Well, this beat sheet's already undergone a lot of changes as I've started transforming it into the treatment, but I figured I'd show y'all what it was like a couple of days ago.
Project Title: Parasite
Genre: Monster in the House
Date: April 24, 2008
1. Opening Image (1): A group of graduating high-school seniors hike up to a mountaintop to party and watch a meteor shower. A particularly bright meteor streaks across the sky, and then there is a flash of light.
2. Theme Stated (5): DRIFTER: I just like to keep to the basics.
3. Set-up (1-10): DANNY goes from drunk to cannibalistic, and GIRLFRIEND runs away from the group in fear and trips, knocking herself unconscious. While attempting to hitchhike into town, DRIFTER gets picked up by ROOKIE COP. As they drive through town, we are introduced to the townsfolk as they go about their business, finally arriving at a protest at the construction site where LOVERBOY gets arrested.
4. Catalyst (12): GIRLFRIEND wakes up after the drunken night to discover the alien’s hive-like ship. She goes to the police station looking for sex with her boyfriend, ROOKIE COP, and while there enters her feeding faze, killing QUIET COP.
5. Debate (12-25): GIRLFRIEND, now behaving in an animalistic fashion, attempts to enter the jail cell. DRIFTER instinctively realizes that she is no longer human, but LOVERBOY doesn’t want to admit that anything is wrong. DRIFTER and LOVERBOY escape from the jail cell.
6. Break into Two (25): ROOKIE COP finds DRIFTER apparently killing GIRLFRIEND, and pulls his gun. When GIRLFRIEND jumps up to attack ROOKIE COP, he is forced to shoot her instead.
7. B Story (30): MADAME MAYOR and BUSINESSMAN discuss their plans for the town while engaged in an illicit affair.
8. Fun and Games (30-55): The team (THE DRIFTER, THE LOVERBOY & THE ROOKIE COP) autopsy GIRLFRIEND and finds a pupae alien, which they kill. The team heads to the mountaintop to destroy the ship, and on the way face down many infected townsfolk, recruit MAXINE who arms them with weapons and rescue GOTH GIRL from attack.
9. Midpoint (55): The team (DRIFTER, LOVERBOY, ROOKIE COP, MAXINE & GOTH GIRL) enters the woods and finds the ship. They destroy it, and think that they have defeated the aliens.
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): After ROOKIE COP gets killed, the team discovers that the entire town is infested, and that destroying the ship has done nothing. POLICE CHIEF, BUSINESSMAN, and MADAM MAYOR (all now infected) take the uninfected townsfolk to the new hive, which is located at the construction site.
11. All Is Lost (75): DRIFTER kills the now infected GOTH GIRL after a tender moment in which she embraces her own death.
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): MAXINE and LOVERBOY begin to turn against DRIFTER, blaming him for the death of GOTH GIRL. After LOVERBOY attempts to convince him that the world is worth saving, DRIFTER returns to his motorcycle with the intention of leaving town.
13. Break into Three (85): DRIFTER gets to the motorcycle, and realizes that MAXINE has equipped it as a weapon for him. He returns to the team.
14. Finale (85-110): LOVERBOY saves DAMSEL from MADAM MAYOR, while DRIFTER and MAXINE face down BUSINESSMAN at the construction site.
15. Final Image (110): DRIFTER and MAXINE ride away from the town towards Los Angeles to face bigger enemies.
Project Title: Parasite
Genre: Monster in the House
Date: April 24, 2008
1. Opening Image (1): A group of graduating high-school seniors hike up to a mountaintop to party and watch a meteor shower. A particularly bright meteor streaks across the sky, and then there is a flash of light.
2. Theme Stated (5): DRIFTER: I just like to keep to the basics.
3. Set-up (1-10): DANNY goes from drunk to cannibalistic, and GIRLFRIEND runs away from the group in fear and trips, knocking herself unconscious. While attempting to hitchhike into town, DRIFTER gets picked up by ROOKIE COP. As they drive through town, we are introduced to the townsfolk as they go about their business, finally arriving at a protest at the construction site where LOVERBOY gets arrested.
4. Catalyst (12): GIRLFRIEND wakes up after the drunken night to discover the alien’s hive-like ship. She goes to the police station looking for sex with her boyfriend, ROOKIE COP, and while there enters her feeding faze, killing QUIET COP.
5. Debate (12-25): GIRLFRIEND, now behaving in an animalistic fashion, attempts to enter the jail cell. DRIFTER instinctively realizes that she is no longer human, but LOVERBOY doesn’t want to admit that anything is wrong. DRIFTER and LOVERBOY escape from the jail cell.
6. Break into Two (25): ROOKIE COP finds DRIFTER apparently killing GIRLFRIEND, and pulls his gun. When GIRLFRIEND jumps up to attack ROOKIE COP, he is forced to shoot her instead.
7. B Story (30): MADAME MAYOR and BUSINESSMAN discuss their plans for the town while engaged in an illicit affair.
8. Fun and Games (30-55): The team (THE DRIFTER, THE LOVERBOY & THE ROOKIE COP) autopsy GIRLFRIEND and finds a pupae alien, which they kill. The team heads to the mountaintop to destroy the ship, and on the way face down many infected townsfolk, recruit MAXINE who arms them with weapons and rescue GOTH GIRL from attack.
9. Midpoint (55): The team (DRIFTER, LOVERBOY, ROOKIE COP, MAXINE & GOTH GIRL) enters the woods and finds the ship. They destroy it, and think that they have defeated the aliens.
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): After ROOKIE COP gets killed, the team discovers that the entire town is infested, and that destroying the ship has done nothing. POLICE CHIEF, BUSINESSMAN, and MADAM MAYOR (all now infected) take the uninfected townsfolk to the new hive, which is located at the construction site.
11. All Is Lost (75): DRIFTER kills the now infected GOTH GIRL after a tender moment in which she embraces her own death.
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): MAXINE and LOVERBOY begin to turn against DRIFTER, blaming him for the death of GOTH GIRL. After LOVERBOY attempts to convince him that the world is worth saving, DRIFTER returns to his motorcycle with the intention of leaving town.
13. Break into Three (85): DRIFTER gets to the motorcycle, and realizes that MAXINE has equipped it as a weapon for him. He returns to the team.
14. Finale (85-110): LOVERBOY saves DAMSEL from MADAM MAYOR, while DRIFTER and MAXINE face down BUSINESSMAN at the construction site.
15. Final Image (110): DRIFTER and MAXINE ride away from the town towards Los Angeles to face bigger enemies.
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