Before debating about how to improve on Oscar's script, we decided to each provide our personal take on it first. This is my version of Oscar's script:
Based on an original script from Oscar Mitchell and Joanne Teo's adaptation.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: MEDIUM PROFILE SHOT OF LIVE CHARACTER SITTING ON A BED IN A DARK BEDROOM, LEGS CROSSED. CLOSE SHOT ON MP3 PLAYER THAT THEY HOLD: THE CHARACTER CHOOSES A TRACK TITLED "MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS".
NARRATION STARTS: Hello, and welcome to this guided meditation. Find a comfortable position, sitting or lying down. Take a deep breath and allow your mind to enter a space of deep relaxation. It is very important that you clear your head from all the roaming negative thoughts. Inhale the positive energy, exhale all form of negativity.
MID CLOSEUP BIRDS EYE SHOT: WATCH CHEST TAKE DEEP BREATHS AND FACIALS RELAX AS THE BREATHING SLOWS AND THE BODY STARTS TO CALM. SHOULDERS DROP.
NARRATION CONTINUES:Scan up through your body with your mind,from your toes to the top of your head, and feel your physical body being freed from weight and released as pure energy.
FRONT MEDIUM SHOT STARTING FROM THE TOES, SLOWLY PANNING TO THE HEAD: A BLUE GLOW BEGINS TO TAKE OVER THE BODY.
FRONT WIDE SHOT: THE GLOW TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE BODY, SATURATED ON THE FOREHEAD. A PARTICLE SIMULATION ESCAPES FROM THE CHARACTER IN ONE DEEP EXHALE. CAMERA FOLLOWS AS THE PARTICLES GO TOWARDS THE CEILING, LEAVING THE ROOM. ENVIRONMENT SHIFT: FROM BEDROOM TO SPIRIT WORLD.
NEW ESTABLISHING SHOT: WIDE EXPANSE OF LAND, SERENE, CALM COLORS. IT IS FULL OF CREATURES SMALL AND ROUND, QUIET. THE CHARACTER'S NEW SHAPE FLIES THROUGH THIS NEW, UPLIFTING SPACE.
NARRATION: Remember to block all the parasite thoughts from your spirit.
THE WORDS "PARASITE THOUGHTS" ECHO MULTIPLE TIME, AS A TINNITUS-LIKE SOUND INCREASES ALONG WITH A HEARTBEAT. THE UPLIFTING NATURE OF THE LAND AND CREATURES SHIFTS INTO MOCKING WHSIPERS AND MISCHIEVOUS LAUGHS, THE COLOUR THEME DARKENS.
THE HEARTBEAT INCREASES AS THE CHARACTER'S SHAPE TRIES TO ESCAPE THE NIGHTMARISH VISION BUT THE CREATURES GRAB IT FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
THE TINNITUS SOUND STOPS AS THE CHARACTER SUDDENLY WAKES UP COVERED IN SWEAT AND OUT OF BREATH.
CLOSE SHOT OF CHARACTER'S SHAKY HAND ON THEIR MP3 PLAYER. THE SCREEN READS "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE "MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS"?"
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