Complete Script

Imposter Script

BLACK FRAME

(Laboured Breathing)

GABRIELLA (VO)

This mind, this lifestyle, this identity, is nearly over.

Who am I?

Not even I know anymore…

INT. GABRIELLA’S ROOM. NIGHT.

(GABRIELLA is trembling, standing alone in the centre of her eerie room. She is clutching a half drunk bottle of rose wine, her skin is pale, with an expression of grief on her face. You can see she has been weeping for hours)

GABRIELLA (VO)

I can’t take much more of this, the lies, the deceit. I’m stuck in this black hole because heartless.

I couldn’t protect you. We can’t protect your identity.

But now I’m left picking up the pieces.

GABRIELLA (VO)

The mask of deceit and lies is worn well by some for they can't tell the truth. So they remain unhappy, Within their prison of secrets. A life that has become an addiction, one I must carry on, one I will carry on, one that I need to carry on, for I have gotten this far, with my companion of alcohol for comfort. C/U (GABRIELLA makes no sound but the wails of anger and sadness, she shakes her head, and wanders over towards her mirror where she places the bottle of wine on the table, she sits and stares at the bottle)

GABRIELLA (VO)

I’ve been pretending I’m safe, that I’ve finally found this better place, but there are so many worries that I need to forget yet the time is still present and I’m so full of regret.

(Gabriella’s make up has run down her face merged with tears, and as she slowly looks up towards the mirror her face is flooded by tears which she wipes away discreetly as if there were someone watching, she sits and stares at her own reflection in the mirror)

Flashback VO-

If you were to see her, she painted the perfect picture, a smile that could put the brightest lights to shame. And stars shone excitedly in her eyes.

GABRIELLA VO

Whisper- With only reflections of what she left behind
and memories her mind races to find...SHRIEK

(GABRIELLA is interrupted and does not finish her sentence as she sees something in the mirror of which is not her own reflection.

The sound of heavy breathing and heartbeats are merged together)

MERCIA OS

(Quiet sniggering laughter)

(GABRIELLA begins to get her breathing back to normal, the silhouette of this figure is approaching the mirror, and she grips her wine bottle and turns around to face the silhouette, only for there to be nothing there)

GABRIELLA VO

I’m deluded, I’ll a delusional drunk, and this is what I’ve become. You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living, until the escape becomes the habit.

(GABRIELLA turns back to look in her mirror, she does not look around afraid of what she may see, her teeth are chattering, the room has gone cold, and the lighting has dimmed, she shuts her eyes for a moment)

(MERCIA approaches her slowly from behind, in an elegant manner, ending up behind Gabriella)

MERCIA VO WHISPER

She's caught up in that fairytale love
You know
The kind Romeo and Juliet would be envious of
Where the taste of honey lingers with each kiss
Above all, Reciprocation, her deepest wish

C/U

(Gabriella’s eyes, and then MERCIA's)

MERCIA VO

Trembling

For the love she has now, will soon devour, it first tasted sweet, but has since
turned sour

SFX: The shatter of a glass

Last Scene (Glass flies at the wall, the wall then is trickling down with blood or wine, the audience will not realise which)

OVER

FADE OUT TO BLACK

2nd Day of Filming- Charlies bedroom

Charlie Bales Bedroom:

Our 2nd location which was Charlie’s bedroom, was slightly awkward for what we wanted to film as we later found out when it came to placing certain things in different places, we couldn’t get every camera angle right as you’d be able to see a poster on her wall, or her whiteboard, so in the end we had many shoddy shots. Her room is quite small meaning it was difficult to find a perfect spot to place a camera, as most of the filming was filmed as her looking into the mirror; I had to make sure the camera reflection wasn’t seen in the mirror.
Our props were put to good use, before the day of filming we went and collected what we needed, the wedding dress from a charity shop, which we then ended up altering slightly, considering it was 5 pounds, we thought it was a bargain, and that if it were ruined, we wouldn’t end up being devastated. Dec already had a suit from which he has worn previously. We went to a joke shop in which we spent about an hour choosing the hair for our newly wedded wife to be seen in. The most important prop was probably the rings, as these send out a significant message to the audience.

The 2nd location in Charlie’s bedroom has very much again low key lighting, this is supposed to be the most awkward and confusing part of the opening sequence so we didn’t want to be showing a large amount of light, instead of using the high voltage lamp we were given we decided to use one of the lamps from our props which was on the dressing table.
The performance throughout the opening sequence was subtle, there wasn’t an overwhelming large amount of faces being shown throughout but more, little parts of what they were wearing, such as the props. Location 2 at Charlie’s house we begin to focus more on the woman herself, every detail about her, so much so, as she takes off her makeup, we decided to use the camera as a mirror as she stares directly down the lens, as if to be looking directly into the audience.