1: Wide establishing shot — the single-room house interior in Dreamer Village.
Dimly lit wood-and-plaster space. Torm’s half is a bustling chemistry lab of
brass parts, glass vials, tubes, dials, scales, evaporators, and distillers.
Book stands and faded medical diagrams surround her workspace. On the
opposite side, her sister lies in bed.
2: Medium shot — Torm focused at her lab bench, carefully working on
mixtures with vials and tubes.
3: Close-up — Torm’s hands precisely measuring and pouring liquids using
scales and brass components.
4: Insert — old medical diagrams on stands, pages visibly worn from constant
reference.
5: Close-up — sister sleeping restlessly, faint black veins visible on her skin.
6: Medium close-up — sister stirs weakly, eyes fluttering open.
7: Extreme close-up — sister’s mouth as she whispers hoarsely, “Water… water.”
8: Medium shot — Torm hears her, quickly sets down a vial on the lab bench.
9: Tracking shot — Torm rushes from the lab area across the room to fetch
water.
10: Over-the-shoulder (from sister’s side) — Torm gently helps her sister sit up.
11: Close-up — glass of water lifted to sister’s lips as she takes a small sip.
12: Close-up — sister’s exhausted face as she falls back onto the pillow.
13: Medium two-shot — sisters together at the bedside as sister says,
“Will this never end?”
14: Close-up — Torm’s calm, reassuring face, “Just rest. It will be over soon.”
15: Insert — Torm’s hands carefully adjusting the vapor machine beside the bed.
16: Close-up — sister’s fearful eyes, “I’m so afraid, Torm. I don’t want to die.”
17 :Close-up — Torm, compassionate, “Fear is good: it means your mind is working
properly.”
18: Close-up — sister pleading desperately, “Please, get this out of me.”
19: Close-up — Torm, determined, “I am, little sis, we just need a little more time.”
20: Medium shot — Torm leans in to examine her sister’s body for black veins.
21: Extreme close-up insert — painful black veins burning across sister’s skin.
22: Close-up — Torm studying the veins intently.
23: Close-up — sister, worried, “What if the mixtures stop working? What if they start having the opposite effects…”
24: Close-up — Torm smiling softly with hope, “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.”
25: Insert — Torm’s hands preparing a small dripper and clean glass plate.
26: Close-up — Torm carefully collecting tears from her sister’s eyes with the dripper.
27: Extreme close-up — colorful tears (dream samples) dropping onto the glass plate.
28: Close-up — Torm examining the plate, “Your dreams are getting more colorful.”
29: Close-up — sister with a weak smile, “The dreams are the only thing good about the fever.”
30: Medium two-shot — Torm and sister as Torm says, “I’ve read that some people give themselves Shadow Fever just to have the dreams.”
31: Close-up — sister, emotional, “I CAN ONLY REMEMBER PARTS OF THEM.”
32: Medium shot — Torm scooping a dry white mixture and adding it into the vapor machine.
33: Close-up — Torm’s hands adjusting dials and parts of the vapor machine.
34: Close-up / POV — soft, soothing vapors gently releasing from the machine.
35: Wide shot — Torm tenderly tucks her sister back in, then turns and walks back to her lab bench to continue working as the dim room holds steady.
36: WIDE SHOT - EXT. TORMS HOUSE
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 1-35
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.
2. WATER, WATER
