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Little Fish
FADE IN:
SERIES OF SHOTS:
A) A goldfish and bowl fill the screen.
B) A black Neon sign in electric blue, only three letters visible; a capital B and lower case L and I. The B fizzles out.
C) A chessboard, the pieces slide from random positions into game ready ones.
D) A running terrified man’s face breathing heavily.
E) Bright red lipstick being applied to lips.
F) The neon glare in...
The Difference Between Night and Day
FADE IN:
EXT. FACTORY – DAY
Open to exterior of factory. The movement of the camera is in long slow sweeping arcs from left to right.
We hear the rhythmic pulse of machines. Bump, bump, bump, like a heartbeat. The cuts get a beat shorter with each sweep.
INT. FACTORY FLOOR – DAY
Men walking into work in tight packs.
Men doing dull repetitive.
Laughing, standing about drinking...
Nightwatchers
FADE IN:
INT. CRYPT – NIGHT - DREAM
SERIES OF SHOTS:
A) A crypt wall.
B) A woman dressed in white.
C) Bare feet on a stone floor.
D) A gargoyle statue.
E) Her hand stroking it. Her hand in the maw of the gargoyle.
F) Its mouth closes and her palm is pinned.
G) A tooth shoots through her palm. Blood. Teeth snap ripping through bone. More blood.
NANNA (O.O.V.)
I love you.
END...
TIX TOX - Episode 1: Magic Bootz
FADE IN:
EXT. LONDON – NIGHT - 1858
Smoky cobbled empty streets.
In an alleyway stand twins, a boy and girl of about twelve. They are thin, dressed in rags and both have long fine white albino hair.
The girl TAM is rubbing her hands together fretfully over her kneeling brother, TIM.
Tim is hunched over a cardboard box writing carefully.
CADUCEUS (O.S.)
Quickly children, they are coming....
Spiders
FADE IN:
EXT. WOODLAND – DAY
White blurred images seep slowly in and out through soft sunlight, the sound of WOODLAND NOISES.
Blades of grass sway in the breeze out of focus.
Everything in the foreground crystallizes into sharp focus. The camera angle is fixed in space and begins to move forward. It seems to push the grass out of the way.
A spider scurries over the bark of a fallen tree...
B&B Smackdown
FADE IN:
EXT. MOUNT OLYMPUS - DAY
A fanfare of ARCHAIC MEDITERRANEAN MUSIC as a creased scroll unfolds, a sepia map of the ancient world.
ZEUS (V.O.)
There was a time, long ago when men and gods shared the world, though not always in harmony. Couplings and battles were commonplace, the stuff of everyday life. I shall relate a tale, a modern tale of one such occurrence. A great and terrible...
Gravitas
FADE IN:
EXT. CITY SKYLINE – DAY - 2098
A seagull perched on a pole high above a modern city.
Futuristic traffic in the sky and more birds.
The film’s title written childlike lower case: “GRAVITAS” appears framed to the left of the bird.
The bird leaps forward, wings opening. It slowly and elegantly flies away.
It turns and passes the glass surface of a tower block.
An approaching front...
Making Room For...
FADE IN:
INT. PUB – DAY
KEVIN,(35) sitting at the barroom table silhouetted by the while light from the window outside.
Kevin is not an attractive man. He is balding, overweight and slightly frog-like. He looks ill, sallow and slightly unkempt. But he looks content and at peace.
He is reading a dog-eared copy of the Bardo Thodol. A walking cane rests against his chair. It is a booth for...
Bad Meat
FADE IN:
INT. HOUSE, HALLWAY – NIGHT
A key CRUNCHES into a lock and a front door opens. A drunken man staggers in.
He clutches a wrapped kebab. With great effort to be quiet he closes the door.
INT. HOUSE, KITCHEN – NIGHT
The Man sits down at a table and unwraps his kebab - lifting great strips out, head back he gobbles them down.
He finishes the last piece and staggers up from the table to...
Slap!
FADE IN:
EXT. GARDEN – DAY
The flickering stutter of an old cine film – flashes of sunlight, grass and children playing.
Image settles.
COBB (4) a young baby boy with a fright of yellow hair and a cute stripy yellow and green jumper plays with other children.
An overzealous COBB pushes over a young girl - she bawls belly down in the grass - he grins at his handy work.
Unpunished he continues to...