IT

Overhead shot of a newspaper on a coffee table inside a quaint middle-lower class house in Derry, Maine. Camera slowly zooms in on the paper while rotating slightly, it is a local newspaper and the front page is advertising the annual town fair. Very subtle eerie music is playing softly in the background, when the camera zooms enough so that the coffee table is taking up the whole shot, the eerie music suddenly stops and a giggling boy’s hand snatches the paper off of the table.

It’s a gray day outside and it is raining moderately, the mood is very pleasant and comfortable like a nice lazy rainy day.

The camera follows the giddy 6 year old (paper in hand) into his older brothers room (around 10 yrs old) who is bed-ridden with a nasty cough.

Bill Densbrough (Stuttering Bill)- 10year old brother, very smart, bad stuttering problem.
George Densbrough (Georgie)- 6year old brother.

Bill is showing George how to make a newspaper boat because George wants to go play with it out in the rain. The mood is very light and there needs to be a few scenes showing how close the brothers are, they exchange some laughs over some childhood jokes. The boys make the boat, and Bill tells George to go to the basement to get the tub of wax (they need it melt wax over the boat so it stays waterproof).

Camera follows George through the hallway to the basement door which is located in the kitchen.

When G arrives at the door it gets eerily silent, he is apprehensive about going down to the dark basement as all kids are. He reaches for the knob and slowly pushes the door open…

At this point the camera is directly behind george, and it is peering over his head, you would see George from behind, his shoulders and head occupying the bottom center of the shot, most of the shot is fixated on the slowly opening door. The door slowly swings open and it is complete blackness, you cant even see the stairs leading down to the basement. Still in the kitchen, it is totally silent except for the raindrops hitting a nearby window, the camera never moves.

George slowly leans into the darkness and stretches out his left arm to search for the light switch which is placed on the wall. He keeps reaching in further and further, taking a step or two down the stairs in his search for the switch.

Maybe some suspenseful building strings in the background.
The camera goes on a very slow zoom into the basement doorway where George is reaching.

At suspense climax George’s mother says off-screen “George?! What are you doing going down there?” Some dialogue here about the boat, then the mom turns on the light for George so he can go downstairs to get the wax.

On cue with the mothers voice, the camera position switches. It is now turned 90 degrees to the right, this way both the mother and George are in the shot, audience breaths a sigh of relief. The camera shows George getting the wax and bringing it back to his older brothers room.