ALL OF ME

Biopic/Comedy
Kamerak Leang

2022
INT. HALL - DAY
1. INT. HALL - DAY
DAVID CHAN (a Senior High School Student, wearing a black
jacket under his school uniform) Is playing the last 5 Bars
of The Beatles song "Twist and Shout" on a Electric Bass and
on the last note David brings the neck of of the Electric
Bass up and the plays the last note bringing the neck of the
Electric Bass down and end the song passionately. The sound
of the song echo's in the hall and the room gets consumed by
silence. After a few seconds. The PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR (the
Head of Music in the High School, wearing a collared shirt
under a jersey, also wearing a flat hat) Claps and cheers for
his performance.

PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
(clapping)
Woo go David Woo Woo

The Performance Accessor stops to write some notes on a small

stack of paper near The Performance Accessor with some papers
scattered around. David stands on the stage waiting for The
Performance Accessor to tell him to go off the stage.

PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
You can leave now
David listened to The Performance Accessor and walks off
stage down some stairs on the side of the stage. The
Performance Accessor writes some more notes down and then
looks over and see a list of names of people that are in
Musical Ensembles and The Performance Accessor sees that the
section "Bassist" is empty in the Jazz Ensemble Member List
and asked David.
PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
(eyes still of the paper)
Hey
(looks up)
Davi...
The Door Closes behind David when he walks out. The
Performance Accessor looks at the Jazz ENSEMBLE Member List
again and writes down in the "Bassist" Section "David Chan"
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2. EXT. HALLS DOOR - LATER

DAVID CHAN walks out of the Hall Doors. DAVID'S FRIEND 1
comes from the right of David existed and wraps his arm
around David's neck and DAVID'S FRIEND 2 comes along from the
left of David

DAVID'S FRIEND 1
Yo, How did it go?

DAVID'S FRIEND 2
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DAVID'S FRIEND 2
Yeah how did it go?
DAVID CHAN
Aw not too bad really just
(lifts his hand that are
shaking)
Yeah
DAVID'S FRIEND 2
Oh well you gotta get use to that
when your working in an business,
writing stuff fast, typing fast,
being efficient with your fingers
y'know all that Jazz.
DAVID'S FRIEND 1
Oh yeah working in a business, when
you get your own business you will
be rich and can afford a mansion,
buying a Lamborghini. And health
insurance, oh unless if your going
to live in America then good luck
with that.
DAVID CHAN
Ha OK OK then.
DAVID'S FRIEND 2
Do you guys want to get something
to eat
All stop walking

DAVID CHAN
Oh I'm going to the music block, uh
(gets his wallet out and
pulls out a $5)
Could someone buy me a sandwich?

David's Friend 2 snatch the $5 and David walks off

DAVID'S FRIEND 2
Can i keep the cha...

DAVID CHAN (OFF SCREEN)

(cuts him off)
NO!

DAVID'S FRIEND 2
(sighs)
OK
David's Friend 2 walks off.
DAVID'S FRIEND 1
(snatch the $5)
Gimme that
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3. INT. M5 - LATER
David is in the music room playing "Smoke on the Water" on
bass but is getting it wrong and rages.
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DAVID is on his laptop looking at future office jobs. The
PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR walks passed the door but walks
backwards to see DAVID in the room and knocks on the door.
DAVID CHAN
(tired and fed up)
Yes.
The Performance Accessor opens the door and enters the room
poking his head out asking David.
PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
Hey David?
David gets startled not thinking it was The Performance
Accessor, immediately folds his laptop lid and spins on his
spinning chair to face almost to The Performance Accessor
David glances at the bottle on his desk and under stress hits
it off his desk and looks back at The Performance Accessor
and confidently smiles at him. The Performance looks beside
David confusion.
PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
(points beside David)
Why did you
(ignores it)
Anyway, I'm just wondering if you
want to join the Jazz Ensemble as a
Bass Guitarist?
DAVID CHAN
Yeah sure.
PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR
That's great, OK first rehearsal on
Thursday Lunch, I'll let the Jazz
Director know.
The Performance Accessor begins walking out of the room
DAVID CHAN
OK Thanks
The door closes behind The Performance Accessor.
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INT. M1 - DAY
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4. INT. M1 - DAY
DAVID CHAN, with this Bass Guitar bag in his back is walking
in the hallway trying to find the room where The Jazz
Ensemble is rehearsing and glances twice at the room where
The Jazz Ensemble was rehearsing and went into the room and
all the players are setting up and tuning their instruments.
The JAZZ DIRECTOR is handing out sheet music for the players.
The PIANIST looks at David for a second while he is
preparing. David goes to his station and prepares his Bass
Guitar. When David finished setting up his set-up The Jazz
Director comes to David to place the sheet music on David's
Music Stand. David looks at the sheet music. The Sheet music
is the Bass Guitar Part for the Jazz Standard "All of Me".
David is shocked when seeing the sheet music realizing its
not in Tabs.
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MONTAGE

5. INT. M4 - LATER
- DAVID CHAN goes into a room hastily and takes the Bass
Guitar Bag off his back

- Places the bass bag leaning on a wall

- Gets his laptop out of his bass bag
- Puts his laptop on top of the the piano and looks at the
sheet music and places the sheet music beside his laptop
- Types on the Windows search bar "mus" and Musescore comes
up and he click it

- Types "All of Me" into the Title in the sheet music in

Musescore
- Inputs some notes from the sheet music into the Digital
Project
- Copy and Paste the notes into tableture
- Clicks "Print"

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6. EXT. QUAD - MOMENTS LATER, DAY

- DAVID CHAN runs across the Quad and falls over. A moments
of silence and then he screams in pain
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INT. T4/T2 (COMPUTER LAB) - MOMENTS LATER

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7. INT. T4/T2 (COMPUTER LAB) - MOMENTS LATER

- DAVID CHAN Swipes his Card in the Printer
- Selects the "All of Me" Document to print

- Press the "Start" button on the printer

- Waits for the Printer to print his sheet music
- Grabs the sheet music
END OF MONTAGE
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8. INT. M1 - DAY
DAVID CHAN goes into the room confident with his bass bag on
him. He places himself in his station, brings his folder,
places it on the music stand and flips to the transcribed
sheet music of "All of Me".
JAZZ DIRECTOR
(looks around)
OK alright everyone ready, OK
(counts in snapping his
fingers on the off beat)
1, 2
(snaps on 2 and 4)
1, 2, 3, 4
David lift his head and drops down on the first beat.
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9. INT. M3 - LATER
DAVID CHAN comes into the room and calmly places his bag
down. Stands for a second and then celebrates his success.
David plays a 2 5 1 chord progression on the piano. David
goes on the drums and plays a bad double time swing groove
with energy but then goes to a better groove later. David
plays the double bass fast but doesn't sound good but later
sounding better. David improvised some notes on the piano
fast and gets a note wrong and screams. David is fiddling
with the piano keys to create a kind of melody. While doing
this David is also looking through The University of Auckland
website about applying for undergraduate study, David scrolls
down and clicks on "Why study Business?". The PIANIST of the
Jazz Ensemble walks passed the door and walks backward to
hear what David is playing on the piano. The Pianist opens
the door and David gets startled.
PIANIST
Hey is that a tune you're making?
DAVID CHAN
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DAVID CHAN
Oh no, no. I was just fiddling with
the keys
(leans on the Piano with
his elbow on the piano and
his hand on his jaw)
Why'd you ask?
PIANIST
Oh it just sounded nice
DAVID CHAN
Oh well you see i actually meant to
say, uh, no..n't
The Pianist looks at David confused
PIANIST
O..kaay then
(ignores it)
Well anyway I think you it would be
nice to play your composition for
the Jazz Band?
DAVID CHAN
Oh really, Uuhh, sure, yeah I'll
try to get it sorted by our next
rehearsal

PIANIST
Aight that sound great, can't wait
to hear it, See yea then
DAVID CHAN
Aight see yea then
The Pianist closes the door. David sits in the Piano chair
and is thinking on what he should make. David stands up.
MONTAGE
- Types on the Windows search bar "mus" and Musescore comes
up and he click it
- Presses the (+) button saying "Create New Score"
- Types "When I Close My Eyes You're Not There" into the
Title in the sheet music in Musescore
- Plays the first 3 notes of the song and tries to find the
4th note, then manages to find the 4th note
- Notates the 4th note on the project
- plays the chord Eb and then goes to Ddim and does a "ooh
nice" face

- Puts chord symbols on the top of the bar, hesitates and

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- Puts chord symbols on the top of the bar, hesitates and

puts a 7 in
- "Expands" the chordal melody into the other instruments
- On the guitar part David turned a note into a slash note
- Puts notes on the drum, bass and piano parts

- Highlights all the end notes and puts a fermata

- Clicks "Print"
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10. INT. T4/T2 (COMPUTER LAB) - MOMENTS LATER

- DAVID CHAN Swipes his Card in the Printer
- Selects the "When I Close My Eyes You're Not There"
Document to print
- Press the "Start" button on the printer
- Waits for the Printer to print his sheet music
- Grabs the sheet music

END OF MONTAGE
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11. INT. M1 - DAY

DAVID CHAN goes into the room nervously with a stake of sheet
music he is hold with 2 hands close to his chest. David goes
to his station.
PIANIST
Yo is that the sheet music for
your...
DAVID CHAN
Yeah, yeah
PIANIST
You should hand it out to everyone

DAVID CHAN
I could but...
The JAZZ DIRECTOR comes to see what is going on
JAZZ DIRECTOR
Is that your music for the band

David hesitates
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David hesitates
PIANIST
Yes it is
The Pianist grabs the sheet music from David and gives it to
the Jazz Director. The Jazz Director looks at it

JAZZ DIRECTOR
Mmm "When I Close My Eyes You're
Not There"
(walks away)
Nice
David gets fidgety
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12. INT. M1 - LATER

End of rehearsal everyone goes out of the door thanking The
JAZZ DIRECTOR on the way out. David is last to go out but The
Jazz Director stops him.
JAZZ DIRECTOR
Hey David

David stops and looks back

DAVID CHAN
Yes sir
JAZZ DIRECTOR
What do you want to be in the
future?
DAVID CHAN
Oh, um, I guess pursuing something
in business
JAZZ DIRECTOR
Oh really OK, well just remember to
keep Jazz in your life cause you're
a very good Jazz Musician.
DAVID CHAN
Of course of course sir I will,
Thank you
David walks out of the door and The Jazz Director prepares
himself to leave.
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INT. M4 - MOMENTS LATER

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13. INT. M4 - MOMENTS LATER

DAVID CHAN panics and drops his Bass Bag and grabs his laptop
out and places it on the piano, opens the laptop and shows 2
tabs showing in university entrance for business and audition
entrance to university and then switches to careers nz
"Musician" and "Office Manager" David is stressing and
accidentally plays a tritone on the piano and David takes and
breath, puts his hand on his head and puts his elbow on the
piano.
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14. INT. OFFICE - DAY

DAVID CHAN is working in a office listening to to music in
the office speakers. The music is bossa nova covered version
of "All of Me". While listening his OFFICE COLLEAGUE changes
the music.
DAVID CHAN
Ay, why did you change the musi...
OFFICE COLLEAGUE
(puts his finger on
David's mouth and pushes
his wheely chair back)
Ay ssshh, sshh, you see we're in a
communism workplace OK, its "our"
music OK, Besides
(jolts his way back to his
desk)
This has been playing for 4 hours
already
David hears a soft piano playing "All of Me" in Ballad form
DAVID CHAN
Hey Tom, Imma go have a early
lunch.
OFFICE COLLEAGUE
Aight have fun
David gets up from his chair and brings his suit jacket from
the jacket and walks out.

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MONTAGE (ALL OF ME BALLAD)

15. INT. CANTEEN - LATER

DAVID CHAN goes to the cash register and orders a sandwich
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EXT. ROAD TO PE - LATER
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16. EXT. ROAD TO PE - LATER

DAVID CHAN is walking while eating his sandwich and listening
to the environment around him.

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17. EXT. WALKWAY - LATER

DAVID CHAN is walking along a walkway while eating his
sandwich but tripped a little but managed to recover.
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18. INT. MUSIC HALLWAY - LATER

DAVID CHAN opens a door going into the music hallway while
eating his last sandwich still trying to find the soft piano
sound and finds himself in front of the door where someone is
playing piano. The PIANIST is playing the ballad version of
"All of Me" inside the room.
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19. INT. M6 - CONTINUOUS

DAVID CHAN opens the door to go inside the room and sees a
Bass Guitar near the piano and drums. He walks in and grabs
the Bass, sits down, turn on the amp, plug the lead into the
bass and amp. David is ready to play and the PIANIST finished
his Ballad section going to the solo section. The Pianist
looks at David and David nods to him. The Pianist counts in a
fast tempo
PIANIST
(counts in snapping his
fingers on the off beat)
1, 2
(snaps on 2 and 4)
1, 2, 3, 4

David plays the anticipated note before the first bar

CREDITS
- The Pianist while playing his solo looks at David with a
smile
- David looks up too while he is playing and smiles back
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EXT. WALKWAY
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20. EXT. WALKWAY

- DAVID'S FRIEND 1 and DAVID'S FRIEND 2 are eating a sandwich
while looking out at a view
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21. INT. OFFICE - DAY

- The OFFICE COLLEAGUE is concentrating on writing stuff on a
piece of paper.
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22. INT. M2 - DAY

The PERFORMANCE ACCESSOR looks at a person preforming and
writes some stuff down on paper
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23. INT. M3 - DAY

- the JAZZ DIRECTOR is listening to something while looking
out of the window having a good time
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24. INT. M6 - DAY

- The PIANIST still playing his solo
- DAVID CHAN is still playing
- The Door shuts when they play the last chord of the tune
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25. END