A teenage boy named Joel has an obsession with the insides of living things. He starts by killing animals in the woods to satisfy his curiosity. He then decides to kill his friend Liam by drugging his drink, rendering him unconscious. Joel drags Liam's body into the woods and stabs him to death, finally satisfying his morbid obsession by killing a human. The film ends with Joel standing over Liam's dead body as the credits roll.

1. A Silent scream script:
Film synopsis
A teenager who is an outsider from the rest of society decides to put his sick ideas into
action when he starts to experiment on animals by killing them and soon starts to try that
on humans. Joel (Nathan) is the teenager who finds it hard to function properly in society.
He starts to take an interest into the insides of animals the moves on to his mate Liam
(Ethan). He ends up putting a drug into Liam’s drink which causes himto fall asleep while
Joel ties him up ready for him to cut into him as he can’t defend himself.
Logline
A silent screamis a short horror movie about a teenage boy who has a weird obsession with
the insides of living things then one day decides to kill his friend to feed his obsession.
Screenplay structure
Act1: the main character can be seen standing in the middle of the woods with blood on his
face and top witch is easily visible. Then goes onto him killing an animal in the woods.
Act2: This part is of him planning out the time he is going to kill his friend.
Act3: He actually drugs his friend and kills him in this part finally satisfying his needs.
Film treatment
Joel who seems to be a normal teenager to everyone else has a dark idea of what he likes to
do this includes him looking at the insides of things.
He kills animals in the woods so that he is able to satisfy himself by doing that and after this
has got boring for him he then decides to kill a human.
He plans out this so that he is able to kill his friend he drugs him by putting stuff into his
drink which means that he gets knocked out and then Joel goes and kills himin the woods
after he has tied him up.
Locations:
 River near my house
 My bedroom
 Street near mine
Actors:
 Nathan (Joel)
 Ethan (Liam)
 Kaine (Chris)
Equipment:
 1 camera
 1 microphone
 1 tripod
 fake blood

2.  Dead animal prop
 Adobe Premier pro
 Lights
Target audience
The target audience for this filmwill be 15+ as it would not be suitable for anyone who is
younger than that as it has violence in it and bad language.
Script:
SCENE 1:
THE OPENING OF THE SHORT FILM WILL BE A MID SHOT OF JOEL (NATHAN) STANDING STILL
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA WITH SOME EERIE
MUSIC PLAYING. HE HAS BLOOD ON HIS FACE AND HIS TOP WHICH IS CLEARLY VISIBLE TO
THE PEOPLE WATCHING.
SCENE2:
IT THEN CUTS TO JOELS (NATHANS) ROOM WHERE HE IS SITTING DRAWING INTO HIS BOOK
WHICH CONSITS OF DRAWINGS OF SKELETONS OF ANIMALS AND INSECTS. A TRACK OF HIM
WILL START PLAYING OF HIM TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF AND HOW HE NEVER REALLY FELT
LIKE HE WAS LIKE EVRYONE ELSE.
JOELS AUDIO:
I’ve never really seen myself as the same as everyone else I’ve just been different I suppose.
Social events never really appealed to me I just never really fit in with the other people I
guess I’mjust a freak. My minds been wondering however to new places recently where I
have grown a fond obsession with looking at the inside of creatures. Pictures have been able
to satisfy me up to now but I now want to experience this for myself first hand. I want to
catch something and see for myself.
CAMERA ANGLES:
 FIRST SHOT IS A WIDE ANGLE SHOT OF HIM IN THE CORNER OF HIS ROOM
WRITING
 OVER THE SHOULDER FOR THE FIRST SHOT OF HIM WRITING
 TURNS INTO A CLOSE UP SHOT OF THE BOK IN THE END SHOWING WHAT HE
HAS BEEN WRITING
SCENE3:
JOEL IS WALKING IN THE WOODS WHERE HE HAS SET A TRAP TO CAPTURE A BIRD SO THAT
HE CAN FEED HIS NEW OBSESSION THAT HE HAS RECENTLY JUST ACQUIRED. HE IS ABLE TO
CATCH SOMETHING WHICH THEN HE GOES OVER TO AND STARTS TO CUT INTO THIS
ANIMAL WITH A GRIN ON HIS FACE AS HE IS DOING IT.
JOEL IS SEEING WALKING INTO THE TREES WJERE HE CROUCHES DOWN AND SETS A TRAP
SO THAT HE CAN CATCH SOMETHING WHICH HE CAN KILL. HE WAITS BEHIND A TREE IN THE
DISTANCE WHERE THE CAMERA IS THERE GIVING AN OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT WHICH
ALLOWS PEOPLE WATCHING TO SEE THE TRAP IN ACTION.

3. THE TRAP WILL GO OFF WHICH CAN BE SEEN AS THE BUSHES AROUND START TO SHAKE
INDICATING THAT SOMETHING HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN IT. JOEL THEN INSPECTS THE TRAP
WHERE U ARE THEN ABLE TO SEE THE ANIMAL HE HAS CAPTURED.
CAMERA ANGLES:
 AS HE IS WALKING INTO THE FOREST IS WILL BE A WIDE SHOT SO YOU CAN CLEARLY
SEE HIM WALKING ABOUT.
 SHOT AFTER WILL BE FOCUSED ON A TREE WHICH WILL UNFOCUS ONTO HIM
PUTTING THE TRAP DOWN TO CATCH THE ANIMAL
 FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE A SHOT OF THE TREES SHAKING AS THE OTHER BIRDS
HAVE FLOWN AWAY KNOWING THAT ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN CAUGHT
 THE SHOT AFTER WILL B A CLOSE UP OF THE ANIMAL AND JOEL AS HE STARTS TO
CUT INTO IT.
SCENE4:
THIS SCENE WILL CONSIST OF JOEL WALKNG WITH HIS MATES CHRIS AND LIAM THIS IS
WHERE THEY WILL TALK ABOUT USUAL THINGS LIKE WHAT THERE GOING TO DO ON THE
WEEKEND SUCH AS GOING OUT SKATING OR GOING TO A GIG..
CHRIS: SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE WEEKEND THEN
LIAM: PROBABLY JUST GO FOR A SKATE OR SOMETHING AS USUAL
CHRIS: NO SURPRISE THERE THEN THAT’S ALL YOU DO THESE DAYS
LIAM: IT’S A GOOD WAY TO ESCAPE FROM EVERYTHING
CHRIS: A WILL PROBABLY JUST GO TO A GIG TBH IVE GOT NOTHING ELSE TO DO WHAT
ABOUT YOU JOEL
JOEL: NOTHING REALLY A DON’T HAVE ANY PLANS
CHRIS: YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WHAT DID YOU DO LAST WEEKEND
JOEL: ERM NOT MUCH JUST WENT OUT FOR A WALK IN THE WOODS I TOOK SOME PHOTOS
IF YOU WANT TO SEE
CHRIS: YEAH WHY NOT GIVE IS A LOOK THEN
JOEL THEN SHOWS THEMTHE PHOTOS OF THE WALK HE HAD AS HE SHOWS THEM THE
NORMAL PHOTOS HE ACCIDENTLY SHOWS THEM ONE OF THE PHOTOS OF THE BIRD WHICH
HE HAD KILLED. THEY LOOK AT HIM IN DISGUST AS CHRIS SAYS
CHRIS: WHAT THE FUCKS THAT MATE WHY YOU TAKING PHOTOS OF THINGS LIKE THAT
JOEL: ERM I JUST SEEN IT AND WAS INTRESTED AT WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.
CHRIS: WELL THAT’S WEIRD THAT MATE SEE YOU IN ABIT ANYWAYS AM GOING HOME
LIAM: YEAH SEE YOU LATER MATE
JOEL: SEE YOUS LATER
CAMERA ANGLES
 DOLY SHOT IN FRONT OF THE ACTORS AS THEY ARE WALKING DOWN THE STREET
TALKING
 WHEN JOEL SHOWS HIS PHONE THE CAMERA ANGLE HAS CHANGED SO THAT YOU
ARE LOOKING AT IT FROM JOELS POINT OF VIEW

4.  WHEN THE OTHER TO REACT THE ANGLE CHANGERS AGAIN TO A MID SHOT IN
FRONT OF THEM SO YOU ARE EASY ABLE TO SEE THERE REACTION
SCENE5:
This scene starts with Joel on his phone texting Liamabout going out to get something to
eat one day on the weekend. Cuts to his phone showing the texts that are being sent to
each other. JOEL IS ALSO SEEN MAKING A DRINK WITH SOME SORT OF CHEMICAL IN IT
WHICH WILL KNOCK LIAM OUT SO THAT HE IS ABLE TO KILL LIAM.
SCENE6:
Joel is walking through the trees with Liam as there talking about things that happened in
college that week.
LIAM: THAT FOOD WAS ALRIGHT LIKE I ENJOYED THAT
JOEL: YEAH IT WAS CANNY NICE
Liam: COLLEGE HAS BEEN CANNY BAD THIS WEEK DON’T YOU THINK
JOEL: YEAH ITS BEEN PRETTY BAD LIKE
LIAM: A CANT BE BOTHERED TO GO BACK NEXT WEEK
JOEL: SAME ITS SHIT LIKE, DO YOU WANT A DRINK THEY LOOK DRY EATING THEM
LIAM: ERMYEAH GO ON THEN THERE CANNY DRY LIKE
JOEL THEN PASSES LIAM A DRINK FROM HIS BAG WHICH JUST LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL DRINK
UNTIL THE CAMERA STARTS TO GET BLURRY AS IT HAS NOW TAKING ON LIAMS
PERSPECTIVE IT CUTS TO BLACK.
SECNE7:
THIS SECENE THEN OPENS UP WITH THE CAMERA LOOKING DOWN ON LIAM (JOELS
PERSPECTIVE) WHO IS LYING ON THE FLOOR WITH HIS HAIR ALL MESSED UP AS HE HAS
BEEN DRAGED INTO THE WOODS BY JOEL BY HIS LEGS.
JOEL: SORRY MATE BUT I HAD TO
JOEL THEN STABS LIAM FROM A FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE SO THAT YOU ARE CLEARLY
ABLE TO SEE HIM GETTING KILLED AS THERE WILL BE BLOOD COMING OUT OF LIAMS TOP.
THE CAMERA THEN STARTS TO ZOOMOUT AS YOU ARE THEN ABLE TO SEEE THE FULL SCALE
OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO LIAM. IT THEN CUTS TO BLACK WHERE THE CREDITS WILL
ROLL WITH SOME MUSIC OVER THE TOP OF THEM.