DESPERATE

LOVE
JD MCPHERSON | EC2 STUDIOS
This is a story about love and loss. A story of a broken heart and the pent up
grief and anger, sorrow and shame, sadness and regret we feel all at once.
It’s about needing to release all of those feelings … somewhere.

Screaming. Pounding fists. Gritting teeth. No hope to speak of.

A feeling that we won’t survive this.

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 Our story begins with our broken hearted hero heading into work at a
Japanese karaoke bar. He’s a shell of a man. Subdued. Flesh, bone, and
blood. He enters the the bar before opening and heads straight to the
elevator. Checks his phone while he waits. She still hasn’t replied to his “I
miss you” text from last night. Frustration builds as he waits for his love to
change and the song begins.

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 He heads downstairs to the hallway of private karaoke rooms. He gets his
mop and bucket of dirty water. Depressing. Smelly. Gross. He begins to mop
and feels his phone vibrate. “Don’t text me again,” she says. His heart is
pounding. He wants to scream. He is desperate for a release so he heads
into one of the empty rooms and fires up the machine.

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 For the next few minutes, we see cuts of our hero as he sings passionately
into the mic along to Desperate Love. Blind and wild. Standing on furniture.
Crushing and kicking over glasses and plates left from the night before.
Unleashing his passion and pain. Sorrow and shame. He’s down on his
knees. We feel him because we’ve been there.

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As our hero desperately sings his heart out we get glimpses of the karaoke
screen, which shows JD + Co performing in classic karaoke video style
complete with lyrics on screen. They are ever-present, almost as if they are
singing TO him.

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 Eventually, a coworker comes across the unmanned mop and peeks
through the tiny door window, watching him perform. She disappears.
Returns seconds later with The Boss. They bust in and drag him out as the
song winds down.

The Boss is angry. Motions for him to get back to work. In the end, he’s back
to mopping in silence.

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 The mood of this story is dark but electric, like the Kabukicho district in
Japan. Like a broken heart: as if our nerve endings are on fire.

The location is a cool karaoke bar in NY. SF. or LA.

Our hero is all of us when we are brokenhearted: frustrated, desperate,

grief-stricken, out of control, unleashing all the feelings that have nowhere
to go.

Look what love has done to us.

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THANK YOU