LiveDEAD
A man who is working on a case meets a girl who
wakes with no memories. Will she be the key to his case?
Story by Camille
Chen
KEY CHARACTERS
Melissa is quite a mature
character but can be quite childish too. She is quite shy when she is around an
unfamiliar environment and where there are lots of people she doesn’t know. She
is very defensive and protective of the people she loves. She tends to think a
lot and would keep a lot of things to herself. She has an average height and
has redish-orange hair (a red head). She loses her memory at the beginning and
she is in actual fact (read on by highlighting over the words, read only if you
have read the film synopsis) suppose
to be dead. She has returned from the dead for the truth to be exposed but her
memory was erased because despite being unable to rest, she couldn’t accept the
truth.
Chris is an investigator who
is on a serial murder case of redheads. He is very caring, quite handsome and
tall. He is serious about his job and is cautious at all times. He finds
Melissa who has lost her memories and they end up falling in love.
Mrs Parkinson is Melissa
mother, she has a very weak and warm appearance but is a character that has
gone insane due to love and is the murderer. She doesn’t speak her troubles but
tries to solve everything and tries to do everything and anything herself to
just keep a family together. She takes things upon herself to do. A character
that became too jealous and gone mad in the end.
Mr Parkinson is unfaithful
and is very fond of redheads. He is cheating on Mrs Parkinson with a couple women
and was seen by Mrs Parkinson. He has no idea of what is happening but due to
his actions lives were lost and his family ruined.
KEY LOCATIONS
Streets Setting: Next to a
road and many buildings/apartments by the sides but the streets are usually
empty. There is a park to the side of one of the buildings. A car is parked by
the side of the road.
Kitchen Setting: Crime scene.
Normal home kitchen with only one entrance and exit. Everything is tidy, you
can’t really tell why the victim was in the kitchen. The victim tape outline is
on the floor.
Bathroom Setting: Bathroom of
one of the crime scenes. A clean bathroom, quite small.
Lounge Room Setting: Chris’s
house. There is a Television opposite the couch and a bathroom close. Everything
is neat and clean. There isn’t much in Chris’s house, mostly just documents and
files everywhere.
Outside Melissa’s house
Setting: The house is slightly uphill, not on the same level as the road.
In the Car Setting: Only the
front seats are shot.
Garage Setting: Dark, cold
and dirty.
Funeral Setting: Up the top
of a hill, lots of greenery.
FILM SYNOPSIS
The title appears on screen and
fades. The first scene fades in and Chris can be seen from afar walking with
files in hand. The natural sounds can be heard and no background music is
played. Chris gets his car keys out from his pocket as he nears his car but
then sees Melissa unconscious nearby. He looks around and runs over to see if
she is alright. Chris’s continuous questioning for Melissa’s safety can be
heard in the background but only total darkness can be seen, then there is a
blurred close up image of Chris. After the image of Chris’s face is focused,
Chris’s voice is clearer. There is silence while the screen moves quickly
around the surrounding and stopping at certain points 4 times and then back to
Chris’s face and we hear his voice again. Melissa suddenly moves back away from
Chris's grasp and the files under Chris’s arms fall to the ground. Photos of
victims can be seen. Melissa shakes her head as her head hurts and an unclear
image in black and white flashes through her mind. Chris observes this
happening and concludes that she may be helpful on the case. Chris lifts
Melissa who is in pain up and the screen zooms out.
The screen cuts to Chris
lying on the couch and Melissa walks over and accidently knocks the table and
Chris wakes and quickly sits up to see Melissa. We see shots of Melissa’s wet
hair, large T-shirt and the overall look of her after taking a shower. Chris’s
eyes looks away as he blushes, he asks whether if she is feeling better and for
her details as to her name, age and where she lives. Melissa only shakes her
head and replies that she cannot remember anything, not even how or why she was
on the ground by the side of the road but at the sight of the photos her head
began to hurt. Chris tells her that it may have jogged her memories, maybe she
knows something about the case he is working on while Melissa moves to sit down on the
couch. The screen shows the table where there was a laptop surrounded by
documents and files and back to Melissa again. She says that she doesn’t know but if
it’d help she’ll try her best and then Chris suggests that they go to the crime
scenes as it may help but for now they should rest. Melissa nods her head and
the screen fades.
The screen fades in and a
kitchen can be seen with a taping of a body shape on the floor near the centre.
Melissa walks around the kitchen and touches the bench and kneels down to the
taping and then hangs her head. Chris asks if she remembered anything but
Melissa shook her head. She couldn’t remember, nothing, there was nothing.
Chris sighs and walks away to sit down somewhere, he says that they have been
through all the victims and this was the last one. He questions again if she
really can’t remember anything at all. Melissa shuts her eyes and covers them
with her hands, she’s already trying really hard she thinks to herself but she
just can’t remember anything. She apologises while holding back her tears, she
then talks about how useless she is. Chris turns his head towards Melissa and a
close up on his eyes as they widen. Melissa looks at him still holding back her
tears; she apologises and says how she is trying, how she wants to remember too
and how she hates herself for being so useless. She wants to know too, whom she
is, where she was from and how to get back home but she just can’t remember
anything.
Suddenly, Chris hugs her and
stops her from saying anymore, he tells her that it’s okay and that he’ll look
after her til she remembers and that she can take is slowly. Melissa finally
cries out in Chris’s arms. Melissa slowly lifts her head to look at Chris and
their faces slowly move closer and they kiss. In realisation of their actions,
the two quickly separate to stare at each other with their faces quickly flushing
red. Chris turns his head around in attempt to hide his blushing face. Melissa
suddenly stands and Chris’s face turns back to normal and turns to see Melissa
quickly walking away and saying that she’ll go wash her face.
There was a cut to Melissa
over the bathroom sink washing her face, then an over the shoulder shot of her
looking at herself in the mirror with water dripping from her face. Her
attention then shifts to a ring next her hand. It looked familiar, she takes it
in her hand and was very fascinated by it, she puts it on her finger and
looks at her hand. Then there was flash of an image over her hand, the ring was
on a different hand. On a hand that seemed much older and then more images
rushed into her mind and then she faints.
A cut to Chris who stayed in
the position he was when Melissa walked off, was deep in thought. In hearing
the thud from the bathroom he runs to over to see Melissa fainted on the floor.
There was another cut to a
black and white scene. There were several short scenes of a house, a family,
the hand with ring holding hers and several family photos then a bloody knife
wrapped in Melissa’s mum’s clothes which were also covered in blood. Mrs
Parkinson who sees Melissa, turns mad in panic, grabs the knife and Melissa
wakes up breathing hard, with her hand over her chest. She looks straight at
Chris and says that she remembers, she knows who she is and who the murder is
while tears once again filled her eyes. The screen fades.
The screen fades in to the
outside of a house, the screen cuts to inside a car and Chris asks if Melissa
wants to come along to the arrest. Melissa shakes her head and smiles weakly,
she then says that she doesn’t wish to see her mother arrested with her own
eyes. Chris tells her to wait in the car just before he shuts the door and
Melissa apologises in reply. Chris, along with many other men who are probably
the police and forensics walks up to the door and rings the doorbell. Melissa’s
mum opens the door and froze for a moment at the sight before asking what the
men wanted. Chris reaches his hands out and reveals the ring in his palm and
tells her that it was found in the bathroom at a crime scene. Mrs Parkinson
continuously denies that it is hers. Chris tells her that her daughter has
verified that it was hers, confusion, fear and shock falls over her face. She
then says that it can’t be true, that Melissa was in the garage wrapped away,
she can’t have verified it, it was not possible. Shocked and confused as well,
he contends her words saying that she was in the car and that she told him that
it was her who murdered all those red haired females. Mrs Parkinson falls to
the ground and stares at him wondering how he knows that it was her, the only
one who should know would be Melissa but she’s in the garage there was no way
for her to tell anyone. She was cuffed and some man ran in to secure any
evidence and opened the garage, Chris ran in after them.
A cut to the garage, they
found a large garbage bag and it revealed Melissa’s body. Chris just stood
staring at the body at his foot when to his side stood Melissa in a spiritual
form. She apologized and a flash of her apology when he closed the car door
before went through his head. He says that she knew and she nods slowly and
apologises again with tears streaming down her face before slowly fading. Chris
thought to himself for her to not go, to stay with him, he loved her. He yells
for her to not go and reaches out for her but could only reach out to a few
sparks of light which then disappeared to nothing. He fell to the ground and
cried next to her body. The screen fades.
The screen fades in to a
funeral, a narrator tells of how the mother confessed. She found out the father
was cheating and took it upon herself to kill the female who was a redhead.
Unable to forget killing someone and the anger and jealousy that would not
disappear caused her to continuously kill red heads. When she saw Melissa find
out what she had done, she panicked. She wasn’t thinking when she took the
knife in her hands and stabbed her own daughter like all the other victims as
her mind thought of Melissa who also a redhead as those women. Chris was
holding a funeral for Melissa to finally rest. When the burial was finished,
Chris kneeled before the tomb a little longer and then he felt a light kiss and
heard Melissa’s voice saying thank you as a soft wind blew by. Chris looks up to
the sky and tears streamed down the side of his eyes. The screen looks up into
the sky and fades into credits.
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