The Notebook

So I found a short film script that I made when I was in Form 2 and decided it was interesting enough to be put here. It's a bit gory but nothing too much I guess. You are encouraged to play the music while reading it. Don't worry, this isn't some ghost or paranormal story lol hahahahha it's kind of short.

THE NOTEBOOK

(Camera zooms in to the sky which is pitch black. An owl hoots from a distance. Camera zooms in a small house with all the lights turned off except from a room where lights can be seen from the windows. Camera zooms in to a pendulum clock, showing 3 AM. Camera shows the inside of the lit room where there is the main character, a girl around 13 sitting on a chair at a desk. Her face is hidden.)

(Camera zooms in the girl. She is scribbling on a notebook maniacally, almost crazy-like. The sound of pencil against paper can be heard clearly. Her scribbles are not shown. Camera zooms in her arms which are badly scratched and bruised.)

(Camera start zooming in the pages of the book when suddenly the book is shut.)

BLACK OUT SCREEN

*School bell rings*

(Camera shows main character walking to a class with all the students on a corridor. A student on a skateboard slaps her back and skates past her.)

Student: (shouting) Have a nice day!

(Main character just frowns and shakes her head while continuing to walk. She enters class, ignoring other students' jeer and laughs aimed towards her.)

(Cut to scene where a teacher in front is talking about Shakespeare. Camera zooms in on the girl who was looking down. Camera zooms in the girl and it can be seen that she is looking at her palms which are placed on her thighs. There is a butterfly on her palms. Her face is expressionless except for her wide open eyes. She snapped her palms shut tightly for a few seconds, the butterfly inside. Carefully, she opens her hands and the camera zooms in the almost dying butterfly. She starts tearing the butterfly's wings slowly and after she's done, she took out her scissor and stabs the butterfly's body.)

*Students continue laughing at her, not seeing what she is doing.*

(Teacher who is walking around the class spots her and stops behind her. The girl sensed him and quickly stuffed the butterfly's remains with her scissors inside her uniform pocket.)

Main character: (not looking back) Yes, sir?

(Teacher takes off something from the back of her uniform and slams it on her table. She jumps from her seat, surprised.)

Teacher: You should be ashamed of yourself, seeking for cheap attention.

(Camera zooms in her table. There was a paper with the words 'DRUGS BABY!".)

Main character: B-but I didn-

Teacher: (shouting) DETENTION AFTER SCHOOL!

CUTS SCENE TO HOME

(Main character opens the door to see her mother face to face. Her mother slaps her hard enough to make her almost lose her balance. She pulls the girl's hair roughly into the house.)

Mother: You good for nothing brat, purposely coming late. WHERE'S MY CIGARETTE?! I NEED MY CIGARETTE YOU STUPID FOOL!

(Main character has flashbacks about her mother beating her up and the image of her scribbling maniacally on her notebook was repeatedly shown.)

(Mother continues to scream and shout when the girl pulled a vase nearby desperately and slams it on her mother's head. Her mother falls down and starts shouting curses. She gets up and pushes her daughter's head against the wall while her hands were on her neck, trying to choke her. Main character bites her mother's right arm and kicks her. Her mother falls down. Main character pulls the scissors from her uniform pocket and stabs her mother repeatedly on her stomach, blood spraying everywhere on her face and hands. Her mother is screaming. Main character stops suddenly and drops her scissors. She started cackling as she watches her mother die torturously. She satisfies herself by shoving the scissors to her lifeless mother's throat.)

BLACK OUT SCREEN

*sounds of police siren getting louder*

JAIL

(Camera zooms in the main character sitting at the corner of her cell, rocking and flipping the notebook she scribbled on while humming the 'Rock-a-bye-baby lullaby'. Camera zooms in on her drawings and there were detailed drawings of her stabbing her mother with blood everywhere. The next pages show her stabbing a lot of other people too, but they can't be identified.)

*mad laughter echoed through the cell*

THE END