1. **WS – INT. BEX’S HOME – DAY**
Establishing shot of Bex’s messy room. Bex rushes around stuffing clothes, supplies, and personal items into a large backpack with frantic energy.
2. **MS – INT. BEX’S HOME**
Medium shot on Bex as he zips the bag, clearly anxious and in a hurry.
3. **CU – INT. BEX’S HOME**
Close-up on Bex’s hands grabbing the handheld radio from the table and turning it on.
4. **CU FACE – INT. BEX’S HOME**
Tight close-up on Bex’s desperate face as he speaks into the radio:
*BEX*
“I made a mistake, Avio. If you can hear me, please come get me. I can’t let you go alone, which I already did, but you know what I mean. If you can hear me come and get me.”
5. **OTS (Over-the-Shoulder) – INT. BEX’S HOME**
Bex waits for a reply, face falling. He slowly lowers the radio.
6. **MS – INT. BEX’S HOME**
Bex slams the radio down and resumes packing even more furiously (visualizing his sudden change of heart).
7. **TRACKING SHOT – EXT. TRAIL TO FIELD – DAY**
Tracking shot from behind Bex as he hikes briskly through woods/terrain, heavy gear on his back, heading toward the golden field.
8. **EXTREME WS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD – DAY**
Wide establishing shot: Bex arrives at the exact spot where Avio previously took off. He drops his gear and builds a new pile in the same location.
9. **MS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bex sits down beside the gear pile, radio in hand, staring hopefully at the sky.
10. **CU / INSERT – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Close-up on the radio in Bex’s grip as he repeatedly keys the mic, trying to reach Avio with no response.
11. **TIME-LAPSE WS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Fast time-lapse of the sky and field; sun arcs across the sky, shadows lengthen – hours passing while Bex waits.
12. **MS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bored, Bex reaches for his guitar case, pulls out the guitar, and glances around shyly to see if anyone is watching.
13. **POV SHOT – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bex’s point-of-view scanning the empty field; only a few squirrels are visible, focused on scattered acorns.
14. **CU – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Close-up on the squirrels nibbling acorns, completely unaware.
15. **MEDIUM CU – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bex begins strumming the guitar tentatively at first.
16. **CU – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
The squirrels suddenly stop eating and perk up their heads, curious about the new sound.
17. **CU – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bex gains confidence and starts singing softly.
18. **CU / REACTION SHOT – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
The squirrels’ eyes widen in fear; they bolt and scatter away.
19. **MS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Bex stops playing, embarrassed.
*BEX*
“Oh come on, I’m not that bad, give me a break… I barely just started learning.”
He confesses awkwardly to the (now-gone) squirrels.
20. **DRAMATIC WS / RAPID CUTS – EXT. GOLDEN FIELD**
Sudden chaos: a herd of panicked animals smashes through Bex’s gear pile. Reveal the massive black shadowy cloud devouring everything in its path. Bex jumps up in panic and sprints — but freezes mid-stride as the ground turns to dry, brittle crust around him. Quick intercut: aerial shot of Avio flying overhead desperately trying the radio. Final static shot: Bex’s lifeless frozen body on the ground, radio lying beside him as the black field encroaches. Fade to black.
SISTER
(1) Water... water.
Torm puts down a vial and quickly fetches her sister water and rushes to her bedside.
TORM
(2) Here it is, here.
Torm gently helps her sister sit up and drink. Her sister takes a small sip and falls back to her pillow.
SISTER
(3) Will this never end?
TORM
(4) Just rest. It will be over soon.
Torm puts down the water and adjusts her sister's vapor machine.
SISTER
(5) I'm so afraid, Torm. I don't want to die.
TORM
(6) Fear is good: it means your mind is working properly .
SISTER
(7)Please, get this out of me.
TORM
(8) I am, little sis, we just need a little more time.
Torm checks a few spots on her sister's body for black veins.
SISTER
(9) What if the mixtures stop working? What if they start having the opposite effects and I start getting worse again?
TORM
(10) Just a few weeks ago you couldn't even talk. And now I see the black veins growing smaller. You have nothing at all to worry about.
Torm takes out a small dripper and a glass plate.
TORM
(11) Okay, a few dream samples.
Torm collects a few of her sister's tears and drops them onto the glass plate.
TORM
(12) Your dreams are getting more colorful.
SISTER
(13) The dreams are the only thing good about the fever.
TORM
(14) I've read that some people give themselves Shadow Fever just to have the dreams.
SISTER
(15) I CAN ONLY REMEBER PARTS OF THEM.
Torm puts a dry white mixture into the vapor machine that is at the side of her sister's bed. Torm adjusts a few parts of the machine and soon it releases vapors.
TORM
(16) I will show them to you when you are better. Now get some more sleep so I can go back to work.
Torm tucks her sister in and returns to her work.
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SHOT LIST 1-56
INT. torm's house - day
In a single room house in the middle of Dreamer Village, a young girl, Torm, is working on some mixtures while her sister sleeps. Her sister has caught "Shadow Fever," but Torm has managed to keep death away from her sister's door by extracting a mineral from a river nearby . Torm has converted her half of the room into a chemistry lab made of brass parts, glass vials, tubes, dials, scales, evaporators, distillers and many other hard-to-name devices. Aiding her study are numerous book stands and old medical diagrams which Torm references so often, her eyes could fade the paper they 're written on. The room is mostly wood and plaster, which Torm keeps dimly lit to help her sister sleep and reduce the sensitivity pains caused by the fever. The level of pain her sister has withstood from the fever is immeasurable. The fever produces painful black veins that burn the skin, stab the nerves, and typically kills its host within a few days, but Torm has almost found a cure.
In a single room house in the middle of Dreamer Village, a young girl, Torm, is working on some mixtures while her sister sleeps. Her sister has caught "Shadow Fever," but Torm has managed to keep death away from her sister's door by extracting a mineral from a river nearby . Torm has converted her half of the room into a chemistry lab made of brass parts, glass vials, tubes, dials, scales, evaporators, distillers and many other hard-to-name devices. Aiding her study are numerous book stands and old medical diagrams which Torm references so often, her eyes could fade the paper they 're written on. The room is mostly wood and plaster, which Torm keeps dimly lit to help her sister sleep and reduce the sensitivity pains caused by the fever. The level of pain her sister has withstood from the fever is immeasurable. The fever produces painful black veins that burn the skin, stab the nerves, and typically kills its host within a few days, but Torm has almost found a cure.
SCENE SUMMARY
11. BLACK FIELDS
Bex has a change of heart and rushes to the golden field where Avio launched, piling his gear and waiting for hours, trying unsuccessfully to reach him on the radio. To kill time he shyly strums his guitar and even attempts a song, embarrassed when the nearby squirrels bolt — until he realizes they weren't fleeing his singing but a black shadow cloud devouring everything in its path. He runs but is frozen solid mid-stride, encased in the same dry black crust. Seconds later, Avio is shown in the sky desperately trying to reach Bex on the radio — cutting back down to the golden field where Bex's body lies stiff in the blackened earth, his radio silent beside him.
SHOT LIST 1-35 APRX: 3:33
SHOT LIST 1-50 ( 2:11 min )
