Narrative Video: Silenced

The Artist within Us

https://youtu.be/rGApcM0iACI

Treatment and Script: Silenced

Title:

Silenced

Tagline:

Somebody hel.....!

Logline:

With horror Kathryn wakes up noticing that she is handcuffed to a tree in the middle of a forest with no memories what has happened. Will she be able to escape before her masked kidnapper returns to finish his business?

Synopsis:

This narrative short movie follows Kathryn an 18 year old girl who wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memories how she got there. Panicked by the fact that she is handcuffed she tries to scream for help but is unable to do so since her mouth is sealed. After managing to break of a metal part of her jacket she tries to unlock her handcuffs. Just as the kidnapper returns she manages to free herself and runs away in the dark forest but passes out due to the exhaustion she has endured the past few hours. After she wakes up again and tries to get up to continue to escape she gets dragged back into the dark forest, leaving the viewer with her screams.

Locations:

Forest behind the house of friends of mine

Artists:

Arlene Pickrell (Victim or Camera)
or Koleah Mantle (as Victim)
Philipp Mischke (Kidnapper and Camera) 

Camera:
Many switches from victim to kidnapper
Close up as well as shot from far away
Camera movement gets more drastic and fast towards the end to underline panic 

Atmosphere/Effects:
Use of natural dark light (moon) and the environment and its sound for spooky/scary atmosphere
May apply a dark blue filter to push this atmosphere even further. 
Many POV shot from the victim to create a connection to the audience and convey fear
Use of heart beats at the end to pretend safety followed up by the dark ending

Resources:

Camera

Lense

Sd Card

Battery

Artists

Stabilizer

Handcuffs

Microphone

Tape or Scarf to seal mouth
Dark clothes for Kidnapper/Casual for victim
Black Yoga mat for ``drag`` scene
Mask for kidnapper

Script:

There will only be two actors in this movie: a victim and a killer. 

The victim finds herself waking up in the woods being handcuffed to a tree and her mouth silenced by a scarf tied up around her face (the sun is about to set)). After panicking, she manages to detach a small metal part of her jacket and attempts to unlock the handcuffs which she eventually succeeds to do. At the same time a car stops visibly in the background on the field, we see a close up of a man pulling an axe out of his trunk and putting a mask on. From far away we see him slowly but determined approaching the victim’s location. He finds the handcuffs next to the tree and starts screaming out of anger with not recognizable words. The camera switches to the victim running and stumbling through the woods and a shot from her POV showing that she is about to pass out (blurry vision and peeping sound in background). She breaks down just as she reaches the end of the forest. Moments of black. She wakes up again taking a second to recognize the situation she is in. A she attempts to get up, she gets stopped midway being pulled back into the forest. The camera switches in between her screaming and the mask of the killer pulling her

Movie Poster: Silenced

Style Book: Silenced

 

Phrases and Script

Task: Post 5 interesting phrases you overhear this week. You must also post the context of where you heard the phrase, who was speaking and who they were talking to.

 1.Phrase: I don´t even want him back... i just want him to think that I do.
    Location/Person: Two girls talking in a Cafe about their ex´s

 2.Phrase: Rules are not what I care for, methods are.
    Location/Person: Math professor during class after asking why something to the 0 power equals 1

3.Phrase:I want to get my degree and become a stay home mom who writes novels.
    Location/Person: Random girl talking to a guy in the supermarket

 4.Phrase:You know when that guy in Germany killed those 20 people last Christmas? Why did nobody stop him?
    Location/Person: Uninformed group talk of four students about politics in the E&A building

 5.Phrase: I will microwave you until death and beyond!
    Location/Person: Random guy in the voice chat of a sci-fi video game trying to kill someone

Write a 1-page script based on one of the phrases. You can develop a story based on the way you heard the phrase or use it as a springboard to develop an entirely new concept. The way you use the phrase does not need to relate to the way you heard it.

 Microwave Wedding

 by

Philipp Mischke

A kitchen filled with groceries and dishes- Afternoon 

Magda her hair disheveled, red cheeks, and her hands full with grocery bags rushes into the kitchen, trying to find an empty place on one of the counters to drop them. Unsuccessfully, she decides to set them on the floor and starts to dig deep in them on her search for her desired item.In her search she throws around the other groceries, groans from exhaustion and finally espies it; the turkey.

Magda

(angry)

I only got 15 god damn minutes left, 

so your turkey butt better burn fast!

We see her hastily tearing apart the wrapping of the turkey and sprinting towards the other side of the kitchen opening the door of the microwave. As it turns out the microwave is too small for the huge turkey, which she tries to solve by forcefully trying to push it in.

Magda

(screaming at the Turkey)

I will get you in there no matter what and then
I will microwave you until death and beyond!

Out of despair we see her leave the room, returning after a few minutes with a hammer in her hand heading determined towards the already crushed chicken.

Magda

(sarcastic)

You two will be a cute couple.

Location Photos and Style Book for Documentary

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