TITLE: Clumsy WRITER:
Alex Bartlett LENGTH: 5-7
min
“Clumsy”
is a story focused on the natural connection people have to other people. This
short presents a comical outlook on how physical interactions between people
could become a lost art, and that the imperfection of real communication is a
beautiful thing. The short will be a blend of real video and cg added elements
that interact with the characters and scenes. The style will feel realistic, as if this short could happen to me (well light, bright, fun, mostly positive colors).
In the
first scene, we see a “bully looking” guy as he steps out of the car pulling up
in front of the school (a wide shot getting all of the school and the car in
front of it). He will then walk inside and as he walks by Tyler (main
character) he’ll bump into Tyler’s shoulder where Tyler will then drop his
papers clumsily. The camera focus suddenly shifts from following the bully to
following him. He will walk into a classroom and sit somewhat near the back
towards the middle column of seats.
We will
then be introduced to the brain-chip called a Telenano and the students interact
with it, such as sending pranks to each other’s paper, playing games, or
throwing notes to each other (think of the paper as a literal paper thin iPad).
You’ll get a shot of behind Tyler’s ear where it sits, right after a shot of
Tyler sitting at his desk. Tyler will flick a digital paper football to his
friend and miss, and the camera will follow to a girl and she will get annoyed
and get up, ready to move on the boy, when she will suddenly bump into Becca who
is walking past her. This is when the camera focuses on her face in slow
motion, signifying her beauty and gorgeousness. The camera will immediately
shoot to Tyler’s face, which will look as if He has just seen an angel. The
girl will promptly sit down directly a desk away to the right of him, one desk
forward. The teacher will then walk in and promptly begin class.
Tyler
will be so distracted with this girl that he will almost instinctively try to
send her a note through the digital paper, using the Telenano. The camera will
focus on the paper which will show the note he tries to flick to her being
rejected, which will anger him and he will attempt to send the note many more
times (quick comically). The camera will then shoot to him looking at the back
of Becca’s head, where he’ll realize that she doesn’t have a Telenano like everyone
else has, and he will realize that all of the ways he knows how to talk to
girls is through the chip, he is now literally on his own.
The
shots will then transition through 5 or 6 different scenes of Tyler trying
different ways to get her attention during class, such as throwing his pen at
her head (and missing, hitting the girl from before), trying to move his desk
closer to hers (only to fall over still stuck in his seat), and so on. All the
while he will think that she doesn’t notice any of these attempts, when she actually does.
The ending of the film will see Tyler so frustrated with failing to get Becca’s attention through a non-digital way that he seems to be giving up. When all of the sudden he sees a girl next to Becca lean over and whisper to her, and Tyler remembers that He could always try actually talking to her. Class ends and he runs up to her (music will capture this as the seeming epic moment of victory), taps her on the shoulder, and, trying to say “Hey, I’m Tyler” will just speak gibberish. Naturally, she will look confused. He’ll then blush and awkwardly stick out his hand saying “Hi.” She’ll pause, smile, and take the handshake, saying “Hi.” Camera zooms out and movie fades to black.
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