1. Int. The Room – Day
EARLY MORNING. The Room, undecided. ECU of Man’s Face. His eyes closed. THEN, eyes bolt open (reference to Lost. HE is lying on the floor. Non-diegetic soundtrack begins to trickle through
The Man (subtitled)
Where am I?
Wideshot, lying to him is a box.5ft8 to 2ft.Shocked, the man gets up to his knees, looking at the box, he presses his head against listening.
The Man (subtitled)
Nothing...
He lifts his head, to see a note. Reading ‘Open Me’ (reference to ‘Alice in Wonderland)’, he rips off the tape holding the box together.
Gasps, falls back, the camera goes over his shoulder slowly over the box. The music turns up loud as the reveal happens. A girl, young blonde, her hair tangled. Eyeliner smudged, all her make up smeared round her face. Separated by cuts and bruises.
She’s been dead for hours.
The man backs away, tripping over, fear. He closes his eyes. He breathes in and out. He begins to crawl over. He looks at the body. Lying there, coldly starring back, a book in her hands.
He grimaces, picks up the book.
The Man
oh
The book reads the ‘Quintessential Guide to Dispose of A Body’.
Cut to Titles
2. Int. The Room – Day
Looks at the booklet, looks at body, back at the booklet, opens it, full of instructions. ECU of eyes, looks up.
3. Int. The Stage – Night
Cut Swiftly between Scenes 2 -
ECU of eyes (match shot). Zoom out, to reveal massive hall. Pan round to see the severe lighting staring down at him. He’s on a stage, empty, the chairs empty.
The Man
I Have to get rid of it.
How do I get rid of it???
White light
(Projector Idea, see Blog) Words racing past. Images. Voices. The Man stares coldly down the camera.
The Word appears ‘Burial’- Cut To
4. Ext. Graveside – Day
The Man dressed as a priest, marking a cross on his chest, the dead body in a dug grave, her make up re-done but over-the-top.
(perhaps use split screen and have The Man dressed as all the different characters at the funeral, e.g the widow, the priest.) Cut to -
5. Int. The Stage – Night
Words, Images, Voices. He’s now wincing, as if this is painful. The word ‘Chemicals’ appears. Cut to -
6. Int. The Room - Day
POV shot from the Body looking up at The Man put on a surgery mask and rubber gloves. Hands appear form each side of the screen handing him over household-chemical type things, he pours it down (it hits the body but off-camera. We never see this. Smoke arises from the body suddenly, making him cough.
The Man (subtitled)
(Coughing)
7. Int. The Stage – Night
Words, Images, Voice. He grabs his head. The word ‘hide’ appears. Cut to -
8. Int. Cellar – Night
Dingy cellar, dripping, light bulb swinging, turned on. Man walks down stairs to freezer, opens it.
Reveals Girl, her face blue, comedy icicle handing from her nose, her bungs in a packet of peas then closes the lid again.
9. Int. The Stage – Night
Words, Images, Voices. He’s grabbing his head. Twitching violently. The word ‘Crush’ appears. Cut to -
10. Ext. Junkyard – Day
The man drags the box into an old car. Before it is picked up by machinery, crushed and dropped. Cut to-
11. Int. The Stage – Night
The Voices now laughing. The man screaming with pain Images. Words. ‘Burn’. Cut to -
12. Ext. Woods – Night
A stack of wood. Cardboard box placed upon it. The Man holds a burning torch. And drops it into wood. Everything goes alight. (Reference to ‘Return of the Jedi’). Cut to -
13. Int. The Stage - Night
Voices Laughing. Images and Words Flashing. ‘Eating’ Cut to –
14. Int. Kitchen - Night
CU, pot on oven, boils over with dark red liquid. Cut to-
15. Int. Dining Room – Night
The Man in his best dinner wear. Sits at a laid out table. Hand comes, from out of frame, holding a platter with a lid untop. The lid I open to reveal a doll’s head (reference abandoned Beatle’s album cover). One of it’s eyes stabbed out, some hair removed, covered in blood.
16. Int. The Stage – Night
The Man shaking, clutching his head. Words – Images – Voices. Then the sound of a spinning wheel like in a game show. The sound of the wheel begin to slow, the words appear (of each method) and they begin to slow. Until – DING – the word ‘Burial’ flashes up.
17. Int. The Room - Day
From the P.O.V. of the corpse. The Man looking down at her.
The Man (The subtitled)
The Guide told me what to do.
And I would follow.
He Closes the lid. Darkness.
18. Ext. Roadside – Day
Dingy, alleyway in background. An expensive car parked up. The Man breaks the window.
(There are two options into how to film this section.)
One – The Man walks over to the car. Holding a heavy Object. The cut to black, the sound of smashing glass.
Two – (as seen in a previous media video)A pane of glass is held in front of an open window. We shoot from inside so as The Man smashes the glass. It looks like he’s breaking in.
19. Ext. Road – Day
The Man driving the car. The box laid out on the back seat. The road, motor way or country side, NOT suburban. We crosscut form the car whizzing by the camera, to CU of The Man Driving.
The Man (subtitled)
And I went Away
Far, Far Away.
A dead Body in a Stolen Car
what could go wrong?
I didn’t ask for this, I wake up and find her, like that.
Then I find this book, and I follow it.
To the letter.
20. Int. The Cafe’ - Day
The Man sits at the window, in a small dark cafe’. He looks out to the car. He stares down. Drumming his fingers lightly.
CLUNK! The accentuated sound of a cheap cup of tea being slammed down. He looks down at it. CU - The tea swirling.
The Man (subtitled)
Going Round.
Pointlessly.
A husband and wife walk in with a young child.
The Man (subtitled)
Everything going round. Pointlessly.
All very Middle-Class and Moderated.
Because bad things only happen on the News.
The Camera pans to a Woman sitting at a table. CU - She keeps looking over.
The Man (subtitled)
She keeps looking at me.
Just for a second. Just a glimpse
ECU. Her eyes flicker over.
The Man (the subtitled)
But She’s Watching Me
Handheld. Everything shaking, fast editing. Subtle at first, builds with each sentence. By the end everything will be out of focus.
The Man
She’s staring at me.
The voices start. Overlapping each other. (this speech is base dupon a speech from Sarah Kane’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’)
The Voice
She’s looking at you. Judging you. Watching You. What if she knows. What if she tells. She doesn’t understand. None of them will understand.
The Man, his vision blurred looking around at everyone watching him, scarred.
The Voice
Because you’re not one of them now. You’re One of the monsters. The scum that smother our streets.
He falls to the floor, knocking the tea cup to the floor. (slow motion) CU of the Cup smashing.
The Voices
The Murderers, the Drug-Pushers, The rapists, The Sex Workers, you bomb our planes and slaughter our children. They will never understand you, they don’t want to understand you, they want you dead.
On ‘dead’ the man holds up his hands they’re covered in blood. He runs to the toilet. Door Slam!
21. Int. Cafe’ Toilet – Day
Cramped. Covered in graffiti and dirt. Low angle shot between man’s legs of the man throwing up into the toilet. He loses up his hands still bleeding, seemingly from no where. He begins washing the blood off but he it keeps on flowing. It circles round the plughole (reference to Psycho).
The Voices
‘Here's the smell of the blood still: all theperfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this littlehand. Oh, oh, oh! Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.--I tell you yet again, hecannot come out on's grave.’
(Quoted from Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1)
The Man (subtitled)
It won’t come off!
Silence. The Door Knocks.
Waitress (OOV)
Are you alright in there sir?
22. Int. The Cafe’ - Day
He flings open the door. He RUNS from the toilet. The voices LAUGHING. He grabs the guide from the table. Out of the door.
23. Ext. Outside Cafe’ – Day
He runs to the car and leaves.
24. Ext. The Field – Day
The Car pulls up to this abandoned location. The music building up. The tension building.
He DRAGS the box out of the car. Open Boot. Pick Up Shovel. He rips open the box. Reveal the girl. He picks her up and begins running.
Music, heavy and loud. Running (reference to ‘Freiheit’). Finds the spot.
Digging Montage. Until 3ft. He’s joyous.
He lowers the body. He then shovels the grave up again (speeded up.)
He falls back (slow motion) Looking up at the sky. He smiles
The Man (subtitled)
It’s Over. It’s finally over!
He throws the shovel behind him. It hits the floor. The camera zooms out to reveal a figure standing there.
The Woman
They always come here.
The Man turns round to see the figure, who was the owman from the cafe’. She holds the shovel he threw away in one hand, and a copy of the book.
The Man (subtitled)
It was You
It was all you
Smack! The woman (POV shot) hits the Man with the shovel. Everything goes black.
25. Int. The Room – Day
EARLY MORNING. The Room, undecided. ECU of a Young Woman’s Face. Her eyes closed. THEN, eyes bolt open (reference to Lost. She is lying on the floor). Non-diegetic soundtrack begins to trickle through
The Young Woman (subtitled)
Where am I?
Wideshot, lying next to her is a box.5ft8 to 2ft.Shocked, the Young Woman gets up to her knees, looking at the box, She presses her head against listening.
The Young Woman (subtitled)
Nothing...
She lifts her head, to see a note. Reading ‘Open Me’ (reference to ‘Alice in Wonderland)’, she rips off the tape holding the box together.
Gasps, falls back, the camera goes over her shoulder slowly over the box. The music turns up loud as the reveal happens. We don’t see the body yet
He’s been dead for hours.
The Young Woman backs away, tripping over, fear. She closes her eyes. He breathes in and out. She begins to crawl over. She looks at the body. Lying there, coldly starring back, a book in his hands.
She grimaces, picks up the book.
The Man
oh
The book reads the ‘Quintessential Guide to Dispose of A Body’.
The camera tilts from the book to the body, in the box lies The Man.
Cut to Credits
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