BEAT SHEET Night of he Living Dead *Spoiler Alert*

BEAT SHEET

Night of he Living Dead *Spoiler Alert*

1. Opening Image (1): Barbara and Johnny are in a graveyard.

2. Theme Stated (5): the dead come back to life and eat people. There brains have been affect with radiation from NASA satellite returning from Venus.

3. Set-Up (1-10): When Johnny jokes with Barbara and says the famous quote “they’re coming for you, Barbara!” and they see that creepy man walking. He grabs Barbara and Johnny tries to get him off her. Barbara gets away, but the creepy man get a hold of Johnny, Johnny tries to run away but he falls on a headstone and dies.

4. Catalyst (12): Barbara runs till she sees this big white house. She’s enters the house she looks around for a phone, it doesn’t work, she goes up stairs and sees a dead body. She starts to freak out and runs down the stairs while running out the door she encounters Ben. Ben tells her to go find wood to board up the house. They exchange their stories about when they encountered the ghouls.

5. Debate (12-25): While Ben is trying to board up the house Barbara becomes hysterical and wants to go and find Johnny, she hits Ben in the face since he wont let her leave the house, Ben hits Barbara back and she passes out.

6. Break into Two (25): Ben turns on the radio and starts to finish boarding up the house. He goes up stairs and drags the dead bodies out of the house. He’s looks in a closet and finds shoes for Barbara he also finds a rifle.

7. B Story (30): Barbara hears noise from the cellar and two guys appear. On of them is Mr. Cooper and the other is Harry. They also exchange their stories and tell them about the other three down in the cellar: Judy, which is Harry girlfriend, Mrs. Cooper, Helena and her daughter Karen.

8. Fun and Games (30-55): they find a TV and watch the news. In explains the safe places in which they should travel to which is Willard. They start to make up a plan.

9. Midpoint (55): Ben and Harry make a plan to get gas in the truck, by doing this Judy makes jars filled with gas that Mr. Cooper should throw out the window. Barbara and Mrs. Cooper stays in the cellar with her daughter. Ben and harry start to leave but then Judy runs after them. She gets into the truck with harry. They make it to the barn with the gas pump but they find out the key doesn’t work, they shoot the gas pump and gas starts squirting out. Ben moves it toward the truck but the truck catches on fire. Harry gets back into the truck and starts to drive off. All of a sudden the truck blows up.

10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): the ghouls go after Ben but he uses the fire to his advantage. He gets away and runs back to the house. Mr. Cooper doesn’t let him in. so he brakes down the door.

11. All Is Lost (75): when Ben gets back into the house he boards up the door. He’s angry at Mr. Cooper so he punches him. Mr. Cooper wants to seal the rifle from Ben. He takes the gun and is about to shoot Ben, but Ben takes the gun back from him. He then shoots cooper.

12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): Barbara sees Johnny and he grabs her taking her out the door. Cooper goes down into the cellar which he finds that his daughter has been turn into a ghoul. She eats him then Mrs. Cooper goes into the cellar. Her daughter kills her. Ben goes into the cellar and kills Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, since they have been turned into ghouls.

13. Break into Three (85): the police start clearing out the zombies and make their way to the white house.

14. Finale (85-110): Ben is safe in the cellar. When its morning Ben hears dogs barking, he takes the board of the door and emerges form the cellar, and goes to the window, see the cops and before he can say or do anything they shoot him in the head.

15. Final Image (110): Ben is lying on the floor dead. They take him to the pile of dead ghouls and burn him.