THE SCRIPT
Written by
Geoffrey Fletcher
Directed by
You
THE SCRIPT
Written by
Geoffrey Fletcher
The following screenplay contains very little description.
You may imagine its characters, its location(s) and its
events in any inoffensive way that you wish for your entry
piece of 5 minutes in length.
You may add to the dialogue.
The characters discuss opening something. It can be anything.
Remember, your characters can be any combination of people,
creatures or objects, real or imagined. Feel free to place
these characters anywhere (Earth or otherwise), in any time
period (past, present or future) or in any genre (comedy,
thriller or otherwise) using any style or production tech-
nique (live action, animation, photography, drawing or other-
wise) that you wish to use.
Good luck!
CHARACTER A
Hi.
CHARACTER B
Hi.
CHARACTER A
What are you doing?
CHARACTER B
Nothing.
Character B notices something.
CHARACTER B
What’s that?
CHARACTER A
Nothing...
Character B approaches the thing that they are discussing.
CHARACTER A
Stop!
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CHARACTER B
Why?
Character B continues towards it.
CHARACTER A
Don’t open it!
CHARACTER B
Why not?
CHARACTER A
You might regret it.
CHARACTER B
I’ll take my chances.
Character A backs off.
CHARACTER A
Fine. Go ahead. Open it.
After a moment of hesitation, Character B opens
whatever it is that they have been discussing.
Something or some things positive and negative
occur(s) immediately.
(However simple or elaborate the event(s) will be is
up to you! USE YOUR IMAGINATION!)
Afterwards...
CHARACTER A
Are you happy now?
CHARACTER B
Yes and no...Why didn’t you say
Something?
CHARACTER A
Would you have believed me?
Character B thinks for a moment.
CHARACTER B
I don’t know.
Still thinking about what just happened, Character B
walks away.
CHARACTER A
Where are you going?
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CHARACTER B
Isn’t it obvious?
THE END
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