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THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT

a puppet play in many parts

Season 01, Episode 12

By Thomas Typewriter

(c) 2020

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FADE IN TO BLACK

Across a dark field the following text scrolls up: 01-12. It scrolls up from the center of the bottom of the frame, ascending vertically until finally exiting the center of the top of the frame.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INT. UNROOM NOT.SEVEN

A vast room of unseen edges, we focus on the wooden disc sitting in the center of the room. Rows of carpet squares spread out as if chairs around a stage. Spindly lamps illuminate of at the ends of the carpet rows.

OPEN FROM THE POV OF THE OUTER ONE SITTING ON A CARPET SQUARE. HE IS LOOKING AT THE WOODEN DISC.

THE TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE sits on the wooden disc, illuminated by unseen lamps, facing THE OUTER ONE. The sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING ring out heralding a new show. They play softer and lighter in tone than previously.

TRANSITION FROM THE UNROOM TO THE TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE

THE TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE

PAN IN TOWARDS THE MID-STAGE AREA OF THE TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE.

As the camera nears the Mid-stage, its curtains open. The Mid-Stage stands empty and undecorated. The stage-lights are at a dim level. The Curtain of Clouds can be seen against the back of the stage.

TRANSITION FROM TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE TO MID-STAGE
MID-STAGE: EMPTY

PAN INTO AND THROUGH MID-STAGE

The Curtain of Clouds parts revealing an area behind the Mid-stage. I will refer to this area as THE BACK-STAGE.

TRANSITION FROM MID-STAGE TO BACK-STAGE

THE BACK-STAGE: THE CONCURRENT DISTANCES

CONTINUE TO PAN IN UNTIL THE DARKNESS OF THE BACK-STAGE FILLS THE FRAME.

The back-stage is an empty black field. No sets. No illumination. A void. A PINK LIGHT slowly grows brighter near the stage-left. At the same time, a BLUE LIGHT slowly brightens on the stage-right side, parallel with the pink. They start to dim and brighten in waves. Their two cycles are in opposition. When one brightens, the other dims and vice-versa.

The pink light stops brightening and dimming. It flashes once. The blue light stops when the pink flashes. It pauses then flashes once in response. The pink light flashes twice. Blue repeats back. The two move a little closer. The blue light flashes three times. Pink repeats. Blue then flashes four times. Pink repeats. Each joyously flickers. They move a little closer.

Pink flashes four times. Blue repeats but changes the fourth flash to a long note.
Pink blinks in surprise. Pink returns the pattern of four flashes except the second and fourth flash are long notes.Blue communicates back with what seems to be a random mix of long and short flashes. Pink responds with a structured mix of short and long. They move closer.

Pink and Blue begin to spin around a central point. Faster and faster. The center of the stage becomes a circle of flashing pink and blue light. As they spin the background of the Back-stage changes. Sections of the black void transition to white creating a background of black and white patterns. The pattern starts to rotate. It spins counter-wise to the Pink & Blue Light’s spinning. (If I may interject, I would recommend that the background transitions to a Benham’s Disk pattern.)

The Curtain of Clouds closes as the pattern’s rotation and the Pink/Blue Light’s rotation speed to a blur.

ZOOM OUT

TRANSITION FROM BACK-STAGE TO MID-STAGE

PAN OUT TILL THE MID-STAGE CURTAINS FILL THE FRAME

TRANSITION FROM THE MID-STAGE TO THE UNROOM

INT. UNROOM NOT.SEVEN

CONTINUE PANNING OUT TILL RETURNING TO THE OUTER ONE’S POV FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE

The Mid-stage curtains close. The unseen lamps illuminating the Typewriter Abstract Puppet Stage fade out to nothing.

FADE OUT