2. • The sequence starts with 3 friends heading into the woods
• They find a clearing in the woods where they decide to camp
• Louis and Lucy start to pitch the tent
• James volunteers to go and find some logs for a fire as it’s getting cold
Parallel Cutting
1. James walks out of the clearing to get logs
2. Lucy and Louis telling a horror story
3. (voice over of Louis and Lucy telling story) James walking further into the woods
4. Carrying on, pitching tent
5. He finds the logs and starts to pick them up, hearing twigs snapping behind him, making him jump
(believes its his friends pranking him)
6. Looks around and sees a faint figure, drops the logs, hurriedly walks back towards the campsite
7. Turns around, sees figure getting closer, he starts to run
8. Turns again while running to see where the figure is, trips over dead body and screams
9. Louis and Lucy, “what was that” kind of scene
10. POV James, figure standing over him, implied death but is cut
3. CHARACTERS AND LOCATION
• 4/5 actors (one may be a
dummy)
• 2 boys 1 girl
• 1 dead body
• 1 murderer
• In the woods near Peaslake
Character names:
Louis – boy 1
James – boy 2
Lucy – girl 1
Characteristics:
Louis: Manly, outdoors,
leader, bossy,
Lucy: Girly, adventurous
James: Wingman of
Louis, weak,
countertypical
Louis and Lucy =
relationship
James good friend with
both of them
4. POSSIBLE CAST
• Lucy: Liv Anderson, Lucy Templeton-Knight, Sam, Callie Baker
• Louis: Marcus, Henry, Mattie
• James: Alex, Mattie, Henry
• Murderer: Adam
