Transcript
Embargoed until January 00:01
MUSIC UP: [MAROON 5 “MEMORIES”]
VISUALS: Still images scroll down the screen through a mock Instagram interface, displaying pictures of two girls, one around twenty, the other twenty-five, having fun together. They are drinking and laughing. One kisses another on the cheek.
VIDEO RE-ENACTMENT FEATURING ACTRESSES: Two girls sit on the upper deck of a London bus, brown cardboard boxes on their laps and suitcases around them. They are moving house. One holds a box, “Zanna” written on it in marker pen in bold capital letters. She is pretty, with long, dark brown hair and a tan, stylish. She leans her forehead against the other girl’s cheek in a sign of friendly intimacy. The other, paler, with mousy brown hair and blue eyes, holds a box that reads “Paige”.
Zanna pulls a Polaroid camera from a box and snaps a selfie of the two young women, sticking her tongue out while the other smiles. The flash illuminates their happy faces, full of excitement.
PAIGE WHITE VOICEOVER: I couldn’t believe the most beautiful person I’d ever met was my best friend and we were moving in together in London. It was going to be the start of an amazing life together, working on the blog; it took us all over the world.
It was the dream for two girls our age, making it big in social media. When the free makeup started rolling in, I thought, This can’t get any better. I was already so lucky just to know Zanna. To have met my soul sister. So lucky. Blessed.
Then came the free bags, the free holidays, invitations to hotel openings, exclusive events with celebrities and private cars, all because of our vision, mine and Zanna’s. I was so blessed just to know her and to have become a part of her magical world. I had a pass to the most incredible life I could have imagined. But it was never about those materialistic things. It was my friendship with Zanna that brought me here, where I am today.
That’s why, sometimes, I still can’t get my head around the fact she’s gone.
TITLE TEXT ON SCREEN: “LIFE OF ZANNA”