Film Synopsis

Frankie, a respectable, sensible and motivated eighteen year old girl who has been bought up from a troubled past,  as only four years ago her adopted sister went missing and was found dead. However all will be revealed when she decides to throw a house party for herself and twin sister Amy’s birthday as their parents have gone away for the weekend and left them with some money. The party begins at 8pm and by 8:30pm the house is crowded with untamed, intoxicated teenagers;  it begins to get out of hand as people start meddling around with her parent’s possessions and passing out on the floor, in which Frankie and Amy decides to call of the party. Eventually, the only people left at the house is Frankie and Amy’s 5 closest friends who have planned to stay round her house for the night, after cleaning the house top to bottom they all decide to play a game of spin the bottle, along with truth or dare as they think this will be a fun game to play on the night of their birthday. Unknowingly this could be there last night to simply lead their ordinary lives, as after this night, everything changes, but changes for the worst.

The fifth round of playing truth or dare, it lands on Frankie who picks truth. Her closest friend from childhood, Chelsea who is in fact the drunkest decides to ask her the question of what’s the story behind her little sister going missing four years ago. The rest of the group of friends tell Chelsea that she is being out of order and Frankie should just take no notice of her. However, after Frankie has flashbacks of her and her sister, Frankie begins telling the story of her pure hatred for her adopted sister, Ruby. The little girl joined Frankie’s family when she was six years old, but never felt the warmth and love that she essentially wanted from her sister, instead she was left to play alone, and as though she did not feel welcome in the home of this family as Frankie use to try her best to make her feel uncomfortable and unwanted, as she was in fact jealous and afraid that her adopted sister would get all the attention from her beloved parents. The little girl went missing on October 10^th 2009 at 10:58pm after arguing with Frankie.  Whilst explaining the story, twin sister Amy has left the room to get more drinks. At this point, Frankie let the group of friends on a little secret, containing the curse for the return of Ruby. Frankie had known her adopted sister had a cure to her biological family, which no one else in the family were aware of. The group of friends were convinced this weren’t true, and started to laugh at Frankie. This then had frustrated Frankie, to which she replied to the group of friends, ‘we will see for our self’. At this point, the group of friends held hands, and repeated the curse three times, which was essentially, ‘Ruby, Ruby, Ruby’. At this point, nothing had happened, which left Frankie quite confused. This then led to the teenagers feeling worn out, and they all headed up to bed.

During the night, Frankie hears her sister Amy calling her from downstairs. Whilst she is half way down the stairs, she hears a voice shouting out for her, in which she believes is her sister calling her name from downstairs in the kitchen, which is what causes her to rush down there. However, as she is on her way down, she hears and sees her sister Amy calling her from the top of the steps, which bewilders her. She is convinced she is still half asleep and hearing things, however deep down inside she is sure the curse has been broken, and Ruby has returned.

The next morning is a normal day; however the atmosphere within the friendship group isn’t at its usual. The group of friends aren’t as bubbly and aren’t joking around as much as they used to. They however all suggest to each other they are fine, and are just suffering a hangover. Frankie is now fully aware that something has changed from the night of her and sister Amy’s birthday, although she does not know what lies ahead, but sooner or later she will come to find out that her sister has come back to seek revenge, and won’t be leaving until she has accomplished this.

The following evening, she decides to meet up with her friends again in the local park near her house at around 9pm. When they arrive at the park, one of the friends has bought a few bottles of alcohol, suggesting that they should drink as they think this will be ‘fun’. At around 10pm they have all finished the bottles and decide to go for a walk up the hill, whilst walking up the pathway, they begin to hear noises and footsteps, Frankie advises that they all head back to hers as it seems to be as though they are not alone but perhaps being followed, as she becomes more and more aware that sister Ruby has returned, but is finding it hard to believe. The rest of the group sense that she is beginning to get frightened but yet carry on walking up the pathway, as they walk they begin to get more out of sight from the park, to their surprise they end up next to a church in a grave yard. One of the friends suggest that they all sit up here, but as they are about to sit down they hear a deafening scream which instantly frightens them all, they begin to run towards the pathway, but when Frankie looks back, she sees a girl in exactly the same place in which they were standing who happens to be peering right back at her and wearing a white night dress in which she seems to recognise, she then screams and tells them to all run back down and head towards her house.

They eventually make it to Frankie’s and Amy’s house and all congregate around together in the living room; Frankie begins telling them about the girl she saw at the graveyard. At this point the lights go off and they hear a loud banging at the window. The teenagers assume that one of them is playing a joke as it could be a ideal moment to panic them after the incident at the graveyard, so therefore do not take the banging at the window seriously until one of the friends, Chelsea opens the window herself and sees a girl staring back at her with blood on her face, she begins screaming and this is when the teenagers realise that something weird is going on and they are being followed as the girl at the window disappears. They then begin to hear noises coming from upstairs, but it is Frankie’s music box playing which is what Ruby use to play with when she was little, from hearing this, Frankie instantly figures out what is going on and tells the group that she thinks her adopted sister has come back to haunt them after what she had told them, and insists they believe her about the cure. This is all new to Amy, who hasn’t got a clue what exactly is going on until sister Frankie explains, leaving Amy angry and terrified. They all then begin to tremble fearfully at the thought of this as they simply do not know what to do, as though they are trapped and cannot escape.

As the teens are still finding it hard to believe and get their heads around the situation, they soon come up with a suggestion, that two of them should drive out to the police station, seeing as it is just around the corner, and none of them can seem to get any signal. As the two head out to the police station, Frankie watches as they drive on. However, Frankie suddenly quickly catches a glimpse of her sister Ruby waving to her in the back of the car, who then whispers ‘boo’. Frankie speedily tries to run after the car, and pleads for them to stop. They don’t seem to see or hear her, and carry on driving. Frankie is quick to run back to the house, and let the others know what she has seen. Frankie knows that they have no hope, and tells the others they all need to get out of the house as soon as possible. As the group head out the front door, they all stop to see a figure that is staring back at them in the distance. To all of their surprise, they see its Laurens sister, Ruby. The group panic, and head towards a park. However, on their way, they discover their friends’ car that has crashed. As Frankie and her friend slowly approach the car, they shockingly discover their two friends have been brutally murdered. As much to their horror, there is no time to stop, as anyone of them could be next.

As the group continues to run, they end up in the field, which then leads them into the forest.  As they all struggle their way through the forest, they all eventually find themselves alone and lost.  The group call out for each other, yet receive no response. One of the friends named Jay finds himself a hiding place where he thinks he will be safe.  Whilst he is hiding here, he assumes he can hear his friend calling out for him, in which he comes out of hiding, and responds back to his friend. Little does he know, it was in fact Ruby calling out for him in his friend’s voice. This had baffled Jay, who then starts to run. He can hear Ruby skipping and laughing behind him as he hurriedly tries to run. He soon stops to see where she has gone. As he begins to look around him, he struggles to see Ruby anymore, yet can still hear her giggles all around him. As he turns around, much to Jay’s surprise, there Ruby is standing in front of him who then whispers ‘Boo’, which then leads her to killing him by slashing his throat.

The rest of the group are still struggling to find each other as they all continue to shout out for each other, after hearing their friend Jay screaming to death. The group being to panic as they are no longer receiving a response from their friends, and instead are hearing the sound of branches and leafs crunching all around them. They begin to hear and see a young little girl skipping in between the trees in the Forrest, and straight away assume its Ruby. As one of the friends Chelsea finds herself running through the Forrest as she is frightened of the noises she is hearing, her torch starts to run out of battery, which leads to her see nothing but darkness. She stops to hide to try and solve this problem. Chelsea is however unaware of the fact Ruby is slowly approaching towards her from behind, with a rope. As Chelsea’s flash light is constantly flickering due to her low batteries, she is unaware Ruby is in fact circling her with a knife in her hand, ready to kill her. Suddenly, her light starts to work again, and finds her boyfriend Trey standing in front of her. Chelsea is delighted at this point, to however then be horrified to see Ruby running up behind boyfriend Trey, brutally murdering him. Chelsea then starts to run, until a point she trips over a log, and falls to the ground. She then hides inside a bush, waiting anxiously, to then to her horror get dragged out of the bush, leading to her death.

This then sadly leaves Frankie and Amy fighting for survival. As they both are fully aware all their friends have been murdered, they try head out of the woods to find a different location. Frankie seems to know what she is doing, and where she is going, therefore Amy is happy to follow. Much to Amy’s surprise, Frankie leads them back into the grave yard. Frankie gives Amy match sticks, and suggests they both have a source of light in case they split up. As the two are hiding behind a grave stone, Frankie tries to calm her sister down as she is still new and shocked to this history behind her adopted sister. Little do the pair know, they are in fact hiding behind sister Ruby’s grave stone, in which Ruby is also hiding on the other side, waiting to finally kill off her adopted sisters. As Amy notices her first, Amy tries her hardest to push Frankie out of the way, as Ruby is in a position where she is ready to viciously kill her sister with an Axe. Instead, Amy gets punished for this, as she is trying to save her friend, and is horridly killed.

Frankie is furious and angry that her twin sister has just been killed, and tries to hunt adopted sister Ruby down, anxiously shouting ‘come on, show yourself, you’ve got me’. Which at  this point, Frankie notices sister Ruby standing in a distance. They gradually get closer to each other, and Frankie begins to break down in tears shouting and screaming as to why she took her sister Amy away from her, in which Ruby replies, ‘because you took my life’. This frustrated Frankie, in which she aggressively pushes sister Ruby, and believes she, has fallen down into the lake. This then leaves Frankie relived and repeat to herself ‘good riddance’. Frankie then hurries through the graveyard, trying to find some help. She is then led to an area where she is unable to see anything, which she then finds matches in her pocket. At first she struggles to light it, to which at her second attempt she manages to light one. Suddenly, much to Frankie’s horror, sister Ruby is in fact alive, where she the blows out Frankie’s match stick, to which she then says ‘Boo’.

Narrative Analysis of The Return

Narrative is a word that refers to any constructed story, or simply the way a story is built. There are many theorists that suggest every narrative has a pattern.  There are many different narrative theories to suggest every story has a similar or the same sequence. Therefore, I and my group have created a trailer than fits in line with these narrative theories.

One of the narrative theorists includes Tzvetan Todorov, who published influential work on narrative from the 1960s onwards. His theory suggests there are five stages of a narrative. His argument is that stories begin with equilibrium where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is then disrupted by some events, setting in chain a series of events, to which the disruption is eventually solved.

His first stage, the ‘equilibrium’ suggests that at the beginning of every narrative there is a typical American family, a heterosexual couple, or a group of teenage friends, who are living their everyday normal day to day lives, in which the audience are given a chance to understand the relationship between the characters. Therefore, I and my group have codified our trailer to follow this pattern as we start our trailer with a group of teenage friends, living their normal day to day lives, in their living environment, in which they are unaware to the impending disruption about to destroy the normality of their lives. We also get to know our characters individually, and as a group, for example we get to know our main character and her personality, and her attitude and role within the friendship group. We also got to see this with the other characters.

The second stage to his theory involves the ‘disruption’.  This stage will usually involve a series of unexpected events that negatively affect the lives of the main characters. The disruption is usually performed by the monster (villain), who disrupts the normality of the characters’ lives and sets in motion a series of cause and effect events that leads to towards the resolution of the narrative. Therefore, we have followed the codes and conventions to this stage as throughout our trailer, we have included a variety of scenes showing the protagonist disrupting the normality of the characters’ lives, in particular our final girl. However, due to our trailer being in non-linear order, the disruption takes part in many different parts of the trailer. For example we will see a scene from our trailer where a curse has been broken, therefore releasing the spirit of our villain, who therefore is free to destroy the normality of our characters’ lives, such as killing them individually one by one, including a car crash, killing off two of our characters. However, not all deaths or disruptions will be shown, as we do not want to give away the main parts of the narrative.

The third stage to his theory is the ‘recognition’. At this stage, this is where a character, usually the final girl will fully recognise the disruption. However during our trailer, we will not show a lot of the recognition, due to the fact we don’t want to give away too much of the narrative, and we will focus more on the equilibrium, disruption and the repair, as these are the main elements to the narrative, that will draw in the attention of our target audience, to watch our film. Although,  a small element that we have included is when the main girl and her sister ‘recognise’ that their adopted sister has returned, and has killed two of their friends, in which the pair find their two friends dead in a car, which at this stage, the protagonist realises she will have to defeat the villain alone, without any help.

The fourth stage to his theory includes the ‘repair’. This involves the protagonist attempting to solve the issue of the disruption, which includes several attempts. In our own trailer, we get to see the protagonist attempting to defeat the villain by pushing her, which leads to the audience thinking the villain has fallen into the lake. However this isn’t the case, as the villain appears again and captures the final girl, which is what ends the trailer. Also, due to our trailer being in non-linear order, we get to see a lot of drama and action throughout the trailer of the final girl along with the group of friends trying to defeat the villain, however fail to do so. For example when villain Ruby appears in the back of our two characters car, the pair try to  defeat the villain but end up crashing, leaving them to be brutally murdered by our villain.

The fifth stage to his theory is the ‘new equilibrium’. This stage involves a new equilibrium being achieved that is similar to the opening, however slightly different in that nothing  can be the same again due to loved ones being killed, and others have been affected by the process. In horror, the manner in which the order can be false is when the monster may not really be dead, and rise again from the sequel. We can see this appear in our trailer due to the fact the characters are convinced that the protagonist has defeated the monster and pushed her into a lake, to then realise she hasn’t been defeated, as she comes up behind our final girl, and blows out her candle, in which then our trailer ends, leaving the characters in suspense. However not much of the new equilibrium stage is usually shown, due to much information being given to viewers, ruining the film for them. We can also see this example in the film Halloween, where protagonist Laurie assumes she has defeated her brother Michael Myers who is in fact the monster, which in fact the audience are let in on the fact he hasn’t been defeated and has escaped from the scene, which is something Laurie is unaware of. This then would appeal to the audience, wanting them to watch the next part of the film.

Furthermore, another theorist that has a theory based on narratives is Vladmir Propp. He recognised a series of recurring functions/narrative strands. He suggested all narratives share similar character types (a villain, a hero, a helper etc.) and a story element. He suggested every narrative had 8 similar characters and functions. However, it is important to notice that not every function or character type will be exactly present in every narrative.

For example, his first step suggests that the hero leaves home. Although, as our trailer genre is horror, this is slightly challenged, as instead, it is suggested that the parents have left home, and the group of teens are left alone. This is portrayed within our own trailer, as the final girl’s parents have gone away for the weekend, leaving her alone at home. His next point suggests the villain injuring or harming a member of the hero’s family. However in this case, the hero’s family is counted as the hero’s group of teen friends, who are killed by the villain. The task to complete for the hero is essentially to survive, which is what our protagonist attempts to do throughout our trailer. He also suggests that the hero is given a magical gift, which in relation to horror films, may well be a weapon or a piece of information that helps the protagonist defeat the villain. Which on our trailer, our protagonist is led to the forest as she discovers an item of the villain, which leads her to find the villain. His next point in which he suggests the villain makes an attempt at spying, which we show in our trailer at the scene of the protagonist and her twin’s birthday, the group of friends aren’t aware that they are being watched by villain Ruby. The next stage is the hero is attacked, which is portrayed throughout our trailer of the villain Ruby attempting to kill her adopted sister Frankie and her group of friends. The next stage is the hero gains a helper/ a group of helpers, which is essentially the group of teens throughout our trailer. Towards the ending of our trailer, we get to see the next stage of the hero and villain joining in direct combat, which is where our villain Ruby and sister/protagonist come face to face, in which a battle takes place.

As we can see from Propps theory, majority of his points fit in relation to our trailer and is therefore very conventional. There is also the fact of majority of Propp’s 8 characters are in relation to our trailer, as we have a hero, a villain, a benefactor and a helper who is both the friendly older person in our trailer who is the teacher giving a student advice, and therefore our trailer is in relation to Propps theory.

A further theorist who based his theory around narrative is Claude Levi-Strauss, who looked at narrative structure in terms of binary oppositions. Binary opposites are a set of opposite values, and an example would be good and evil. The two main binary opposites seen within our trailer is the villain and the final girl. The villain is portrayed in a negative, evil and strange character, whereas the final girl is presented in a good, normal and known character, which shows both characters are seen as complete opposites. We can also see binary opposites between the final girl and her twin sister. We are able to view the final girl Frankie as a virgin, quiet, sweet innocent character, whereas her sister Amy is quite the opposite in ways such as she enjoys drinking and partying, has many boyfriends and isn’t seen as a virgin, and quite likes to have a laugh. Therefore our trailer fits in line with Claude Levis-Strauss’s theory.

Another theorist who analysed narrative is Pam Cook, who is a film critic. She came up with four defining features of what defines as the classical Hollywood narrative. She suggests that we are so used to seeing films structured in this way that it is difficult for us to imagine an alternative.

She firstly suggests that ‘a linear narrative of cause and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma resolution’ which means the narrative will follow a straight line where a character actions causes an effect which leads to more causes effects until a puzzle is resolved. This is slightly challenged within our trailer due to the trailer being in non-linear order. However we do have elements that include causes and effects throughout the trailer, which the resolution is usually hidden as we don’t want to give away the story. For example our trailer shows the characters causing an effect by repeating a curse that brings the villain to life, which then negatively affects the characters and their actions throughout the trailer, which leads to majority of them being brutally murdered.

She then suggests a ‘fictional world spatial and temporal verisimilitude’ which is referring to the world we see on the screen is fictional, and will be recognisable as one that follows similar natural laws to ours. During our trailer, we will definitely see fictional world spatial, which is referring to the space, however, we do not see temporal verisimilitude, as our trailer is in a non-linear format. We will also see a lot of verisimilitude due to the target audience accepting the reality of the diegisis, as viewers will find it acceptable for example in our trailer for there to be a such thing  as a cure that can bring the dead back to life, which is essentially what happens in our trailer.

She the points out ‘A centrality to the narrative agency of psychologically rounded characters’, which refers to the characters we engage with on the screen will be recognisably human even if they are not. We slightly able to see an element to this as our villain who is essentially a spirit, and therefore we are still recognising that spirit to be an alive human, even though she is well and truly dead. She lastly points out a ‘high degree of narrative closure’ which refers to all narrative strands will be neatly tidied up leaving the audience satisfied. This is something we will not be able to see during our trailer. This is due to the fact this will be giving the whole story away, which will then not be satisfying for any consumers who decide to watch the film, as they will already know the story line. 

Lastly, Roland Barthes came up with a theory that suggests narratives follow 5 different codes. His first code ‘Action Code’ refers to events which take place in the narrative (who, when and where of the story). He suggests every a narrative start with life is good, which is portrayed in our trailer showing the characters living their normal day to day lives. He then states that a crisis occurs, which in our trailer we show this when the curse is broken, and the villains spirit is released, which is followed by a series of crises, such as the villain disrupting the normality of the characters’ lives, by starting to kill of each teen. This is then when we think it is over when the two friends head to the police station to get some help. This is then however disrupted as another crisis occurs as the two friends are suddenly found dead. However towards the end of this code is slightly challenged due us not wanting to give away the complete end of the story, so we therefore leave the audience in suspense as to what is going to happen. We can also recognise this code in relation to Pam Cooks ‘Linear narrative of cause and effect’ or Propp suggesting many film narratives seem to share the same action code.

His second code refers to the semantic code. This refers to character and characterisation. The actions in a story are explained by the characters viewpoint on events. For example during our trailer, majority is seen from our protagonist’s perspective, which builds up more tension for the audience to see. This therefore makes the audience feel a part of the diegisis which could be quite exciting for them. However, if the audience were to see the trailer from the monsters perspective, this could make the audience feel slightly uncomfortable, as this can make them feel a part of the killing, and this puts them in a position of them less likely to help the hero, we have therefore avoided this.

His third code refers to the enigma code. This involves the setting up of a mystery, its development and its resolution. For example during our trailer the setting up of a mystery involves how did the adopted sister Ruby die? Why does she want to kill her sister Frankie? How is Frankie going to escape her sister Ruby after breaking the curse? This then all leads to a development as throughout the trailer the audience slowly begin to understand the meaning behind these mysteries such as during a game of spin the bottle the audience understand why Ruby (the villain) is after Frankie (final girl), and how she died, which Frankie states she ran away at a young age due to her not feeling loved by Frankie, to which she was later found, dead. This then leads to an understanding why Ruby is seeking revenge. The resolution is hardly shown within the trailer as this is something that is giving away too much of the story, ruining it for the audience.

His fourth code refers to the referential code. This involves the explaining or informing. For example mise en scene is a referential code. For example during our trailer we have our character that plays the villain before she is portrayed as a villain wearing a pure white dress. This reinforces the idea she is innocent, and is harmless. However, once she is portrayed as the villain who is shown through the symbolic code, we see her white dress being torn up with blood splattered all over. This then represents the idea she is now a damaged character who was once innocent which can be conveyed from her white dress which as be seen as her personality on the ‘inside’, which she now has blood on the ‘outside’ which reinforces the way she is now.

His last code is the symbolic code. This involves the reading of the connotations of signs which transforms hem into symbolic representations. For example, throughout our trailer we recognise that our final girl is a typical representation of bravery, as she is able to face her fears and attempt to defeat the villain towards the end of our trailer. We also see that our final girl is usually seen as the odd one out compared to her friends, and doesn’t want to join in on the fun, which may symbolise she, imagines she doesn’t deserve to have fun, and may be guilty of something that has happened in the past.

In conclusion this has therefore shown that the trailer myself and my group have created is very formulaic and relates to majority of the points in these five theorists, suggesting we have followed the codes and conventions suggested for a narrative.

Story Boards

We created story boards in order to help us understand and guide us on what we would like our trailer to look like. We've also annotated along side of our storyboards the different sounds we would like to be heard for each scene, and also where we see mise-en-scene taking place. The main idea for creating a storyboard was also to help us keep into our budget as this allows us to know we have enough cast and crew, the right equipment and know where we are shooting our scenes. This altogether helped the smoothness of our shoots, and it saved a lot of time in the long run.

                                 

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Planning: Casting Calls

 

Planning: Reece

Here we had pre-visiting our potential locations that we will use to film our trailer in. We had visited these places to ensure there will be no potential problems that could arise whilst shooting, e.g. bad lighting, sound, or anything that could potentially prevent us from filming in these locations. Luckily, we found our main location, which was in a forest. This location was quiet, and had good lighting, with plenty of trees and branches which suited the horror genre. Although, we did have some technical issues with our sound in the forest, however this could be solved in our recording studios. We also wanted to shoot some scenes in a house, in which decided on a house where we can shoot potential scenes that had good lighting, and good spacing. We decided specifically on these two locations as these two are conventional within a slasher film, and therefore fits well within our trailer. 

                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                  

Planning: Shooting Script

Shooting scripts was created as it is a guide to help us know what we are doing on the day, how long it should take, who is involved in each scene. This way we can be more organised on the day, and the shoots can run efficiently, and helps us understand what needs to be implemented on different scenarios. 

Examples:

Characters

Dilan – Jason (Jase)
Henry – Alex
Nitin – Jay
Harry – Trey
Patrycja – Frankie
Mia – Chelsea            
Rosie – Amy
Roma – Ruby

-CAR SCENE-

(Synopsis)

[Jason and Alex are on their way to the police station, to report what they have found out about Ruby, and to ask for help. They travel by Jason‘s car, which then crashes after Alex discovers Ruby is in the back of the car]

 

 

(Script)

[Henry and Dilan rush out of the house in a panic to get to the car]

Alex: This doesn’t seem real
Jason: Let’s just get the hell out of here!

[Gets into the car]
[Henry gets his phone out]

Alex: Ahh the police station is only 5 minutes away
Jason: Alright let’s go...

[Dilan starts to drive]

Jason: Ahh this is madness, it doesn’t feel real!
Alex: It’s all messed up!

[Roma pops up at the back of the car]
Alex: What’s that? [Turns around at the same time]
[Henry screams]
[Car crashes into a lamppost]
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Death

[Dilan’s head is facing down on the steering wheel] [Door is open]
[Henry’s hand is hanging out the window].
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Props
- Fake Blood –Car

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Characters

Dilan – Jason (Jase)
Henry – Alex
Nitin – Jay
Harry – Trey
Patrycja – Frankie
Mia – Chelsea
Rosie – Amy
Roma – Ruby

                                                                         -PARTY SCENE- (1)
(Brief Synopsis)
 
The group of friends is having a party, as it is Frankie’s birthday. Alex and Jason then have a conversation about Amy and Chelsea.  The group of friends then play spin the bottle, which then leads to Frankie being put on the spot as she is asked to tell the truth about what really happened to her sister the night she went missing.

(Script)

[Laughing and joking with each other, drinking etc.]

All: HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANKIE!!
Frankie: Thank you guys
 
[Music plays in the background]
[Everyone dancing, drinking, talking]
[Rosie and Harry sexual scene]

[Dilan and Henry’s horny conversation]

Alex: Yo Jase, what do you think of Amy?
Jason: Nahh it’s all about Chelsea!

[Both laugh]

Jay: Guys let’s play spin the bottle!
All: Wooo yeah!

[Cuts]

[Sitting in a circle on the floor]
[Spin the bottle on the floor]
[Lands on Frankie]


Chelsea: What actually happened to your sister Frankie?
[Close up of Frankie, worried]
Frankie: I don’t want to talk about it
Jason: Come on Frankie, what actually happened?
Chelsea & Amy: Yeah come on Frankie!
Frankie: Fine!! [Shouts]

Frankie: After mum adopted Ruby, I started to feel more and more distant from the family. Dad never used to pick me up anymore, mum always would take Ruby shopping with her, read her stories before bed, when before it used to be me. I hated her, I hated being second best to my mum and dad because of her, she ruined our family, and she ruined my family. I used to make it clear to her that she wasn’t welcome; that I didn’t like her, that she ruined my family took my place. She got sick of it, which is why she ran away, and never came back. No one ever knew why she would run away, or why she was that unhappy to run away at that age. Looks like in the end I was right, she was a weirdo! She came from a family who died just after she was born, and it turns out she was born with a curse.

Amy: Ooow so what’s the curse?
Alex: What happens if we say the curse?
Frankie: If we say the curse, she returns
Jay: I don’t believe this, there’s no such thing!
Jason: Yeah this is bullshit!
Alex: Aliee haha!
Frankie: You don’t believe me? Fine, let’s do it
the curse is, Arrives, dies, returns, arrives dies returns, arrives dies…. Returns [Clock ticks] [10:58]

[All holds hands] [Giggles]
[ All repeats curse x3]
[ Silent ]
[All start laughing apart from Frankie]

Jay: Ahh see what did I say, this stuff isn’t real!
Alex: What a waste of time, I’m tired

Planning: Call Sheet

Call sheets are created and given to the characters on the day of production. It is created to give the cast an understanding of what they need to do, where they need to be and what time they need to be there for. There is also information to the nearest police station and hospital in case of any emergency.