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Praecantrix trailer script

FADE IN:

Film production logo appears (Visually Impaired

Productions)-Panning shot of graveyard, showing TAWNIsitting in front of a grave (establishing shot)

Voiceover plays over the top of this scene

TAWNI

I went to see my parents again

FADES OUT

FADES IN-Shot inside a therapists office/room (TAWNI in

foreground)

THERAPIST

And how did that make you feel?

TAWNI

Its hard to mourn someone you never knew

FADE OUT

FADE IN-Montage starts showing how TAWNIs life is

miserable and how she is alone and depressed.

-Shot of TAWNI sitting alone in a crowded room

-Shot of her alone in her bedroom cutting herself

-Shot of TAWNI crying and throwing up in a toilet

FADE IN-Shot of TAWNI and her boyfriend JOE, TAWNI

leaning on his shoulder (Sitting on a bench by the

GRAVEYARD location)

JOE

I know you dont believe youll get through this, but Im

going to believe in you and for you until you turn this

around

FADE OUT

FADE IN-shot of TAWNI sitting at home reading her

horoscope/Book about Wiccans

Voiceover plays over the top of shot

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TAWNI

Whats that?

MARNEE

Oh, Im a Wiccan

CUT

FADE IN- Shot of the two conversing

TAWNI

A Wiccan

MARNEE

(Sarcastic tone) Oh yeah, you knowwitches, spells, and

spiritual stuff

CUT

FADE IN-TAWNI in her house/room reading a horoscope from

a book or magazine

CUT

Shot of the moon at night time

CUT

POV Shot of her reading the magazine, she turns the pageand sees a small advertisement

FADE OUT-to Close up

See the advertisement for a fortuneteller

FADE OUT- Shot of her face looking at the advert

JOE

Dont get involved in all this spiritual junk; it wont

do you any good

FADE OUT-to black

FADE IN-shot of TAWNI walking along a pathway, towards

the fortunetellers domain

CUT

Long shot of the tent, establishes it as the

villains/fortunetellers lair

CUT

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Shot of TAWNI walking into the tent

CUT

POV shot of TAWNI entering the tent, we see her first

impressions of the location

CUT

Fortuneteller, now revealed to be called THE GREAT THYRA,

is giving TAWNI her fortune

THYRA

Your parents child?

TAWNI

They died when I was born

THYRA

Of natural causes?

(THYRA reaches over and strokes her Ace of Spades tattoo)

TAWNI stares at him, close up shot of her face

FADE OUT

THYRAI see a friend of yours, a new friend, suffering a great

deal of pain

CUT

Shot of TAWNI working at her computer, looks around the

computer at MARNEE.

Shot of MARNEES friends leaving the room

QUICK CUT

TAWNI is suddenly standing behind MARNEE

MARNEE

TawniAre you alright?

TAWNI grabs MARNEEs head and smashes iton the table

CUT

TAWNI is holding MARNEE by the neck strangling her

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CUT

TAWNI punches MARNEE around the face, who starts bleeding

CUT

Long shot of MARNEE lying unconscious on the floor

FADE TO BLACK

CUT- back in the fortunetellers lair

Shot Reverse Shot of THYRA and TAWNI looking at each

other

Look down at TAWNIs hands; THYRA touches them as if toread her palms and we see them slightly stained in blood

CUT

Shot of JOE being attacked by a mysterious and unseen

individual

CUT

JOE gets stabbed and dies, most likely in the back

CUT

He lies dead on the floor

CUT

Close up of a lipstick Stain on his cheek

CUT TO TITLE

PRAECANTRIX

AFTER TITLE SCENE

Shot of TAWNI in the bathroom crying, she is throwing up

again. She shouts JOE! and carries on crying.

See TAWNI holding a knife

CUT TO BILLING BLOCK

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