Scripts

 

 Real Script:

 At the park during the evening

 Group of friends- Josh why are you standing there come in you idiot

 Josh – I can’t

 Cuts to flashback of lifeless body (screaming) then a cut back to a medium close up of Josh’s face

 Group of friends – like what

 Josh – Bad things have happened in my child hood

Group of friends – What happened (they all heckle and made jokes)

 Flashback of park at twilight with distant ambient sound of families walking way.

 Lucy– Josh, it’s time to go home now

 Josh- No, I don’t want to go home yet. Let me go and play on the swings

 Lucy– all of the other families are leaving

 Josh – only because it’s getting dark

 Lucy– that’s not the only reason

 Josh – what do you mean?

 Lucy– have you ever heard of the child collector?

 Josh – who?

 Lucy – There is a legend about a man called the child collector who haunts this park seeking and kidnapping children like you who don’t leave the park by nightfall

(fade out dialogue)

Child collector – little did they know I was watching them

(Fade in)

 Josh runs off to play on swings 

 Lucy – (frustrated) Fine, let the child collector catch you

 (Lucy gets up to leave)

 (Cut to Josh going up to a man on the swing)

 Josh – can I have a go on the swing?

 (Man starts to turn, then a cut to close up of josh’s face he then screams and cuts back to his sister Lucy walking away)

 (Lucy hears a scream and runs over to where he heard the scream to see a man on the swing facing towards him with his head down but no josh in sight)

 Lucy - where’s my brother?

 (Slow zoom which speeds up rapidly to the child collector looking up towards him)

 (Lucy turns to run away but child collector is faster than him so he grabs him by the neck)

 Child collector – I told you so

 (Makes his way over to the slide, laughter going down the slide)

Child Collector - it’s time for round two josh (laughter)

  This is the script me and my group created once we had settled on the plot of our horror opening. Creating a script would be beneficial to us as it gave us an outline of what we wanted the characters to say and how it would flow.

Old Script:

At the park during the evening

 Adult Josh – (to wife) c’mon, let’s get the kids and go home (anxiously)

 Sally – don’t be silly Josh, the kids are having fun don’t ruin it for them.  What’s wrong with you?  Why are you always anxious here?

 Cut to flashback of lifeless body (screaming) then a cut back to a medium close up of Josh’s face

 Adult Josh – you know I don’t like to talk about my childhood

 Flashback of park at twilight with distant ambient sound of families walking way.

 Tom (older brother) – Josh, it’s time to go home now

 Josh - No, I don’t want to go home yet. Let me go and play on the swings

 Tom – all of the other families are leaving

 Josh – only because it’s getting dark

 Tom – that’s not the only reason

 Josh – what do you mean?

 Tom – have you ever heard of the child collector?

 Josh – who?

 Tom – There is a legend about a man called the child collector who haunts this park seeking and kidnapping children like you who don’t leave the park by nightfall (fade out dialogue)

 Child collector – little did they know I was watching them

 (Fade in)

 Tom – that’s why we should go

 Josh – no, I don’t believe you (runs off to play on swings)

 Tom – (frustrated) Fine, let the child collector catch you

(Ambient sound of mobile phone)

 (Exaggerated loud breathing)

 (Extreme close up of phone saying ‘I will’)

 (Cut to Josh going up to a man on the swing)

 Josh – can I have a go on the swing?

 (Man starts to turn before a cut back to Tom)

 (Tom hears a scream and runs over to where he heard the scream to see a man on the swing facing towards him with his head down but no josh in sight)

 (Slow zoom which speeds up rapidly to the child catcher looking up towards him)

 (Tom turns to run away but child collector grabs him by the neck)

 Child catcher – I told you so

 

  This script is the old version we created that involves a similar plot. However, it has a brother siblings instead of a sister sibling. We had to change our script as we couldn’t find the right actors to cast as the bother and old older version of josh during the present day scenes.