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Shot list for fear

1/ EXT.STREET

Matti is walking home from school wearing her school bag on her back. There are two dolls peeking
out of here bag, she is in a world of her own singing into herself while looking up at the sky
wondering how big the clouds are, she is fascinated by the size of the sky and how blue the sky can
be. Suddenly her daydream is interrupted by sound of smashing glass and muffled screaming voices
coming from inside her house

1. Drone shot from the rood top as she walks home x 3

2. 70-200 mm from far away (show her in the big world)

3. Side shot of her walking along

4. (Sep into focus) 50mm of her stopping and looking at the sky

5. POV of her looking at the sky at what she sees

6. Wide shot of her standing in an empty street

7. Pull focus of her attention being diverted to the house

8. 50 mm of her face and the dread on her face as she must walk into the house.

9. Wide angle of her going into the house

2/ INT. HALLWAY

Matti is entering the house into a dark hallway the sound of the voices are now prominent and over
whelming the are irritating and are causing Matti to lose her concentration and the ability to think
clearly. She takes the dolls out of the bag and up the stairs to her rooms where they will be safe.

1. 70-200 mm from the back yard to make her look small

2. Samyang 14 mm Wide angle as she enters the house to show the size of the hallway

3. Sots of feet and hands closing and locking the door

4. Eyes looking towards the noise and hands covering ears

5. Throwing bag on floor and taking the dolls up stairs

6. Feet on the stairs and

7. Holding the dolls

8. Hands on banister

9. Shot looking down the staircase


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10. Shot looking up

3/ INT. MATTI BEDROOM

As Mattie enters the room, the sound of the voices fades into the background as she closes the door.
She begins playing with her toys under the blankets and falls asleep. Sometime later Matti wakes up
in her bed, the sound of the voices that drove her nuts are now gone and the whole house is in silence.

1. Samyang 14mm top corner of the room

2. Hands closing the door

3. Hands playing with the dolls

4. Throwing the blankets over her head

5. Turning on the light on the phone

6. Playing with the dolls under the blankets

7. Wide shot of the room with the light under the blankets

8. Shot of Matti waking up pulling the blankets off

9. Waking up wiping sleep from her eyes

10. Leaving the room approaching the bedroom door

4/ INT. STAIRCASE BUILD OF SUSPENSE

She leaves the room and sets off to the kitchen to find something to eat. On her way she reaches the
staircase. A cold draft is blowing silently up the stairs and it make her feel uncomfortable. Suddenly a
strange sound from inside the dark living room makes her question whether it is safe to continue or
run back to the safety of the bedroom. She waits there for a while before realizing the silliness of the
situation, then walks confidently past the living room and out to the kitchen to eat

1. Peeking out from the door 50mm


2. Walking across the hall 20mm
3. Looking down the stairs draft blowing her face 14mm
4. Shot of curtains blowing
5. Shot of her rubbing her arms feeling uncomfortable
6. Shot of her looking frightened at the living room door
7. Shot of the dark living room
8. She looks back towards the bedroom unsure if she should continue
9. Wide shot of her standing at the edge of the stairs unsure if she should go down
10. Thinking it’s she’s being silly she goes down the stairs
11. Shot looking up and shot looking down to show fear
12. Close up of face as she sets off
13. Sid shot of stairs and her walking down
14. Head on towards the kitchen
15. From the back
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16. From inside the living room

5/ INT KITCHEN SUSPENSE ANTI-CLIMAX SCENE

Matti opens the door of the fridge and searches for something to eat. She finds the milk and
fills a huge bowl with cheerio’s then leaves the kitchen heading back to the bedroom.

1. From inside the fridge taking milk


2. Opening the milk
3. Getting bowl
4. Pouring milk and cheerio’s
5. Leaving the kitchen

6/ INT. LIVING ROOM

On her way she notices the draft coming from the living room and peeks throw the crack in
the door. She struggles to see through the darkness and sees what looks like two red eyes
staring at her from the shadows. She opens the door wider and turns on the light only to
discover that it's the standby lights from the TV which has been left on. She goes behind the
TV and switches off the t TV at the wall.

1. Walking to the stairs she looks in the living room


2. Shot of the draft blowing her hair through the open door
3. Inside the living room as she peeks in the door and opens the door wider
4. 50mm face struggling to see in the dark
5. Shot of red eyes looking at her
6. Opens the door wider
7. Fingers turning on the light
8. Red LED’S from the TV
9. Sitting cheerio’s on the table
10. Approaching the TV and turning off the TV at the wall
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7 & 8 INT BEDROOM & HALL STAIRCASE

Back in Mattie's room the sound of 1920's music fills the air as she plays out a happy family
life scenario inside her doll's house. She mimics the voices of the characters in her story who
plod along from chapter to chapter without complaint

Mattie voice of doll's


Doll one man
Hi honey I'm home
Doll 2 girl
Oh it's so good to see you honey how was work??
DOLL ONE MAN
It was not good honey i'm glad to get back home to you
DOLL 2 GIRL
I brought you your beer honey
DOLL ONE MAN
Oh that's tastes so good thank you honey GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG
After a while angry voices from downstairs erupt through the quiet. The characters in Mattie's story
immediately notice and even turn around to investigate
DOLL 2 GIRL
oh my god what was that honey?
DOLL ONE MAN
I don’t know honey
MATTIE
don’t be scared I will keep you guys safe by putting you both to bed.

Mattie reassures the dolls that everything is going to be OK she puts the dolls to bed where
they will be safe. As she does the vibration from a door slamming shakes the house and the
vibration can be seen in the left-over milk in Mattie's bowl. Mattie open's the bedroom door a
crack to investigate the noise from downstairs. But there is no noise. The whole house in in
silence. She goes back into the room, and suddenly hears a noise from downstairs, it’s
whispering coming from the living room.

female voice angry whispering


you don’t need to stay here anymore why don’t you just get the fuck out of here and leave us well
alone
Male voice angry whispering
I don’t need to go anywhere this is my house you can get the fuck out.
8/INT. hall staircase 
Mattie moves cautiously along the hall and slides her bum down each stair one at a time daring
herself to go further

1. Wide angle of the bedroom

2. Side shot of the doll’s house

3. 50mm through the window of the doll’s house

4. Macro of the dolls from three or four angles


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5. Conversation between the two dolls and Mattie mimicking them

6. Shots of Mattie’s lips and close-up of the doll’s faces’

7. The startled look on her face as the voice comes from downstairs

8. Vibration on the milk

9. Putting the dolls to bed to be safe

10. Reassuring the dolls that they will be safe

11. Opens the door a crack to investigate the noise

12. Wide shot of the empty hallway

13. Shot of the downstairs hallway to show the silence

14. Turns to go back into the bedroom

15. Shot of face hearing whispering

16. Ear shot

17. Back of head turning around

18. Zoom in to the living room where the whispering is

19. Going downstairs to investigate the sound while hearing whispering

20. Sliding down each stair and her face through banister

9/ INT. LIVING ROOM JUMP SCARE x 2

She peeks into the dark living room again to where she here's the whispering coming from,
and notices that the red LED'S from the TV are back on again. Matti tries to turn on the light
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so she can enter the room but it's not working. Uses phone as light and gather's up the
courage and enters the living room to turn off the TV again. As she moves closer to the TV,
she stretches out her hand and moves closer to the LED and switch. Suddenly she sees that
the LED'S are eyes staring at her. She tries to run out of the living room, but the door slams
and she is trapped. Mattie tries to find her way out of the dark living room. She leans back
against the sofa in despair. Just then she feels here mobile phone in her pocket vibrating and
remembers she can use it as a torch. She opens the mobile and turns on the light. The light is
dim and can only light enough do she can find her way through the darkness as she moves,
she can hear crunching and crunching getting louder and louder. she reaches her hand out to
grab the door handle as the crunching noise becomes almost mind numbing suddenly the red
eyed monster shows its face and jumps towards her. the screen goes black.

1. Peeking through the door to investigate the noise


2. Sees LED’S on TV are back on
3. Fingers on light / flicking switch show that it’s broken
4. Opens door wider
5. Opens phone, turns on light on phone
6. Walks across the dark living room
7. Shot of LED’S
8. Face getting closer to the TV
9. Sees scary face
10. Jumps back and falls
11. Dropping phone and light goes out
12. Door slams locking her in room
13. Hands searching for phone
14. Finds phone on floor
15. Struggles to turn on light and use phone as a light
16. Tries to find the door and the way out
17. Finds the door and sees a monster / Jump scare /

10/ INT. LIVING ROOM END

Dark screen and muffled screaming only gets louder as Mattie open’s her eyes
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Mattie opens her eyes to the sound of screaming coming from the TV and crunching, the
sound of which was coming from Father standing on the cheerio’s, Matti’s Mother enters the
room and sees what is going on and starts screaming. Her Drunk Father standing over her
with a clenched fist, he is standing in a puddle the milk that Mattie was holing before he
knocked her out, the sound of crunching coming from under his feet as he staggers around the
floor gets louder and louder.

1. Over the head shot of the living room showing the whole scene

2. Shot of the feet crunching the cheerios

3. Bottle of whiskey in the hand

4. Over the shoulder shot of Matti on the ground with the drunk man standing over her

5. Shot of Mother entering the room

6. Pulling her to safety out of the house.

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