INT – DAY – LOUNGE

Two characters – 1 and 2 – are seen lying on a couch fast asleep, the rubbish from what seemed to be a party litter the room. Suddenly the doorbell buzzes very loudly and wakes both characters up. 1 however tries to fall back asleep and so 2 gets up and answers the door.

Unknown man

“Ah hello I’m Mr 3, 1’s Landlord, is he in?”

A hand from out of scene gives 2 a note. When opened it reads – ‘IM NOT HERE – in a rushed and messy handwriting. 2 stands close to the door so as to block view into the house, however not completely.

2

“Oh you know what, he JUST left for work”

right after saying this 1 rushes across frame

Mr 3

“was that-

2

“ahhh no that was just someone from the party last night”

Mr 3

“PARTY?! oh no there is no parties allowed and 1 knows this, i definitely need to speak to him now.”

2

“Oh no don’t worry we didn’t have the party here, we…. used the neighbours house ?”

Mr 3

“You broke into the Taylor’s house?! That’s highly Illegal-“

a loud bang and “Ow” from the side of the frame that 1 disappeared to interrupts Mr 3

Mr 3

“right let me see right now”

the camera follows Mr 3 walking into the house only to see 1 peeking out of a small cupboard, 2 quickly sits on the cupboard, shutting 1 in so he cannot be seen followed by another “OW” from 1.

2

“See? Nothing”

Mr 3 stutters a bit in confusion

2 leads Mr 3 out of the house and faces him away from the house with his arm around Mr 3’s shoulder at the same time we can see 1 running into frame form the right and then out of frame again into a different room.

2

“look, I’m REAALLY hungov- busy, i’m really busy so please come back another time, Ok? Bye”

Before Mr 3 can argue 2 has shut the door.

basic idea – landlord comes to tell tenant that the rent is overdue, tenant tries hard to avoid the landlord seeing him.

shot pacing very important in comedy, additionally its very important to have a significant visual comedic style for example i will be taking inspiration from Edgar Wright. specifically the way things enter and leave the frame in funny ways and matching scene transitions. This helps comedy from being purely sound based – dialogue and helps it to be seen in the performance of characters – physical comedy, and the way the audience sees the scene: as if we can see straight through the scheme that’s fooling a specific character but its funny to watch it confuse them.

For example: the landlord knocks on the door and the tenants friend who stayed the night since yesterdays party opens up with the tenant still asleep in the lounge. The landlord asks to see the tenant however the friend takes it upon himself to distract the landlord so the friend can escape, the camera can see the tenant run past the door from one side of the frame to the other in a comedic way – the landlord clearly sees him but before he can complain the friend distracts him again. The landlord demands to be let in so the camera pans inside to see the friend quickly hide the friend in a funny way, this carries on. It is funny because the camera – the audience’s point of view, sees right through their scheme but the landlord is getting very confused, this is much more funny than just a shot, reverse shot of dialogue.