Single Camera Drama Idea.

So, we've all had to come up with individual ideas for this project, and tomorrow we'll be deciding which idea within our groups will be chosen. This is the Synopsis for my idea:

SYNOPSIS:

A man returns home after a night on the town. It is established that through the mis en scene and ramblings of the character that this man is an alcoholic. He wanders around his house, shouting out for his family, who he cannot seem to find. Concerned, he runs around the house desperately trying to find them, but it is no use.

He slumps into his living room seat, and sees a man stood in the corner. He reveals himself to be The man’s conscience, embodied through a hallucination. He tells the man that his family is no longer at home, and that he must search for them elsewhere. He leaves the house and begins to hear a woman screaming, and the muffled sounds of children screaming in the background. This overwhelms him as the volume becomes unbearable, and he collapses to the ground. The conscience tells the man not to give up so easily, starting an argument between the two. The camera cuts to a different angle at this point as a passer by walks into shot, who sees the man shouting at himself in two different voices. He looks down at his hands, which are covered in blood. He screams and panics, before looking at his hands again which are now perfectly clean. He sees his wife at the end of the street, who starts to run away from him. He runs after her and almost catches up with her, but she fades away just before he sees a trail of blood on the road. His conscience returns and tells him to follow the trail. As he gets further down the trail, he hears an argument with his wife in his head, along with the crying of his children. The sound gets louder and louder the further he walks, before he ends up at a shack in the middle of a forest. The conscience stand in front of the shack, not saying a word but simply pointing at the door. The Man walks slowly towards the shack and creaks open the door, before being sick once he sees what is inside. His family is dead inside the shack, which causes the man to collapse to the floor clutching his head, at which point a flashback plays showing him murder his family.

The conscience walks up to him and holds out both of his hands. In one hand is a mobile phone, to call the police with to hand himself in. The other hand contains a gun, to take the cowards way out of the situation. The Man looks at the camera as it zooms in slowly on his face, he closes his eyes and it cuts to black.

So what did you think? Let me know in the comment section as it will be invaluable in the evaluation process later on. =)

-Reece