Inspiration

All of these images were good inspiration for my story because it helped me develop what the environment around the characters was going to be.

Project statement

This project is about a group of really close friends in the 90s that like to explore abandoned buildings. At the start of the story they decide to explore a recently abandoned hospital. The adventurous teenagers want to reach the top of the hospital to see the view of the nearby city skyline. The story takes a turn when the boys encounter unexpected residents still occupying the facility.

Character

• Name is Byron
• He is 16, light brown hair, green/brown eyes
• He has a younger sister and brother 3 years apart
• He was born on October 24th 1976
• He works as the paper boy on Sundays
• He is known for being the climber and active one in his family
• He does not like heights and is always scared when climbing that he will fall and have to deal with the suffering and pain for a long time.
• Byron had an easy childhood and loved to climb trees
• He has a very close friend group of 4
• He is also quite clumsy and it is funny to his friends

World Map

Eight Point Structure

Stasis: Meet all of the characters when they all unite and link together 

Trigger: When in the hospital, it starts to rain and everything gets soggy and noises are heard. people get hurt badly

The quest: their objective is too stay together and find a way out without losing anyone behind

The surprise: they find out that some of the patients are still alive with guts spilling out of gash in their stomach and other nice things

Critical choice: they need to disinfect some of the rusted gashes in time but also need to leave the hospital as soon as possible. but they are in a hospital that has been abandons for a week so there are still disinfectants around the hospital. that does mean that they have to stay and split up.

Climax: they are tested on their ability to navigate through the hospital and to not get caught up or hurt again.

Reversal: When they split up they find some disinfectant but one group gets lost and can't find their way back together. the other group hopes that the opposing group has also found some disinfectant.

Resolution: They find each other and end up getting out in one piece but are always scared for life and now hate every hospital abandoned or not. 

Eight Point Graph

Opening Sequence

My bed felt warm and softer than usual. I turned to the window to find a bright sun, beaming into my face. I just stayed in bed and rested, thinking about new areas to climb and new what I’m going to have for breakfast this morning. I rolled out of bed and almost smashed my head on the nightstand. I wanted to put clothes on but could not decide what to wear and what I wanted to get dirty. I swooped a robe around my waist and slipped on some fluffy slippers. I slipped down the stairs and again almost hit my head on the stairs. Slippers were not a good choice of shoe this morning. I saw that there was no car in the garage and that there was not a soul lingering around the kitchen, banging and dropping pans on the floor. Walking over to the cereal cabinet, I hear a knock on the door. I peer over to the garage and still no car. I peered through the door hole to see my friend standing there with a pan and some tinfoil wrapped around it.

“Hello?” 

“Dude stop being an ass, there is no one there. We are all probably just hearing things.” said Ron. We opened the door and walked through. There was blood everywhere and it led to the other room. The door read “SURGERY” in bold and there was a DO NOT ENTER” sign next to it. “AHHAHAahhhhhhhHH” the yell wobbled the floor below us. We wanted to run but were stuck in place, no movement visible from anyone. We just stood there like dead animals. The door swung open and there was a tall six and half foot man with his stomach open with blood spilling off of the sides and you could see his heart pumping and everything moving around with his eyes completely filled with blood. He yelled “HELP ME” with blood flying everywhere.

Key Events

We looked around for people and saw two Blacked out Impalas. Then out of nowhere, two men in blue walked up to the cars and got in. They were just sitting in the cars for a long minute and a half, so we decided to move slowly. We had a clear view of the hospital so we made a run for it. There was the sound of opening doors and a man yelling “HEY, GET BACK HERE”.

There was a window with a hole, a perfect fit for everyone. When Jason went in first he tripped on the window sill and got a massive gash through almost all of this forearm. It was bleeding well but was not that deep. After that piece of glass was broken off by Jason, there was no way anyone else could get cut. 

Story Board

The kids entering the building

through the window.

The first sighting of the man with his guts and other body parts exposed.

Everyone trying to escape or running towards the window to escape.

Key Moments + Start to End

Opening scene

Closing scene

My bed felt warm and softer than usual. I turned to the window to find a bright sun, beaming into my face. I just stayed in bed and rested, thinking about new areas to climb and new what I’m going to have for breakfast this morning. I rolled out of bed and almost smashed my head on the nightstand. I wanted to put clothes on but could not decide what to wear and what I wanted to get dirty. I swooped a robe around my waist and slipped on some fluffy slippers. I slipped down the stairs and again almost hit my head on the stairs. Slippers were not a good choice of shoe this morning.

When we all crashed at Ron’s place, we got up and remembered what happened yesterday and all agreed that it was a literal movie and that we would try to avoid going to an abandoned hospital again. We all just layed down in bed and looked up at the ceiling for an hour. Stared into nothingness for the rest of the morning. 

The End

Thanks for listening

Name: Byron

Byron's family is made up of 3 siblings, younger sister and brother separated by 3 and a half years. His friends are all sophomores like himself and are always energetic and ready to do anything at any time. His closest friends are the ones who do most of his climbing activities with him and are a group of 4 people. 

His biggest fear is when climbing a building to fall off and have to suffer with the pain of his falling. He has told this mostly only to his close friend group because he is always climbing around with them.

Byron’s most treasured possession is an old bullet that he found while climbing an abandoned military base from WWII.

When he thinks of his childhood kitchen he normally thinks of the smell of the homemade mac and cheese that his mother used to make for him when he was little. He used to have it almost every Friday and that was the sign for school ending for a few days and him being able to goof around the house and go play at the park with his friends. 

The setting is set in an abandoned hospital that was abandoned mid day due to the passing of some high radiation levels in the building. 

The geography there is all weeds, tall trees, and the city in the distance if you are at the top of the hospital. There is a small dirt road that leads to the hospital about an hour from the city.

If you look down you would see bottles of hospital juice spilled and broken on the floor. You would also see paper files all over the floor

The threats are the juices on the floor, the slight radiation lingering around the air along with the people.

He does not like how everything is flown open and also the radiation in the air along with the groaning noises coming from some of the rooms...

You can smell lots of hand sanitizer and the smell of cheap soap.

It is the end of spring and the uprising of fall

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Stasis: Meet all of the characters when they all unite and link together 

Trigger: When in the hospital, it starts to rain and everything gets soggy and noises are heard. people get hurt badly

The quest: their objective is too stay together and find a way out without losing anyone behind

The surprise: they find out that some of the patients are still alive with guts spilling out of gash in their stomach and other nice things

Critical choice: they need to disinfect some of the rusted gashes in time but also need to leave the hospital as soon as possible. but they are in a hospital that has been abandons for a week so there are still disinfectants around the hospital. that does mean that they have to stay and split up.

Climax: they are tested on their ability to navigate through the hospital and to not get caught up or hurt again.

Reversal: When they split up they find some disinfectant but one group gets lost and can't find their way back together. the other group hopes that the opposing group has also found some disinfectant.

Resolution: They find each other and end up getting out in one piece but are always scared for life and now hate every hospital abandoned or not.