Synopsis of the Short Film

•   It starts off with a girl walking with a group of friends in a park, she sees something in the corner of her eye and she does a double-take at the space where she thought there was something.
• She becomes paranoid and seeks reassurance from her friends that she wasn’t the only person who saw it, however they all say ‘No, what are you talking about?’
• She becomes more paranoid; she keeps looking behind and suddenly sees the thing that is making her paranoid; her best friend which then goes to FLASHBACK.

FLASHBACK-       There are shots of her looking scared (Close-ups) Cacophony of SOUNDS: ·         Police Sirens ·         Shouting, Screaming, Crying ·         Stabbing, Knife dropping. Pans to LONG SHOT of dead best friend on the floor, down an alley, audience can see hooded person running away from the scene.

·         Coming out of the flashback, SHOT of her eyes closed, zooming out as she opens her eyes and shot shows her reasserting herself, going back to reality.

·         She continues to walk home, she then sees her friend, hugs her. The ghost of her best friend brushes past her.

·         A shot shows her as she takes out a knife and (stabs her friend) or (strangle her)

·         Another shot shows the audience that she was hallucinating and that it was the ghost that was injecting evil thoughts of murder into the girl in order to get her revenge for not saving her.

·         She comes out of this hallucination and starts freaking out and runs away. Her friend is left confused and saying; ‘Where are you going?!’

·         Shots of her running away, bashing into people, using various shots i.e dutch tilt, blurred lens, going in and out of focus to further emphasise her disorientation.

·         She goes to a bridge, she hears noises in her head, voiceovers from her best friend tormenting her saying things like; ‘Why did you leave me to die? It should have been you, not me!’ Making the girl feel resentful for being alive and suicidal.

·        Shot FADES TO BLACK 

       Hear a SPLASH!

·         The last scene shows a FADE FROM BLACK and the audience can see the girl with her eyes closed, shot zooming out of her face waking up GASPING. Tilted shots to further increase the confusion she is feeling.

·         She gets out of bed, walks into the bathroom and bends down to wash her face, she straightens up and looks in the mirror and in the corner, the audience can see the ghost.

 In conclusion, the audience think that the first half of the sequence is a dream, or a hallucination, but are left confused through the ambiguity that is left right at the end.

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