‘Evanescent’ Script
- EXT. Woods. Day
- Establishing shot of trees, a pond and ducks. Camera pans across a
wood.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- LS of girls ( 3 or 4) walking from behind. Camera pans across the
pond. Shows them laughing, joking.
- Cuts to close up of the protagonist (Paloma)
- EXT. Woods. Day
- LS of girls walking past the camera. In the distance you can see a
girl standing.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- Close up shot of Paloma’s face, looking confused and whips her head
to the place where she thought she saw someone.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- LS and camera pans to the place where she saw something.
- Shot to the place, the girl has disappeared. Nobody is there.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- MS of Paloma and the girl standing behind her looking at her.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- MS of Paloma turning to her friends.
- Dialogue: Paloma says; ‘Did
you see that?
- Friends say; ‘No,
what are you talking about?
- Shot reverse shots between Paloma and her friends.
- Close up shot of Paloma to show her increasing paranoia.
- EXT. Wood. Day
- Camera pans to the space she looked at before. She does a double take and sees the
girl. Close up shot of her face shows the audience that she realises who it is.
Shot fades to black and becomes distorted, the sound also becomes distorted.
Police sirens are heard. This shot leads to the FLASHBACK
- FLASHBACK EXT. Dark Alley. Night
- LS of the best friends, Paloma and Rosalie walking down an alley.
Sound is distorted. You can hear them chatting.
- Over shoulder shot of hooded person walking towards them.
- Cacophonies of sounds are heard; Police Sirens, Shouting, Screaming,
Crying, Knife dropping.
- Pans to LS of dead best friend on the floor, audience can see hooded
person running away from the scene.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- Coming out of the flashback. Close up shot of her eyes closed,
zooming out as she opens her eyes and shot shows her reasserting herself, going
back to reality.
- EXT. Woods. Day
- LS of her continuing to walk with her friends, they part ways, she
hugs her friend.
- Over shoulder shot of Paloma hugging her friend, you can see Rosalie
brush past her.
- MS of her shows she takes out a knife from her bag and stabs her
friend.
- Shot reverse shot of her friend falling to the floor.
- Close up shot of Paloma’s face shows her coming out of a
hallucination and has a worried expression on her face as she really thought
she has just stabbed her friend.
- LS of her running away from her friend
- Over shoulder shot of her friend looking at Paloma running away.
- Dialogue; Friend says; ‘Paloma!
Where are you going!?’
- LS/ P.O.V shot of her feet running, shaky effect, bashing into
random people.
- Various shots are used to further emphasis her disorientation;
- Dutch tilt
- Blurred lens
- Going in and out of focus.
- EXT. Park Bench. Day
-
LS of Paloma from behind sitting on a park bench.
- Over shoulder shot shows her feeling
agitated ( twiddling her finger, leg shaking)
- LS of Rosalie standing behind Paloma
( Eerie Music begins)
- Voiceovers from Rosalie; ‘Why did you leave me to die!?’ ‘It should
have been you, not me!’
- Close up of Paloma’s face, shows her being tormented and feeling
resentful for being alive and feels suicidal her hands are covering her ears,
trying to block out the noise.
-
Dutch tilt shot to show her disorientation.
-
LS of Paloma running away. Camera pans to follow her as she runs to the
toilets.
-
INT. Toilets. Day (Part 1)
- MS of Paloma walking to the sink
- Over shoulder shot of Paloma looking in the
mirror, looking distresses, takes out her antidepressants.
- MS of her picking the one she dropped
- MS of Paloma,
reflection of Rosalie in the corner, showing Paloma’s shocked expression
- Screen fades to BLACK.
- INT. Toilets. Day (Part 2)
- Over shoulder shot of Paloma. She bends down to wash her face,
straightens up again.
- Medium shot of her looking in the mirror and in the corner, the
audience can see Rosalie. Shows her shocked expression.
- Screen fades to BLACK
- END
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