Eve Horror Film Trailer Storyboard

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Risk Assessment

Feedback Questions and Answers

What are your transitions like?

They will be very fast and occasionally fade into each other

How do you suggest it’s a flashback?

In editing, I will colour grade the scene by adjusting the saturation 

How are you going to create a sense of fear?

we're going to try and add some jump scares and very fast and loud scenes

Remember this is a horror film - how will you use and subvert tropes of horror

In most horror films, the main characters are usually in a hetronormative sphere, whereas the main character in our film is not straight

Horror Film Trailer Treatment

The movie starts off with Eve who is the main character. She has an attraction towards her best friend Madison, which she cannot explain. One day she decides to go out with her and confess her true feelings. Once they find themselves in the woods, Eve stops and tells Madison everything she has been feeling for the past few months.

However Eve is shocked by the response which is mainly rejection and fear. Madison tries to get away from her and rejects the idea that they could ever be more than just friends. Eve does not understand why Maddie is suddenly so cold hearted and tries to come closer to her. Eventually without any intention, Eve grabs the hands of her best friend and then forces and pushes her against a tree repeatedly, hurting her head and causing for her to collapse on the floor. Her friend is unconscious or dead but neither Eve nor the audience know what the real circumstance of the friend’s condition is at this point.

Eve goes home and is almost unsure whether what just happened was real or not. Her outrageous behaviour is quite unusual for such a nice and quiet girl, however Eve shocked herself with what she is capable of.  That night Eve tries to get some sleep and forget all about the incident, through sweating and paranoia, she finally manages to fall asleep and forget for a while

Months later, Eve finds herself almost glued to her bed and her house. She is afraid to go out because she feels like she doesn’t deserve to be in the real world anymore. She goes to work and returns. No outdoors routines like jogging or walking in the park. Especially not the woods. Eve has not been in the woods in months and after her friend was reported missing, she didn’t dare to hang out with any old friends that her and Maddie hanged out with before. This however, does not become suspicious to anyone, Eve is a quiet girl who has always had quite an antisocial nature, and she could never hurt a fly.

Eve is paranoid with nightmares every night and she cannot take away the guilt which overwhelms her. When she is awake, her visions become so vivid and Madison is everywhere she turns. One moment Maddie tells Eve that everything is ok and the other, her figure crumbles into pieces and dust. Or one moment Eve is embracing Maddie and the other, she is slitting her throat gruesomely. Bold red blood covering her hands like they covered the tree in the woods. Maddie is dead, she must be dead,  Eve tells herself and brushes off the horrid visions.

A year later, and Eve is still stuck in time with the same old visions. Her art is not the same anymore. She, is not the same anymore. The sleepless nights and morning coffees are monotonous and dry routines for her. Until one night. When there is a knock at the door. Eve hasn’t invited anyone over and no one thinks of making unwanted surprise visits anymore, they haven’t in months anyway. Eve walks slowly, cat like towards the door. The hallway seems long and the floor ice cold. The knock repeats itself in steady beats. One two, One two, One Two Three.

Eve gets to the door and looks through the door Viewer. A blurred figure becomes clear as she blinks. Maddie. Her heart stops and her body freezes. Her palms cry with sweat and she rubs her eyes and looks through the door viewer once again. Maddie looks impatient, she looks scared and her hair is wet and messy. She is wearing the exact same clothes she was wearing when they went to the woods.

Eve pulls away the chains from the door and unlocks it slowly, and Madison smiles at her and starts hugging her. Eve is obviously surprised and freezes in shock, she tells Madison the nature of her supposed disappearance and questions her. Madison calmly reassures her that she has not been missing and suggests that Eve may have been imagining the whole incident. Eve does not question this and Madison figures that Eve does not remember her murder. Eve starts seriously questioning her sanity; she now increasingly stays inside, very rarely goes out. Her dreams disappear and nightmare is now reality. Madison now frequently visits her, phones her and is constantly in Eve’s life. This aspect drives the protagonist into further madness.

Horror Film Trailer Script

Script

Two young girls playing in the woods, holding hands.

Eve: (voiceover) We did everything together

Girls playing; ‘ring around the roses’

Eve: (Voiceover) The wood was our place… our secret place.

 A scene of the two girls in the present time

Eve tries to chase Madison

Madison: (faintly smiling) Eve, stop we are not kids anymore.

Eve: (voiceover) We were inseparable.

Eve: (voiceover) Until that day…

Close up of Eve with a distorted and angry face, and then cuts to a scene to which Eve slams Madison into the tree.

Eve wakes up from her bed. Looking very distressed- bad dream.

Next scene

Eve is making a cup of tea, close up on tea.

Eve (Voiceover): I haven’t been sleeping well for a long time. And I didn’t know why…

Shot of Eve and her friend sitting on the couch, speaking.

Eve: I feel like I’m going crazy, I keep seeing her in my dreams

Friend: It’s been a year; she’s not here anymore.  Please get over her Eve.

Next scene

Eve is in her bed, contemplating.

*Knock Knock Knock

Close up of Eve’s anxious face

Shot of the door, and the knocking continues, only continuously and louder.

Eve looks scared

Knocking continues in a thunderous rage. Eve gets up from her bed and opens the door.

Madison: (smiling, and tilting her head) Hey Eve.

Eve gasps and there is a close up of her shutting her eyes. She opens her eyes again. There is no one in the doorway, Eve closes the door and sighs in relief. She turns around and finds Eve right up close to her, side view shot.

Madison: (Smiling and says quietly) Boo.

Close up of Eve looking scared.

Next scene

Madison: What’s up Eve, you look like you’ve seen a ghost.

Eve starts having distorted visions.

Next scene

Eve is walking in an isolated pathway with a park nearby. She looks behind her and vaguely sees Madison in the bush.

Eve is on the phone.

Eve: I think I’m going mad…

Eve is speaking to her friend through the telephone. And we can see her holding the receiver.

Eve’s Friend: What really happened that night?

*the phone line dies*

Madison’s voice on the phone: Yeah Eve. Tell her what happened. Tell her how you killed me.

 *Eve is breathing heavily and then she drops her phone*

New Scene.

*Madison hums childhood song in the woods*

Eve is behind a tree and makes a frightened noise. Maddie hears this and heads in Eve’s direction.

Cut to the scene in which Madison slices the tree behind which Eve was hiding with a knife.

There is a close up shot of running feet and then a quick shot from the back of Eve running and she blurs out into the distance as Maddie’s back comes into focus.

A close up of Madison’s face.

Madison: I’m going to get you Eve.

Quick Shots of the main characters, Eve and Madison.

Scenes of Eve punching a wall. Of her closing her eyes, holding a knife and a scene of her slamming Maddie’s head onto the tree.

Quick shot of Eve in the cemetery visiting Madison’s grave. A shot of the grave from behind captures Eve looking at the grave and young Madison appearing behind her.

 * Eve turns around*

*Young Maddison is running away*

Eve: Come back!

*Young Maddison is laughing as she is running away from Eve.*

*Scene of Eve punching the wall*

*Scene of Eve on her knees, exhausted*

* close up of Eve breathing heavily*

*far away shot of Eve on the ground on her knees and young Maddison is coming near her*

·      Close up of Maddie whispering in Eve’s ear*

Madison: We can be together again Eve

*Scene of Eve gasping in shock*

*Tone card presenting movie title*

THE END

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