WIND CHILL
Written by
Joseph Gangemi & Steven Katz
1 INT. UNIVERSITY LECTURE HALL - DAY 1
A GIRL'S FACE
fills the screen, twenty-one years old, pensive, pretty.Camera lingers on her in CLOSE UP, noticing details: hair
worn stylishly messy, no makeup, double-pierced ears (though
no earrings today), the corner of her bottom lip a little
frayed where she's been chewing it ruminatively.She's the kind of beauty who can withstand such bad lighting:
institutional lighting, florescents HUMMING overhead, joining
the chorus of ambient noises: a COUGH, papers RUSTLING, the
SCRIBBLE of a pen, someone SHIFTING in their chair, etc. The
shot lingers until it becomes uncomfortable, invasive,
scrutinizing this unhappy girl in an unguarded moment, then -A new sound breaks her reverie, a muted BUZZING o.s., and her
eyes cut down to -HER CELLPHONE