North Chamber

By
Hannah Boardman, Sam Duxbury, Rebecca Ainsworth

Based on
a real life story

Copyrighted to Redherring
Productions

1. EXT. SCHOOL. DAY.

Establishing shot of the school in 1940.
2. INT. CLASSROOM 1. DAY.
Cassandra is being mocked by girls sat behind her in class.
She is drawing in her sketch book in an attempt to block out
their laughter.
NATALIE (BULLY 1)
Look at her!
One of the girls throws a piece of scrunched up paper at
Cassandras head. The bullies start to laugh even more. She
turns around and there is a focus pull from the bullies to
Cassandra when she turns back, emphasising her upset.
3. INT. STAIRCASE. DAY.
Cassandra walks up an empty staircase slowly. She is getting
tired of the constant insults and feels lonely.
4. INT. CORRIDOR 1. DAY.
Cassandra is walking along the corridor when the group of
girls run up from behind her and push her to the side. She
falls to the floor.
5. INT. CORRIDOR 2. DAY.
Cassandra continues to walk slowly, as in scene 3.
6. EXT. SCHOOL YARD. DAY.
Bullies are tormenting Cassandras once again. They are
holding her sketch book and mocking her as they rip out tear
stained pages and throw them on the ground.
RUTH (BULLY 2)
Rubbish, Rubbish, RUBBISH!
NATALIE
*Laughs*
The book is dropped on the floor and the bullies walk off.
Cassandra goes to pick up the book.

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7. INT. GIRLS BATHROOM. DAY.

Cassandra looks at herself in the mirror. Her miserable and
tired looking reflection stares back at her. Her puffy eyes
show she has been crying and her facial expression is
desperate. She longs for the war to be over so she can
return to London.
8. INT. CORRIDOR 1. DAY.
Continuing from scene 4. Cassandra is on the floor after
being knocked down. The bullies run off and disappear around
the corner.
9. INT. GIRLS BATHROOM. DAY.
Cassandra has sunk into depression and as an act of this she
has cut herself, however this is not shown to the audience
but it is made evident through the blood dripping down the
sink.
10. INT. BELFREY WINDOW. DAY
In a moment of rage Cassandra begins to bang her hand
against the window, this shows to the audience her anger
with herself and establishes how upset she is
11. INT GIRLS BATHROOM. DAY.
Cassandra continues to hit the bathroom mirror
12. INT. CUPBOARD. DAY
We now cut to the present day, 2014. Scarlett, the modern
day girl, is rooting through some draws inside the forbidden
store cupboard. She finds Cassandras old sketch book and
opens up the book, as she does so she gets a feeling that
someone had brushed passed her even though she is alone in
the room and suddenly the door slams behind her and the
expression on Scarletts face shows fear.
The spirit of Cassandra has now been released

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13. INT. CLASSROOM 2. DAY

Scarlett is talking to her teacher about the strange
happenings that have been going on since she found the book.
TEACHER
Its just an old book, put it back!
Teacher slams the book on the table
14. INT. CLASSROOM 3. DAY
Scarlett is looking through her bag facing away from the
camera, she picks out Cassandras Sketch book and at this
point Cassandra walks past behind Scarlett. She turns round
but all she can see is a single piece of red ribbon drop to
the floor.
15. EXT. SCHOOL DRIVE. EVENING.
Scarlett is walking home from school completely oblivious to
the red ribbon hanging upon the tree.
16. INT. CLASSROOM 2. DAY
Scarlett flicks through the sketch book and sees very
gruesome and hateful drawings of bullies and war. She then
begins to draw in Cassandras book, however this angers
Cassandra and she scratches Scarletts hand.
17. INT. CLASSROOM 1. DAY
We are brought back to the past where we see a brief section
from scene 2 where Cassandra is being laughed at by the
bullies
18. INT. CLASSROOM 1. DAY
A present day shot shows Scarlett being laughed at by the
ghost of Cassandra. This expresses that the tables have
turned.

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19. INT. BELFREY WINDOW . DAY

We see Cassandras spirit looking inside the school through
the window, she looks hateful and evil.
20. INT. GIRLS BATHROOM. DAY
The ghost of Cassandra is crying in the mirror of the
bathroom, it is similar to that of scene 7. She remembers
her horrible life and wants revenge.
21. INT. CLASSROOM 2. DAY
Continuing from scene 16. Cassandra attempts to strangle
Scarlett using her red ribbon. Scarlett escapes her grasp
and runs to the door, she finds that it is locked however it
is too late as Cassandra has already got her.
22. INT. LOCKER ROOM. DAY
Scarlett is frantically running down the corridor to get
away from Cassandra who can be seen stood in the background
when Scarlett turns to see if she is there, as Scarlett
reaches the end of the corridor she turns back to face the
camera and suddenly Cassandra face is seen up close to the
camera.