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2 Beers one bar

Synopsis: Two bar-la   den drinks bump into one another, starting off an unusual string of ‘guy talks’.

Scene 1 –

“The Scene begins at a bar. The setting is lively, we can assume a Friday night or Saturday night out atmosphere. The camera points ‘side on’, showing us the bar top where drinks go. We can see behind the bar counter however, perhaps on the occasion seeing the bar staff pass and get drinks for customers. The background is a ‘live’ or actual filming of this bar location. The sound emitted from the film or sound recorded separate from an Omni directional microphone. The background can be slightly blurred for the illusion of depth, as the focus is on the drinks in the foreground which come into view on the bar top.”

The scene fades in form black

We can see a bar, the foreground of the bar top is blurred though.

The hustle and bustle of the bar sound persists as the blur shifts to the background, with the foreground coming more into focus.

Two drinks are served on the bar, one is a Guinness, our calmer and collected, sensible guy drink. The other is a typical beer, angry, quick to make the wrong judgement and easily swayed by drink.

These two drinks come from opposite sides of the bar [from off screen] and bump into one another.

Beer: [Immediately gets angry, turning quick]

[The Beer and Guinness squabble in a bit of an incoherent tone, with some words understandable, and others gibberish. The beer is louder than the Guinness who shrinks away from the Beer.]

Beer: [Leers over the Guinness, bubbles are bubbling inside him, a bit of froth, angry]

Eventually the two beers steer away from each other, facing the other way.

The Beer remains passive aggressive, but the Guinness looks back a bit, noticing this.

The two remain apart

[Some time passes]

Scene 2

 

A female cocktail arrives on scene from the right, leading from off-screen.

Guinness: [The Guinness looks up and is taken by surprise, jaw agape as a fine looking drink swoons past]

Guinness: [His eyes follow her as does his body, as she passes by, heading towards the Beer]

[The cocktail continues swooning by, taking the Beer by surprise as well]

Beer: [The anger on the Beers face fades quick, becoming a very keen primal interest in the cocktail]

[The cocktail does a little shake [wiggle of its hourglass hips], and exits off screen]

Beer: [He turns around to the Guinness and whistles, tilting himself to the cocktail who has just exited, raising his eyebrows.]

[The mood seems to lighten for the two, who gesture with little incomprehensible words and expression of their interest in the Cocktail, as they suddenly have a platform of interest they both share.]

[Suddenly an arm takes hold of the Beer’s handle, pulling him off-screen]

The Guinness beer looks surprised and scared as the Beer is taken off. But he gets taken too.

Scene 3

Eventually they are both placed back on the bar. The beer is significantly drunk out of than the Guinness. Because of this the Beer is a bit more cheery than the Guinness as the more they are drunk out of, the more drunk they actually become.

They seem to be getting along more now. They ‘chat’ for a moment, until a fly comes into the scene.

This ‘fly’ is my character, who buzzes around, specifically tormenting the Beer who begins to get frustrated again.

Beer: His eyes follow the fly as he begins to get frustrated with it.

Beer: He shakes himself a little, trying to get the fly to stop coming near him.

The fly seems to target him purposely, landing on him.

Beer: He pulls a very sour and annoyed face, pausing for a moment.

Guinness: He tries to reason with the beer, telling him to calm down when –

The fly blows a raspberry, taunting the Beer.

Beer: Almost immediately the Beer furiously rages, swinging itself everywhere, beer spills and he froths and bubbles.

The camera is pretty erratic on his movements, and shows the Guinness’s shocked face as beer spills onto him a bit.

Beer: After some time the fly drowns in the beer, to which he stops and smiles smugly in triumph. The fly drowns to the bottom of his glass, his eyes following it.

Guinness: He looks very surprised, unsure. He asks if the Beer is ok, who continues to grin and his eyebrows raise.

The drinks get picked up again..

 

Scene 4

The drinks return to the scene, with the Beer glass significantly more drunk than the Guinness. The fly in the drink is also gone as well, indicating that the guy ate the fly as well accidently. When the Beer returns, he is tipsy and hiccupping bubbles inside himself.  The Guinness is a bit more lighted, but nowhere near the state of the Beer.

Guinness: He is concerned for the Beer, due to his state of being.

Beer: He acts all fine when he is clearly drunk, slow and sluggish. He laughs and droops in expression whilst he’s expressing himself. He tips this way and that.

The Beer begins to hallucinate.

He suddenly sees a little robot come along and start cleaning up the spillages on the bar. He goes wide eyed, clearly following this robot. Yet the Guinness is unaware of its existence.

Guinness: He is very concerned now, edging closer.

Beer: He keeps seeing if the Guinness can see it. He keeps trying to prove its there, following it with his eyes. He gets a bit freaked whenever it comes near him. The robot reacts to the Beer, and the Beer is a bit drunkenly wary of it.

Guinness: He is quite weirded out by Beer’s behaviour, edging back when he starts reacting strangely to the robot he cannot perceive.

Beer: He jitters, getting progressively worse. Until he turns away from the Guinness.

Guinness: After a pause he begins to approach Beer, asking if he’s ok.

Beer: He turns erratically to the Guinness.

Suddenly he begins to hallucinate that the Guinness is some weird looking other character [Kelvin’s character].

Beer: He jumps back, panicking. He keeps going back.

Beer:  He ‘bumps’ into the robot.

Beer: He turns erratically between the two.

Guinness: He is acting very bewildered to Beer’s reaction to him, unaware he’s hallucinating.

Beer turns to ‘run’ and ends up slipping on his own spillage.

He falls over, rolling along the bar. His entire drink spills on the side.

Beer tumbles of the bar, off screen.

We hear a very audible smashing sound.

Guinness: He flinches and peers over the bar.

The screen fades to black.