Here is the first draft of my script for the pilot episode of Tales from the Kitchen Cupboard. It still might change. I intend to get my voice actors picked and their dialogue recorded as soon as possible so I can begin to work out timings and get my animatic done.
FADE
IN:
INT.
KITCHEN. DAYTIME.
RAT is eating food
that has been dropped on the floor. In the background PERSON1 leans against the
frame of an open kitchen door. He doesn't know that RAT is there. PERSON1 holds
a smoke in his hand. He baptises the smoke, then lights it up and begins to smoke.
(10Sec?)
RAT looks up, and
tenses slightly before he scurries away to a corner of the room. He carries the
food he was eating in his mouth as he goes. As this happens, PERSON2 enters the
kitchen from a second door, he carries shopping bags in his hands. (4sec?)
PERSON2
Hey man.
PERSON1
Hey man.
PERSON2 walks over to
the bench and puts the shopping bags down on it.
RAT watches PERSON2 as
he enters and walks across the kitchen floor.
PERSON2 begins to
unpack his shopping. He takes out a block of cheese and waves it at PERSON1. (3sec?)
PERSON2
Dude, guess how much
this cost?!
PERSON1 looks at the
block of cheese as RAT watches the two people. (4sec?)
PERSON1
I don't know... like,
7 bucks?
PERSON2 leans back in
an indignant way, feigning a shocked surprise. (5sec?)
PERSON2
12!
PERSON1
No way dude, 12 bucks
for a block of cheese?!
PERSON1 reacts with
surprise before raising the smoke to his lips again. (8sec?)
PERSON2
I know right?! Who
knew cheese was a luxury item aye?!
PERSON2 continues to
unpack his shopping, putting items in the cupboard above his head. (5sec)
PERSON1
Aw I know man, the
price of food is ridiculous. You know broccoli?...
PERSON1 pauses to take
another drag from his smoke. He exhales the smoke, spluttering and coughing a
little as he does so.
PERSON1
...When I get broccoli
I eat the whole tree. Like, not just the mini trees off the top. I can't afford
to waste anything!
PERSON2 looks at
PERSON1 indignantly. (20sec?)
PERSON2
Dude... Really?!
PERSON1
Yea man! Can't afford
to waste anything with the price of foo...
PERSON1 slowly fades
off without finishing the sentence. He pauses, squinting behind PERSON2.
RAT tenses.
PERSON1 squints in the
direction of RAT who sits on the kitchen floor watching. (30sec?)
PERSON1
...emmm.... What the
fuck's that??!
As PERSON2 turns to
look, RAT tenses and suddenly bolts in the direction of a cupboard that has one
of its doors standing ajar. The floor shakes and there is the sound of heavy thumping
thuds of footsteps behind RAT as PERSON1 and PERSON2 charge after him. (35sec?)
RAT runs into the
cupboard and hides behind some pots, looking out towards the kitchen through
the small gap he ran in. (10sec)
PERSON2
(O.S.)
Is it in there?
PERSON1
(O.S.)
I don't know, you
look.
(PERSON1 and PERSON2
can be heard shuffling offscreen.)
PERSON2
(O.S.)
I don't really wanna
go close aye?
PERSON1
(O.S.)
Yea man, I'm kinda
afraid it's gonna jump out or something
(laughs
nervously)
(O.S) More shuffling
can be heard. (25sec?)
RAT watches as the gap
in the door widens slightly and creaks as (O.S) one of the humans attempt to
gingerly open the cupboard door. The gap that RAT watches widens slowly.
PERSON2
(O.S.)
...ehhh...
The cupboard door is
opened wide enough to let some light in. PERSON2 peeks through the gap.
RAT tenses and cowers.
(25sec?)
PERSON2 disappears
from frame.
Pause.
PERSON2
(O.S.)
I think it's gone.
The cupboard door
creaks open fully and PERSON2's head appears again as he peers in. In the
background, PERSON1 stands, feet apart, holding a broom in his hands with his
smoke hanging out the side of his mouth.
RAT leans back further
into the shadows as both PERSON1 and PERSON2 peer in further.
PERSON2
I don't see it, do
you?
PERSON2 gingerly moves
some pots around, some fall. (10sec?)
Pause.
PERSON2
...That's a bit gross
aye?
PERSON1
(IN BACKGROUND)
Yeeeaa...
PERSON2
Do you think there
might be a hole or something it ran in? Like, maybe it went up the wall and
into the ceiling or something...
PERSON2 straightens up
and gestures towards the ceiling as he speaks. (23sec?)
PERSON1 looks in the
direction that PERSON2 gestures towards.
PERSON2
Do you think they can
do that?
PERSON1
I don't know, maybe?
Pause.
PERSON2 looks back
towards the open cupboard. (15sec?)
PERSON2
I don't see it in here
anyway.
PERSON1 and PERSON2
look around at the ceiling and cupboard in confusion.
RAT cautiously creeps
closer towards the two humans. (10sec?)
PERSON1
Fuck it, it's probably
gone. We should put some poison down maybe...
PERSON1 walks away
from the cupboard in the direction of the kitchen door while PERSON2 continues
to look at the cupboard, puzzled.
PERSON1
...although, I can't
fucking afford it with the price of everything else.
(he
laughs sarcastically) (17sec?)
PERSON2 sighs, looks
away from the cupboard and walks over to the bench that he had put his shopping
on top of. He puts the last of his shopping into the cupboard above his head.
PERSON1 tosses the
butt of his smoke outside the kitchen door. He walks over to the bench and
grabs a packet of crisps which he tears open. He plunges his hand into the bag
and pulls out a handful of crisps, accidentally dropping one on the floor as he
does this.
RAT watches the crisp
fall onto the floor from the cupboard he is hiding in. (15sec?)
PERSON1
Wanna chip bro?
PERSON1 holds out the
bag towards PERSON2.
PERSON2
Nah. I'm all good, I'm
gonna make myself something now. Thanks though.
PERSON1
All good.
PERSON1 nods and
smiles and begins to leave the room. (20sec?)
RAT cautiously leaves
the cupboard and begins to scurry towards the fallen chip. He gets to the chip
and begins to eat it. He jumps in surprise when he hears PERSON1 speak again.
PERSON1
(O.S)
...OH!...
RAT looks up to see
PERSON1 standing at the door, facing PERSON2.
PERSON1
...I still owe you 50
bucks for the stuff bro, I'll transfer you that later!
PERSON2 turns to face
PERSON1.
PERSON2
(laughing)
Yea, all good man!
PERSON1 does the
thumbs up as he exits the kitchen. (15sec?)
(During this whole
exchange only PERSON2's legs are in frame as RAT is very close to him and is
watching the exchange from the floor where the proportion is off)
PERSON2 whistles as he
moves his legs, shuffling around near RAT.
RAT nibbles on the
fallen crisp. (10sec?)
PERSON2 turns and
begins to walk towards the door that PERSON1 just left through.
(As PERSON2 leaves the
room, he walks into frame.)
As PERSON2 leaves the
kitchen, he raises the sandwich that he had been making to his mouth.
RAT watches PERSON2's
back as he exits the room. A tomato falls from PERSON2's sandwich as RAT
watches. The tomato lands on the floor.
RAT pricks his head up
as the tomato lands. Then he scurries over to the tomato. He grabs the tomato
in his mouth and carries it back to the cupboard that he had been hiding in. (30sec?)
FADE TO BLACK.
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