Rough Draft of Scipt

The following script is a rough draft and will not be the final script used.  It gets the point across of the simulation and a guy figuring out he is in one.  We still are in the process of choosing a cast, title, and character names.  As well as finalizing the shots to make our film turn out well.  The following is our rough draft of the script.

Setting

Present day at a school. Focus is one boy in class.

Starts in empty hallway where we see our protagonist gathering items from his locker when he is approached by a girl. Camera will be mounted on a tripod at the center of the hall way and back a bit. Full body shot.

Girl approaches guy

GIRL

“Hey is something up? You’ve been kinda quite all day.”

GUY

(grins and lets out a small chuckle and begins to pat girl on the shoulder in assurance)

“Yes I’m fine I just have a lot to get done today”

(walks away, Camera stays in position as girl watches him walk away, after guy has exited the frame there is roughly a 4 second wait of the girl just standing still and staring and then suddenly a glitch effect)

Effect will be done by leaving camera in position and girl will move over and then cut later in post production.

Close up on guy as he walks away. His smirk changes to a face of concern.

Time cut

Bell rings. Guy is in a rush to leave school his friends try to stop him (group of probably 4-6).

FRIENDS

Hey man where are you going?

(they are very cheerful blah blah blah experessions of overexaggerated happiness)

GUY

I gotta run! Lots to do.

(he says this while walking away quickly)

FRIENDS

Are you sure? C’mon C’mon

GUY

Sorry guys!

(Long shot as guy urgently runs off)

(cuts back to mid shot the faces of friends, shows them smiling and then their smiles turn to plain straight faces for roughly 5 seconds until glitch effect starts happening and they disappear one at a time)

Cut back to guy on a bike or skateboard or something running toward camera as somebody sits on the back of the car recording

He rides into his house (my house) where he frantically is grabbing things (tape and bricks or something heavy) which he then tapes to his body he runs outside stands over the pool looks down at it

GUY

I hope I’m right about this

He clenches his eyes shut and jumps in the pool. Cut to shot of him sinking in the pool to the bottom. Close up of face as the air empties his body and then cut to his face wearing a VR headset sweaty illuminated by light.

Cuts to a fullbody shot of him in a dark room strapped in a chair hooked up to stuff. He wrestles out of a wrist strap throws the headset off and then cuts to a shot of him exiting dark room.