Script writing - The Unnatural

The Unnatural Script – Teaser Trailer

Storyline – A psychiatrist becomes an important witness to the mysterious suicide of one of his close patients who is believed to be suffering from the sleeping disorder Parasomnia Causes: abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviours’, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep). In the psychiatric sessions between the two, the patient claimed to experience supernatural events, he argued that he was visited by a possessive spirit that communicated to him  immoral events  in  his past life and predictions of his death in the near future, however he could not find the meaning to all of the riddles. After his death, the psychiatrist begins to realise that the extraordinary experiences encountered by the patient could actually be factual, as he also encountered what is seen to be the exact same ‘happenings’ to that of his dead patient. His way of thinking is now split between what is reality and what is an illusion and he must therefore try to somehow interpret the true meaning of the paranormal events before he and others suffer the same fate that fell the deceased patient.

Beginning (Cross-cuts) Fade ins & outs

Black Screen – Psychiatrist “Are you ready”

Shot 1: (Medium-Shot) - Patient eyes closed sitting on a chair - Patient “Yeh”

Shot 2: (Tripod - Medium-close up) – The psychiatrist working Newton’s Cradle – Patient “Okay, Let’s Begin”

Shot 3: (Bird’s eye view, zoom in) – Taken in the night (outside), slow zoom in on the Patient staying still - Patient “You won’t believe me, but in my dream... I am visited by a demonic sprit”

Shot 4: (Over the shoulder & Medium-Close Up) – Taken in the night, the Patient is positioned on the left of the camera shot, looking at the house - Patient “It shadows my every step”

Shot 5: (Over the shoulder & Close-up) – The Patient preparing to open the door - Patient “Surrounding my every thought and each breath with darkness”...

Shot 6: (Match on Action) – The Patient hand pulling down the handle

Shot 7: (Match on action, High Angle & Tilt down) – The Patient walks through the door (slightly on the left of the centre), the camera tilts down to see the apparition who is covered in blood and on the right of the screen (half of the mask is shown) - Patient “And It’s no illusion, hell has come to life”

Series of Shots 8: (Black and white look) – 3 quick shots of the previous dead patient laying dead on the floor, with strange markings on his visible skin, the middle shot with the patient wearing the mask.

Pre Title Shot 9: Colour drain on the eyes of the apparition’s mask

Title 1: ‘Your Fear will betray the mind into Hallucinating’

Scene 2

Shot 10: (First Person) Patient walking down a hallway

Shot 11: (Medium shot) – Patient walking down a hallway - Patient “I’m beginning to see it more clearly now”

Shot 12: (Medium shot) – Patient seeing the TV turned on

Shot 13: (Close-up) – Patient turning the TV off and seeing a shadow in the TV’s reflection - Patient “It’s here”

Shot 14: (Reflection, over the shoulder, zoom-in) – The Patient is staring at an in-print of a set of unusual symbols in the window... as the Patient gets closer the apparition unexpectedly appears for a short second

Title 2: ‘Hallucinations will generate your sinister sense of deception ’

Scene 3

Series of Shots 15: (High angle, zoom out) – Patient holding his position as he shines a light (flashlight) down a thin hallway and seeing black footprints not from this world coming towards him mixed with deliberate shots of the apparition - Patient “Understanding every vision”

Shot 16: (Slow motion, bird’s eye view) – Portraits of symbols on a table – Patient “decoding each message”

Shot 17: (Medium-long shot, high angle) – The apparition is abruptly seen watching over the Patient while he sleeps

Shot 18: (Close up) – A figure being shown in a fuzzy TV

Pre Title Shot 19: (Medium Close-up) – Patient drawing the symbols on the table “has become an obsession”

Title 3: Deception will extract you from reality and force you to confront the apparition - Patient “

Scene 4

Black Screen – The Unnatural title appears slowly (Each letter at a time)

Shot 20: (Medium Shot) Return to shot 7, the Patient walks towards the apparition – Patient “Each vision would stay concealed”

Shot 21: (Over the shoulder reverse, tilt shot, zoom out) The Patient reaches out to the apparition - Patient “until the apparition led me back into isolation

Shot 22: (Medium Shot) Return to shot 20, the apparition unexpectedly grabs the patient’s wrist – Patient “where I would uncover what happened next”

Black Screen – Film Title (The Unnatural) with added text effects

Black Screen – Title (Coming This Winter) with added text effects

Soundtracks

James Newton Howard – The Hand of Fate (Label – Hollywood)

Props

Newton’s Cradle

Fake blood

Clear wallpaper or carpet

Black paint

White paint