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Message Board - Scene 1

(DAVID IS WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL, ARRIVES AND OPENS THE DOOR TO HIS HOUSE. HE WALKS IN, IMMEDIATELY DROPPING HIS BAGS AND REACHING FOR THE LAPTOP IN HIS COMPUTER BAG. HE PULLS IT OUT AND GETS ONTO SKYPE)

DAVID

So I'm guessing everyone is here?

ERIN

Seems like it.

CHASE

We're missing Charlie, I think.

KRIS

You all heard what Alan told Charlie earlier today right?

SAMANTHA

It's awful, he kicked him out a building after he chose to hang out with us, all because we "betrayed" him.

KRIS

To quote what he said, "It's not like it used to be, the whole reason you're dropping out to be with your friends is to not be apart of our group.

SAMANTHA

The hell wrong with him?

CHASE

Charlie's a nice guy too, he just wants to still be friends with everyone. Why does Alan need to lash out at him because he cared about both us and him?

CHARLIE

Guys...it's fine, really.

LAURA

You ok?

CHARLIE

Yeah, what happened with him is over. I'm not upset or anything now.

KRIS

Good to hear.

DAVID

The only reason I want to talk about this now is because I'm wondering if it was right to just suddenly have all of us abandon him.

CHASE

We did sorta drop out all at once...

ERIN

Do none of you guys remember? Kris told him we were all gonna be leaving last week. We even offered him to join a new club since everything he had built was falling apart.

KRIS

Yeah, I did sorta break that to him. Wasn't easy, but he handled it well at the time.

CHASE

and now he's suddenly lashing out.

CHARLIE

He wanted to make a club we made as friends into a business. A screwed up business that he enforced on everyone but didn't follow through on. Wasn't it you who said that, David?

DAVID

I just...ugh, Christ.

KRIS

He said some deep things after you told him that, he said you were like a brother.

LAURA

I didn't think that you two ran that deep.

ERIN

Yet it's only been 2 years...

LAURA

You seems to be handling the whole thing pretty well, David.

David pacing around room, playing with random things/trying to distract himself as Kris, Laura, and Erin mention past friendship with Alan.

DAVID

That's because it's all guilt tripping, he says this just to try to win us back. He's an expert at this. All those passive aggressive comments aren't gonna win me over. They aren't gonna help him get away with mistreating any of you.

CHARLIE

Ight, just....just chill.

CHASE

We're you just saying it was our fault for being so sudden? Make up your mind dude.

ERIN

Chase...

DAVID

I think everyone needs to get off each other's asses over this. It's too late to mend things and no real point arguing with each other.

LAURA

Who's gonna take charge now...

(A long pause)

KRIS

I'm busy anyways, we have time to sort this out.

SAMANTHA

Tomorrow?

KRIS

Tomorrow.

DAVID

I'm not even sure how much I care now.

CHARLIE

I have work anyways, later guys.

CHASE

Me too, I'm out.

ERIN

See ya.

LAURA

Bye.

The rest close their laptops, leaving just David looking at his screen for a couple seconds, before closing his laptop too.

SCENE END

Treatment Form:

Working Title: Message Board

Central Character: David

Central Character’s Dominant Need: Solve conflict with former friend and counsel his other friends (messaging over Skype) 

Other Major Characters: Charlie, Chase, Kris, Erin, Samantha, Yvonne,
Alan (mentioned)

Settings: In different people’s rooms/walking home from school

Occasion / Event: Group of friends talking in Skype group chat

Major Conflict / Dilemma as it appears in ACTION: Devising how to deal with Alan

Resolution: N/A

How Central Character changes by the end: Realizes he can't reason with his friend and abandons him for his other friends.

Visual Treatment:

• Color Choices for Filming
• Warm
• Cool
• Vibrant
• Black & white

Lighting Choices

• Dramatic
• Natural
• Dark
• Bright
• Other

SubGenre

• Horror
• Slasher
• Thriller
• Suspense
• B-Movie

Conventions of Horror to be used (descriptive statement):

Costumes

Normal Clothes (Jeans, shirts, shorts, etc)

Props:
Computers, Skype app, maybe a toy or two

Locations:

Different houses/areas with desktops or laptops

Negative Space

In the second video, using the bench and environment around the bench where the two boys sat as negative space helped amplify the tension in needing to confess, especially when Chris began moving gradually closer to sitting on the bench where Will was thinking and unsure of what to do. The final scene of Will walking off matched with the music, showed a lot of ground space as open area around where he began walking away.

Scene response/analysis

Annika's film was portrayed from a number of different angles, and although one of the character's dialogue didn't change too far from "I just want my sweater back", you could tell the impending tension in her voice as the other girl questioned whether she was actually feeling okay.