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THE STEPS<br />(2011)<br />A Slasher Film<br />Rated ‘15’<br />Written by Hanan Mohamed<br />CONTENTS<br />OVERVIEW ________________________________________________________________3<br />OUTLINE  ________________________________________________________________3<br />SYNOPSIS ________________________________________________________________4<br />SCOPE OF FILM ___________________________________________________________6<br />LENGTH, DISTRIBUTION & MEDIA ____________________________________________6<br />PRODUCTION ELEMENTS _____________________________________________________6<br />CAST LIST _______________________________________________________________7<br />SUBJECTS ________________________________________________________________8<br />OVERVIEW:<br />THE STEPS is about a tight-knit group of five friends who go on a camping trip in their Easter holiday. Something they can’t see is toying with them. They can’t see it, it’s too fast – they can’t hear it, but it moves. It’s sending them texts and orders, informing them that by entering these grounds they have unwittingly agreed to play ‘the game’. It plays off their character traits and pits them against one another, and even as they try to obey the instructions and play the game the way the killer wants, each time something goes wrong and another girl fails the step. And when she fails, she must pay the price. <br />They die one by one, with traps springing on them and death flung at them by surprise out of nowhere, the noose; the fire; the acid; the axe. Then last of all, the final girl standing Octavia has to use her wits as she finds out the masked killer is her stalker ex boyfriend Johnny who’s been planning the perfect revenge for months, and she has to stall him with talk and sweet words while he tries to kill her in a fight to the death. She gets him by surprise, but in the end even though she has technically won the game it hardly feels like it because even in death, Johnny’s still won. He’s turned her into him, a killer and that is how her mother finds her the next early morning, asleep in his arms.<br />OUTLINE:<br />,[object Object]
Middle: The girls play out of fear but one way or the other, they end up failing to complete their step and as a consequence one by one are killed (and caught on camera); brutal and slow.
End: Octavia is the final girl – at last feeling safe, believing that she has finished the last step instead she is confronted with the killer unmasked who turns out to be both her stalker ex boyfriend Johnny and her worst nightmare. She fights him to the death, and wins the game – but in the end, she has only managed to lose everything. SYNOPSIS:<br />EPPING FOREST, KENT (ENGLAND) - EASTER HOLIDAYS -2010<br />It’s Easter, and four best friends are celebrating the little time that they have together before university next year by having a camping trip. Just those five, and they brought their camera too because they’re planning to make lots of new memories there together. <br />Kelly is the first to get cut. Nobody believes her when she tries to tell them that it wasn’t just a branch – there’s no way a branch could be that fast but eventually she is persuaded that it must have been. Someone is stalking them, filming their movements and playing a deadly game with them. Their instructions are sent by text and each step plays on a character flaw of each. Kelly is chosen first, being mocked as she is the gossip who can’t keep her mouth shut to save her life and meets expectations as she fails the first step. She starts telling everyone that she’s going to be on a game show and reads them the text out loud until the last few words: Welcome to the game. Step One: Tell No One. It looks like she’s failed before it’s even really begun. Unseen, a noose appears from the darkness and hooks over Kelly’s head tightening before dragging her off back where it came from. They hear her screaming but arrive too late to help her and watch her die. Anna receives the next text, explaining what just happened to Kelly. Step Two: You must obey, or else take your punishment for failure.<br />They argue about going back home though that won’t be possible as Anna’s mother drove them and she can’t make it back until tomorrow so they’ll have to wait the night. Krissy gets the next instruction. Step Three: Go back to Kelly and take the fire extinguisher. They go back but as soon as Krissy picks up the fire extinguisher, she gets another more cryptic text - Step Four: Do not try to save her. He has played a cruel trick and hidden in the darkness, a can of gasoline falls onto Kelly’s dead body and they see her burst into flame. Krissy can’t bear to see her friend’s body tampered with further and disrespected like this, and so she turns on the fire extinguisher to try and salvage what’s left of Kelly’s body. But the nozzle has been tampered with and is turned back on her, filled not with water vapour but instead it shoots out a burning acid that bubbles her skin and corrodes through within seconds.<br />Now there are two. There are dead bodies all around and Octavia tries to persuade Anna to disregard the texts when she gets the next order. Step Five: Do not ignore me. It must be nearby – watching them. It glues them to the spot in fear, and then it’s Anna’s step. Step Six: Take out Krissy’s eyes, and eat them. To stop Anna playing would mean her death. Anna chews hard at the raw eye along with blood and ashes, forcing it down her throat, downing it – but only ends up throwing up. Right over Krissy’s burnt corroded body, while Kelly’s feet swung in the twilight overhead. Then Anna gets another text of two simple words. You cheated.<br />Before she gets to scream for too long an axe comes flying and embeds itself into her neck and she collapses. A leather gloved hand follows it and Octavia shuts her eyes, refusing to watch this time. The audience can only see out of the corner of her eye – glimpses of a tall, dark silhouette and hacking away sounds. Anna’s head rolls to her side and Octavia leaps up screaming and runs out of the trees and into a clearing. When she pauses for rest however, she gets another text.<br />Step Seven: Find Krissy’s camera. She makes her way back, searching and thinking of she can pass this then maybe she can somehow win the game. She is living now in seconds. <br />She finds it back at camp, and notices it’s connected to a portable projector that wasn’t there before. It’s projecting a blank screen up onto the fabric of their tent and she receives another text. Step Eight: Turn on the camera and watch. Everything. This is your final step. Octavia turns on the camera. There they are, all of them alive again only hours before together and this is when she understands that he had been there from the very beginning, making a bloody film out of them. She relives all of their deaths and with the last one of Anna’s, he finishes with the axe and looks up at the camera, right at her and she shudders; but this is the end of it. Surely the tapes have run out by now? Yet the camera is still running but this time it’s live; and now, she’s only watching herself.<br />She looks up in horror and this is when it hits her, staring at herself wide eyed and messed up on the projection even as another text arrives. Congratulations. You have finished the game! And for the winner, there's only the best. They get to steal the final scene - I hope you enjoy my grand finale.<br />Because you will be my masterpiece.<br />He walks out to meet her calmly, and she’s asking him why even as she tries to run away – when he unmasks. She sees its Johnny, the face of her ex boyfriend, the boy who she fell in love with. He was a few years older than her and a little on the wild side but she’d liked that about him until recently. Like her, odd and artistic but then it got too much. They broke up a few months ago because he got too possessive, frightening and he’s been stalking her ever since. He’d started to harass all her friends before too and that was when she knew it had to end. <br />He would tell her the strangest things; that he would date Kelly so she could pass on stories about his prowess and he’d impress Krissy with his motorbike, and Anna with how smart he was – he wanted to take all her friends away from her. The police had been keeping an eye on him and she thought that she had managed to get away from him, in Kent but it looked like Kelly had let slip again. <br />They have a fight to the death, her using talk to distract him, reminiscing with memories and when she tells him she still loves him she catches him by surprise – just enough to slide his own knife into his stomach. <br />She wins this time. At least, if that’s what you call it when you’re the last one standing, if you can call it worth it when nearly everyone you love is dead and the tape finally runs out, the projector out of battery. She weeps over his body for everything that he was and that’s happened and that is how her mother found her the next day – lying in his arms, so that just for a moment she thought her daughter was dead, too.<br />SCOPE OF FILM<br />,[object Object]
Creates an uneasy suspense for the audience as the game is played, to wonder who will be next to die and who will live, and a sense of horror at the extravagance of brutality with which each girl is killed.
Portrays a sense of irony in the black humour of the last girl Tavy who thought she’d got away only running back to the story’s beginning, and the story comes full circle.LENGTH, DISTRIBUTION & MEDIA<br />,[object Object]
Distribution: Frightfest, Screamfest LA, Mayhem Horror Fest and the NYCHorrorfest festivals on CD with a separate version available online compressed for web streaming.
Video: MiniDV, with 8mm tape for filming; the film will be edited in iMovie; a digital movie camera, 8 megapixels for the hand held view footage; and lastly a digital camera with 12 megapixels to take still photos during filming.
Script: Word.
Treatment: Word.PRODUCTION ELEMENTS<br />,[object Object]

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The steps treatment 3

  • 1.
  • 2. Middle: The girls play out of fear but one way or the other, they end up failing to complete their step and as a consequence one by one are killed (and caught on camera); brutal and slow.
  • 3.
  • 4. Creates an uneasy suspense for the audience as the game is played, to wonder who will be next to die and who will live, and a sense of horror at the extravagance of brutality with which each girl is killed.
  • 5.
  • 6. Distribution: Frightfest, Screamfest LA, Mayhem Horror Fest and the NYCHorrorfest festivals on CD with a separate version available online compressed for web streaming.
  • 7. Video: MiniDV, with 8mm tape for filming; the film will be edited in iMovie; a digital movie camera, 8 megapixels for the hand held view footage; and lastly a digital camera with 12 megapixels to take still photos during filming.
  • 9.
  • 10. The tent will be borrowed from the school’s stock used for the Duke of Edinburgh’s expedition, with permission letters to the teachers in charge of looking after them.
  • 11. The production company New Line Cinema logo will be used in the opening titles, and duly credited.
  • 12. Musical elements: when used at all, classical and instrumental music shall be used with either permission written for and credited or royalty free music.MAIN CHARACTERS:<br />Krissy Lea Richards<br />Anna Kim Thomas<br />Kelly Naomi James<br />Joanna Sue Matthews<br />Octavia Penelope King<br />SUPPORTING CAST:<br />Masked Killer/Johnny Angel<br />Anna’s Mother<br />CHARACTER NAMEPROFILEROLEKrissy RichardsKrissy is a 15 year old pretty blonde who has it all; looks, lots of friends, smarts and a typical family with the whole mother-father-little brother set up. Krissy lives for the moment and does as she pleases, trying daring things each day. She’s the most excitable of the group and will often make something out of nothing just to liven things up, but she is very loyal and protective of her friends even if they do get on her nerves.Krissy is brave, and she has a strong sense of honour so when Kelly is hung she insists even before the third step to go back to her so they could do right by her somehow. She fails her step because it goes against the very basis of who she is as a person, not to save someone, especially her best friends and so she is punished for it.Anna ThomasAnna is also 15 years old (youngest) is Octavia’s best friend. She used to get bullied a lot in her previous school hence the shy side of her. She never thinks anything risky is a good idea as it could be dangerous and is very conservative, particularly in comparison to Krissy. She was always afraid of Johnny, intimidated by him and the others used to laugh at her for it; but she turned out to be right.Anna is quiet, so much that even she gets more or less ignored by the killer because she does not get her own step, and instead if used as a tool to play with Krissy’s emotions as she is set on fire but isn’t meant to be saved.Kelly JamesKelly is a fashion conscious teenager who is the eldest out of the group at 16. All she’s concerned with is getting her hair and makeup right for the day. She’s a huge gossip, and she always had a crush on Johnny – and she didn’t make a secret of it, either. Kelly is the first kill – she is the first to sense that anything is wrong, even before Tavy and she sets the tone for the rest of the film as she fails the simple first step, thus setting a warning to the others. Joanna MathewsJoanna (15) is the mother figure of the group. She makes sure everybody does what they’re meant to and takes authority. She is usually listened to but occasionally gets ignored by the girls who mistake her care for them as bossiness.Joanna always tries to look after everyone, but her strength is only a front; she’s fragile underneath and her greatest weakness is how much she cares about her friends. Seeing three of her friends die in front of her broke her spirits to the point where she would have done anything the game said to stay alive, but unfortunately she doesn’t get the chance.Octavia King Octavia (newly 16, aka ‘Tavy’) is the strangest out of the group. She thinks outside of the box, a vegetarian and is a bit of a moral compass for the other girls with a strong sense of right and wrong. She enjoys weird and wonderful things, and is attracted to artists as shown by her relationship with Johnny – but she is the one who has brought danger to them all as he enters them as players into his game because of her. Tavy is the only one who manages to follow her steps, and she is the Final Girl. She is the quietest, and unlike the others she only gasps quietly when they’re sobbing and screaming. She is one of those who argue the most against following the game and its rules because it goes against her beliefs and offends her morals but in the end even she gives in, and she wins the game.Johnny AngelJohnny is 19 years old and a drama college drop out. He’s a few years older than Octavia and they dated for a year before she broke up with him because he became strange, possessive and threatening to her and her friends, easily jealous. He had artistic tendencies and wanted to be a filmmaker, but his irrational envy and rage got the better of him and he lost the love of his life which destroyed him and so in turn, destroys her.He steals Krissy’s camera in the beginning, and uses it to film the kills of the girls. He has been stalking Octavia for months, harassing her and her friends. He’s been planning his revenge on how to hurt her best. Out of all the girls he has left Octavia for last, wanting to punish her for how she made him feel, because he wants to finish her off personally. He wants to look her in the eye when she dies. She kills him instead in a final fight to the death, though the true victory is his as he got her to sway her moral standards of no killing and she only got to him after he got to everybody else.<br />