film layout

Scene 1

The movie begins with the family consisting of:

·         Mother – Annika

·         Father – Hamza

·         Daughter (1) – Shweta

·         Daughter (2) – Nafeesah (Hamza’s sister)

Outside their new huge house that they are about to move into. As they stare at it, their neighbor:

·         The priest- (Vishal)

Waves at them. After this is done the camera pans out into a long shot as they walk in.

Scene 2

·         The camera pans from right to left and pauses as the mother puts the last picture of the daughter (Nafeesah) 

·         The mother tries to enter the last room of the house that she needs to prepare

·         As the mother struggles she calls on the father who opens it instead (struggles)

·         As the father opens the door dust falls from the top of the door frame

·         Both the father and mother start to cough

·         They see the doll in the corner of the room

·         The room has one light ( low-key lighting )

·         As the mother reaches for the doll the daughter (Nafeesah)  grabs it instead

·         As she does the light flickers

·         The daughter hugs the doll

·         Mother and father look at each other

Scene 3 

The scene begins in the bedroom of the two daughters

·         The mother is tucking in the daughter (Nafeesah) into bed

·                   The mother asks if she should take the doll

·         The daughter (Nafeesah) says no and hugs the doll again

·         As this is all happening the other daughter (Shweta) is playing on her phone

(This supports the claim that all British youth stare at their phone and are anti-social)

·         The camera cuts to the father downstairs as the mother comes and sits next to him

·         As the mother and father have a conversation the camera cuts from the bedroom where the two daughters are and the living room were the mother and father are

·         As this is happening the daughter is slowly getting dragged off the bed

·         When the mother says her last line (eg: “ we’re going to live here forever”)

·         The daughter (Nafeesah) is thrown into the wardrobe

·         The other daughter (Shweta) screams

·         The father and mother burst into the room

·         The daughter (Nafeesah)  looks up and she is clearly possessed

·         The mother calls for the priest

(The priest enters)

·         The lights turn off in the house

·         The daughter (Shweta) uses her phone light as her,  the mother, father and priest run from the possessed daughter

·         As they are running the priest is shouting biblical verses

(A lot of jump scares)

·         They enter the room where they found the doll in the first place

·         As they do this the daughter is standing there with the doll in her hand

·         Close up of the face of the daughter (Nafeesah)

·         She smiles

·         The camera cuts out

Scene 4

(Graveyard)

·         The camera pans from right to left

·         The camera follows the blowing leaves

·         All the bodies of the family are laying in front of a grave stone

·         The camera stops and we see the doll leaning on the side of the grave stone

·         The daughter (Nafeesah) screams in the camera

·         This will scare the audience

·         The camera cuts out

(The credits role)