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The document outlines the structure and elements of a film script titled 'The Midnight', which is a horror genre narrative set in 1996 New Orleans. It describes various components such as scene headings, character appearances, dialogue, and the use of both restricted and elaborate language to create atmosphere. The script employs a non-linear, multi-stranded narrative focusing on supernatural events and culminates in a pivotal moment involving a ritual that leads to dire consequences for the characters.
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The document outlines the structure and elements of a film script titled 'The Midnight', which is a horror genre narrative set in 1996 New Orleans. It describes various components such as scene headings, character appearances, dialogue, and the use of both restricted and elaborate language to create atmosphere. The script employs a non-linear, multi-stranded narrative focusing on supernatural events and culminates in a pivotal moment involving a ritual that leads to dire consequences for the characters.
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Fade in

The very first item


Title card
on the first page
should be these To display something
words important on the screen
Flashback
When you jump to some
events that happened
earlier in the storyline
Transition
Film editing
Scene Heading
instructions
A one line description of the
location and time of day of Elaborate language
scene The use of descriptive and
Action figurative. It uses similes
The narrative description of and helps to create an eerie
atmosphere
the events of a scene
Character's first Appearance
A description of the character,
name should be CAPPED
Character
A character's name always
appears above his dialogue
Page number
Located 0.5" from the top,
Dialogue
flush night
Lines of speech for each
character
Restricted language Paranthetical
It is a direct and simple, Action or attitude
concise phrases. They are direction for a
used in everyday basis.
Character's first Page number​
Appearance​ Located 0.5" from the top,
A description of the flush night
character, name should be
CAPPED
Dialogue​​
Lines of speech
for each character

Paranthetical​
Action or attitude direction
for a character
Character​
A character's name
always appears above his
dialogue

Dialogue​ Action​
Lines of speech for The narrative description of
each character the events of a scene
Page number​​
Located 0.5" from the
Paranthetical​​ top, flush night
Action or attitude direction
for a character

Character​​
A character's
Dialogue​​ name always appears above
Lines of speech his dialogue
for each character

Action​​
The narrative description
of the events of a scene
Style : Genre:
I use Multi-Stranded style, because at the beginning it This is a horror genre, because I introduce to one of my
starts from all characters, but after go their separate main settings – an old cemetery, where a ritual later on
ways. After the turning point – the moment when they will happen. It all revolves around it and an old mansion at
summon for Queen of Spades and at the third time the first part. Later on in the script, fake jump scares , one
someone stands behind the curtain and the mirror breaks of them was used in a basement and some more in the
at the same moment. This is a crucial moment, when living room, where the main summon happened.
Language:
misfortune falls on them and they don't know what fate
In my script, I use both a restricted language to make
has prepared for them. However, at the end survives only
the story of Queen of Spades more explicit, which doesn't
one character and tells this story, as a survivor. It contains
require any thinking. For instant : "She's always good-
multiple storylines happening simultaneously to make plot
looking " and "I've got a Queen of Spades". It is
more fascinating and captivating Narrative:
minimalistic, clear and straightforward. As well, an action
This is a Non-Linear narrative, because as soon as the like "JOHN sits next to SARAH". It focuses on what is
script begins the flashback begins. It is highlighted on the happening rather than on how it feels. Additionally, I use
first page. It's the story told by a main protagonist – an elaborate language to stylize and give a bigger
Sarah, who uncovers her memory of this moment. At the emotional strength to the story. For example, "This wind
end, will happen the biggest reveal of what happened in howls like a starving wolf at the moon" and "..twisted
it. I want to withhold the information, as much longer as I trees like snakes lying in wait for their pray". It uses
could – until the end. mostly similes, but sometimes could be seen , as well
Introduction : metaphors and in a poetic flow made imagery. It focuses
This is a script for a film "The Midnight". The genre is a om how it feels, such as atmosphere and mood created
horror, which leads towards emotional and supernatural by it. It helps to build immersion and more depthStructure:
idea. In New Orleans, Metairie 1996, Sarah invites her friends It could be considered mostly likely as Episodic Structure,
involvement.
for a sleepover on the outskirts of the city. The mansion, which is because it slowly unfolds in separated episodes/ segments
used to be teeming with a long history of supernatural events, each of the characters own stories and fates. However,
consequently teenagers decide to test one of the legends in a they all start it together, but couldn't finish what they have
reality. They decide to perform a ritual in an old mansion, doing it done. Only one character will – Sarah, who is the weakest
just for entertainment. But they didn’t expect something dire to one. Each characters slowly changes but can't get through
happen. all of this. Each "episode or section" might stand alone on

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