Script

EXT.   CHILDREN FINDING HIDING PLACES. – NON DIEGETIC SOUND OF THE SONG PATIENCE AND PRUDENCE TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME.

Low angle shot of young girl’s feet running up the stairs. 

Cut to tracking shot of boy running down a hallway.

Cut to girl walking aimlessly around the house holding a bear.

Sound of heavy footsteps from somewhere in the house - Cuts to the image of a mans foot hitting the ground.

Cuts to 3 different shots of all the children peering over their shoulder, from each part of the house that they are in, in reaction to the threatening sound of the mans footsteps.

Three way split screen of all the children beginning to run away from the man, trying to find a place to hide.

Cuts to each child’s hiding place that they have found (the older boy and the older girl) however younger girl has not yet found anywhere to hide so sits in the corner of a downstairs room, hugging her toy bear.

POV shot of boy under the bed and girl in the cupboard.

POV shot of younger girl seeing the mans lower body walking into the room slowly.

Cuts to Non diegetic sound of younger girl screaming (we assume she has been caught by the man)

Cuts to the other two children hearing the sound of her scream and both flinch with shock and look worried.

Cuts to footsteps going up the stairs.

Cuts to POV shot of the man entering the room where the boy hides under the bed

Cuts to us seeing the boy under the bed and in his fear moves back slightly, knocking a toy that rolls out from under the bed.

Cuts to toy rolling out from under the bed.

Cuts to the lower body of the man turning, having heard and seen the toy moving, the crouches down to look under the bed.

Non-diegetic sound of the boy then screaming while cuts to older girl in cupboard looking scared.

Man enters girl’s room. Shot from POV through the line of the cupboard.

Shot of the girl’s eye looking through the cupboard doors.

Cuts to shot from behind the man walking towards the cupboard slowly sound of his feet walking.

POV of the girl when the man pulls open the doors of the cupboard quickly.

Man: Got you!

All children: playfully screaming and laughing

Cuts to the man picking up the girl and hugging her (playful screams) and the other children run in and hug the mans legs playfully, then the shot carries on to pan across the shelf where there are family photos of the man and the children, revealing that the man is in fact their father and they are playing hide and seek.