Triptease

“Triptease”
Script - 1st Draft.

Characters:

Simon

Tom

Will

Scene 1

The three boys are in the living room of their student house. Simon and Tom are sat on the sofas while Will is standing close to the door, not appearing to share Tom and Simons excitement and enthusiasm. The camera only has Simon and Tom in the picture.

Simon - How are you feeling?

Tom - Yea alright, feeling a bit weird and I’ve got a horrible taste in the back of my throat.

Both boys without looking behind them at the door ask Will,

Tom - How about you Will? What you sayin’?

Will - Yea just a bit clouded

Simon - Yea should probably put some music on, it’s a bit quiet in here

Tom - Yea sort that out, do either of you have any king skins, I’ll skin up.

Simon is now knelt on the floor picking music from his ipod.

Simon - Yea man, look in my coat pocket next to you, they’re in there.

Tom - Nice one.

The camera stays on Tom while he begins to roll a joint, Simon is still on the floor, flicking through music. He then looks to his side and pans up the wall toward the ceiling.

Tom - What’s up with your walls, I swear they’re not completely straight.....what are you doing with that music anyway, leave it alone

Simon - Yea Yea just setting up a play list.

Simon gets up, with a slight stumble back

Simon - “Woah, what the hells going on?”

Simon puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him.

Tom pauses what he’s doing, but continues to look at it for a few seconds. He then looks up at Simon who is still aimlessly staring at him and with a small smile on his face says,

Tom - “Wait, what are you on about?”

Simon - “Nah nothing, what was I doing again?”

Tom - “I have no idea what your going on about”

Tom picks up his tobacco pouch to continue what he was doing.

Simon begins having a look around and the sofa catches his eye, as he goes to sit down he notices Will has left the room.

Simon - “Where the hells will gone?”

Tom, who is struggling with even beginning to roll a joint looks up toward the door in confussion.

Tom - “I have no idea, I didn’t even notice him leave the room. He’s probably pranging out in the kitchen”

Both boys look at each other in a paused state. Silently questioning who was going to see if he was alright.

Tom - “I’ll go and look for him in a sec, I need to get some more filter material anyway, I’m having a bit of a nightmare over here with my head in this state”

Simon is sat on the sofa with his head resting on his hands, slightly swaying.

Simon - “Yea tell me about it, I don’t really know what to do with myself”

Tom begins to aimlessly look around the room, and with a puzzled look on his face says

Tom - “Jesus, where the hell is that kid? I’m going to go have a look for him”

Tom stands up and also slightly stumbles, then looks at Simon in confussion and says

Tom - “Well this is going to be an interesting walk, I’m going to go and see what Wills playing at”

Simon - “Yea, bring me in a drink as well. I need to get rid of this taste”

Tom - “Yea I’ll try and remember, I’ve already forgotten what I was going in there for.........

Tom looks at the wall in the confussion for 3-4 seconds. The audience can almost see the cogs turning inside Toms head.

Tom - “Oh yeah, I was going to see where Will was”

Tom walks toward the door, and as he leaves the room he stops and turns to face Simon with a confused face. Simon notices Tom has stopped by the door and looks up at him in just as much confusion. Tom begins to shake his head in disbelief at this state. He then leaves the room.

Scene 2.

The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.

Tom enters the living room and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.

As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
While squinting he says:

Tom - “What the fuck?”

A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.

As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.

Scene 3
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps,
Simon looks both confused and scared, and shouts


Simon - “Tom? Will?”

Scene 3.

The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.

The camera then switches to Will who is in his bedroom. The camera is close to his face, slightly to the right and just above head height. His face will look distressed as he peers directly past the camera toward the door.

The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Will then enters room, still with a distressed look on his face, followed by tom who also has a bewildered look on his face.
All three boys look at each other for a moment, when Tom breaks the silence,

Tom - “wwwhat the hell was that all about? That was rediculous?”

Will - “yeh it made me prang out in my room for a while, I even had to go outside for some fresh air”

Simon - “I was in here on my own the whole time, I didn’t know what to do with myself”

Tom “mate, we were all by ourselves”

Simon - “yeh maybe next time we should all try and stay together next time”

Will - “yeh definatly, I’m not going anywhere near that stuff for a while though”

Simon - “speak for yourself, Tom you wanna do some more?”

Tom - “yea, I’ve got to go and get a drink this time though, all that tranquiliser made me have the dirtiest taste in my mouth”

The screen then goes black, and then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body.