Friday 22 January 2010

Fixing things

It seems there are a few things in my film which really need to be made more clear so that the audience can catch what's happening. I'm going to start fixing them by going back to basics and writing down my film in scenes,adding new actions where things are especially unclear.


  1. Outside of an orphanage a gate slams and the catch drops
  2. A nun ushers a young girl (Shelley) in to a dormitory where two other girls are sitting
  3. Shelley picks up a box which is next to her bed and looks inside as the other girls curiously try to peek round
  4. Shelley stares in to the box where a doll lays still
  5. START OF FLASHBACK: Shelley is in a loft holding up the doll, her mother calls
  6. Shelley's Mother is now in the loft, Shelley tries to hold on to the doll as her mother pulls it away
  7. Shelley's mother sees the doll's shadow move of it's own accord and appears anxious. She hurriedly pushes the doll back in to the box
  8. Shelley and her Mother are in Shelley's room, Shelley's mother tucks her in. Shelley refuses to kiss her mother goodnight who kisses the pillow instead, leaving a pink lipstick mark.
  9. Shelley goes back into the loft and seeks out the doll.
  10. Shelley having found the doll, is back in her bed with it beside her as she goes to sleep
  11. The next morning Shelley goes to find her mother but the bedroom is covered in blood, her mother is missing and the doll is sitting on the bed.
  12. Shelley looks distraught
  13. END OF FLASHBACK Shelley begins to sob a pushes the doll in it’s box underneath the bed. The orphans do not get to see what' is indie it
  14. Shelley goes to sleep
  15. The other orphans go to look in the box but it is empty
  16. They go back to bed but find pink kiss marks on their pillows
  17. They turn the pillows over and go to sleep
  18. Orphan one is hunched over bleeding and moves towards Shelley who is shocked and scrambles backwards; falling off of the bed
  19. Shelley can see the orphan's feet under the bed as drops of blood fall down and splash on them. She also sees the dolls skirt slowly drift away from the corner of her eye
  20. Shelley gets up and peers over the edge of the bed, as she does blood spurts out from the left where orphan two is huddled behind Shelley's bed bars, throwing up blood
  21. Shelley gets hit in the face by the blood and stares on in horror
  22. Orphan 1 tries to pull Orphan 2 closer who now fits through the bars
  23. Orphan 1 looks up at orphan 2 who is now a doll. Orphan 1 is shocked and drops it. It's head shatters on impact with the floor.
  24. Orphan 1 violently spews out more blood as she twists and shrinks, she is hurled backwards by the force of the projectile blood from her mouth and she sprawls across the floor where she lies still; a lifeless doll.
  25. Shelley picks up orphan 1 and notices a pink kiss mark on it's cheek
  26. Shelley looks up and sees the doll from the box staring back at her, she realises that her mother is trapped inside it
  27. Shelley hugs the doll and kisses it
  28. The doll begins to shake so Shelley drops it. When it hits the floor it starts absorbing all the blood.
  29. It grows and transforms in to Shelley's mother. Shelley hugs her.

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