Script Short Film
Script Short Film
In order to complete this correctly, you need to add stage directions for your actors.
The Collector
By Liam Harman and Troy Harris
Opening shot
Ext. Country line road overcast.
Tree line spinning around slowly panning down towards a road. A car comes past on
the left side of the camera.
Int. Car
A young ‘explorer’ In a car looking lively listening to music. Cut to the back seats as
he slows down and pulls over to the right.
Ext. Woods.
The explorer is getting out of his car looking lightly nervous but mostly excited. He
goes to the back seat and picks up a torch and a go pro camera.
He starts to climb over a fence. He stops to look around for a minuet and takes a
deep breath.
Camera starts of from the bottom of the explorer showing his feet first. The camera
slowly pans up showing the explorer with his camera on his head.
Long shot behind the tree showing the perspective of the collector watching the
explorer look around from a distance with a camera.
the explorer goes deeper into the woods with strange marking on trees and do not
trespass signs. The explorer starts to look at the signs and then ignores the signs.
Close up of the explorer looking around confused and weary of his surroundings.
Dolls and looks up to see voodoo dolls hanging.
The camera faces the explorer as he pushes some branches out of the way to
reveal an old run-down caravan. The explorer takes a deep breath and slowly
progresses towards it.
It cuts to a handheld camera shot from the collector's perspective of explorer going
towards the caravan. The camera goes to behind the explorer going into the
caravan.
It goes back to the right side of the explorer. The explorer looks on the wall and finds
loads of pinned articles about a tragic event and a few strange objects on the
table. He then looks down and sees a photo of him from earlier when he first entered
the woods.
The explorer's facial expression is now very concerned and starts panicking. He steps
back and ends up falling over next to an animal skull.
He starts to run the camera cutting back to the collector watching him leave from
behind the tree.
The camera goes back to the man running hectically and pushing anything he can
out of the way to get as far as possible out of the woods.
The explorer ends up tripping over a branch and ends up not being able to run, he
turns around looking left to right not seeing anything he starts to crawl backwards
but send up hitting something.