Note To Shelf: Short Film Concept
(Done in rough cartoon-style. Silent, or with minimal ambient background.)
- A man, staring down at a picnic table. No motion, but the drawing should "wiggle".
- A mosquito, sitting on the picnic table. Stoic.
- The man. Close-up of his face, staring at the mosquito. He squints slightly, brow furrowing a little.
- Mosquito, close-up of its head. No expression.
- The man's eyes, reflecting the picnic table, with a dot on it.
- Mosquito's eyes, reflecting 3 dozen men.
- From the side: the man slowly raises his hand to head-level, palm-forward, ready to swat.
- Repeat scene 4.
- From behind and above. The man starts to swing
- Rapid switch to side-view of the mosquito, pulled out a bit, to see the hand coming down. It jumps away with a buzzing sound, and the hand slaps the surface loudly.
- 2/3rd shot of the man, hand still on the table, head following the mosquito as it buzzes away toward the camera, which it flies past.
- Front view of the man pulling his hand back, putting at his side, looking at where the mosquito was. Perhaps he looks stupidly at the palm of his hand for a moment.
- Further away, he's still standing there, silently. A circular shadow starts to grow from right behind him, encompasses the majority of the scene.
- Close-up of man's face, eyes looking down, then up.
- Pull WAY out to show a meteor falling toward the man.
- Close-up of man's eyes, which quickly widen.
- Side view of meteor falling on man. No explosion: just a THUNK, burrying itself half-way into the ground. Pause. ...The mosquito flies past.
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