Finished Magazine Review

-RM

Creating the film poster

As you can see in some of my other posts I have spoken about what I learnt from other people when it comes to making a film poster. I used Photoshop to create it because I have a lot of knowledge on how Photoshop works and I wanted it to look professional rather than just creating one on word.

I began by selecting an image that I thought would look the best to represent our film. I have already spoken about the two different images I was torn between and their pros and cons. Firstly I played around with the curves and levels of the image then I selected around the person in the image; by inverse this It allowed me to focus just on the background. As the background was very dull I wanted to bring out the texture of the brick wall. Then to blend all the effects together I adjusted the brightness and contrast.

When it came to the text I thought a lot about the positioning. I wanted to add in the ‘it’s about time’ as that links to the movie and our titling.

I will Be changing the poster again as I am not a fan of how it looks especially the placing of the text. In fact I prefer our mock poster to the real thing. Although I cant use that image again as Ben looks different to what he does in the film now (he had a hair cut) so it wouldn't make as much sense. 

-RM 

FINAL SHORT FILM - Voice over 2

Tempus - Voice-Over 2

It's similar to the previous one, except I've rearranged some audio levels. After receiving feedback from people whom were shown this film, they all said the audio at the start over-powered the narration and that Alex 2 was too quiet. Hopefully, this has been fixed in this render.

-BW,RM&CM

Tempus - voice over 1

Though the lack of voice-over made it more mysterious, it also left the audience clueless. I've added the voice-over back in. It fits with the narrative quite well, like Alex is explaining the story to the therapist.

-BW

Tempus

Tempus

This is our final piece. We changed the script, yet again, to make it more serious and mysterious. Still the same concept as the previous piece, but this leaves more for the audience to figure out.
The camera shots are not only more visually pleasing, but also add to the story, through use of angles.
I added to and improved the video effects. Especially the Skype call. It looks a lot better than the previous one, which had no FX and looked horrific.
In terms of sound, I removed the voice over. This makes the film more mysterious. I also added music. It helps the film flow and influences the audience as to what they should feel.

-BW

Nearly Finished magazine review (missing pictures)

I started to look at a few more movie reviews and when I looked at where the pictures were presented I realised that they often had a quotation in the corner or slap bang in the middle of the picture. So I chose one of the interesting things that we had said and chose: "It Creates a Goblet of Questions, before, during and After the Film." I thought that this would draw the readers in as it's quite articulate and interesting it makes you wonder what kind of questions that would have to be asked and starts to make the reader want to watch the movie so they can start to think of the questions they should ask.

-CM & RM

1st film poster - needs some editing

-RM

Whats important to think about when creating a film poster?

- Getting the image right
- Not giving too much away
- Attacting peoples eye so they want to go see the film
- Informing people what actors/actresses are in the film
- Informing people who was the directors etc who created the film
- Using the space well and not overcrowding the poster with text
- Using colour well, not too much or too little
- Making sure a good font is used
- Make sure ALL important information is on there
- Contrast between the text and picture

This vidoe is one of the things i wantched in order to gather resurch on how to make a effective movie poster...

-RM

POSTER - what image will I use? why is this important?

The photograph is the most important thing about the flm poster in my opinion. This is the image you are using to advertise your film to the public therefore it needs to try and represent the film in one image. You dont want to use a photography of something that gives away too much otherwise people wont feel the need to come and see it. I am currently in the procces of the image I want to use in the film poster as I want to make sure I get it right. I am stuck between two image that are toally differet and have two different feels to them.

The first image I am thinking about using is one of all the boys whom play alex throughout the film at different ages. The thing I like about this is you can imidatly see the conection of these boys which is esental for the viewer however the picture looks more like a fmaily photo and it may give off the wrong impression of our film. The second image wa sof the time traveler with his head down so you cant see his face at all and is dresse in head to toe in dark colours. This image shows this figure as mysterious and works well creating tention.

bellow is some example of good film posters





I think all these posters are good as they get across all the imformation film posters should and used an image effectivly. One thing thats important s the lay out of the poster as this is essential in order for the poster not to look too crowded.

The image I use for our film poster needs to be as effective as all these ones in order to achieve what I want from this part of the advertising.


-RM

What is Your Magazine Review Attempting To Do?

Me and chole are the ones fcusing on the magazine review while ben mainly focueses on the editing for our film. there is a lot of things that the magazine is supposed to do for the readers..

1) firstly it's really good advertising for the film

2) It also gives people a chance to review the film and other people to read what other viewers have to say

3) Background information is given on the film

4) It's also PR for actors and directors

Example film reviews of magazines -













There are also many things that should be included to make a successful magazine review:

- The film title in bold or colour so it's eye catching.

- An interview so you can see some questions being answered by someone involved in the film.

- Pictures of the filming .

- The main review.

- Making sure all the text is clear with questions in the interview being bold or italic so its obvious its the question. Also making sure the text is a good fonit etc which is all important for presentation.

- Presentation.

- Include all important dates, acotrs/actresses and other people involved in the film.


-RM

Comparison of Two Different Magazine Reviews

Empire Magazine

What I love about Empire magazine is that it's extremely engaging. the first thing that catches your eye when you look at this article is the amazing background picture of the astronomical wallpaper. This then indicates to you that it's otherworldly and it's interesting. plus the quotation: "They don't understand human emotions..." is unusual and makes you want to read on to what they're talking about.
One of the nice things about Empire magazine is that in different ways they promote the film in this article they're talking about Actress Saoirse Ronan and her latest debut: The Host. The Journalist has given a small insight into what The Host is about, that it was originally a fiction Novel by well known author Stephanie Meyer and it gives us a short understanding of what the movie is about without actually giving to much away.
The Journalist has also given examples of other Movies that Ronan has been in and compared the roles so it makes you admire the actress more for her varied roles and realise that at such a young age she is extremely talented.
The format is fairly informal and quite colloquial creating an easy reading review and creates an enjoyable atmosphere. It's great propaganda for the film as they have quotes from the director and the readers can relate to the director and actress as all quotes seem very down-to-earth and human "...the hairs on the back of my neck stood up." (Nick Wechler-Producer) and "Best on-set birthday ever!" (Saoirse Ronan-Actress)
From reading this material I have had a certain understanding of how I would like to write my review I want the review to be eye-catching and colloquial unlike other reviewers such as:

The New York Times

A foul tale foully told, the Israeli horror flick “Big Bad Wolves” begins on a dreamy, once-upon-a-time note with three children playing hide-and-seek. As a boy counts down, two girls, one dressed in red and the other in blue, enter a derelict building. One stays, the other leaves; one dies; the other, well, who knows, much less cares, what happens to her? Certainly not the writers and directors, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, for whom murdered children are just an easy, conveniently blunt and effectively faceless (and headless) means to a self-satisfied, jokey and blood-slicked end.

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  Horror Thriller Has Major Bite in IsraelJAN. 10, 2014

In other words, there’s a serial killer loose, and he’s raping, torturing and decapitating girls, whose heads he then hides, mainly, it seems, to give this otherwise generic setup extra ick. As the police futilely chase clues, a motley triangle emerges: a suspended cop, Micki (Lior Ashkenazi); a religious teacher, Dror (Rotem Keinan); and a mourning father, Gidi (Tzahi Grad). In time, the three converge in an isolated cabin that turns into a chamber of horrors as they play a psychological game of no exit amid Jewish mother jokes, some noshing and one character’s — after taking a blowtorch to another man’s chest — sniffing the air and wistfully reminiscing about barbecue.

In one of those ill-advised director statements included with the press material, Mr. Keshales and Mr. Papushado invoke the “existential anxiety” that “serves as Israel’s foundation” and promise that their movie will ask, “Does being the victim give you the legitimate right” to become a vigilante? Nice try, guys. Although they toss in a sympathetic Arab character, his pacific presence is soon eclipsed by a tortured man’s agony. Is that the point? Is there a point? All the filmmakers seem interested in is the ugliness of the main Israeli characters, each of whom proves a virtuoso of violence. Micki’s weapon of choice is a bluntly wielded phone book, while Gidi prefers a saw and pliers. For their part, the filmmakers do their dirty work with swoopy cameras, shock cuts, giggles and gore.

Although the review is bad it gives away too much of what is actually happening. The Journalist has used a lot of unusual language such as "derelict" rather than reviewing the film and saying whether the film is good or not the reviewer has just put into words what the movies about it pretty much ruins the movie and doesn't make the movie sound interesting at all. I also think that the Journalist was trying to be clever in his Format and it ended up with a terrible review. Even if the Film was or was not awful it starts to make you think about whether the reviewer is being a fair critic or whether he is thinking of whether he enjoyed it at all.

He is also fairly passive about the good things that happens in the movie, or the actors, the director and the shots it seems to be more of a critique on the plot rather than the way it was made or whether the shots were good or if they used any CGI etc.
CM

Popular reviews

 

I think some of the most popular reviewers are:

Empire Magazine

The New York Times

IMDB

Wikipedia

Heat

The following often write reviews on films. Also a lot of people on the internet write reviews via blogs and YouTube videos. Also TV reviews. 5* often have the top 10 films of the month and in 10 minutes they'll review the film for you.



Also the news often mention big films when it comes up to awards nights like the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
CM

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Does a Bad Review Ruin a Film?

A lot of movie fanatics rely on word of mouth to decide whether or not to go see a certain film. It doesn't matter whether a fantastic film has had a lot of great reviews it only takes one bad review to ruin the reputation of directors, producers and actors.
In my opinion I think that a bad review does ruin a film. The things that make you think mostly about the film is the review. It consists of the synopsis, a highly spoken opinion and a good star rating. I think that to review a film you must be completely unbiased and you must enjoy all films before writing an article that may or may not advertise a film properly an example of a bad review is:

Drifting Closer but Never Enough

‘Indigo Children,’ Directed by Eric Chaney

By NICOLAS RAPOLDJAN. 16, 2014

Inside



Launch media viewerIsabelle McNally and Robert Olsen in “Indigo Children.” Striped Entertainment

Opens on Friday in Manhattan.

Directed by Eric Chaney

1 hour 15 minutes; not rated

Romanticized train tracks, a journal-like voice-over and the lazy pace of a New Jersey backwater are all part of the effort to cast a spell in “Indigo Children,” from the writer-director Eric Chaney.

The feeling takes hold here and there as a young man, Mark (Robert Olsen), and a self-proclaimed “indigo” teenager, Christina (Isabelle McNally), drift closer but never close enough. Indigo is vaguely defined here as having a certain sensitivity and even power, but the movie doesn’t quite share those qualities, collapsing from a lack of direction in more than one sense.

Too many scenes find the actors standing around without much idea of staging, as they airily prattle dialogue (or, just as often, Mr. Olsen listens slack-jawed to Ms. McNally). A couple of other characters are shuffled into the mix in a confusing manner, while bits and pieces of images and gestures feel cribbed from a decade of indie-movie idylls.

Christina refers to herself and her ilk, without much prompting, as orphaned souls. While Mr. Chaney’s movie wears its heart on its sleeve, unlike some more calculated brethren, you might feel a bit left behind yourself after its padded efforts at rural poetry.

-CM

Finishing The Written Magazine Review

I started to look at a few more movie reviews and when I looked at where the pictures were presented I realised that they often had a quotation in the corner or slap bang in the middle of the picture. So I chose one of the interesting things that we had said and chose: "It Creates a Goblet of Questions, before, during and After the Film." I thought that this would draw the readers in as it's quite articulate and interesting it makes you wonder what kind of questions that would have to be asked and starts to make the reader want to watch the movie so they can start to think of the questions they should ask.

-RM&CM

Re filming the ending

Re filming the ending was probably the most important part we needed to redo. My idea was to film in the schools conference room so that it looks like a proper preofecional office. Been as Chole played a therapist she needed a proper office to make it look felasistic and the beat place to find an office was in our school. As the conference room was busy at the time we used the head teachers office as we needed a big enough place to be able to edit the two different Alex's into the shot. Bellow is a picture of us setting up the cameras in the office we used 

The distance between the two characters worked well with this long desk as it made the therapist look more intimidating. The aim was to make this character look intimidating so that the audience sympathises with Alex and his confussion. 

-RM

Re shooting break up scene

As you may be aware, the last two scenes in our film weren't quite as good as the other ones. Because of this, we've filmed one scene again and will be reshooting the other soon. Until then, here is the first cut of the scene we have re-shot.

To make this better than the old scene we used better camera angles (based from my sweet storyboard) and a better suited location. Though the location doesn't make the character of Alex look as obsessed with "the figure" as the previous one did, there was more room to shoot in and the lighting was better. A lot better.

Sometimes we all have to choose between our loved ones
and our potentially psychopathic obsessions which may
or may not be real...

The mise-en-scene of the shot is better, I think. It shows that Alex is struggling with the balance of his girlfriend and his obsession with "the figure". To show this, we put the laptop (representing his girlfriend through the Skype-call) on one side of the table and his work on the other. It's kind of like a set of off-balance scales. The lighting was dark, but the scene was still visible, unlike last time. This makes the the atmosphere more gloomy, while allowing the audience to still see things clearly.

Incoming Skype call display. I made
it based on the actual Skype display.
It's blurred in the actual film, but I just
wanted my efforts to be appreciated...

We fixed the Skype call. It looks way better than the last one. Instead of filming an actual Skype call, we filmed the parts with me talking to a blank laptop and then filmed Rachel talking directly to the camera, as though it was Alex, and then I edited in Adobe After Effects. Putting it simply, I stuck the footage of Rachel onto the laptop screen, made it look like a Skype call and added some Skype sound FX. I also added some glint to the footage of Rachel, this way it still looks like a screen. From a technical point of view, this is definitely one of the more complicated shots from an editing standpoint.

Rachel's footage, edited onto the laptop.

Rachel's footage edited onto the
laptop from a different angel. I blurred
it to match the camera's focus.

The audio needs to be fixed, as there's some background noise. I might go Foley and dub it over, using non-diagetic sound. Hopefully it'll sound nicer. Though, I do like the ambiance which the background noise adds, in a way.

-BW

Ben did some great work editing this scene of the film. It really needed redoing because of the quality being really bad on the first shoot of this scene we did. I personally didnt want to get rid of the idea that the relationship ends over skype as it emphasises the fact he doesnt have any time for her. Therefore my idea was to re film the skype part. Editing this in was looking too difficult although it worked out well in the end with Bens fabulous editing skills. This was also much cleaner with a variety of different shoots (essepcially reaction shoots).

 

-RM

Rough cut - 1

TEMPUS - Rough Cut 1

Firstly, sorry for the voice over... I was experimenting. Though it helps the narrative in terms of understanding, it also doesn't quite fit.

Though we agreed that the first two scenes with my younger brothers are up to our standards, we didn't like the other two scenes and have decided to re-shoot them.

Why didn't they work? Personally, I think it's the lack of interesting and thought-out camera angles. The angles used aren't particularly exciting and also the match-on-action doesn't match up for some of the shots. Especially for the last scene, we rushed it and consistently looked at our scripts. It was also filmed in a location that doesnt look very realistic for a therapists office and looks more like a drama stuido which drama kids use. This again made it look rushed and untidy. This was hard for me to edit around and evidently made the film look very untidy.

The last scene also has a completely different feel to the rest of the movie. It's quite off putting, as the complete change in tempo is so sudden, and not in a good way. I think when we re-film it, we should change the 3rd scene slightly. Make it brighter and perhaps even change the story because with the rewrite of the ending we need to change some things. For example, it doesn't make sense that he would make his own girlfriend leave him. Unless of course it's justified, in which case we would need to also explain that in the next scene.

Speaking of the girlfriend, she shouldn't leave him through skype. It doesn't look good on camera, and is far to unemotional. We also made it unclear with the actual dialogue that it was a break-up, hence why I did the voice over. Having the sense redone will help created some emotion which may help the story be told better. Also having his girlfriend dump him needs to come across more serious than a realtionship that may have happned if they were 13. This would show how much its chnaging and taking over his life.

On a positive note, we're happy with the first two scenes and the teleportation effect, which I whipped up... in 3 hours... at 1am.

-BW (edited by RM)

alternative ending and new prop

As a group we all put our heads together to come up with an alternative ending for our short film. We wanted something that wasnt too confusing to the audience and something that would make sence and fit with all the filming we had already done.

At first this was a hard task as we had planned everything out so well up to the final detail of where it was we wanted to film. Although because of other work commitments Alex (the time traveller) was unable to film in the amount of time left we had to complete the film therefore this alternit ending was created. Peronsally I prefer this ending as I feel it makes much more sense to our first ending that was created. And been as Alexs (the time traveller) face does not appear in the oringinal filming we didnt need to worry about reding any of the other parts. This new ending explains that the character alex is in a time loop and puts a meaning to all the messages whereas before it didnt link it was some random person.

Ben created a 'Vortex Puncher' as a prob for this new ending an image of this is displayed bellow. This was used as what the character Alex used to travel through time, this again aqlso adding some meaning to the end of the short film.

 

 

 

- RM

alternative ending

Alternate Ending

As we haven't filmed the ending yet and I've been editing the other footage, we noticed that the film needs something more exciting to happen, as well as something to explain the concept.

Also our actor, Alex, has become hard to get a hold of due to his work commitments. I've written a way around this.It should look fine as we haven't seen his face in the film yet. This left us deciding to change the ending completely. This script has been written by Ben after we had discussed as a group what we wanted to happen. 

Instead of the pub scene, I've written this one. It takes place in a therapist's office. The basic plot is that it turns out that a future version of Alex (Alex 2) has been playing a joke on his past self and has to logically interrupt the Therapy session, just as past, future versions of himself did before him.

Time travel is a confusing concept, but it makes the audience think.

Therapy:

INT.OFFICE

ALEX

And that's when I decided to come here.

THERAPIST

(Mumbles) Not a moment too soon. (Loud) A-hem. Well, Alex, I think it's clear that you need to throw away any kind of idea that this "figure" is even real.

ALEX

What?

THERAPIST

Alex, it's clear to me that this person you've created is all in your mind. Imaginary, if you will.

ALEX

But-

THERAPIST

-I know you may find this surprising, but you need to hear this. He's not real-

(A burst of bright light ignites the room. Another Alex appears)

THERAPIST

Oh my go-

ALEX

What the?

ALEX 2

Well, you nearly had it. And by nearly, I mean not at all.

(Looks at therapist)

And you! Honestly, one unexplainable phenomenon happens in someone's life and suddenly they're "crazy". (To the side) Well, 90 percent of the time they are, (loud) but this time you're wrong!

THERAPIST

I- I-

ALEX

You're... Me?

ALEX 2

Oh right. I should explain that.

(Holds up arm to reveal a watch-like object)

This (indicates to watch) is a Vortex Puncher. In layman's terms, it punches a temporary bridge between 2 points in time and throws the user through there.

ALEX

And why do you... Sorry, we, have it?

ALEX 2

Excellent point, me. Here you go.(throws Vortex Puncher to Alex who catches it) For this to make any sense, you've now got to go back in time, take these sticky notes, and visit all the instances where I met you and do exactly the same.

ALEX

How does this make sense!?

ALEX 2

Don't you watch Doctor Who? Kidding! I know we do. Anyway, it's basically an infinite loop of different future versions of us delivering notes to past versions of us. It's very complicated timey-wimey stuff.

So what're you waiting for? Take this hoody and go!

ALEX

Isn't this hoody stuck in an infinite loop? Used by every version of us ever?

ALEX 2

We don't worry about that... Now go go go!

ALEX

Wait, what'll you do now?

ALEX 2

I don't know.. Perhaps I'll make a film about this... ANYWAY, GO!

(Alex disappears in a flash. Alex 2 is about to leave the room when he notices the petrified therapist)

ALEX 2

Oh right, I forgot about you... Here's some money for the session (gives handful of change) and uuuurrrr... Have a sticky note.

(Sticks note to Therapist's head. It reads "The End")

CREDITS ROLL

-BW - edited by RM

 

script 2 - edited

Script #2

TEMPUS

DIRECTED BY BW, CM AND RM

WRITTEN BY BW, CM AMD RM

INT. PAN AROUND A CHILD’S PLAYROOM/BEDROOM. THERE IS A GAME OF SOLDIERS GOING ON.

CLOSE UP ON SOME OF THE PLASTIC SOLDIERS.

CUT TO A CHILDS EYES.

PULL BACK SO WE SEE THE WHOLE FACE. THE CHILD IS WEARING A SOLDIERS HAT AND IS UNDERNEATH A TENT SURROUNDED BY A BATTLE.

THE CHILD’S MOTHER CALLS TO HIM.

MOTHER: ALEX DARLING!

HE LOOKS UP BUT DECIDES TO IGNORE WHAT SHE IS SAYING.

MOTHER: ALEX!

CLOSE UP ON THE CHILDS HANDS HE DROPS THE SOLDIERS LEAVING THEM DISCARDED. CLOSE UP ON FEET. THE DOOR BANGS SHUT.

WITH THE CAMERA STILL ON A CLOSE UP OF THE SOLDIERS A SHADOW PASSES OVER AND A HAND SWOOPS DOWN PICKS UP A SOLDIER AND THEN MOVES THE SOLDIER OUT OF THE SHOT.

SECONDS PASS AND THE SOLDIER IS BACK INTO SHOT BUT IT HAS A NOTE SELLOTAPED ONTO IT.

“I’M HIT”

THE CAMERA PANS ROUND THE ROOM AND SETTLES ON SOME UNSETTLED PIECES OF PAPER THAT ARE STILL FALLING TO THE FLOOR. WE DON’T SEE WHO IS POSTING THE NOTES.

SECONDS LATER THW DOOR CREEKS OPEN AND ALEX RUNS IN ECU OF HIS FEET WALKING IN.

TILT SHOT HE IS HOLDING AN ANY-WAY-UP-CUP FULL OF JUICE. HE STOPS IN FRONT OF THE TENT AND A CLOSE UP OF HIS CONFUSED FACE.

HE DROPS THE CUP CLOSE UP OF HIS HAND AS HE PICKS UP THE SOLDIER.

SHOT REVERSE SHOT. OF SOLDIER THEN CLOSE UP OF FACE THEN THE SOLDIER AGAIN.

CLOSE UP OF SOLDIER, ALEX RIPS THE NOTE OFF AND TAKES IT TO THE BIN.

END OF PART 1.

PART TWO

EXT. A MAN AND A WOMAN ARE SITTING ON A BENCH TALKING. WHILST AN OLDER ALEX IS RUNNING AROUND KICKING A BALL.

POV OF THE BALL BEING KICKED. HAND HELD CAMERA.

THE BALL IS KICKED FAR AWAY. SHOT TO WHERE THE BALL IS.

WHIP PAN AS BOY LOOKS UP TO SEE WHERE HIS PARENTS ARE HE SMILES AND WAVES THEY ARE NOT REGISTERING THAT HE IS THERE. SHOT REVERSE SHOT.

THE BOY SHRUGS HIS SHOULDERS AND RUNS OVER TO THE FOOTBALL. HAND HELD CAMERA OF THE FLOOR AND HIS FEET.

CUT TO ECU ON A MAN’S FOOT ON THE BALL. SHOT REVERSE SHOT. THE BOY STOPS HALF WAY. THE MAN’S FOOT. THE BOY’S WORRIED FACE.

TRACKING SHOT OF THE BOY WALKING TOWARDS THE BALL HE STOPS ABOUT 3ft AWAY FROM THE MAN.

ECU ON THE MAN’S SMILE. ECU ON HIS HAND IN HIS JACKET POCKET. HE PULLS HIS HAND OUT AND IN IT IS THE TOY SOLDIER FROM THE PREVIOUS SCENE.

ECU ON THE TOY SOLDIER IN THE PALM OF THE MAN’S HAND.

THE BOY PICKS IT UP FROM THE HAND.

CLOSE UP OF THE BOY LOOKING AT THE SOLDIER HE LOOKS UP AND STARES.

WHIP PAN THE MAN IS NO LONGER THERE. THE BOY COMPLETELY FORGETS ABOUT THE BALL AND RUNS TO HIS PARENTS.

HE LOOKS DOWN TO HIS PALM.

TILT SHOT HE IS HOLDING SAND. HE LOOKS BACK AT HIS PARENTS. THEY ARE CALLING HIM.

FATHER: ALEX WE’RE GOING. HE RUNS.

END OF PART TWO.

PART THREE

INT. THE BOYS BEDROOM BUT IT IS SEEMINGLY DIFFERENT THE YEARS HAVE CHANGED AND SO HAS THE LITTLE BOY. ALL OVER HIS ROOM ARE PICTURES OF THE FIGURE. PAN AROUND THE ROOM THERE IS EVEN A CLAY FIGURINE. THE ROOM HAS A GLOOMY EERIE FEEL TO IT.

STOP ON THE BOY SITTING AT HIS DESK. GRADUAL CLOSE UP. HE IS SKYPING HIS GIRLFRIEND. THEY’RE ARGUING.

MID CONVERSATION. SHOT REVERSE SHOT ON SCREEN AND ON HIM.

GIRLFRIEND:…YOU’RE NEVER THERE FOR ME I LOOKED LIKE A FOOL TONIGHT.

ALEX: I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO.

GIRLFRIEND: I WANT YOU TO ACT NORMAL, ALEX!

ALEX IS LOOKING AT A PAD ON THE TABLE HIS LATEST DRAWING OF THE FIGURE.

ALEX: HUH!

GIRLFRIEND: YOU’RE NOT EVEN PAYING ATTENTION. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

ALEX: DRAWING.

GIRLFRIEND: NOT ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR PICTURES. ALEX IT’S REALLY CREEPY. YOU’RE SCARING ME AT THE MOMENT. THAT’S IT I CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE.

ALEX: WHAT? LIL?! BABE!

GIRLFRIEND: SEE YA ALEX!

SHE LOGS OFF.

ALEX: LIL? BABE? AHHHHHH.

SHOT ON HIM HE LOOKS AT THE PICTURE OF THE FIGURE AND STARTS TO RIP IT UP. THE CAMERA PANS ONTO ANOTHER PICTURE ON THE WALL HIS HAND COMES INTO VIEW AS HE RIPS THEM OFF THE WALL AND STARTS TO TEAR THEM UP. HE FINALLY COMES TO THE CLAY FIGURINE AND THROWS IT AGAINST THE WALL. HE FALLS TO THE FLOOR DISTRAUGHT.

BACKWARDS TRACKING SHOT OF THE ROOM AND THE STATE IT IS IN.

CUT TO CLOSE UP OF ALEX. HE JUMPS AS HIS PHONE GOES.

BIRDS EYE VIEW SHOT OF HIM AND THE PHONE. HE PICKS UP THE PHONE.

CLOSE UP OF PHONE. IT’S AN UNKNOWN NUMBER HE OPENS THE TEXT.

IT READS

“TOO BAD MATE”

HE DELETES IT.

ECU ON HIS EYES THEY SHOWS TERROR.

END OF PART THREE.

PART FOUR.

EXT. ALEX IS SITTING ON HIS OWN WAITING FOR SOMEONE. HE GLANCES AT HIS WATCH.

OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT. HIS MATES ARE COMING TOWARDS HIM WITH DRINKS.

THEY SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CHAT. THEY’RE ALL DRINKING THEIR PINTS HE FINISHES AND TURNS TO LOOK AT THE TELEVISION. THERE’S A MATCH ON.

HE LOOKS DOWN AND THE HEAD OF THE CLAY FIGURINE IS SITTING IN HIS EMPTY PINT GLASS.

TILT SHOT. THE MAN IS STANDING THERE SIMLING HE PULLS HIS HOOD OFF AND SMILES ALEX MOVES UP. THE MAN SITS DOWN. HE STARTS TO SPEAK.

MAN: HEY THIS IS A GOOD MATCH.

ALEX: YYYYOUR…………

THE MAN TURNS HIS HEAD AND SMILES.

ECU INTO HIS EYE THE CAMERA TURNS SLIGHTLY.UNTIL WE GET A FULL SHOT OF THE EYE.

END OF PART FOUR.

PART FIVE.

THE EVENTS THAT HAVE ALL HAPPENED REWIND BUT IN THE MAN’S POV.

EVERYTIME WE SEE ALEX IT GOES IN REWIND. BUT THEN SLOWS DOWN TO UNVEIL THE MAN’S FACE.

FINALLY TO THE POINT WHERE THE MAN PICKS UP THE CLAY HEAD PUTS A BLANKET OVER A SLEEPING TEENAGER ALEX AND STEPS BACKWARDS. AS HE STEPS BACKWARDS HE VANISHES.

END OF PART FIVE

PART SIX.

CAMERA PULLS OUT OF SHOT OF THE MANS EYE AND SHAKES HANDS WITH ALEX. HE STANDS UP LOOKS AT THE MATCH ON SCREEN WHILST SOMEONE SCORES THEY ALL SCREAM AND CHEER WHILST ALEX IS LOOKING ABASHED AT THE MAN. POV SHOT OF THE MAN HE LOOKS OUT INTO THE DOOR.

ECU OF HIS FOOT. HE LIFTS IT UP AND STOMPS WITH THAT HE IS GONE.

END OF PART SIX.

-CM