Step Outline

Taylor Julian

Film

3rd period

9/27

Step Outline

Scenes                                          Dramatic Intent

A view of the trees ,flowers, cars, and the front of a hospital and the sign	Establish the setting
We see empty bed and objects like  flowers, and clock ticking. A girl’s hand by the window, her eyes looking outside. We see her side profile looking outside. We then see she in a hospital room. This is Ivory.	Viewing the protagonist in her setting as well as establishing a mood of isolation and loneliness.
We see an outside shoot of her , from the window in front of her and she puts her hand on the glass. We then see her hand on glass from inside the room.	We see that the protagonist goal is to be outside and not stuffed up in her hospital room.
A guy appears and tells her she can’t leave, its to cold to be out there anyways. Heather asks who he is and he tells her that he is her conscious. They have a brief discussion on who he is and how she can see him. His name is Ebony.	Shows the desire to leave hospital and introduces her conscience.
She ignores him and starts to walk out the door. We see her leave but a few seconds later we see a nurse bringing her back in, pulling her by the ear. Ebony says “I told you so”. The nurse is mad and gives her a long lecture, but the girl is not listening and she rolls her eyes.	We are introduced to the antagonist as the nurse and how she is going to be in the way of accomplishing the girls goal. Her conscious is not helping as well because his snarky comments are annoying but funny.
As soon as the girl leaves she gets a map and plans her escape. Ebony criticizes her plan and tells her its not going to work. They bicker and until Ivory tells him to shut up.	Protagonist  is determined to leave the hospital  and is putting much thought into it. Audience wonders why the hospital is not letting her leave and how Ebony knows its not going to work.
We see the door open and close. The girl is crawling out. We see her crawl around the nurse’s desk, and the nurse is not able to see her.	Protagonist thinks she is accomplishing her goal, gives audience suspense.
As soon as she gets past the nurse, she is in the hallway and she is joyful, however a couple steps and she sees the security guard who talks into his walky talky. Girls becomes appealed and sent back into her room. She is pushed back in her room. Ebony is siting there and says “you didn’t listen to me”	Creates several obstacles, including her internal emotion of frustration and her longing to escape the hospital.
We see the girl eager to continue her pursuit in escaping .We see her constantly planning and escaping and then her failing. Door Slamming . Her Writing. While this is going on Ebony is eating ice cream and making origami.	Shows time lapse of how she has been trying to escape. The audience notices she is a little off.
She is thrown back into her room after several times and the nurse locks the door. We see the nurse come out if the room and when the door shuts we see the girls face. Ebony tells her she has gotten no where and to have some quiche that he made. Ebony stands there with an apron while Ivory gives him a dirty look.	Further pushes that obstacles are becoming more challenging, however she still continues.
The girl begins to pick the lock of the door. The door handle shakes on the other side. We see the door slowly open and we see the girl’s eyes. The girl then bolts down the hallway. Ebony tells her to have fun and that he will probably see her in 5 mins	The protagonist has gone farther than ever before, she is discovering the known as she runs down the halls.
When she gets down the hallways, she is faced with another hallway. When she runs down the second hallway she is at the beginning of yet another hallway. The halls seem to be dark and dull. Now she is back where she started. She starts see strange people walking down the halls. A man in a superman costume, a little girl skipping, a women running etc.	The protagonist is obviously in the right state of mind. And it shows she is a tad insane and doesn’t know what going on.
The girl opens a door in the hall and sees her hospital room. She then enters her room. It is silent and she walks into it bewildered. Ebony is taking a nap. Ivory wakes him up and asked what just happened. Ebony says that she is obviously bad at reading maps.	Protagonist is confused as well as the audience. But Ebony provides comic relief.
She asks Ebony for help and he says maybe after his nap. Ivory gets mad and yells at him, so he gives in and decides to help her	protagonist is seeks help.
She then gets up walks over to the door. She reaches for the door handle but it is locked. Ivory starts to get tools to pick the look but  Ebony  kicks the door and it opens .	The girl has not crumbled yet and tries one last time to break free.
We see her walking out with Ebony. The nurse doesn’t see her coincidently and the security guard has fallen asleep. Ebony asks why she made a big fuss it was so easy just walking out causally.	Ironically the girl can simply walk out and its less complicated then her previous times.
As she is about to walk out but she sees a mirror. She look quite sick, she is pale and has bags under eyes. She looks outside and back at the mirror, and she now wearing hospital clothes. Ebony tells her this is why he didn’t want her to leave, and that she must go back.He then vanishes. She looks back out and then she returns the way she came back to her room.	Protagonist is revealed to be very sick, but was note seen earlier in the film because this is not how she viewed herself. She has comes to terms with this and understands that she will not get better unless she stays in the hospital.
A few weeks later we see a boy who looks like Ebony. He  was transferred into the hospital, about  The girl goes up to her and befriends him.	Resolution is that the girl will no longer be lonely with her new friend. She has excepted that she needs to stay in the hospital, but she will no longer have to escape, because she would only be hurting herself is she did.