First Attempts At Script Writing

Personal work in the morning and art history in the evening. We still haven't finalized the script for our 5 minute short movie. The last time we did we made a lot of changes. The basic story was still the same which was bout a group of college going teenagers getting drunk at a party, having a lot of fun and then the power go off. Madly they wander and that would be the comedy part. Slowly they would come back to their normal senses only to realize that its 6 in the morning and the power is not back and neither is the sun. Its seven and the sun hasn't come up and so on and this was the horror part. The problem was that the movie was drifting into a serious horror end world thing. Its not that we cant showcase it, its just that in case of something like this the change in the movie which is a very short film will be just too dramatic. The next idea i came up with was with the same beginning of a group getting drunk. They joke laugh and drink and when one guy would be drinking, someone cracks a joke and unable to retain the alcohol or whatever in his mouth because of the sudden urge to laugh at the joke, he spits it all over the in front of him. Now this guy is a big hot headed one whose drunk as well. He is really pissed off now, gets up grumbling ready to punch the shit outa this innocent lil guy. He comes close just a sec before he punches this guy just drops off grabbing his own neck. Theres a lot of other drunk people around too and all of them watch this lil guy spit beer or whatever on the big guy. They all see him walk up to him. Nobody sees him hit for real but the next instance, this lil guy is down on the ground and everyone just assumes he hit him bad. Everyone rushes around him, they think he is dying and then add some cut scenes like one of them calling up for the ambulance and someone else calling up the police. One thing everyone decides on was to lift him up and take him to the hospital. They grab his body randomly and try to pull him up when they are shaky themselves. The lil guy was actually choking on the beer and sudden actions like laughing and shock/fear. There was a lil beer stuck in his throat which was clearing up and when he realizes whats going on, he tries saying that he is ok but the crowd isn't ready to believe him (weird?). One of them says "dude your are dying let us take u to the doc" and this guy bursts out laughing. Everyone is just plain confused but act headstrong and force him to go to the doc. This guy realizes that they think he's dying and starts laughing (*high*). Then some added abuse saying "duffer u r dying don't freakin laugh". Then at this point, the power goes off. everyone leaves him... he falls on the floor flat... no body moves. Its dark but still there is dim light. One of them takes out the mobile for some light and the others do the same... this lil guy still doesn't move. In his head he's thinking... if i act dead they might not take me to the doc, but then he thinks if he acts dead they might just as well bury him. So he gets up with a jerk... and in the darkness everyone assumes he is a ghost or something like that and run for their lives. Now while writing these stuff down i got the idea goes something like this... everyone is trying to get away from this guy thinking that he's some phantom or watever. This guy is alone in this room, everybody ran off... now from both points, one from the others angle and the one from this guys angle, I taught it could be intresting to show this guy whos looking for his friends and trying to prove that he's not a ghost and at the same time, his own friends trying to get away from him (possibly get rid of him) while all of them are drunk. Then the end would be how they almost kill him (he survives unlike most horror movies). Well but last week we taught about this and decided that there are a scenarios in movies which are quite similar to this one. Then we taught of how to change, adapt and improve this. Well we got some crazy ideas in the process. A few weeks back there was a lil tension in the air in the middle of the night as a guard just walked into a girls room in the hostel and he was drunk. There was big issue that night but anyway we saw the next day a circular on the notice board that the guard "xyz" has been removed from his position. This guard had only one thing to say in defence which was that he saw a bottle of beer in the room and went in only to investigate. So i wondered if this guard wanted to take revenge and he also knows that there is some alcohol in the room, he might spike it. And lets say he already spiked it and when everyone is drunk, this guard just pops up and taunts them saying that they drank some weird chemicals instead of the normal thing and he runs away. Now watever they drank have effects on these guys. And the effect are not the same to all, infact each of them have a differnet effect, like one of them has to pee every 2 mins, one of them goes crazy if he sees white, one of them starts sweating rapidly or stuff like that. Mariana suggested that it wuld be funny if someones sex organs just keep growing without stopping. Hehe that would be weird but anyway she's just a crazy girl. So the story continues as they begin to search all over the place for this guard to find a cure and how they finally survive from those deadly chemicals. Well thats all the work we did until now, havent worked on it further on. Today we also listend to the stories that the other groups in the class came up with. Pratik's group came up wid the idea of a small kid who has a weird phobia. He has the fear of people. He is gets scared evertime someone comes close to him. In his head he fears people, that people might hurt him. He gets nervos when someone is coming closer. He frets and panics when you continue to go closer and futhermore he can get agressive and hurls objects at the person closing in on him. It was an intresting idea which got my attention. All of us added suggestions and other ideas to this. He said that the kid wouldent let the nurse come close to him. Aman made this nurse into a slutty nurse who wanted to play around a bit with this guy. He also had this idea (not very sure bout this cause everyone contributed but most probably this was Aman's idea) that the would go around treating patients in differnent rooms and this kid would observe from the distance. Although the nurse is healing the patients, from the kids point of view, she is just a person who has fun torturing other people and he was scared she would do the same to him. Well i had my own ideas running in my head thinking of turning this into a full fledged complete 1 hr 30 mins kinda film or maybe even a series or something. Well the result is the next post.