Shooting and Sound Script

So, for my horror film idea, I was thinking the shooting would go something like this. The picture fades in from black to this sunny happy neighborhood, as peaceful things such as the beach, green grass, and nice houses. A upbeat but somewhat eerie song is playing, and once the credits are scrolled through it freezes on a particular house. It quickly cuts between night and day and the film title is displayed upon the night sky. The picture is now brought inside the house, where a family seems to have just moved in. The scene is set in the kitchen where the mother is reassuring her son how great their new lives are going to be. The son is ignorant and annoyed with the new situation, agreeing with his mom to satisfy her. She tries to lighten his mood by talking of warm weather and beaches, but the son doesn't seem too interested. She tells him to go finish unpacking his room so he exits the scene. He goes to his room and is unpacking, and places a book in the closet. The camera pans over to him grabbing another box, and the book falls. The camera is going to flash over to the closet which is shaking from the impact of the book. The kid will go and put more books, pushing them further back into the closet. As he walks away, the whole shelf falls, banging against the closet, and the camera pans back to it. The kid obviously frustrated, opens the closet to see the shelf and all of the books on the floor. He gives up and slams the door shut, settling to fix it later. The setting changes to night and the kid is playing videogames, when a red figure creeps out of the closet. The mother walks up and it crawls back into the closet quickly. She scolds the kid, forcing him to clean his room, and he does so visibly frustrated. As he is picking up the books and cleaning the closet the creature pulls him inside, injuring him and running off. The door to the room is slowly shutting, as you can hear it creaking closed. The kid screams and runs off before the door closes to his mother's aid and disbelief. He desperately pleas for his mother's help, but she is convinced that the fallen bookshelf is the culprit and he is just embarrassed. They look in the closet together to see nothing. From here, the creature becomes more and more elusive and threatening. Over the night, the beast crawls out of the closet to creepily intimidate the boy.



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