Red Death; Episode 1 and 2 Pilot
Project Overview
The Audio Play follows a Bounty Hunter who is down on his luck. Although he is one of the best gunslingers in the world, he seems to be on a dry spell when it comes to catching his bounties. A little girl stumbles into his camp advising she was the daughter of his long time ago love interest. Mary is a mouthy, stubborn, 8 year old who recently lost her mother to a sickness. She traveled half way across the county to meet E.C. Addison, who she believes to be her father. As they try to discover their new relationship, a sickness races across the state of Colorado. The red death, highly contagious and with symptoms the world has never seen before. The series will follow these two as they try to survive the wild west and the horrors on the open prairie.
I want to create the first two episodes as pilots and see if interest could help me get financially backed. I will attach a link to the rough draft of the script. Feel free to read through. I may import the script into WriterDuet.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B09SMJn_IF3qMQsHZMNS25Y_OL5t_x3ijiZJOI8kUfU/edit?usp=sharing
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Lead in the Audio Play
Things needed, good audio microphone for line recording.
Character Description: Bounty Hunter down on his luck. Gruff and rugged. Voice should be deeper and gravely. He is arrogant and proud. One of the best gunslingers in the West. Hardened from years of killing, but Mary will soften his personality as they grow together.
Demo Lines:
EC: Ok, I don’t know what Alice told you, but you should NOT be hanging around someone like me. So, why don’t you scurry along and head back to Alice.
MARY: Mom, she…she died last month.
EC: What!?
MARY: She survived Yellow Fever, but was left weak and sickly. She was the strongest person I knew. She tried everything she could to hold on, but she caught tuberculosis. She, she didn’t make-
EC: Mary, I’m sorry. I truly am child. But I don’t know why you came here. It was a mistake.... I’ve done awful, unforgivable things. I'm no man who should raise a little girl
MARY: That’s not fair! I came all this way from Illinois, just for you to turn me away?!
EC: Illinois!? You are telling me you rode all the way to Colorado through Indian territory by yourself…
- male adult
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing
Lead in the Audio Play
Things needed: good audio microphone for line recording.
Character: 8 year old little girl who lost her mother to sickness. She traveled across the Great Plains looking for her long lost father. She is stubborn, mouthy, and crass. She is very good with a pistol for her age and will do everything she can to have E.C. Addison teach her the ropes of being a bounty hunter. She swears.
Demo Lines:
OUTLAW 3: Wa-wa-wait! Wait! Please! Where the hell is my gun?!
MARY: Oh you mean this? EC: Mary!? What the hell are you doing here!
OUTLAW 3: You stupid Bit-
BANG
OUTLAW 3: AHHHHHH!!! You Bitch, you shot me in the leg!
MARY: Watch your language! Am I right EC?
EC: What are you doing here!
MARY: I couldn’t let you go all by yourself! Plus, I got bored listening to Sister Madeline preach. I left earlier in the day when these guys were out of the area and hid in that rotted log!
OUTLAW 3: Are you guys just goin’ to let me bleed out here!? Help!
MARY/EC: Shut uuuup!
EC: God dammit girl! MARY: Well here I am. What’a you going to do about it?
EC: Fine! Just stay out of my way! You!
OUTLAW 3: Me!?
EC: No your whore loving buddy with the bullet in his head! Of course you! Where is Tommy!
- english
- female child
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing
Leader of a small gang of Bandits. EC is hunting him down due to a $150.00 bounty. He is smart, cruel, and brutal.
EC: That was William “the butcher” Benji. He was wanted dead or alive out of Hindale Co for Murder of a cattle rancher.
Galloping stops and men dismount.
TOMMY: Oh damn Bill! I think you may have one too many holes in your forehead… I don’t think Doc would be able to fix that. So bounty hunter, I see you found my little hideout.
MARY: Beast!
A horse snorts.
TOMMY: Hoooly shit! You were the girl we caught snoozin’ under that tree! Thanks for the horse by the way. Should have gutted you when I had the chance!
- english
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- audacity
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, laughing
A 60 year old, Catholic Nun who formed her own orphanage in the Creede, Colorado. She is a very honest woman who has survived the Wild West with toughness and prayer.
SM: Alice may not be on earth, but she is still with us. She is watching over Mary. She is even here with us now! You may be too proud to tell her yourself, but I have an idea to right your wrongs. Take the girl, you have been absent from her whole life. She has nobody else.
EC: That’s why I brought her to you!
SM: Elliot. Do you really think that young girl will flourish here? With the “old hag?” She’s got her mother’s fire. I can appreciate that, but she needs someone with a strong will, and not 30 other kids…
EC: Cora, you can’t be serious.
SM: Do you think a person like me lies in front of the Lord?
- female adult
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- high quality Mic
- audacity
Various sound effects, i.e. sighs, soft laughing, grunting from manual labor
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
OUTLAW 2: Oscar, she loves me!
OUTLAW 1: Apparently she loves Bill over there too! She-
OUTLAW 2: I don’t want to hear it Robert!
OUTLAW 1: Whatever. I’m just lookin’ out for ya.
OUTLAW 2: You just want her for yourself! The things she does… my goodness, even makes me blush!
- english
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- audacity
- high quality Mic
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
OUTLAW 2: Oscar, she loves me!
OUTLAW 1: Apparently she loves Bill over there too! She-
OUTLAW 2: I don’t want to hear it Robert!
OUTLAW 1: Whatever. I’m just lookin’ out for ya.
OUTLAW 2: You just want her for yourself! The things she does… my goodness, even makes me blush!
- english
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- high quality Mic
- audacity
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter. The groups drunk.
OUTLAW 3: Wa-wa-wait! Wait! Please! Where the hell is my gun?!
MARY: Oh you mean this? EC: Mary!? What the hell are you doing here!
OUTLAW 3: You stupid Bit-
BANG
OUTLAW 3: AHHHHHH!!! You Bitch, you shot me in the leg!
MARY: Watch your language! Am I right EC?
EC: What are you doing here!
- english
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- drunk
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- high quality Mic
- audacity
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
OUTLAW 4: Damnit Tommy! I can’t see shit! Gun smoke’s everywhere.
TOMMY: Just pay attention. Luckily the moon’s full tonight. Look for the shadows.
Running footsteps coming closer.
OUTLAW 5: He’s comin’
Bang. Head explodes.
OUTLAW 4: Randy!
- english
- male adult
- western/cowboy
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
- audacity
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
Running footsteps coming closer.
OUTLAW 5: He’s comin’
Bang. Head explodes.
OUTLAW 4: Randy!
- english
- western
- western american
- male adult
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
TOMMY: Look for the flashes through the gunpowder! Fire at the muzzle blasts!
Bang. Outlaw 6 falls to the ground screaming.
OUTLAW 6: Shit! My foot!
Volley of 3 pistols fire 2 rounds each at EC.
- english
- male adult
- western
- adult
- western american
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
OUTLAW 7: Did we get him?!
Bang. Bang. Followed by a volley of 2 pistols fire 2 shots.
TOMMY: God damnit why do I even pay you guys!
- english
- western
- male adult
- western american
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part from an Outlaw group, EC hunts down as a bounty hunter.
TOMMY: God damnit why do I even pay you guys!
OUTLAW 8: Boss stay behind me!
Voice line comes from the left.
EC: Boo.
Bang. Head explodes.
- english
- male adult
- western american
- adult
- western
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
Various sound effects, i.e. getting shot, screams of anger, heavy breathing, dying
Small part with minimal lines.
EC: Hmmm, where you at Tommy. If I was a cattle rustling piece of Bison shit, where would I hide.
HARLOT 1: Hey baby, I’ll show you a good time, just come into Jack’s Saloon.
MARY: Ew.
EC: Sorry, ma’am. I’m busy. Maybe later.
- english
- western
- adult
- female adult
- western american
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
N/A
Small part with minimal lines.
NEWS COURIER: The Creede Daily is out! Fresh off the presses! Catch up on the town’s news! Jack’s Saloon is having his yearly half off sale. Women, booze, gambling! Come to Jack’s for a great time!
RIVAL NEWS COURIER: Don’t read the Daily! Read The Creede Chronicles! Where we follow more than local news! Follow the blight of a new sickness sweeping through Colorado! They call it the Red Death! Sir, do you want a copy?
- english
- male adult
- western
- western american
- adult
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
N/A
Small part with minimal lines
RIVAL NEWS COURIER: Don’t read the Daily! Read The Creede Chronicles! Where we follow more than local news! Follow the blight of a new sickness sweeping through Colorado! They call it the Red Death! Sir, do you want a copy?
EC: No.
RIVAL NEWS COURIER: You don’t want to know about South Fork? And how 80% of the population have come down with the Red Death?
EC: I don’t give a shit about the Red Death or your pitiful news paper!
- english
- western american
- adult
- male adult
- western
- focusrite scarlett 2i2
N/A
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