Daniel Reason

21st January 2015

Story Telling & Commission

-REVISED-

PremiseA life spent running away from your parents’ death, can change any

man. For the good or bad.

LoglineAs a result of his parents’ death, our main character will do anything to escape his past. However, we discover all is not as we seemed as suspicions arouse and we begin to question the tragic event he encountered, and due to his errors, the past starts to catch up with him

Step Outline

S1: A family of 3 (Mother, Father & Son) are in a deserted area of town, laughing and talking to each other (As the camera follows them). They take some funny photos of themselves in a photo booth. They exit the booth, look at the photos, start laughing, turn around and see a silhouetted figure holding a gun. The figure then shoots the father, which causes the mother to scream. He then shoots the mother. He puts the gun in his pocket, he stares at the son, and walks away, leaving the son to stand over his parents’ bodies.

S2: A man enters a dark room, in what appears to be an old farm house. He switches on the daggling light, that hangs from the centre of the ceiling. In the centre of the room is a man, with his wrists hand cuffed through a wheel barrow, with his head rested on it. The tied up man asks the other man about his past, which causes the man to go into a horde of laughter, and in this moment he kneels down towards the man, and the camera, and forces the man’s head against the edge of the wheelbarrow, until the man’s neckbreaks. From the dead man’s perspective, we see the man stand up straight, looking at the body, and then he begins to chuckle. The camera then pans down to the hand cuffed man’s blazer pocket, and shows the photos, from scene 1, hanging out. The other man then starts whistling, un-cuffs the body, puts him in a wheel barrow and pushes it outside.

S3: A shot of the man (from scene 2) smiling appears in front of a detective in an interrogation room. The detective, firstly asks about his former assistant who went missing (It quickly, flashes back to the man tied to the wheel barrow). The man apologises about the loss and claims to know nothing about his co-worker. The detective then shows the man the photos, (from scene 1). We discover that the man is the son, but he was not in the photos and it was a girl in the photos, instead. The man chuckles and says “They never cared for me, after her”. It flashes back to new construction of scene 1, as the man narrates over certain points we see the silhouetted figure is the man, aged 16. A shot of the whole family is on screen, with the parents hiding the daughter from him. The man shoots the father, then the mother, looks at the daughter for a little longer, puts the gun in his pocket, but then pulls it back out and shoots her too. The scene then goes to a shot of the man laughing at the detective.