@Sean and Adam ASAP/ Phil and Alan: Development: Script
@ Sean and Adam: Please take a moment to read through the script. I need to take your opinions into account so please share your thoughts. If we can make some revisions before Thursday’s afternoon session with Alan, that would be great.
@ Phil regarding blog: The layout of the blog is unfinished, but the images in particular are such a pain. I will sort this out at some point (edit: Today).
@ Phil/Alan: Concerning the pitch for unit 1 and unit 2 do you know what dates those might be in week 5? On the timetable there is no slot for either. Therefore, are the pitches going to be informal and take place Tuesday and Thursday respectively?/ Are you planning to post a “countdown and requirements” on group blog?
I will also be posting this to my own blog, so if you have a moment please take a gander at the script.
It’s been tough trying to envision the scenarios and any feedback/critique will be greatly appreciated. Please leave a comment on either group blog or my blog. Trying to nail the script before Thursday! I really hope I have provided enough information for you to produce a mental vision of our trailer!
Revised Cast (W/O character descriptions):
Onscreen cast of four members. The news crew consisting of two onscreen and one off-screen (PRESENTER, SOUND MAN, and O.S. CAMERAMAN) and the tour guide scientist.
· Male Tour Guide Scientist
· Female Presenter
· Soundman
· Cameraman (always O.S.)
· Male Captive/Corrupt Scientist
I started working on the initial script. Requires group verification and Alan’s approval, so I’m expecting to mash this up tenfold. Our objective is to get the green light by the end of this Thursday.
ATTACK OF THE ROBOT SPIDERS
11.10.2011
Act 1 (Introduction to the aftermath of lab)
FADE IN:
INT. UNDERGROUND LAB
(CINEMATIC P.O.V.)
The radio is playing. A laid-back style. Camera pans walls and laboratory equipment. Sleek, super hi—tech. Byzantine. There are a series of blueprints on the walls and tables. Signals on blueprints to suggest something has happened and camera examines the blueprints in a sequential order. Revealed is the discovery of a new experiment and the dangers of its evolution. “It” is now dangerous, evolved, independent, and intelligent. One blueprint really stands out; connecting up the dots of the story.
There is a lamp flashing on and off on a desk within a small room, the rays of light touching a “classified” document. Camera focuses on the document and lamp in the foreground and one of the corridors in the distance extending into infinite darkness. Suddenly, a noise works its way towards the camera. In a heartbeat, something attacks the lamp. ELECTRONIC IMPACT RINGS OUT. Lights OFF. Blackness. Electric legs and transitional SFX.
TEXT ON SCREEN
Studio ident
“A StudioCrawler Production”
Fade out:
Interlude
Act 2 (one year later)
Silent, screechy strings start to play with a beat.
FADE IN:
1. INT. GROUND FLOOR ENTRANCE VAULT DOOR
(Dolly-in) Shadows move towards the door. Sound of human voices. Someone begins to open the sealed doors.
(Cutaway) On the wall, there is a notice/dynamic symbol telling the characters where they are in the building. A sign on the side.
(Close Up) Of a hand on lever beside electricity dashboard. With some effort, he raises the lever to turn it on.
(Wide shot of cast slowly trailing in one after another (except SOUNDMAN who is O.S.) Tour guide scientist operates the hydraulics for the platform leading down to the underground; the only unblocked route to the underground facility.
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST
Pings in a code.
CUT TO:
2. INT. UNDERGROUND LAB
(Establishing Shots) Three shots of laboratory.
The characters arrive in the central hub.
(Noddy shot)
CAMERAMAN (O.S.)
“I’m going to setup here.”
PRESENTER SOUNDMAN ((O.S.)
Looks towards soundman- “Yeah sure. Let’s do this quick and
easy.”
Looks back.
* nods *
“All right!”
CUT TO:
(P.O.V.) TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST picks up blueprint/duplicate of blueprint (much larger than first at beginning of teaser trailer)
(Two shot)
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST
“Evidence is everywhere. Such advanced science, unexposed to the world.”
PRESENTER
“Gives me the jeepers just looking at that thing!”
* shivers *
CUT TO:
(Mid shot)
SOUND MAN and CAMERAMAN move down the hall, opening doors left and right as other two stand at the center of it all.
SOUNDMAN (O.S.)
“Just look at it... (Pause)”
Turns around to CAMERAMAN
SOUNDMAN
“It’s dead empty!”
(Close-up) SOUND MAN listens carefully. It’s barely audible, but it’s there. A low mechanical sound. It sounds like legs. He looks up at the grille that covers an air duct where the sound is coming from.
SOUNDMAN
(to CAMERAMAN)
“Do you hear that?”
CAMERAMAN
* Nods, resulting in slight camera tilt *
CUT TO:
(Wide shot of cast)
Sudden power failure.
PRESENTER SOUND AND CAMERA MAN
Simultaneously scream
* Squeals * * gasps *
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST (O.S.)
“Nothing to be afraid of everyone. There’s a bug in the power. (PAUSE)”
He’s not kidding...
“Any minute now”
PRESENTER SOUND MAN
Simultaneously screams as something moves past and touches them
* Squeals * * Shouts *
Lights turn back on.
SOUNDMAN notes that one of the unopened doors is now open. Along this new corridor wires are torn out of the walls, and in the distance it is very dark. A few emergency lights dotting the corridor.
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST
(Understands something is out of the norm)
“Feels like experimental misdirection.”
PRESENTER
looks around the faces to see if anybody else felt ruffling against legs.
Worried eyes lock onto SOUNDMAN. He returns an expression of facial concern.
A dead silent pause falls on everyone. It’s not rocket science. Sensing that something is wrong, Suddenly things become more urgent.
Lights jitter on and off.
Act 3 Finale wrap-up
TEXT ON SCREEN/ V.O.
“Inside a strange forbidden plantation, alive, deep in the underground hidden from man...”
Security cam monitors empty corridor. Abrupt, sudden shadow crops up in corner of its peripheral.
CUT TO:
SOUNDMAN
Frantically punches the buttons on the door.
* DENIED *
Again. AGAIN.
* DENIED *
CUT TO:
(Medium Close Up)
PRESENTER
(Panic)
“We’re trapped and they’re herding us like cattle!”
Darkly expectant music starts to play.
CUT TO:
The emergency lights have activated. Their surreal red glow makes everything seem ten times worse.
CUT TO:
PRESENTER
(Over shoulder shot of PRESENTER and dark intersection)
Trying not to alert the thing that is lingering in the shadows nearby, the presenter covers her mouth trying not to squeal. Pushes her back to a wall. Standing there and panic sets in. Clutches onto flashlight. Gradual approach of a robot spider.
CUT TO:
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST (O.S.)
“Where is it coming from?”
TEXT ON SCREEN/ V.O.
“It’s above, below, and around you!”
CUT TO:
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST
During flight, RUNS and STUMBLES into a metal, gooey web between the double doorway.
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST
* GASP *
TEXT ON SCREEN/ V.O.
“Watch yourself!”
TOUR GUIDE SCIENTIST (O.S.)
* SCREAMS *
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!”
He loses his dignity, the audience lose their popcorn.
CUT TO:
(event where characters are routed during story/teaser trailer)
PRESENTER
The presenter lashes out, turns to long corridor, almost hyperventilating. Begins to flee.
PRESENTER
* Squeals *
Runs through a long corridor. Suddenly, collapses and glasses come off—
(Vision blur)
PRESENTER (CONT’D)
* Screams *
PRESENTER (CONT’D)
Releases grip of flashlight and it travels down the corridor, the beam of the flashlight begins to pulsate-
Music reaches a crescendo! Slightly menacing undertone running mostly inconspicuously in the background. low-changing melodies or simply swinging sounds that are often perceived subconsciously. They shall run the subwoofer for a long time simply with a sonorous bass sound. The sound contributes enormously to the atmosphere of the film. The subwoofer is important for a powerful punch.
– then, out of nowhere, sound of electronic legs hammer away at the irritating light. Then, there is total and utter pitch black.
TEXT ON SCREEN/ V.O.
“Creepy, crawly...(pauses)”
* Sound of mechanical legs moving *
“-and robotic!”
PRESENTER (O.S.)
* Shudders with disgust, Goosebumps, elongated scream *
CUT TO:
PRESENTER
Trembling uncontrollably with impaired vision, she looks around, eyes filled with revelation. Weeping.
CUT TO:
TEXT ON SCREEN/(V.O.?)
“[Names here]”
“Including, guest star [Name here] as the Captive Scientist:”
CAPTIVE/ CORRUPT SCIENTIST
The wolfish smile has a sadistic edge to it.
“You don’t even want to know about the mother.”
Mobile phone rings until credits fade...
After we see all of the scenes, shadow is revealed; shadow is growing
(replication of spiders). Mummy spider shows herself. Cuts to black.
TEXT ON SCREEN/(V.O.?)
“In... Attack of the Robot Spiders”
End credits.
End
Notes:
Nobody is really sure about the nature of the Spider, so they are afraid of it. However, spider evolves itself for dominance, learning to reproduce by collecting metallic compounds and using electr1icity to replicate more nanites into the image of itself as a spider. The spiders are not attacking the people, they are after the batteries in the cameras and in their technological devices. What is not revealed is whether the cast die (they do not) but the viewer believes they will suffer an inevitable fate disturbing the lab.
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