Initial Shooting Script

Shooting Script for Gemini

Scene 1 – Exterior – Forest – Night

A teenage boy stands in front of a burning bonfire.  He stares at the flames and his emotionless expression doesn’t change as the camera comes into a close up. Slowly the sounds of the other people around him drown out till there’s nothing but silence.

Scene 2(Flashback) – Exterior – Road – Night

Everything becomes disoriented but still easy to see, a car drives down a road. Suddenly a man appears in the middle of the road ahead of them. A menacing chuckle echoes out as everything goes black.

Scene 3 – Exterior – Forest – Night

Camera returns to the boy as he looks into the flames, a chain of sounds commence. Tyres screeching followed by the sound of a crash then a loud splash. The camera moves around the boy’s head and when it returns to his face his eyes are closed.

The sound of a radio being tuned echoes out silently and a reporter’s voice echoes out.

Reporter VO

…A car was found at the bottom of a lake…two dead, one missing.

The camera slides down only to gradually stop when a tattered book being held by the boy comes into view, the title at the top reads ‘Jekyll & Hyde’. The camera suddenly snaps into the boy’s perspective and he looks over the flames to see a ghostly image of himself appear. It has a wild look and has a smirk etched on his face.

A maniac laugh echoes out as everything goes black. At the left the letters Gem slowly come to the centre while at the same time the letters Ini slowly approach as well till it clashes together forming Gemini

Unknown VO

I will be unleashed!

The Opening of Gemini - Initial Ideas

Opening 1

[Words draw up along the screen.]

‘On the night of December 15th 2007 a family were driving back from a camping trip.’

[The camera opens up to a variety of angles of a car driving down a road near the lake; it ends with a view of the lake as well.]

[Words scroll up along the screen.]

‘As they passed a familiar lake, the father hallucinated’

[The screen instantly goes black and sound effects occur, such effects are the car screeching, smashing into something then splashing into the lake.]

[Static/noise echoes out, signalling a radio being turned on.]

“Nobody knows what exactly occurred but the car was found at the bottom of Lake Tweeling, the parents were found dead, drowned. Reports believe there was a third person but no body has been discovered”

[The camera fades back to showing the front of Cranton High with students both outside and walking inside, the date scrolls along the screen.]

‘January 9th 2009’

[There is a quick shot of a group of teenagers in the hallway talking.]

‘Becky Walton forms a get together with three other students’

[The bell rings and everyone gets to class, the only sound after are footsteps.]

‘But today, a new exchange student will stir things up’

[A classroom door opens and a teenage boy walks in, the teacher introduces him to the class as Alex Haden. He looks directly at the camera with a blank expression then suddenly a distorted image flashes up followed by a maniac laugh.]

[The screen goes black and the words ‘Gem’ and ‘Ini’ appear on each side and close into the centre making GemIni]

Opening 2

[A bonfire burns fiercely in the middle of a forest at night; a teenage boy stands at the fire and seems to stare blankly over the flames ad the camera enters into a close up.]

[The sounds of the other people partying around him start to drown out into the silence.]

[The camera suddenly flashes away from the party and shows a distorted image of a car driving down the road, suddenly a man seems to ‘appear’ in the car’s path and a menacing chuckle echoes out.]

[The camera goes back to watching the guy still staring ahead with no emotion, a chain of sounds happen, tires screeching, collision and then a loud splash.]

[The camera starts to pan around the guy’s face as when it comes back around again his eyes are closed. The sound of a radio report fainting echoes out reporting the finding of a car at the bottom of a lake.]

[The camera slides down and stops to show a view of a tattered book the guy was holding, etched along the top of it was the phrase ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ The camera fades away.]

[The camera shows a close up of the guy’s face and his eyes open, the camera snaps around to become his perspective and an image appears, looking exactly the same as the teenager but had a maniac look.]

[A maniac laugh echoes out coming from the ghostly image.]

[The screen goes black and the words ‘Gem’ and ‘Ini’ appear on each side and close into the centre making GemIni]

Pitching Our Idea

What is our film about?

Title: Gemini

On the night of December 15th 2007, a young boy and his parents were driving back from a camping trip. Everything was normal, for a while. As they passed a familiar lake the father hallucinated. Nobody knows what exactly happened as the car was later found at the bottom of the lake, the parents both died from drowning however the boy was nowhere to be found.

On January 9th 2009 it was a normal day for the students of Cranton High. A group of teenagers grouped together by Becky Walton were forming a get-together. However on that very day a new student arrives at the school. Alex Haden is a teenage boy who seems socially withdrawn and has an odd fascination with the stories of Jekyll & Hyde.

Production Order

Pre Production:

1. Find an Idea or Source.
2. Obtain the Rights to the source Material.
3. The screenplay needs to be written.
4. The screenplay needs to be approved by backers e.g investors.
5. Essential personnel need to be hired e.g Director, Casting Director.
6. The director and other essential personnel hire their own crews.
7. Auditions are held.
8. Contracts need to be signed.
9. Then the location needs to be found or built if necessary.

Post Production

1. The camera footage needs to be edited.
2. The music then needs to be created either copyrighted or original.
3. Special effects (SFX) are then added.
4. Dialogue is re recorded if necessary.
5. Sound effects are added.
6. The film is promoted with various advertising e.g trailers, posters and previews.
7. The Film is then released.

Conventions in Horror Films Found in "Jeepers Creepers 2"

Bad Title:

The title of Jeepers Creepers 2 in my view is a bad title for a horror film. The reason being is that the title does not say to me that this is a horror film. It tells me that this film could have been a comedy rather than a horror film.

I have not seen this film before and having watched it, i think that this is a bad title chosen for this film as it sounds more comical than a horror type film.
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Secluded Location:

The film is set in an American countryside with a single road running through fields of corn etc. This is a secluded location because during the film, there are little or no other characters in the scenes apart from the teenagers which are stranded in the middle of this farm land at night.

This works in horror films as it creates tension for the viewers, this is because the viewer is focused on these few characters and they see what happens to them during the course of the film.
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Someone Investigates a Strange Noise:

In this scene of the film, One of the characters here's a sound which breaks the silence. They go and take a look to see what has caused this noise, When the character wanders away from the group, the killer picks them off.

This is because that character is vulnerable because they are on their own. This makes the viewer focus on that particular character which leads to a scare as the character will most likely be murdered.
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Victim Locks Self In With Killer:

In this scene, the killer is on top of a school bus with students inside who coming back from a basketball game. The bus they were travelling back in has broken down and the killer has surrounded them. The killer then begins to shake the school bus and there is an extreme close up of a bolt falling off of the bus doors.

The students then realise that the killer has shaken the bus to try and lock the doors and has succeeded. This adds tension to the film because the viewer believes that there is no means of escape.
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Killer Doesn't Stay Dead:

In this scene, the killer reveals that he is immortal and cannot die following what would have been fatal injuries. Sometimes this can seem quite comical in the film as the injuries which the killer received would have been fatal in any normal circumstances which in my view makes the film less horrific.
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