Panning: Script Writting

 Writing the Script

    Welcome back, everyone! We have officially started the process of writing the script! We knew that our film was going to open with a killing scene (as most horror/slasher films do), so we plotted a few points on how we thought our film could go. 

    Our first idea was to have an establishing shot of the house and then a shot of a record player playing, then a POV shot of one character coming up behind another character, scaring them. However, with this idea, we didn't really have anything original come to mind after the scaring part, so we tried a different idea. 

    The idea was that the film would still open with an establishing shot of the house, but instead of one character scaring the other, it would just be two girls sitting at home watching a scary movie. We didn't want just a random killer coming after them out of the blue; we wanted something a little more interesting. They were already looking at a TV, so why not do something with the TV? That's when we came up with the idea of the TV turning off and saying something.

 

    We had a really hard time coming up with what the TV would say exactly. We thought maybe "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID," but that sounded too much like the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer. Then we thought about if the TV played a video of them bullying a kid, or bad text messages that they had typed, but that idea didn't flow. 

    So, we put ourselves in our fictional killer's shoes. Why was he killing these girls? What did he get from this? The answer was clear to us; he was doing this for fun, treating it like a game. That's when the idea came to us: a simple countdown. Putting a countdown on the TV would show how the killer wants to have his way of fun with them, and treat it as a game. 

     After that idea was set, the other points just came naturally, until we had the main points of what our film would show. Now, with the idea of what our killer would do, we wanted to add a type of foreshadowing. So, we thought of adding a shot where it would show a magazine on the counter titled 'Killer Strikes Again' at the beginning of the scene. This gives the audience an idea about what will happen.

    Since we had the major points down, the script was easy to make. We just need to decide what each character will say and their reactions. So, after all this planning, our script came out to look like this: