Kate HAMES-NAVARRO

A girl is haunted by voices that she believes to be in her head - until they're not....

Lucy, a sixteen year old girl, wakes up early on the fourth of December - the anniversary of her little brothers death. As Lucy goes about this mournful day she starts to hear voices. Paying no attention to them she tries to stay calm but the voices become louder and the message becomes clearer. After a long day of ignoring these voices and gradually becoming more paranoid, Lucy realises they are not just in her head. At the end of her hallway is the source of these voices - her little brothers silhouette.

We decided that we would focus mainly on one of the five senses, in this case, audio. I had a conversation with our scriptwriter to try and limit the amount of dialogue used. Seeing as we were making a psychological thriller, we wanted to incorporate some of the main tropes of the genre. One of the main tropes was mind games, which we employed by having the voices taunt her by appearing at seemingly random times of the day, without letting Lucy figure out why they were there in the first place. As a director, I had to make sure that our actress would be able to convey feelings of confusion and paranoia when the voices appeared, to show how they affected her.