Birds caw as the shot comes into focus on the leafless, gray treetops overhead.

 

 

RIVER - DAY

 

The rushing sound of a river floods the viewer’s senses as Alexander (20's), the main character, comes into view. He’s staring at the river in deep contemplation. Reflective.

 

Alexander gets up, and slowly begins to walk away, leaving the roaring river behind. He seems worried, troubled.

 

 

LONELY FOREST PATH - DUSK

 

Alexander is walking to return home down an empty dirt path. Unbeknownst to him, he is being watched.

 

Somewhere in the distance behind Alex., perched high on a ridge, is a slender, dark figure, which can barely be made out to be anything more than a dead tree.

 

Alexander keeps walking, still oblivious to the danger.

 

The shadow figure has moved from the crest of the distant hill, to the woods; amongst the trees that Alex. walks through.

 

Alexander keeps walking. He now feels an uncomfortable air enveloping him, but he is unshaken.

 

The shadow figure is now directly over Alexander’s right shoulder. He now realizes that something is so close, that he can feel its faint, almost lifeless breath on the back of his neck, but he doesn’t turn around.

 

He stops walking.

 

As the shadow figure leans in to Alexander’s right ear, Alex’s eyes go wide, the creature purses it’s lips in preparation to speak.

 

 

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SHADOW FIGURE

(In a breathy, unearthly whisper) I am committed…

 

The trees slowly come back into focus as Alex. appears to have woken up from a dream. He is laying on the ground exactly where he encountered the creature. It seems as if time had not passed whatsoever.

 

In an air of confusion and disarray, Alex. continues his walk back to the cabin.

 

 

INSIDE THE CABIN - NIGHT

 

Its dark in the cabin, as Alex. sits down at his desk, exhausted. He doesn’t understand why the phrase, “I am committed.” stays with him. He doesn’t remember seeing anything strange in the woods; just a cold breeze, and blacking out.

 

He picks up a pen without realizing, and begins to scribble “I am committed” onto a blank piece of paper. He realizes what he’s done, he lays the pen down and goes to sleep.

 

Alex. wakes up to the sound of his pen hitting the floor. As his eyes focus on the room, he sees hundreds and hundreds of pieces of paper, are strewn about the room. 

 

Scrawled on each page are the words “I AM COMMITTED.”

 

Alex. is horrified, and he sits back down at his desk, trying to collect his thoughts. Before he can even begin to understand whats happened, a calm comes over him, as he begins to write again, “I AM COMMITTED.”

 

He doesn’t eat, he doesn’t sleep for days. He only writes “I AM COMMITTED.” 

When writing isn’t enough, he begins to scratch it into the floorboards, and carve it into his own flesh. Alexander, has been transformed into the very thing he does not understand.

 

 

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LONELY FOREST PATH - DAY

 

Mitchell (25) is walking along the same desolate stretch of road, as poor Alexander had just days before.

 

Mitchell does not know Alexander, or what became of him. He is heading home after working for the autumn in the town of Marshall.

 

Somewhere in the distance behind Mitchell, perched high on a ridge, is a slender, dark figure, which can barely be made out to be anything more than a dead tree.

 

Mitchell keeps walking, oblivious to the danger.

 

The shadow figure has moved from the crest of the distant hill, to the woods; amongst the trees that Mitchell walks through.

 

Mitchell keeps walking. He now feels an almost familiar, yet uncomfortable air enveloping him.

 

The shadow figure is now directly over Mitchell’s right shoulder. He now realizes that something is so close, that he can feel its faint, almost lifeless breath on the back of his neck, but he doesn’t turn around.

 

He stops walking.

 

As the shadow figure leans in to Mitchell’s right ear, his eyes go wide, the creature purses it’s lips in preparation to speak. Alexander has become the creature; skeletal; ghostly white. His lifeless black eyes peer out from behind the black cloak which enshrouds his withered frame.

 

 

SHADOW FIGURE

(I’m a breathy, unearthly whisper) I. AM. COMMITTED.

 

 

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