Monday, 3 January 2011

Section 6: CHARACTER OUTLINES AND SHOOTING SCRIPT

Character Profiles
Brad Hope- He is 27 years of age with black hair and blue eyes. He is quite tall with a good muscle tone and upon speaking to him, people find him rather pleasant. He is the main Protagonist, but he is also considered an Anti-Hero, due to revelations made later in the film. He was adopted as a child, and was also beaten, and suffered greatly during his youth. He suffers from Delusional Disorder and also, due to the people he kills in the story, he actually suffers from Hypnagogia. The Delusional disorder caused him to fabricate up a story of assassinations, and thus he saw Andy and his bodyguards as notorious gang members. He is dating the daughter of Andy, though he doesn’t realise they are related at the time. He is eventually committed to a mental institution.

Rachel Lopez, or Rachel Carter- she is 25 years of age and has long brunette hair which reaches to just below her shoulders in light curls, and brown geyes. She is slender and petite and for the most part is rather quiet, though she will speak up if she wants her voice to be heard. Her real name is Rachel Carter, but she uses a fake name because someone is hunting down her father’s bodyguards, presumably in an attempt to get to her and him, so she used her mother Alexandra’s maiden name. She is eventually killed by Brad when she tries to make him see sense.

Andrew ‘Andy’ Carter- 56 years of age, has brown hair which is greying slightly, and green eyes like his daughter. He is a wealthy and powerful businessman who is often protected by a lot of bodyguards. Due to his illness, Brad fabricates him as a renowned mobster who is dangerous and needs to be killed. He is very much a family orientated man, and after losing his wife due to illness, he is very protective of Rachel and would do anything to protect her. He is eventually killed by Brad.

Karen Whitefair – A 30 year old personal assistant to Peter Johnson, who runs a firm which pays people to kill certain individuals. She is tall with black hair in a short bob and cold ice blue eyes. She often wears pencil skirts and it is revealed that she doesn’t actually exist, that she is merely a figment of Brad’s hallucinations.

Peter Johnson- Not a lot is known about the head of the firm which hires people to kill others. He is shrouded in mystery and is only mentioned in the film by name, and is never seen on screen or described. It is discovered that he too is also simply a fiction of Brad’s imagination.

Andrew’s bodyguards- they are there to protect and watch over their leader, but Brad creates a fictional world, where these bodyguards are actually dangerous mobsters, and in order to get his payment, he would have to kill them all and he creates a hierarchy system to place the bodyguards in.

Below is the script of the opening scene of the thriller


Script
[Scene begins in an alleyway at night. Everything is silent except for his breathing]
                    [BRAD is panting for air, his hands on his knees and is finding it hard to breathe]

[BRAD glances around nervously]

Men in background: [Shouting loudly]

[BRAD hears them and begins to run down the alleyway. He runs out of the alleryway and to his garden]
                 [He fumbles with his keys to unlock the door and drops them]

[BRAD picks up the keys and opens the door, running inside]



[New scene]
[Set in a open hallway with a table with a mirror above it, with stairs in the background]

[BRAD is leaning against the door, out of breath from running. He walks to the mirror and table and takes off his gloves and coat and looks up at the mirror.

Brad: [sharp intake of breath as he sees a dark shadow behind him] [turns around]

[Nothing is behind him, so BRAD turns back to the mirror and nothing is there.

[BRAD exits upstairs and goes to his room]


[New Scene]
[Set in a normal bedroom with a bed, corkboard and television]
              [Corkboard has crossed off pictures of men on it, leaving only the top one uncrossed]

[BRAD walks to the corkboard]
                   
Brad: [picks up a pen and goes to cross off the last picture, but sees a picture of a girl flash in his minds eye] [shakes head]

[BRAD crosses off the last picture and picks up the TV remote, sitting down on the bed and turning it on]
            [A news report about some murders plays in the background]

Brad: [lies back on the bed smiling and closes his eyes]

[Scene fades to black]

[Opening credits roll]

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