The title of my trailer is Jinxing Resurrection it is a trailer that depicts the unwillingness to believe in special ability and the unbearable sadness one can feel when a best friend is gone and the extent they will go to to bring them back. I am directing this trailer, My name is Bella Paton, my email address is ipaton@sthildas.qld.edu.au and my FTV blog address is http://ipatonftvnm.blogspot.com.au
There are three central characters in my trailer: Jinx, Annabelle and ‘The Psychic’.
Jinx is an outspoken, impatient, but extremely loving 16 year old girl. The believes herself to be painfully ordinary and is happy to be that way. She is pale, brunette, slim, pretty with grey eyes and a unique fashion sense. Her life is simple and pleasant and she wants to know what the future has in store for her. One day she goes to see a psychic who informs her that she has a gift for resurrection. She tells her that she will soon need her gift. Jinx refuses to believe her and takes back her money from the reading. The psychic is a young woman who has an extraordinary gift for turning back the time, in certain desperate situations. She is pretty, asian, has tanned skin and curly brownish hair. She often dresses in shauls and colourful clothes and is passionate about crystal gazing and tarot reading. She is convinced on Jinx’s prediction. Jinx’s world is turned upside down on the way home from the psychic when she is in a horrible car accident, her best friend Annabelle in the car next to her. Annabelle is the best friend of jinx who is fun and loving. She is pretty with tanned skin and long brown hair, and quite a fragile frame.
JInx’s life is siple and uncomplex but this simple wold is changed after visiting a psychic who tells Jinx she has a special gift for resurrection. She informs Jinx that her gift will be needed soon. Later Jinx;s world is rocked by a horrible car accident in which her best friend is killed. Jinx is tortured by the fact she could not save her friend and returns to the psychic for advice. The psychic offers to give Jinx the opportunity to bring her friend back to life but tell sheer to not question anything that the psychic does. Jinx is trained by the psychic on how to use her powers till she is strong enough to revive her friend. The [sychic then reveals that she has the ability to send people back in time in extreme cases and send Jinx back to the crash giving her the opportunity to save her friend.
Scene 1:
A Psychic places a crystal ball and tarot cards on a table in the middle of her reading room. A car door is slammed in an empty street. In the psychics room she pours some tea in a cup and sets it down on the table. Jinx exits her car and walks into the psychics room. She looks up at Jinx and tells her she had been expecting her. Jinx is nervous to begin the reading but sits down. The psychic proceeds to tell Jinx that she has a very special ability to resurrect the untimely and tragically departed. Jinx denies this power and is startled by what she is saying. She feels that the psychic is a phoney and takes her money back. Jinx exits the Psychics room quickly.
Scene 2:
After returning to the car Jinx and her friend are laughing at the bad radio stations they find in the car and are trying to choose a good one. While play fighting Jinx, unaware, crashes the car. A black screen is seen while crashing and screaming noises are heard.
Scene 3:
Jinx opens her eyes slowly after the crash and looks around the car. She turns to her best friend who is still next to her. Jinx realises that her friend is dead and starts to shake her arm, trying to wake her up. Jinx is stressed out trying to figure out what to do. She thinks back to what the psychic said and wonders what to do. She realises she can’t bring her friend back. Jinx is back in her room after the accident pulling on a black cardigan and smoothing her hair. The scene cuts to Jinx attending her best friends funeral. She places some flowers on her best friends grave.
Scene 4:
Jinx enters the psychics room angrily asking her what she knows about her. Returning to the psychic is a last resort for Jinx as she has no idea what to do with herself now that her friend is dead. The psychic sits calmly at her table surrounded by crystal balls and tarot cards. She tells Jinx she is sorry for her loss. Jinx is furious and tells her she was wrong about her, she doesn't have the power to resurrect people. The psychic stands up and seriously tells Jinx that she can help her bring her friend back but Jinx can not question her methods. While she says this she fiddles nervously with her crystal ball and cards. Jinx is very excited by this news but asks how it will be possible, already questioning her methods. The psychic ignores this fact and vaguely tells jinx that she will need training and practise in her skill. While telling Jinx this she pulls out a jar of wilted flowers and places them on the table. The psychic proceeds to walk over to Jinx and take both her hands. She tells Jinx she needs to feel her own energy run through her. She tells her she will need to restore the wilting flowers she has placed on the table as practise. Back at home Jinx sits at her desk and googles people who can resurrect. The scene cuts back to the psychics tent. Jinx is picking up some fresh flowers that she has just restored. The Psychic is placing a vase of water on the table and arranging the fresh flowers in it. She tells Jinx that when she goes back she will need to believe in herself. Jinx drops the flowers she is holding and asks the psychic “What do you mean go back?”. The psychic is examining a fresh flower very closely, she informs Jinx that she has the ability to send someone back in time in dire situations, when they really need it. Jinx realising that the psychic is going to send her back to the accident sends her power into a crystal ball, that fills with light while she says: “I’m ready now, send me back to the crash.” The psychic angrily pulls the fresh flowers out of the vase while telling Jinx she is neither physically or emotionally prepared to be in that situation again. Jinx paces the other side of the table desperately and asks what she must do to be ready. The psychic calmly informs her that she really needs to ‘feel’ that day of the crash again. The scene cuts to Jinx in her bed tossing and turning while a voice over of the psychic says: “You need to put you self back into that situation.” “Your back there on that day.” The scene cuts to Jinx (in her imagination/dream) sitting behind the wheel, the camera fades to white while a voice over of the psychic is heard over the top saying: “Your behind the wheel and you feel everything.” The scene cuts back to the psychics room she tells Jinx that she is ready and to be prepared as she will send her back to the exact moment of the crash.
Scene 5:
There is a black screen and car crash and screaming noises that are heard. Jinx is sitting in the front seat of the car and opens her eyes very slowly. Jinx looks to her left where her best friend is sitting, in the passenger seat, dead. Jinx wraps her hands around her friends arm and closes her eyes. The whole trailer up to this point replays in very fast motion, representing that Jinx is feeling her energy and the energy of the past weeks where Jinx has been training with the one goal in mind, to bring back her friend. Jinx opens her eyes and lets go of her friends arm. Jinx’s friend suddenly takes a huge gasping breath of air and opens her eyes, white fade out is seen.
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