BONES - SCRIPT

BONES: A SHORT MOVIE

OPENING SCENE

MUSIC: WHERE IS MY MIND? – PIXIES

LOCATION: WOODS

Long shot from the side of Jimmy looking down at his phone.

Medium shot from the front of Jimmy looking down at his phone.

Low angle shot of Jimmy’s legs starting to walk. 

Extreme long shot of Jimmy walking forwards.

Jimmy walks past camera when turning a corner and camera pans around and Follows him. 

Close up of jimmy swiping on his phone while walking. 

Jimmy turns another corner and the camera pans over and follows him. 

Jimmy walks past camera revealing the serial killer watching in the in the background. 

Close up shot of Jimmy stepping in a puddle and revealing the title of the movie. 

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

Close up of Jimmy putting his earphones in and music becomes increasingly louder. Shift focus is on Jimmy and blurred image of the serial killer in the background. 

Low angle shot of Jimmy’s legs walking.

Fast movement dolly approaching Jimmy rapidly. 

Medium shot of Jimmy with the serial killer behind him grabbing him. 

(CUTS TO BLACK)

Movie title appears on the screen with scary music added for dramatic effect. 

SCENE 2 

Medium shot of Jimmy waking up on his sofa in his house.

Close up of him touching a bruise on his forehead. 

(PHONE STARTS RINGING)

Close up of the phone ringing with ‘MILLIE’ on the screen. 

            Medium shot of Jimmy answering the phone

              Jimmy: “Hello?”

Long shot of Millie walking down an alleyway

Millie: “Jimmy thank god! Where have you been, I’ve been ringing you for the past 5 hours.”

(HIGH PITCH NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND)

              Extreme Close up of Jimmy’s bruise 

Close up of Jimmy's face looking frightened  

               Jimmy: “I err, I don’t know I’ve had the craziest dream…

             Medium shot from the front of Millie walking

Over the shoulder shot of someone in all black following very closely behind.

Millie: // “it doesn’t matter, Listen I think there’s someone following me”

Medium shot of Jimmy 

Jimmy: “Why? Where are you?” 

             Close up of Millie

             Millie: “Walking down the backies to my house, there’s some guy in all black and a balaclava behind me,    (Millie’s voice becomes increasingly distraught) Over the shoulder shot of the person in all black getting closer

            “he’s been following me for about 15 minutes, what should I do?”

long shot of Jimmy getting up off the sofa and standing up

Jimmy: “just get home as soon as possible and lock all your windows and doors. It’s getting late, just go to bed and hope he goes away, okay?”

             Long shot of Millie walking onto her drive and killer stood watching 

Medium shot from behind Millie and looking behind herself towards the camera 

Millie: “Yeah okay, I’ll see you tomorrow? 

Long shot of killer watching

Medium shot of Jimmy standing

            Jimmy: “See you tomorrow.” 

Low angle shot of Jimmy walking up stairs

Shows Jimmy walking into the bathroom through the reflection of the bathroom mirror

High angle medium shot of him washing his hands and then looking at bruises on his arms.

Medium shot of him looking at his reflection and coming to realisation. 

(FADES TO BLACK) 

SCENE 3

Pan moving upwards to show Millie laid in bed. Shift focus changes and shows Bones looking through the window at the opposite side. 

Medium shot of Millie turning around in bed. 

Close up of the phone screen with a black shadow moving swiftly across. 

The phone then immediately starts ringing displaying ‘NO CALLER ID’ on the screen. 

Millie reaches over with her eyes still closed and answers

            Millie: “Hello? Jimmy is that you?”

(SILENCE)

Over the shoulder shot of Millie pulling the phone away from her face and looking at the time displaying 3:00 am

Millie: “Jim it’s 3 am what is it that you want?”

Unknown: “INDIA MIKE GOLF OSCAR INDIA NOVEMBER GOLF TANGO OSCAR KILO INDIA LIMA LIMA UNIFORM” bot voice recording on repeat 

Close up of her face in shock. 

Close up of her aggressively grabbing a not book and pen and writing down what it says.

Birdseye view of the notepad with the litters: I M G O I N G T O K I L L U then her scribbling dashes in-between the letters to make out the words: I M/G O I N G/ T O/ K I L L/ U

The camera pans inwards with scary music intensifying

Medium shot from behind Millie when a loud bang makes her jump and she turns around. 

close up of her phone screen while she dials ‘999’ 

long shot of her going under the covers close up of her on the phone w           hile under the covers.

999 operator: “999 what’s your emergency?”

Millie talks very fast in a distraught manner. 

Millie: “Please help me I think there’s someone in my house”

999 operator: “okay what’s your address we will send someone over there right away.”

Millie: “237 Carrie street, Jasonville. Please hurry, PLEASE.” 

“Just stay on the phone ma’am don’t hang up. Stay where you are.” 

(PHONE CUTS OUT) 

(SCARY MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(SILENCE)

Remains as a close-up shot of her face under the covers in darkness 

squeaking footsteps in the background

Millie starts heavy breathing 

Sheet gets pulled off of her and she starts aggressively screaming nothing

Long shot of Millie sat on the bed with her head in-between her knees with nothing around her in darkness

Medium shot of her looking up and looking around heMedium shot from

the side and then loud knocking from the door which makes her jump Long shot from her bed to the door 

Door knocks for a second time 

Close up of Millie beginning to cry

Long shot from bed to the door

Loud footsteps coming up the stairs 

Footsteps get louder and quicker 

Light turns on and it’s two police officers 

Policemen stand in the doorway

Police man//1: “Is everything okay miss?”

Millie takes a sigh of relief 

Millie: “there…there was somebody here”

Police man//2: “there doesn’t seem to be anyone here now, we’ll take a look around and look for a break in an entry” 

Close up of Millie sat in bed with a pan-zoom of her face.

 (CUTS TO NEXT SCENE)

SCENE 4 

LOCATION: LANGOLD LAKE 

TIME: 8 o’clock

Extreme long shot of Latisha walking beside a lake looking into the water

The camera pans upwards and shifts focus changes to show killer standing at the opposite side of the lake looking directly at Latisha

Close up shot of Latisha frightened

Track camera movement of Latisha walking forwards and killer walking in the same direction

Long shot of Latisha changing direction

Medium shot of killer watching very carefully 

Handheld camera from the front of Latisha walking up a hill

Medium shot of the shrubs moving 

Close up of Latisha's face in shock

Medium shot from the front of her and someone grabbing her

Medium shot of the killer pulling her to the ground 

Extreme long shot of the shrubs with intense screaming in the background 

(FADES TO BLACK)

SCENE 5

LOCATION: Laughton Common

TIME: 8’ o clock

Medium shot of Mille and Jimmy walking alongside each other

Millie: “the weirdest thing happened the other night, you know that night I rang you?”

Medium shot of them walking past a lamppost, shift changes and reveals a missing poster for Latisha. 

“oh yeah that night, something weird happened to me as well…”

“I swear there was someone in my house. But the police could find anything. Crazy right?

“yeah that same day I lost 8 hours of my day and woke up in my house with bruises all over me”

over the shoulder, Long shot from the window of Millie and Jimmy from the window of an abandoned  

“it’s like there’s someone stalking us…”

(SCARY DRAMATIC MUSIC)

close up shot of Millie's phone beginning to ring 

close up of Millie and Jimmy looking at each other

Millie begins to look around

over the shoulder long shot from the window looking down at Millie looking straight at the killer 

medium shot of Millie grabbing Jimmy by the arm

“what?”

Jimmy turns around and see’s the killer

Dolly camera movement of them both running 

LOCATION: Stones, Anston 

    

Extreme long shot of them running into the woods

(Heavy breathing)

Medium shot of them both hiding behind a tree, shift focus changes to show the killer standing right behind them 

The killer begins to approach them.

Fast moving dollar camera movement coming from behind Millie and Jimmy 

Millie turns around

Long shot from behind Millie showing that there is nothing there

Close up shot of Millie then turning back around to then reveal bones is right in front of her 

(intense screaming)

Low angle medium shot of Millie falling to the ground 

Close up shot of the killer raising a knife

Medium shot in slow motion of Jimmy running away from the scene 

Long shot of Jimmy running out of the woods screaming for help

Long shot of him running across the road and then coming to a stop

Long shot of bones stood at the opposite side of the road 

Media low angle shot of a car heading towards it

Close up shot of Jimmy screaming

Close up from the side of bones with car crash sound effects in the background. 

In my script i have included every camera angle, camera movement, background music+sound effects and dialogue to make it as efficient as possible and so the movie comes out exactly how i imagined it in my head. It is important to have a script so my production is perfect and all my cast so exactly how to act and what to say.  The script is probably one of the most important processes during the pre-production and is vital to the outcome of your product because without a script your actors wouldnt know how to perform, what locations are being used and camera angles