Cut! script first draft, Names have been altered slightly

Final Review
INT. Edward’s home--DAY

Montage when Ed is putting DVDs in to a player and is writing down a review in a notebook in scrappy handwriting and taking out the DVD and replacing a new one, throwing down a full notebook, picking up another and flicking through the pages to find a space for a new review, rummaging through a pile of old pens to find one that works, testing the pen on the note book cover before beginning to write his review. The montage uses jump cuts and other editing techniques to demonstrate to mental condition of the character.

INT. OFFICE--DAY

Ed is in the corner of the office looking at a video camera he had picked up and his way to work. When he gets there he checks that he has been given everything he order as a colleague called John walks up to him.

JOHN
Heyup Ed, what you up to.

ED
Oh hi John, I just got here and I’m just looking at this camera I bought.

JOHN
Fair enough, just came over her because you dropped one of your DVDs.
John pulls the DVD from out of his pocket and shows it to Ed who has a look of slight confusion in his face as he inspects the disc.

ED
Are you sure, I can’t remember taking any discs with me

JOHN
Well it fell out of your bag I just presumed that it might be yours

ED
Hmm, I must have bought it a while ago and forgot about it

JOHN
Must have

ED
Well thanks for letting me know about that

JOHN
No problem pal, see you later

ED
(Whilst inspecting the disc)
Yeah see you later John

Ed drops the DVD on to the table. (Scene cuts away to the next scene)


INT. Ed’s flat--evening

Ed drops the DVD on the table and wanders in to the kitchen to make himself a drink when he hears something fall down behind him. He turns round to see that there is nothing there and shrugs his shoulders and continues with what he was doing and says nothing. He hears a different noise that is of someone running behind him, he turns quickly to look again.

Ed
What the fuck?

He rushes out of the kitchen thinking that someone had broken in to his flat. He begins to walk around his flat to find the intruder.

Ed
(With some fear in his voice)
Who the fuck’s in my house?

He twists and turns sharply as he starts to hear noises coming from all directions till a pile of notebooks fall and he turns quickly to see the source of the noise

Ed
(Letting out a sigh of relieve)
Might have just been me

Suddenly his door slams shut and Ed sprints towards the door. When he gets out of his apartment he catches a glance of the elevator doors closing and rushes down the stairs in pursuit. He catches up in the basement car park and sees a hooded figure standing in front of him, all of a sudden when Ed blinks the figure disappears and Ed sprints to where he was stood to see where he went and upon arriving he discovers no trace of him. He walks back in to his flat and goes in to the sitting room to calm his nerves. As he leans forwards he sees that the DVD had been written on. In panic he throws the DVD in to a draw and leaves the kitchen. The faded sound of an alarm clock starts to ring the background as the scene cuts out.

Ed shoots up bolt upright in bed. Ed is confused to whether this was a dream or real, as he turns to his alarm clock he realises that he is late for work.

Ed.
Gah! Fucking hell!
He runs downstairs and everything seems normal, he goes into the kitchen the books are upright, he grabs his keys and runs out of the apartment.

EXT. Ed’s office--Day
Ed runs in to the office doors past the reception desk as his boss confronts him

BOSS
Smith! Why the fuck! Are you this late again?

ED
(Nervously)
Well, err you see my alarm didn’t-

BOSS
Oh shut up with your bloody excuses. One more slip up and you’re out.

ED
Yes, thank you
(Under his breath)
Arsehole

EXT. Ed’s flat--evening
Ed parks his car in the car park and begins to walk to his flat and after he passes the camera the audience sees the hooded figure from earlier in the film. Ed turns around think he heard someone behind him but sees no one there. Ed arrives at his flat in a fairly stress out mood and as he goes to unlock the door, he glances upwards and sees that there is an eviction notice pinned to his door.

ED
(Confused)
What the fucking hell’s this

LANDLORD
(From out of frame)
It’s an eviction notice retard
Ed turns round shocked about what was going on

ED
What. How come?

LANDLORD
Well, you haven’t paid your for 3 bloody months, your flat smells like shit and you can smell it on the floor above, you have the TV on till 3 o’clock int morning at full blast, and you never take out your rubbish on time. I’ve numerous complaints from other tenants and I’ve had enough. Either pay the rent you owe me and clean up this crap or you can get the fuck out.

Ed turns to walk in to his apartment as the landlord grabs him and pushes him against the wall outside and continues his rant,

LANDLORD
Don’t you fucking walk off from me like that. I’ve fucking had it with shit like that from you. You’ve got 2 weeks to pay up what owe me or you’re out.

ED
I heard you the first time
With no delay the landlord punches Ed in the ribs and leaves him doubled over in pain trying to catch his breath as he staggers in to his flat.

INT. Ed’s flat—-evening
Ed staggers in to the frame and collapses on the sofa stilled doubled over in pain and tries to catch his breath back.

INT. Ed’s flat—- late night
Ed wakes up in a daze as he looks at his phone to check the time and decides that he isn’t tired and picks up a notebook and looks through it to find any available space. He flicks through the book and stops suddenly and notices a review for a film that he has give zero out of ten.

ED
(Confused)
This can’t be right it must have deserved something

He notices after looking at the review that there is no actual writing or film title. After thinking for a second he remembers the DVD that he received the previous day and goes to retrieve it out of the draw. He opens the draw and inspects the DVD and when he turns it round and notices has been sealed with tape saying “do not open”. He takes the DVD and walks to his TV and sits in front of it and slowly peels off the tape and opens the box. After putting the DVD in the player he places himself in his usual place ready the review the film and nervously presses play.

THE ACTUAL SNUFF FILM: (black and white film) the film starts off in a corridor and turns in a same Multi-purpose hall. The camera pans up to the top of some stairs and pans back to see the hooded figure who walks in to the camera which cuts to black and fades back in to the hooded figure walking away from the camera down a different hall way. The film then jump cuts the figure walk in to a room with a pre-tied noose hang in mid frame. The figure puts the noose round his neck and pulls down his hood revealing that it is Ed the jumps off his perch to hang himself.

The film continues as the camera pulls out to see Ed’s feet hanging lifelessly in front of the TV screen. The Black and white film fills up the whole screen as the film cuts to black and the film ends with the sound of the DVD ejecting.