YOU CAN’T HIDE WRITTEN BY FOYEZ JITU CHARACTER PROFILE Chelsie: A young rebellious school girl, smart but naive. Has a strong bubbly personality. She’s changed up her uniform and wearing jeans with a jacket. She tries to look and act mature. Ross: A 19 year old male man. Appears to be like a normal person. Behind the innocent looks he has Psycho characteristics. Very heavy handed when doing things and can become agressive very quickly. Gets abit fustrated when waiting for something. Fidget with hands and rocks side to side when irritated. Wears a white t-shirt with a hoodie, jeans and a leather jacket. 1
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EXT. Cyprus River View - Day SHOT 1: OPENING FILM TITLE REVEALED WHEN CHARACTER WALKS PAST THE SCREEN. (ESTABLISHING SHOT) MAIN FEMALE CHARACTER CHELSIE IS CASUALLY WALKING ALONG THE SIDE OF THE RIVER WITH HEADPHONES OPENING MUSIC PLAYING WITH A MIXTURE OF WATER & SURROUNDING SOUNDS. MUSIC FADES AS SHE PULLS HEADPHONES OUT AND HER PHONE STARTS RINGS. SHOT OF PHONE ’AMANDA CALLING’. SHE PICKS UP PHONE AND STARTS TALKING. WIDE ANGLE SHOTS OF MAIN CHARACTER WALKING WITH PHONE FACING TOWARDS THE CAMERA. VOICE AUDIO WILL BE ADDED AFTER. SHOTS OF HER; SIDE AND BACK. CHELSIE Hey, (pause) Just got out the station. Gonna see him now. (BREAK) I am shitting myself. Mums gonna kill me.(Chelsie giggles while putting her uniform tie in her bag.) (BREAK) Yeah I know, can’t believe I’m finally doing this! I wanted to meet this guy for ages. (BREAK) Yeah, course I know what he looks like. I got him on insta. (BREAK) Yeah, Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. (BREAK) Shit! I gotta go, gotta sort my face out. I look a mess. (CONTINUED)
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I’ll text you later yeah! Bye! SHOT 2: Main female character walks over to the side of the river and sits down on the bench. Shot of her placing her bag on the bench with uniform tie hanging out. Establishing shot of her on the bench then CLOSE UP MAKE-UP SHOTS (We get two main shots. one of her looking at the mirror and the second shot of just the reflection of her eyes in the mirror. We also get shots of her wearing her lipstick.) END OF SCENE 1 2
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EXT. Under Cyprus Bridge - Day Shot 3: Close up shots of the ciggette burning. Sounds of the burning. On the Phone Ross double taps on chelsie’s instagram photo’s. Close up shot of Ross’s eyes looking at the phone. While Ross is smoking. (Rack focus of Chelsie walks closer towards him. Ross drops his Cigarette and stamps on it, placing his phone in his back pocket. Shot of phone in back pocket. Ross smiles at her walking towards him. ROSS: Hey, you alright. CHELSIE: Yeah I’m good,sorry I took long. Got lost getting here. ROSS: Nah that fine. Don’t worry about it. At least your here now. (He says while smiling at her. Chelsie giggles and gets shy.) Want to get something to eat? CHELSIE: Yeah. I’m actually so hungry. ROSS: Come on then,I know a nice place up the road. END OF SCENE 2
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SHOT 4: AFTER FILMING 180 DEGREES CLOSE UP SHOTS OF THE MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERS TALKING. THEY BOTH WALK ALONG THE STREET HOLDING HANDS. A SLIDER SHOT OF THEM WALKING TOGETHER, WILL SLIDE HORIZONTALLY. AND THE SHOT WILL HAVE A WIDE VIEW OF THEM WALKING AND THE LENS WILL SLOWLY SLIDE INTO A LAMPOST TURNING THE SCREEN COMPLETLY BLACK. THIS WILL THEN MATCH THE SIMILAR SHOT THAT WILL BE FILMED INSIDED THE CAFE BUT WILL START FROM BLACK FADE TO THE WIDE VIEW OF THE CAFE. SOUND OF THE ENVIROMENT WILL BE RECORDED. THE CHARACTERS WILL BE SITTING AT THE TABLE EATING. CAMERA ANGLES 180 DEGREES. INT. TEA ISLAND CHELSIE: Aww thanks for this. I wanted to go halfs. I feel bad. ROSS: Don’t be. Its rude to make a lady pay. CHELSIE: Aww..Thanks Ross. ROSS: Don’t worry about it! CHELSIE: So do you live round here? ROSS: Round here? Nah. Did you tell anyone your meeting me? CHELSIE: errm...no. Why? ROSS: Nah just asking. I really like you you know. Do you like me? CHELSIE: Well we’ve only just met. ROSS: So you don’t like me? CHELSIE: I didn’t say that. Yeah.. I do kinda like you. (She laughs)
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ROSS: That’s good because I really like you. (SCILENCE) (Chelsie blushes) While Chelsie eats. Ross brings out his camera with flash on and takes a mugshot of chelsie. CHELSIE: Ugh, no ross! I look ugly. Delete it. ROSS: (Laughs abit) I just want to keep it for memories. CHELSIE: Can you just delete it please! ROSS: No! (Laughs abit crazy) CHELSIE: (Gets annoyed) Come on ross, Delete it now! Chelsie tries to grab the phone from ross’s hand but ross pulls away revealing some blood stains on his tshirt. Chealsie is curious. CHELSIE: Ross?(pause) Whys there blood on your tshirt? ROSS: Oh yeah (pause) erm, well I cut myself shaving earlier and it was quite bad. (pause)Doesn’t matter now it’s gonna get messy again anyway. What did you think it was? CHELSIE: I thought you were hurt. ROSS: Aww no, I’m fine. (Awkward pause)
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CHELSIE: Ross...Do you mind getting me a drink? ROSS: Sure. Ross gets up and goes towards the counter to get a drink and leaves his mobile on the table. Chelsie picks up the phone and goes into the pictures and finds similar mugshots of girls and then a picture of each girl dead. She starts to panic, before ross comes back with the drinks, she places the phone back in the original position. ROSS: Here you go. CHELSIE: (Scared) Ah thank you. (pause) Errr...Do you mind if I pop to the loo? ROSS: Nah, sure. Go ahead. Leave your stuff I’ll watch it. CHELSIE: (Sarcatic laugh.) N ah i’m okay, ill take it with me thanks. ROSS: Ok. I’ll be waiting for you.(Chelsie gets up and goes into the bathroom.) END OF SCENE 3 4
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INT- Bathroom SHOT 5: A WIDE ANGLE SHOT OF THE EMPTY CREEPY BATHROOM IS SHOWN. THE MAIN FEMALE CHARACTER RUSHES IN TO THE BATHROOM BREATHING HEAVILY AND PUTS HER BAG ON THE SIDE OF THE SINK. ONE SHOT IS HER LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR. THEN THE NEXT SHOT IS HER HEAD AND SHOLDER IN FRAME, AND SHES LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA. HER FACE IS MOVING IN A DOUBLE EXPOSURE EFFECT. AND A HIGH SQUEEKY SOUND EFFECT IS PLAYING TO GIVE THE ILLUSION SHE IS PANICING. THE IMAGES SWICH FAST IN AND OUT BACK TO THE SCENE WHERE SHE IS LOOKING AT IMAGES ON THE PHONE. THEN TO THE BLOOD ON THE SHIRT AND TO THE MALE CHARACTERS CREEPY FACE IN HER POINT OF VIEW. THEN BACK TO THE MIRROR SHOT. SHE RUMMAGES THOUGH HER BAG. THIS IS A (CONTINUED)
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ABOVE THE HEAD SHOT. SHE TRIES CALLING HER FRIEND AMANDA. SHOT OF HER PHONE CALLING AMANDA Chelsie calls amanda (sound fx of a beep and her hanging up the phone) CHELSIE: Shit! (Shot of her phone with no signal) Chelsie sobs. She leans on an wall or door and starts sobbing. Suddenly ross knocks on the door. ROSS: Chealsie!? Are you alright? Chelsie looks at the door and wipes her tears away. With a worried expression on her face. CHELSIE: (She whispers) Shit! (BREAK) Hold on... just a minute Chelsie gets her stuff together and fixes her make-up and leaves. END OF SCENE 4 5
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SHOT 6: A FULL BODY SHOT OF ROSS STANDING CREEPLY OUTSIDE THE TOILET. HIS HEAD TWISTS FROM LOOKING AT THE SIDE TO LOOKING DIRECLY AT THE CAMERA. THEN A SHOT OF CHELSIE SCARED AND WAKING SLOWLY OUT THE BATHROOM. INT. Outside The Bathroom (Ross is standing out side the bathroom swaying side to side and fidgeting with his hands. His mental personality is shown here alot.) ROSS: Why were you taking so long? (BREAK) I thought you were going to leave me.(Laughs very crazyly.) (BREAK) You can’t leave, this is only our first date. (BREAK) (MORE) (CONTINUED)
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(BREAK) (cont’d) (Whispers and strokes her hair) Don’t worry i’ll look after you...I won’t hurt you, I promise. (Chelsie is frozen and is nodding along very scared.) ROSS: Come on then. Lets go play in the arcade! You are going to come with me...aren’t you? (Chelsie nods again scared. Ross holds tightly onto chelises arm.) SHOT 7: A CLOSE UP SHOT OF THE HANDS AND ROSS GRIPPING TIGHTLY ON HER ARM. MATCH SHOT OF THE ARMS IN THE ARCADE. BOTH WILL BE FADED IN TO GIVE THE EFFECT OF THE CHANGE IN LOCATION. END OF SCENE 5 6
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SHOT 8: WIDE ANGLE SHOT OF THE EXTRIOR VIEW, OF THE CHARACTERS WALIKING INTO THE ARCADE. THEN A FRONT FACING VIEW OF THEM WALKING DEEPER INTO THE ARCADE. INT. ARCADE ROSS: Look I’ll win this for you. (Camera shot is focusing on ross playing the game. While ross plays the game Chelsie escapes and hides behind machines. Ross turns around and realises she’s missing.) ROSS: Chelsie?!(pause) Oh I see. (Chelsie is hiding behind a machine and is peering through a gap and can see ross. Suddenly Ross is out of sight and she can only hear his voice.) ROSS: Time to come out now! (in a creepy voice) (BRAKE) The fun had only just started. (BRAKE) Come on Chelsie.....
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When scilent she starts breathing heavily and tension music is being played and the suddenly a hand grabs her sholder,Ross apparares. ROSS: I found you!(Chalsie panics and tries to escape but ross holds her arms.) ROSS: Your not leaving me this time! Chelsie kicks her leg back at ross and ross releases her and chelsie runs away. Ross slowly gets back up from a painful posion and chases her with a little limp. END OF SCENE 6 7
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SHOT 9: WIDE SHOTS OF CYPRUS RIVER VIEW AND PAN FROM THE RIVER. A ESTABLISHING SHOT AND YOU CAN SEE THE TWO CHARACTERS FAR APART FROM EACH OTHER. EXT. Cyprus River View ROSS: Chelsie! You can’t run! CHELSIE: Get away from me! ROSS: Why are you running?... Today was menat to be perfect!!!(Shots of Chelsie looking back scared) (BREAK) Are you scared? (Creepy Laugh) (PAUSE) I said I won’t hurt you! Come on... you said you liked me remeber. ROSS WALKS CLOSER CHELSIE: STAY AWAY! This date is over, okay? ROSS: No, no no, this date isn’t over Chelsie.
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ROSS WALKS CLOSER CHELSIE: What do you mean it isn’t over? ROSS WALKS CLOSER CHELSIE: I said stay back! Why are there pictures of dead girls on your phone? ROSS WALKS EXTREAMLY CLOSER I said! Stay back! ROSS: Don’t worry, you’re special unlike them. CHELSIE: (Screams. Ross grabs chelsie, pushes her against the edge of the river and starts strangling her.) ROSS: You can’t go ruining our date... it was meant be perfect.But now you have disapointed me! Chelsie is struggling to get out of his tight grip. Close up of her face being strangled. Suddenly sound of head being hit three times. Ross drops to the floor. Blood squirst of chelsie’s face. Close up of hammer/knife dripping with blood. Amanda killed ross. CHELSIE: Amanda? AMANDA: Chelsie! Are you alright? (Hugs chelsie) It’s ross he is a serial killer and the police are looking for him! Quick we need to go!(PANIC AND LEAVE) (VOICES FADE OUT) Chelsie and Amanda runaway leaving the body. Shot of a pan down to the body. Close up of the wallet that has fallen out. Close up of the ID card name that says Tom Stansfield.
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SHOT 10: CLOSE UP OF THE NEWSPAPER HEADLINE ’SERIAL KILLERS TWIN FOUND DEAD’. THEN A ESTABLISHING SHOT OF A PERSON SITTING AND MOVES NEWSPAPER DOWN AND REVEALS FACE. (soft theme music playing) ROSS: (Looking directly at the camera) You may have killed my brother but you can’t hide from me. THEME MUSIC GETS LOUDER (WALKS FORWARD) Camera zooms into chest area and blacks out. END OF SCENE 8 FILM CREDITS THE END