Script

After about four lessons, I have now completed the script, while Adam has finished the storyboard. Below is the script for the trailer. This was originally meant to be put up on here as a link so it can be viewed in Microsoft Word, but I don't know how to do that, so I thought I'd just copy the entire script in here.

Slender trailer

(DreamWorks Pictures logo in grey)

1 INT. DARK ROOM:

(a dark room with ‘DreamWorks Pictures presents’ overlaid; the door open ajar. Suddenly, a shadow passes through the light as the door closes. The door finally shuts completely. ‘A Parsec Productions film’ appears as the door shuts.)

2 EXT. TREES:

Part 1

(a girl runs through a tree-filled area, panicking, breathing heavily as she runs)

Part 2

(the girl standing in the middle of the forest looking fearful. The legs of a tall figure stand behind her*.) *When the girl stands in the middle of the forest, the camera pans around 720 degrees.

Part 3:

(the girl notices something by a tree. She sees a sheet of paper saying ‘don’t look…or it takes you’.)

Part 4:

(the girl is back in the forest, hiding behind a tree, shaking and breathing heavily. Suddenly, a hand grabs around the tree.)

Part 5:

(suddenly, the tall figure’s body peers around the tree. The faceless head lowers slowly and quickly faces the girl.*)

*Jumps to black as soon as the figure makes contact.

3 INT. CAR:

(On the phone, in the car)* (you don’t hear the boy) *This dialogue will be split apart to produce more than one part of the trailer.

GIRL (terrified)

Come on! Pick up, pick up!

 

BOY (unheard)

Hello?

 

GIRL

*exhales* I-I-I think I’m b-being followed.

 

BOY (unheard)

Wha’? What are you on about?

 

GIRL

I said I think I’m being followed.

 

BOY (unheard)

Whoa, slow down. You keep stuttering. What are you trying to say?

 

GIRL (calmer)

I’m being followed.

 

BOY (unheard)

Who by?

 

GIRL (increasingly panicky)

I don’t know!

 

BOY (unheard)

Wait, wait. Calm down. I’m home in a few days.

 

GIRL (slightly calmer)

Yeah. Yeah. Do you believe me?

 

BOY (unheard)

Umm…

 

GIRL

Do you believe me?

 

BOY (unheard)

Uh, yeah.

(the girl hangs up. Suddenly, the car swerves violently and the girl hits her head off the steering wheel.*)

*This cuts to black afterwards.

(After a few seconds, the girl starts to wake up. A shadow passes the car but the girl doesn’t notice as she’s stirs.)

4 INT. GIRL’S BEDROOM:

(the girl stands at her desk in her bedroom looking down at the notes she picked up from the trees.)

5 INT. CORRIDOR:
Part 1:

(the girl runs down the corridor, followed closely behind by a tall figure.)

(Suddenly, the girl stumbles and the tall figure leans down to grab her*.)

*During this scene, there are a lot of jump cuts to black

Part 2:

(The girl is still running with the tall figure getting closer.*)

*This jumps to black.

6. LOGO AND CREDITS:

(Slender video game logo wipes across with a glimmer of light in its usual sketched design. A huge flash appears, soon goes away and the logo reappears along with a zodiac symbol, as if carved into wood. The logo and symbol fades out)

(the film’s release date, URL and credits appear, along with the DreamWorks Pictures and Parsec Productions logos)