Goldfish Bowl

Premise
An average window cleaner starts his day like any other, but ends up on a strange journey

Logline
Steven Smith is an ordinary window cleaner who begins his day at work as normal; however he makes a strange discovery after falling through a window into a strange Laboratory. After activating a machine connected to a goldfish bowl, he is transported to a strange void and must find his way back.

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[Step Outline]

By Anthony Duke

Version 2

Scene 1 Steven Smith arrives at a house in his van, offloads his cleaning equipment and begins to clean the windows of a terraced house. He falls through one of the windows landing in a Laboratory.

Scene 2 Steven explores the Laboratory and discovers a machine which is hooked up to a Goldfish bowl, encased in a glass case. He switches the machine on, and a light floats from the bowl to his hands. As it touches him, he is transported to a strange space.

Scene 3 Steven arrives in a void, as a black hole appears and begins to suck the void in. He runs for a light in the distance fighting against the pull of the black hole, and throws himself through the light.

Scene 4 Steven lands in the Laboratory once again and runs for the window which he fell through, climbs out, collects his things in a panic and drives into the distance.

Goldfish Bowl
By Anthony Duke

Version 2

Anthony Duke Flat 1 Doust Way Rochester Kent ME1 1HH Dukey_07@hotmail.co.uk

EXT. TERRACED STREET (L.S shows a van enter from a distance and pull up to a house on a street. C.U of Steven's feet as he exits the van and pans up to reveal him for the first time) Steven exits the van, collects his equipment and sets up ready to begin cleaning the lower windows on the house. As he is cleaning one of the windows, it flips open and he falls into the building and lands in a dark, dank room.

INT. THE LABORATORY He climbs to his feet and begins to wander around the room looking for an exit, as he does he finds he is surrounded by a strange array of machinery covered in lights and screens. In the centre of the room is a large glass case connected to a console by a series of wires and tubes. A single light is shining down onto the case highlighting an object within. Steven approaches the glass case to examine what is inside and discovers that within the case is what appears to be an ordinary goldfish bowl. As Steven gets closer to the case, he notices a strange aura exuding from within the bowl. Out of the corner of his eye he notices a large glowing button on the console. At first he resists, but decides to push the button. Suddenly there is a roar as the machine powers up, electricity flickers along the wires to the case, and a blinding light causes Steven to look away.

EXT. THE VOID-SPACE

When the light fades Steven returns to look at the glass case to find that he is in a completely different place, it appears to be a void in which he has been transported to. As he looks around he can see stars and planets and as he looks to his feet it seems that he is floating on nothing. In the distance he can see a bright light, as he strains his eyes to exam the distant light there is a huge explosion and behind him forms a black hole. Steven begins running towards the light as everything around him is sucked into the void, the closer he gets to the light the greater the black hole becomes. Just as he reaches the light and throws himself through it, the last of the space is consumed and he is thrown onto the floor of the laboratory once more.

INT. THE LABORATORY Scared and confused he runs to the window he fell through and climbs out.

EXT. TERRACED STREET Steven collects his things and climbs back into his van. The ending shot is of the van speeding off into the distance.