don’t look back/ who to kill

scene one(an appetite)

[a sink](probably would be better in black and white)

{background music: CLASSICAL music}

Shot-1

[close-up. Camera focus on the hole.]

A sink. Water flows. Then blood joins the flow.

{sound: the tap is opened. Then the sound of water flowing}

Shot-2

[close shot. Camera backs up a bit]

Now we can see hands filled with blood is under the running tap.

[close shot. Camera pans up a bit]

A mirror is up the sink. We can see a person is washing hands and the clothes is covered with blood.

{sound: the sound of water. }

Shot-3

Black-out.

{sound: after the black-out. The sound of closing the tap.}

 

scene two

[street. Crowded. Cars and people passing. Better in yellow street light.]

Shot-1

[wide shot. First camera fixed shot.(and we can see Leo becoming bigger and bigger into the frame.) Then camera pans from left to right.]

Street. night. In yellow street light. A guy(Leo) is driving a motorcycle(motorcycle would be better but bicycle also can do.) from left to right.

{sound: natural sound on the street}

*guess it’s a good time to show the title.

Shot-2

[wide shot.fixed.]

Leo driving his motorcycle on the street from left to right.

Shot-3

[wide shot to middle shot. First camera fixed then turn from left to right.]

Leo is becoming bigger in the frame then we follow him till he parks his cycle and jumps out of which.

Shot-4

[middle shot backs off to wide shot. Then fixed]

Leo goes into a convenient shop. We wait for him while the camera continually backs off and the shot turns into a wide shot. Then Leo goes out of the shop and jumped back to his cycle. Then Leo driving his cycle from left to right and goes out of the frame.

Shot-5

[middle shot. After Leo stops camera turns from Leo’s back to Leo’s side face.]

Now we are following Leo’s back and going through streets behind Leo’s motorcycle. After several streets. Leo stops and jumps out of the cycle again.

Shot-6

[wide shot. fixed.]

Leo standing besides his cycle(probably smoking) with his face towards the camera. People passing through.

 

Scene three

[a staircase with (endless) stairs. Whatever the light(white or yellow though it probably is cooler in some surreal color such as blue or green)](shots distorted.)

{adding Ray’s breath or heartbeat into the background}

Shot-0

Black.

{sound: knife stabbing. A guy’s moaning. Then the sound of door closing.}

Shot-1

[close-up. ]

A hand holds a knife. Blood please.(手倒着握刀)

Shot-2

[close-up.]

Feet moving from left to right. Blood on shoes. Might be better if blood also on the floor.

Shot-3

[wide shot. Camera slowly zooms in.]

A door. Might be better if the light is blinking.

Shot-4

[middle shot. Character side face. moves from left to right.]

A guy(Ray) is walking downstairs. We cannot see the face but only Ray’s hand holding the knife and blood on the hand and the cloth.

Shot-5 *really quick

[close-up]

Ray’s eyes.

Shot-6

Same as shot-3. But the camera zooms further in.

Shot-7

[middle shot. Character back.]

Ray walks downstairs. We only see the back of Ray and still cannot see the face. Ray becomes smaller and smaller when moving downstairs.

Shot-8

Same as shot-5.

Shot-9

[close shot. camera zooms out. Then camera backs off with the movement.]

We start from shot-8 in ray’s eyes, then zooms out and we can see the face, then continually zooms out and we can see the body with the hand holding the knife. Ray’s keeping walking downstairs.

Shot-10

same as shot-6. And the camera zooms further and further and when we almost about the gap of the door, the door is being opened from outside. And we are trying to look through the gap, then

{sound: click.}

Shot-11

Black out. For two or three seconds, then

Shot-12

[middle shot. fixed. But because ray is going towards the camera. Ray suddenly becomes bigger.]

SUDDENLY, Ray popping out of the door. Ray walks towards the camera, then Ray’s face becomes a close-up, ray’s searching for something. looking left and right.

{sound:the door is opened loudly. Then the noise of the street gradually joins in.}

#Scene two and scene three are actually needed to be edited together and they are made to happened in the same time. After the last shot(shot-12) in scene three, then we come to the scene below.#

 

Scene two to three

[street. Outside the DOOR.]

Basically it happens on the shot-6 in scene two. Then Ray is rushing onto Leo’s motorcycle. And when ray is jumping on the motor. The shot is seemed as paused(yeah just like fight club). Then their names(ray and leo) is showed beside their characters on the frame.

 

Scene four

[street.]

Shot 1

[middle shot. Camera towards Leo and ray.]

Ray sits behind the leo. They’re driving on the street which is more hollow than before.

Shot 2

Lines part

[the close-up goes to the people who is not talking. Continually switching following the lines.]

Leo: 怎么这么慢?

Ray:今天下雨了

Leo:跟我走吧

Ray:我怎么感觉这一切不会结束

Leo:我买了,明天的机票

Ray:(停顿)我要收拾一下东西

Leo:明天看起来还要下雨

Shot 3

[close-up.]

Switching between the lips of the two. So the conversation did again only this time we follows their lips and there’s no sound.

 

Scene five

[Ray’s home]

Shot 1

[middle shot. Camera starts to rotating. Then turns into wide shot.]

Ray lies on the bed. Eyes closed. With the zooming out of the camera Ray seems smaller and smaller. At last, ray’s eyes suddenly open.

Shot 2 *mixed in the rotating of shot 1

Door zooming in (shots as same as which in scene three)

Shot 3

[middle shot]

Ray sits up on the bed. Ray reaches the watch and finds out it’s broken and stops at the 12’o clock.

Shot 4

[close-up. Camera moves from right to left.]

Focus on the hand of ray while ray moving from right to left in home.

Shot 5 *really quick, distorted

The same as the shot 1 in scene three.

Shot 6

[middle shot. Camera from the suitcase to ray]

Ray opens the suitcase.

Shot 7

[close-up. Then turns into close shot]

Ray’s front face. Ray seems astonished. Then we follow ray’s viewpoint to the suitcase. The suitcase is full and ready.

Shot 8

[middle shot.camera moves from suitcase back to Ray’s face. Then follows ray’s viewpoint to the fridge in the corner.]

Shot 9 *quick, distorted

Same shot as shot 1 in scene one

Shot 10

[middle shot.]

Ray opens the fridge and there’s a bottle of milk.

Shot 11

[close-up]

The expiration date of the milk. Then camera moves to the wall. And the calendar has the same date as the expiration date.

Shot 12

[close-up]

Ray’s eyes. Horrified.

Shot 13

The zooming door again.

Shot 14

[middle shot]

Follow the back of ray. Ray is walking from right to left in home.

Shot 15

door. Again.

Shot 16

Ray is walking the towards the door in home.

Shot 17

Black out.

Shot 18

The same scene as shot 12 in scene three. But this time Ray stopped after popping out. Ray staring in front.

Shot 19

A person is on the ground. With the face behind and back on.

Shot 20

Eyes of ray.

Shot 21 *quick

Knife stabbing. Towards the camera.

Shot 22

The person on the ground continuously zooming in.

Shot 23

Ray turns the person on the ground around. And finds out that person ray killed is ray himself(herself)

Shot 24

Dozens of flashback, distorted.

Ray opens eyes on the bed dozens of time.

Ray raises the knife dozens of time.

Ray pushes the door dozens of time.

Shot 25

Ray’s face. Astonished.

 

Scene six(happy ending)

[the sink]

Reverse scene one and it seems the blood and the water are inhaled by the tab.then camera turns  up and we can see Leo in the mirror. Then camera pans from left to right and there’s a pile of bottles of milk with continuous expiration dates.

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