The document outlines 8 storyboards or "boxes" for a short film. Box 1 shows quick shots of news reports about a missing child. Box 2 shows the child at a grave 10 months later. Box 3 establishes the child with her new foster family, though she is shown swinging alone and talking to herself. Box 4 has the parents questioning things about the child after hearing her. Box 5 depicts the child drowning herself in the bathroom. Box 6 shows the child being driven to the hospital screaming and having to be restrained. Box 7 shows the child attacking nurses in the hospital. Box 8 suggests the child has escaped and shows her grave at the end.
3. Box 1: Quick changing shots with camera shutter sound, showing images of different
news reports and the child’s drawing. News report and police report sound (talking)
over the shots and zooms onto papers.
Box 2: Low angle, looking up at child standing on a hill then walks off. (News report
stops here). Fade to next shot of child kneeling by a grave, zooms in on her face
slowly, whilst getting closer child starts to look at the camera.
Box 3: Fade to a black screen, words appear on screen (10 months later).
Box 4: Establishing shot of child and her new family. Quiet creepy music starts. Fades
onto shot of child in garden swinging on her own.
Box 5: Fades onto a shot of child on her own on her bed speaking to self. Hear footsteps
then shot fades to the parents walking up the stairs, listening to what the child is
saying.
Box 6: Fades to a shot of the parents questioning everything about this child, flicking
through paper work, ringing adoption agency etc.
Box 7: Hear running water behind a door (child’s foster mother listening outside), then
water starts splashing around, parent tries to get in but its locked then it unlocks by
self. See shot of child drowning.
Box 8: Fade shot to drive to hospital.When she gets to hospital and is getting help she
starts screaming (going crazy). Doctors have to tie her down whilst they analyze her
mental health state. Fade to a shot of child on the bed with knees to her chest rocking
which a disturbing nursery rhyme playing over.
4.
5. Box 1: Establishing shot of children playing in play area and then switch to a
shot-reverse-shot of the girl on her own and back to the children playing.
Can hear the diegetic sound of the laughing and the happiness of the
children.
Box 2: Fade too the girl at home showing her on her own whilst the rest of
her family play together. Sad music being played over the top.
Box 3: Sad music turns creepier as the girl starts getting revenge on her
siblings for leaving her out.
Box 4: Fade to child being left on her own again in her bedroom and she
starts talking to herself and seeing evil spirits.Creepy music continues.
Box 5: Spirits start telling her to kill her siblings and she speaks back to
them. She does so one by one and an over the shoulder shot of the camera
looking over the girls shoulder at the siblings face as she kills each one.
Box 6: Parents put her in hospital and we see a pan shot of the girl attacking
the nurses in the hospital because she is going crazy.
Box 7: Fade to black screen saying ‘Escapes...’ then you see a shot of the girl
standing at the end of her driveway to her house looking at it.
Box 8:We see a gradual zoom onto the grave of the girl.