- Present Day
- Flashback
- Camera is behind Margot. She’s dressed in a floral bodysuit and black jeans. Her hair is straight and she’s applying her perfume
- Camera is behind Margot. Scene has duller colors. She wears a similar outfit but her hair is up. She’s applying a different type of perfume. One friend is in the background.
- Same friend starts the dialogue. Cuts to dorm room with four girls with drinks in each of their hands. A guy sits on the desk animatedly telling a story while all the girls look at him. Camera focuses on a distracted Margot biting her nails. She shifts and then kicks a drink over by accident and the scene comes back into focus as she’s apologizing profusely and her friends grab towels. The audio and speed of the interactions become overwhelming.
- Cuts immediately among the chaos to the girls all standing outdoors shivering waiting for the uber
- Brief flashback of Brian walking beside Margot in the parking lot fro Margot’s POV. Brian smiles and breaths out into the cold air.
- Camera looks forward from the back of the Uber. All the girls pile in. The Uber driver speaks and turns. He has Brians voice and says “So How-“
- Cuts mid sentence to Brian in the front seat turned at the same angle and finishing with “-Are you, Margot”
- Girls enter the party still giggling in order to get the guys attentions. Margot walks behind them, slouched, flinching at the eye contact of the guys at the party.
- Camera cuts to them standing in the middle of the party. A guy goes to move past Margo. HIs hand brushes her back on his way past and the camera slows and focuses on the hand.
B. Cut to Brian’s hand in the same place brushing her back and zooming out to show him leading her inside the apartment. The sounds are muffled and the colors remain muted.
- Cuts back to the party and the camera focuses on an absent minded Margot swaying to the music with a cup in her hand. Her friend says: “I need to go to the bathroom.” Margot nods, swigs the rest of her drink and turns to set her empty cup on the windowsill behind her. A guy’s hand reaches over to grab his unfinished beer but the camera slows as his hand is over her cup.
- Cuts to Brian’s hand over her drink but looks as if it has just put something in the drink.
- Party is fuller and all the friends are dancing. Margot is joining them but a guy walks up behind her to dance with her and puts his hand on her waist. Camera focuses on his hand.
- Cuts to Brian’s hand in the same spot. Pan out to show him easing a blurry Margot down on the bed.
- Party is out of control at this point and some girl on a table throws her bra across the room and it flies across the camera.
- Cut to Margot’s view of Brian facing her and a similar black bra is tossed carelessly aside. Very out of focus,.
- Cut to bathroom scene where Margot’s friend is throwing up. Margot pulls her hair back and says calming things.
- Cuts to Margot wobbly but clearly, ashamedly pulling on her jacket and rushing out. Camera cuts to bright morning at breakfast next day. Margot has her head in her hands and has clearly told her friend what transpired.
- Margot still sits with her friend on the ground of the bathroom. She rubs her back and says, “It’s not your fault.”
End
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