Opening Image

1. a ‘before’ Start at the end. Man at the head of a table – roughed up.
snapshot

Set Up
Banquet table robed in plastic, glass menagerie, bowls of plastic fruit. Four other
the ‘normal’
2. people are seated still at the table. The man is on edge and doesn’t make any
world, location
& hero(ine)
sudden movements.

Catalyst
something The cohort look suspiciously at him, then attack the man. A chandelier falls on to
3. happens to the table.
upset world

Break Into 2
off into ‘new’ Rewind. The man awakes, the banquet is back in order, no chandelier on the
4. world – no table. The other people chatter and eat lavishly.
turning back

The people heckle him, throw plastic food towards him, smoke on his face etc.
Fun & Games
He picks up a glass of water. His hand is slammed down to the table. He gets up
5. twists/turns in
to leave but is forced back on to the seat and made unconscious by having plastic
the new world
bound over his nose and mouth.

Mid-point He awakes and the cohort are performing a dance monotonously. Instinctively, he
6. stakes are tries to run away from the table. Only to run back to it. In his frustration, he flips
raised the table.

Dark Times
They restrain him and knocks him out, hard. He begins to hallucinate. Hands
7. all is lost – the
behind a sheet are grasping at him and his face, he struggles and gasps for air.
lowest point

Break Into 3
8. figure out the He awakes, his wrists bound in plastic. He struggles, they try to detain him.
answer

Finale
He struggles to get his hands free. He claws at the bag over his head. In his
9. solve the
hysteria, each person at the table disappear.
problem

Closing Image
a snapshot of a We partially see his face through the torn bag. He’s still. He breathes out smoke
10. transformed until it fills the bag and we no longer see his face.
hero(ine)