Tales From the Stage (A Abstractish draft, as inspired by the actual Tales From the Stage series, written and produced by fab #yeg drummer Degan Richards Scene 1 :: An empty dance floor, except for a single female who is half-way between dancing and wobbling to the sounds of rad classic rock & blues [Camera zooms slowly from drummer POV] Scene 2 :: Single female is seated at a table explaining, in an unusually loud/non-indoor voice that she is [also] currently homeless to one or two men who speak unintelligibly to her about nothing [less lighting is more; consider soft filter, one guys is all twitchy] Scene 3 :: New Drummer Guy (working name is something monosyllabic like Tom or Ike or Ben or Bob) crosses floor, receives hug from Single female and is told mumble, slur, mumble, love you guys, allzofthem, you guysarraosssum, can you play .. .. .. New Drummer Guy makes facial expression indicating he has stopped listening and that he notices exaggerated amounts of hair spray .. [use low angle shot] Scene 4 :: {rapid-fire-sequence of songs starting and ending, disco lighting, sound man fading things up and down for no reason, pulsing tungsten LED lights, close ups of hands on guitars and keyboards, etc, etc; ultra-rad keyboard guy [working name for writing purposes: Larry] is ripping the s??t out of a Hammond B2} -- fade for commercial break .. Scene 5 :: [fade in] Single female is laying on stage, partially on lead singer/guitarists pedalboard requesting a song [probably Pat Benetar or Milli Vanilli] .. Quick shot of New Drummer Guy looking shocked/appalled .. Entire band high-fives each other - freeze-frame, then cut to The Thrill is Gone during which New Drummer Guy does not drop any sticks .. Scene 6 :: Single female waving hands frantically telling the band (and all patrons, and bartenders [include shot of police ..?]) to stop music and house lights need to be on because her wallet has been lost .. Lead singer has witty repartee with her .. Drummer casually sips beer and remembers he didnt take heart pills [make funny Huey Lewis and the News joke .. if comedy] Scene 7 :: [product placement for sponsorship agreement TBD, House system uses Presonus board, possible endorsement deal ..?] Scene 8 :: Band plays Rock & Roll all Night by Kiss as Single female is escorted / shoved out of club by young security guy [his first job, after completing PhD in {a degree}; use high angle shots to make him look more youthful and / or nervous; turn steady shot *off* only for POV shots in this sequence] .. Crowd goes wild .. Extremely slow fade to credits .. (oddly enough most of this happened .. if one was to ignore camera directions and odd scripty things, and the fact that all of a sudden we were playing Kiss, which we did not, then yes, pretty true story.. Hey .. If Im going to practice writing anywhere, Facebook is the least expensive place to do so) .. So, I love you and goodnight :)
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:43:53 +0000
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