This 3 sentence summary provides the key details about the scene: The scene establishes the ending of the story on a sunny morning, showing Ben waking up and noticing his brother Fin still in bed, pale and lifeless after overdosing on prescription pills, leading Ben to desperately shake his brother as he realizes he is dead.

1. Extended Step-Outline Sheet
Scene No 3 Page No 3
Slugline Interior, Summer Day
Endpoint of last scene Credits, No closure
Characters in scene Fin & Ben
Point of scene Establish Ending
Conflict Life & Death
Ending / central
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Scene description (without dialogue) focusing on key micro aspects (mise-en-scène,
camera, sound, editing, etc)
• Scene starts with a cutaway shot establishing weather (binary opposite of opening
scene) as a sunny, cloud free morning.
• Close up of alarm clock:09:00
• Medium shot of Ben waking up.
• Pull out shot of Ben exiting his bedroom as if he were about to get breakfast, he
begins to turn round the corner onto the stairs. As he does this, he notices his brother
still in bed (fin can be seen over the shoulder of ben).
• (Still same shot) Push in as he enters bedroom, he goes to wake up fin.
• (OTS) Ben nudges fin to wake him up, he doesn’t. He repeats, still doesn’t wake up.
Rolls him over, and sees his face extremely pale & lifeless.
• Dolly Zoom as he realises he is dead.
• Starts shaking him intesnly as it pulls out with empty prescription pill packets
scattered on the floor.
• Credits.