Storyboard!
After a very long talk with my family and hundreds of ideas flying back and forth, the plot is finalized. I think it is perfect and doable without seeming too ‘childish’ or like it was filmed by a 17-year-old. The film will open with a close-up of a cell phone screen. It will start ringing with a call from a random person (whose name I want to symbolize/mean something, so it is undecided at the moment). A teenage girl will be lying down in her bed, awakened abruptly by the call. She will answer the phone and have a conversation with her girl friend. The opening is “the audience’s initial entry into the world” and has to contain the vital information needed to understand the film. [1] This phone conversation will provide that knowledge. It will contain the information telling viewers about the scopophobia the character is dealing with. After hanging up, she will walk to the bathroom and wash her face. While walking downstairs, some teddy bears will be sitting on a table or the floor, appearing to be staring at her. This will scare the teenager and hopefully maybe even give audiences a little pop-up/jumpscare or a better understanding into the seriousness of her phobia.
The teenager will make some coffee and sit down to watch the television. As she flips through the channels, they will make a sentence saying “he is watching you.” She will get freaked out and turn off the tv. The black reflection in the television will show the girl sitting down with a man standing behind her. The coffee cup will be dropped and broken in slow motion. Once she turns around there will be no one behind her and the man will have disappeared in the reflection as well. Gasping and hyperventilating, the girl will pull out some post-it notes and write “you are alone” on it to remind herself. She will go to the refrigerator to stick it on the door, where several sticky notes will be revealed full of messages helping her cope with the fear. The dark atmosphere covered with hundreds of post-its all over the walls will create the scary mood, while continuing with the scopophobia theme.
A bit freaked out, the girl will go upstairs to take a shower while telling herself “it is not real,” “no one is watching you,” “it's only a fear,” etc. The girl will enter the shower and the camera will back away from the bathroom. A long take will slowly take viewers back through where the teddy bear scare occurred, down the stairs, past the television, and to the refrigerator. The camera will zoom into the post-it note written earlier in the clip and stop. A male hand holding a red pen will enter the frame and slowly write “not” to create the sentence “you are not alone.” This ending will not spoil anything, while leaving mystery and fear for audiences.
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