The Capgras DelusionBy Nicola Galvin

Pre-Production Script – 17th November 2015

SilverSalt Studios (address line one)(address line two)(phone number)(email address)

Opening: SilverSalt Studios Animated Logo

1. BEDROOM – MID-AFTERNOON

A teenage girl (who is your typical, pretty, cheerleader type, with big doe eyes) reaches down to put on her trainers, then checks her phone for a message.

2. BATHROOM – MID-AFTERNOON

[CUT TO] Same girl putting her hair up into a pony-tail in a bathroom, and then putting on a head band

3. OUTSIDE DOOR – MID-AFTERNOON

[CUT TO] Same girl exits her backdoor, carefully locking it, checks phone again, and sets off for a run

4. BACK-ALLEY – MID-AFTERNOON

[CUT TO] Same girl, surrounded by bushes, runs down a narrow path.

5. CEMETERY ENTRANCE – MID-AFTERNOON

[SLOW PAN ON ENTRANCE] Same girl, jogging, enters cemetery, [Lighting darkens]

6. CEMETERY – MID/LATE AFTERNOON

[CLOSE UP ON GIRL’S FACE AS SHE RUNS] Girl is mouthing along to her music [which plays quietly through the headphones] as she runs, all seems well. [CUT TO SHAKY HANDHELD; SOMETHING WATCHING HER] Girl continues running, unaware.

[CUT TO LONG-SHOT OF GIRL RUNNING PAST CHURCH] (A second, deformed, massive shadow is projected on the church wall, following behind the girl and her own shadow.} The girl runs past the church and pauses (the monster shadow pauses too, but moves an arm out towards her.) The girl spins around, looking to the wall, where only her shadow is present – uncertain, checks her phone, and keeps running.

[CUT TO FACE-ON SHOT OF GIRL RUNNING DOWN TREE TUNNEL] (lighting is getting progressively gloomier) Girl continues running, a little faster & more tensely, (muffled noise behind her) glances over her shoulder, runs faster

[CUT TO MID-SHOT OF GIRL FROM THE SIDE] The girls breathing quickens, something dark moves in the corner of her eye/the frame, runs faster still

[POV SHOT OF SOMETHING FOLLOWING HER, THROUGH THE BUSHES]

[FRONT, CLOSE-UP ON GIRL] she breaks into a sprint – full blown panicking – and leaps out of the graveyard through the back cut-through to the walking path

7. RUNNING PATH – EARLY EVENING

[POV SOMETHING APPEARS OUT OF THE BUSHES – CLOSE UP ONTO GIRLS FACE AS IT IS UPON HER] (lighting is dim/gloomy)

[MID-SHOT OF GIRL AND HER FRIEND] The girl shrieks and trips backwards to the ground, her friend stands above her laughing. The girl scowls angrily at her friend and covers her face, shaking.

FRIEND(malicious laughing) Scared?

GIRLJesus Christ – what the hell! You’re such an asshole. Why the

hell would you do that, you scared me to death!

FRIEND(subtly sinister – quietly) It was too easy – and don’t

exaggerate, you’re not dead (pause) yet. (Eyes flash.)

GIRL

(Exasperated – getting up, and dusting herself off, eye roll) You’re unbelievable – ugh, just don’t tell anybody about this,

okay?

FRIEND Not a word.

(creepy pause, lasts slightly too long – girl grows slightly uncomfortable)

Shall we continue are run?

GIRLUgh, whatever. Fine, let’s go.

[MID-SHOT OF GIRLS RUNNING OFF OUT OF SIGHT](phone alert sounds)

[CAMERA PANS DOWN TO GROUND WHERE GIRL HAS DROPPED HER PHONE]

[CLOSE-UP ON SCREEN, WHERE A TEXT FROM THE GIRLS FRIEND HAS JUST APPEARED]

[CUT TO BLACK]

TITLE CARD

The End.