S finger with blood on it, which returns back to normal, MARK backs away in fright]

MARK [Medium shot of MARK as he looks at the double of himself. MARK is supposed to portray a look of confusion as if he believes he has gone mad.] : Hello?! Are you alright?

[There is no reply from the double MARK. Shot changes to a high angle medium shot of double MARK.]

DOUBLE MARK [rocking back and forth. His speech is fast and mumbled. Sometimes looks around him quickly, paranoid]: No more faces, no more faces

[It then cuts to medium shot of the double MARK looking up at MARK. MARK then crouches down in an over the shoulder medium shot.]

MARK [MARK stretches out his arm to touch double MARK]: What the hell is this, how can you be me? [Cuts to a close up of double MARKS face as he cries out as if in pain, backing quickly into the corner of the caravan]

DOUBLE MARK [panicked and scared, clenching his arms, then turns to MARK in moment of suspense]: Leave now, you shouldn’t have come here, RUN! [MARK runs from the caravan as the double of MARK screams]

Title Sequence: THIS FALL

[Cuts to LEWIS opening the door.]

LEWIS [hushed tone]: Sarah, are you okay?

[There is a medium shot of SARAH looking out of the window. LEWIS moves closer towards her, and puts his hand on her shoulder.]

LEWIS [slightly concerned]: Sarah?

[The camera shows SARAH with blood on her neck and the camera pans down to show a knife in her hand. The scene then changes to a shot of MARK and CHARLOTTE talking to one another in a rushed manner.]

CHARLOTTE [Scared]: I thought I saw someone…there was someone behind you.

Title Sequence: FOUR FRIENDS ARE UNMASKED

[Shot shifts to MARK and the fake LEWIS fighting. There is a medium shot of the two with knifes at each other’s throats. The cutting rating is fast as the scene alternates between the fight and CHARLOTTE running.]

MARK [voice over]: Why are they doing this to us?!

It the cuts to LEWIS tied up with blood on his wrists screaming for help and the shadowy figure in the background with an axe. Cuts to LEWIS and MARK on the floor fighting then shifts to a quiet scene with CHARLOTTE out of breathe looking around with a camera.]

CHARLOTTE [scared and out of breath]: Is someone there?! Mark? Lewis?

[Changes to a medium shot of CHARTLOTTE with hands around her waist then quickly cuts to her on the floor being dragged away. Ends with her screaming as her eyes stares off into the camera.]

Title: DEFACED

Title Sequence: FEAR HAS A NEW FACE

Story Board First Draft

Make up for corridor scene

Additional Hospital Photos

Movie Profile

Gender: Male/ Female

Age Range: 18 -25

Class: Lower/Middle Class

Interests: Horror films, rock music, Comedies, Gore, Thrillers, outdoor activities, normally associate themselves with the rock subculture or enjoy the horror genre because of the fright factor or they are apart of the genre community.

Narrative

Narrative

 

Iconography

 

Blood  -Blood is normally associated with horror, death, pain. Convention in horror films. It is also used to cause pain and can be used to create suspense or the build-up to the break in the equilibrium.

Knife – a symbol of power and is normally used as a weapon in horror films, so it follows conventions of a horror film. Example of a horror film, Friday 13^th

Scalpel- professional, easy to obtain, normally used by doctors. The contrast of this as a weapon clashes with the idea that it is used to help people by doctors. 

Village – Small, ominous, isolation.

Swing – normally associated with children and having fun, plays on your memories as a child, but the fact that it is empty and seems unused shows the isolation around them and the lack of life in the village

Fire/ Match – Fire is used as a cleanse of identity and is used to cause panic

Style

The way the match is dropped in slow motion holds the suspense of the audience, creates an eerie atmosphere as you know the outcome is going to be bad. A typical edit used in any media genre to keep the audience in suspense and the build-up to the equilibrium breaking as we as see it break when people flee the building, with a close up on peoples feet and legs, as well as people being stamped over, again asking the question “Who is who?”.

The shot reverse shot shows a break in Marks mental state as he begins to talk to himself. It creates a break in the equilibrium and in the conventional state of the film. It is also used to create suspense.

We use Sepia up until shot 13, to signify that up until this point everything that has been shown is in the past.

Point of view shots are used to create a connection with the character as well as displaying the isolation and bareness of the village in the scene where they enter for the first time.

For our trailer we are going to use a gothic style whilst filming with an emphasis on shadows to create a sense of unease and impending doom.

The beginning of the trailer acts similarly to that of a shot reverse shot, where one minute the corridors are empty and the next Lilly appears there. This is used to mirror different time slots in the past, which builds up to the break in the equilibrium and signifies her escape, however the long shots don’t revealed her character so she is still anonymous.

During the end of the trailer there is a montage of shots which in parallel to the quick cuts, creates panic and easily portrays the break in the equilibrium.

Setting

Village – The village is used for its rural look but with the sense of a community, however the break in this idea comes when the patients take over the village and use it as their own. The village is used as a game for them, due to their psychosis, where they can manipulate their surroundings and use the villagers to hide their true identities. The village is also effective in portraying isolation and create a sense of unease due to this. 

Hospital corridors – The sanitary bareness of the corridors are effective in portraying a mental asylum – refer back to style

Mental asylum

The bedroom  -The bedroom is used to create a familiar and safe environment but is manipulated by the contrast where we use it in the trailer. The action in the scene isn’t conventional of typical bedroom scene, as well as the fact that a female character is the one attacking the man, which breaks the stereotype of a weak woman.

Cornfield – The cornfield acts as a maze in which the characters get both physically and mentally lost in, for example Marks breaks down and develops a new personality. As well as this Charlotte gets physically dragged into the cornfield. 

Basement – The basement is used to emphasise the break in Marks personalities as this is where is begins to talk to physical copy of himself which he has imagined.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Script - Begining Scenes

[Opens with a long shot of the entrance to the mental asylum. The shot alternates between long shots and medium shots of the asylum corridors, with the alternates between the shots of LILLY in the corridors. The effect of Sepia is used to show the alternate time periods and the diegetic sound effect of matches being stuck is used to show the change in scenes. It then moves to a medium shot of Lilly in a hospital bed, with pictures and drawings around her. It changes to a medium close up of her hands lighting matches and blowing them out. The camera cuts to a close up of the match as its being struck; the camera then pans down as the match falls to the ground and falls into a puddle of petrol. It then cuts to a blurred point of view shot of the corridor where patients are running with the sounds of screaming echoed in the background. The camera pans down where there is a dead patient laying with a pool of blood under his head, with shoe marks on his face. It then cuts to a low medium shot of LILLY in the field running with three other patients, with the sound of heavy breathing in parallel to the sound of sirens in the background.]

Paranormal Activity Movie Analysis

Paranormal Activity is a Supernatural/Horror film released in 2007. Initially it was an independent film however it was later acquired by Paramount Pictures and released in 2009. It was written and directed by Oren Peli.

The plot revolves around a young woman who has been haunted all her life by a spirit and moves to a new house in San Diego with her partner. To confirm any paranormal action in the night, they set up a video camera in their bedroom to record them while they sleep. As the nights progress, the activity becomes more aggressive and frightening, which leads up to the horrific ending involving demonic possession.

This unique selling point for this film, which makes it original in terms of a horror film, is that it is all filmed on one home video camera instead of the usual cameras used for films. The reasoning behind this was to make it appear believable, as if it were recovered footage from the camera that was found days after the climax of the film. This therefore makes it seem like a "home movie" type of recording, due to the lack of professionalism in the filming and realistic behaviour of the characters as the film continues. This of course was seen on another successful budget film, the Blair Witch Project.

The characters used present authenticity to the audience, as they are a relatable young couple who have just moved into their new home but find themselves vulnerable and unaware from the beginning. During the day, the man records any relevant events, such as meeting experts for help or the current state of his girlfriend as she suffers the most throughout the nights. Again this type of film was mostly new in terms of what it offered for thrills and expectations, whilst maintaining a sense of realism and horror simultaneously.

Its use of camera shots and angles is hard to determine due to its home movie style camera work, which then leads on to the use of a soundtrack, whereby there isn't one. The effects of this horror come solely through its content and story.

Finally the setting and prop usage are quite cliché, seeing as though it stands alone in other aspects. It uses a big suburban house as its primary location, with plenty of space and rooms, leaving it with enough space for paranormal events to occur. Meanwhile its props are minor, conventional house related objects that simply add to realism, the main prop however is obviously the camera, which serves as the audience's only method of witness to the events in the house.

In my opinion, it is a strong horror film that conveys its thrill through a realistic and relatable manner, and because of this the film is very effective for its purpose.

PhotoShoped Images

The images I have edited are a few from the recent photoshoot, which I have edited to reflect on the theme of the scenes (The Past) to help create a visual difference between the action later on in the trailer. The importance of these images shows Lilly and focuses on her as well as her mental state and isolation around her. The bare corridor is useful in showing this, as it portrays a clinical environment which is stereotypical of a hospital, as well as due to its emptiness creating a contrast with what we assume a hospital looks like. To create the effects shown in the photos I used Adobe Photoshop to create different contrasts to the images and by using different layers creating a sinister images similar to that of The Ward and other horror films, to make it seem more realistic.

Photoshoot 13/11/13