EXTERIOR – DAY
Jasmine is walking in a street. This is shown by a panning long shot of her. The shot cuts to a handheld, trailing, shot of Jasmine’s face from mid-shot range. Then she hears some footsteps behind her- sound which is amplified. Some quiet non diegetic eerie music is heard. She looks behind, and sees no one there – shown through a point of view long shot. She turns back to walk again, and the handheld, trailing, mid-shot continues. As she turns the street, we see Jasmine facial expression change, from carefree, to shock. A Mid shot illustrate a ghostly figure standing in front of her, and staring at her.
INTERIOR – JASMINE’S BEDROOM - MIDDLE OF NIGHT
A close-up shot of Jasmine’s face, with blurred effect.
MONTAGE (two different locations)
There is a compilation of clips, showing Jasmine tossing, turning whilst in her sleep, as well as her running away from the ghostly figure, shadows coming towards her, her hiding behind walls. This is done with special effects. Effects such as flashes, fading in and fading outs are used for transitions of scenes; black and white effects and blurs are used for scene effects (during the dream) to capture the mood
Along with this, is some eerie music, building up louder
INTERIOR – JASMINE’S BEDROOM - MIDDLE OF NIGHT
2 Hands then slide from behind Jasmine’s head, grabbing her face and she jumps on, the eerie music is amplified and a sharp sound is made – in black and white effects. Jasmine then gets up from her bed sharply, whilst breathing heavily. The camera flashes to a distant shot of her sitting up in bed. The scene cuts to a close-up shot of Jasmine
Jasmine: (Whispers) What’s wrong with me?
The camera cuts to a mid-shot, on eye-level, of her sitting upright on bed, and its all diegetic and natural sounds. We hear her hard breathing. Then a high and long angle, shows her slumping back onto her bed, trying to get back to sleep
INTERIOR – BATHROOM - MORNING
Jasmine enters the bathroom and washes her face in the sink ahead of her. The camera is showing her reflection from the mirror on screen from mid-shot. The fades and shows hers leaning into the sink washing her face, continued with a mid shot. The scene cross dissolves into showing the reflection of the ghostly figure standing behind Jasmine, and a sharp noise non-diegetic sound is heard. The seen cross dissolves again, as she disappears. Jasmine looks up instantly, sensing something happened. She stares in the mirror in anxiety.
INTERIOR – JASMINE’S BEDROOM – MORNING
From a longshot, Jasmine is fixing her hair in front of the mirror. A panning shot follows her walking to her bed, and putting two textbooks in her bag. There’s a knock, and Jasmine faces towards the camera in acknowledgement of the diegetic sound.
A close-up shot of her face as she peaks through her door, when another knock is heard. A panning high shot illustrates Jasmine running down a flight of stairs, and then low shot of her running down the final flight of stairs. A long shot shows her about to open the front door, until she hears another knock coming from behind – a close up shot shows the anxiety on her face. An eerie non-diegetic sound is heard. A mid shot illustrates her walking towards the stock room under the stairs. A mid shot from the view from inside the stockroom, shows her opening the door, and not seeing anything. As she continues searching, her friend appears behind her and taps her on the shoulders. The eerie non-diegetic sound sharpens up high.
Jasmine: (Gasp)
Friend: Hey! The door was open. Are you okay?
An over the shoulder midshot of Jasmine
Jasmine: Yeah…. Yeah, I.. I’m fine
Friend: Let’s go to college
Jasmine closes the stockroom door. A panning mid shot follows them walking across the corridor and up the stair, and follows through to show the front door left wide open. A faint spooky non-diegtic sound is heard.
INDOOR – LIBRARY – 4PM
A trailing shot showing Jasmine walking in to the library, and has a glance around the library (point of view shot and establishing shot of the library). Mid-shot, as she walks through to the book shelf area she wants to look through, and the camera zooms into close up shot at the book shelf label – Parapsychological Phenomena.
MONTAGE
There’s a compilation of shots, with music in the background.
Showing her browsing through the books whilst on the shelf
Taking a book out; putting the book back on the shelf
Taking another book out
Scene fading into showing a clock ticking away
She’s sitting on a table reading pages of a book
Showing a trailing shot from one end of the shelf to the other – with the shelf being filled with books
She’s putting a book aside on the table, and picking another book up
The scene fading into showing a clock ticking away
Putting the book back on the shelf
Browsing through book shelf again
She’s reading another book on the table….
The non-diegetic music stops. Then, we see her slamming a book down on the table, slumping back into her chair, and leaning her head back
A mid-shot shows her then going onto sit on a computer, looks behind here to see that she is alone in her section of the library, looking at her hand-watch, shaking her head, then starting to type
Afterward, there’s an establishing shot of an outside location, showing that the dawn is nigh. Next, there’s a close up of the sky as the sun is setting. Both shots with an eerie quiet sound in the background
Then a mid-shot shows her squinting at the computer screen, inside the library. The screen is shown to have an internet page of which she is researching on (mid-shot from behind Jasmine). The computer screen then goes blank for 10 seconds. The lights start flashing on and off and Jasmine is looking around erratically – this is illustrated, as the camera zooms out from the computer screen/behind Jasmine, and through a panning/trailing shot of her section of the library. There is a dramatic music in the background through this part
The lights switches off completely
The camera shows a close up of Jasmine’s face as she is breathing heavily. The computer screen comes back on, which is indicated through the white light reflecting on Jasmine’s face. The light becomes darker, and a panning shot then turns towards the computer screen. The screen is transforming, in what is at first difficult to recognise, into the ghostly figure’s face.
Ghost: Jasmine… Help me….!
Close up shot of Jasmine sitting on her chair breathing heavily as she jumps in her seat.
Ghost (in the background): Jasmine….
The camera cuts back to the screen, the ghostly figure screams and the camera zooms into her tired-looking eye
The camera zooms back out, but this time from Jasmine’s eyes. As the camera zooms further out, we now see that the lights are switched back on, and an older woman, who is the librarian, standing next to her, tapping her shoulder
Librarian: Jasmine… Jasmine!
Jasmine then looks to face her, shaken
Librarian: It’s now time for the Librarian close darling. You’ve been working very hard today Jasmine, why don’t you go back home and have a good rest eh? It’d do you the world of good
Jasmine gets up, nodding, without saying a word, breathing heavily. Looks at the computer screen, a point of view shot of the screen is shown, and she runs towards the library exit. A couple of further shots are shown to present this
As she makes her way outside, a high angle shot is showing her running away from the exit door, on her way home. The shot ends with an establishing shot of the outside of the library. An eerie quiet music is played in the background.
EXTERIOR - 8PM
Jasmine is running home crying to herself
Jasmine: leave me alone! Leave me alone!
A panning shot is used to follow her. There is a fast eerie music playing as she returns inside her house, from a mid-shot.
INTERIOR – HOUSE ENTRANCE – 8:30PM
As Jasmine enters the house she shuts the front closed, and leans on it. A mid shot of her face is shown
The camera cuts mid shot to Jasmine opening the basement door and running down the stairs (close-up on her foot, in slow motions). There is a no diegetic sound of heartbeats in the background.
The eerie music has slowed down and quietens as we hear Jasmines breathing as she stands in the middle of the basement in the dark. The camera zooms in over jasmine’s shoulder, to the ghostly figure just behind her, in the doorway of the basement. The sharp eerie music amplifies fast and sharp. The camera cuts to a midshot of Jasmine’s face as she turns around.
Jasmine: (shouts) What do you want?!
The camera slowly trails backwards out of Jasmines room facing Jasmine with a quick glance of the ghostly figure approaching Jasmine. The Basement door then slams shut on the camera and a scream is heard.
The scene fades
END
