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Basic skeleton for Nox

  • Characters
    • Rishit
    • Shreya
    • Prerna
    • Tanay
    • Saket
    • Ansh
    • Sarthak (Alumni, 18' batch)
    • V.C. or someone of similar position.

The first part has been already been written. Because of its size (29 pages, 4000 words), it might be required to shorten it.

This has been written in a slightly non linear pattern. This will switch between pov of the given characters. Each character has some sort of effect to their pov, like a static for Rishit, etc. The effect intensity changes based on the tension in the story. Examples of these effects and a few reference images have been provided in this folder - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10kBUMCttUrl4C6lsVJaE6ejFHvyBfZXY?usp=drive_link

Refer the original script for details.

YearSarthakSaketR/S/T/P
20181st
20192nd
20203rd1st
20214th2nd
20223rd1st

Shift the years to maintain cohesion wrt the covid lockdown and stuff.

Note:

  • Tanay is Ansh's roommate
  • Prerna is Shreya's roommate
  • Sarthak was in 3rd year when Saket was a freshie
  • Saket is a 3rd year currently
  • Try to find a way to make saket suspicious of Rishit right around the time he lashes out at ToTT.

Timeline of scenes that already have been written​

  • day0
    • N
    • Rishit finds a pendrive.
    • Looks into it. it tells the location of first time capsule.
  • day1
    • A
    • Rishit buys a knife with tanay
    • E
    • Tanay asks Prerna the riddle. (it is implied that rishit and tanay explored for the 1st capsule)
    • Shreya finds 2nd capsule on cleaning duty. Does nothing with it yet.
    • Prerna asks shreya about the riddle. Shreya realises that the answer is the location where she found the capsule (2nd capsule).
  • day2
    • M
    • classroom shot of rishit in class (this shot may not be possible, according to today's discussion)
    • A
    • montage of rishit searching for the second capsule
    • E
    • Tanay is invited to TT by ansh, he declines. He is messaged by Shreya. Rishit comes in, asks if S9 accepts cash, and walks away.
  • day3
    • M
    • Shreya investigates the second capsule. She takes it.
    • A
    • Shreya decrypts the second capsule, but she needs the first capsule to actually be able to do something
    • E
    • This scene takes place in the bio lab. I will have to change this to somewhere else. Essentially Shreya confronts rishit.
    • After the lab they are seen outside of FD3 where they finally exchange information.
    • Tanay and Ansh are seen playing TT in common room.
  • day 4
    • M
    • Shreya and Rishit look for the next clue, at saraswati mandir. They find it. Saket is seen in the background.
    • Rishit extracts a few files from the pen drive with the help of the clue found at saraswati mandir.
    • A
    • Rishit on gets a message from an unknown number. It is the Alumni behind the expose. He asks him to stop as it is too soon acc. to him.
    • Rishit transfers this warning to shreya. (at this point they essentially stop looking for more)
    • N
    • Ansh threatens saket to sell him a batch, or else he would expose him of messing up a particular situation.
  • day5 - day7
    • montage of daily life of the characters.
  • day8
    • A
    • Tanay overhears Ansh talking to saket. Rishit it told about this later. Rishit now is incentivised to learn more as it is putting people near him in trouble.
    • E
    • Rishit discussed this with Shreya (at ToTT), who is skeptical about starting the whole thing again. They have a fight.
  • day9
    • N
    • Ansh asks for another batch. Saket is forced to comply.
  • day10
    • E
    • Rishit an tanay return from common room to tanay's room. They find out Ansh had ODed. Gurgling sounds are heard.
  • day11
    • N
    • Rishit and Shreya meet again (ToTT), Rishit tells her that Ansh died because of the cartel.
    • The final riddle is shown.

The first script ends here.

The final part would start from some shots of the alumni's pov, then to how it relates to present situation of alumni, and why he doesn't want the truth to be out yet. Rishit and Shreya finally manage to figure out the entire thing, but they realise that they need to rush to safety because apparently they were under surveillance of the cartel. They rush to the vice chancellor (or anyone with power and can be trusted. This was supposed to be in the original script, but it isn't feasible, so I will think of something else)

As mentioned in today's discussion, the story does not have any impactful twist yet, which I would be working on.