Fade in ECU of a man’s face when he is asleep in bed, he snorts and the camera cuts away (4.5-5 seconds)
Quick and evenly paced cuts through a calender with a date circled on it, a used condom lying on the floor, an open jar of vaseline and the alarm clock which tells us its 9:59 (21 seconds ((5 each item except the alarm clock which gets 6 at which point the alarm clock hits 10:00 and goes off with that really annoying beeping noise)))
Cut to a long establishing shot of the entire room with the bed in the middle. The main character growls and lunges for it, turning it off but falls out of bed in the process, ends up lying motionless on the floor (7.5-8 seconds)
Cut to a MCU from the other side of the bed across the sheets. Main character drags his head into shot to the left side of the screen, the film title comes up in the right side as he drags himself to his feet and out of shot, linger with the title for a bit (7 seconds)
Cut to a long shot from the bottom of the stairs of the top of the stairs. Main character practically collapses into view and the place looks like its been bombed during a shit storm. (10 seconds)
Cut to a close up of a mans face, he is asleep at the bottom of the stairs and clearly has some relation to the main character as he simply steps over the prone form. Linger on his face once the background of the main character stepping over him has gone. (5 seconds)
Cut to a mid shot of the door to a bathroom, which is opened by the main character and we see him vomit into the toilet. (5 seconds)
Cut to a POV shot from the mirror's perspective above the sink which see's his face raise blearily into view and look into the camera with a puzzled expression (very deadpan) ((5 seconds))
Cut to an OTS shot of the mirror over the main characters shoulder, revealing that the mirror has had the word 'DICK' drawn onto it in lipstick. (4 seconds)
Cut back to the POV of the main characters face, a confused expression creeping over his face as he walks to the right out of shot. (3 seconds)
Cut to a mid shot of the main character leaving the bathroom, one hand slowly running through his hair as he tries to remember exactly why there is the word 'DICK'; on his mirror until he spots his friend on the floor properly for the first time, his hand falling exasperatedly back down to his side. He speaks his friends name to no response and so grabs a bottle from a near by table and throws it at him clumsily, saying his name again. cutting away before the bottle hits. (14 seconds)
Cut to a close up high angle shot of his friend being hit by the bottle and sort of shifting a little only to snore some more. (4 seconds)
Cut back to the mid shot of the main character who blinks a few times and continues, asking him what happened last night and why the place is a wreck (possibly use an Irish accent for the main character ((i see him as quite a bit like Dylan Moran))) before he stops, looking at something on the floor near his friend that the camera cant see. (8-9 seconds)
Flashback to a fleeting trippy flash of the used condom on the floor of the bedroom, followed by the CSIesque grainy vague flashback of the two friends talking in a corridor obviously drunk as one comes onto the other. (recommend trying to slow down the frame pace during editing for all flashbacks) ((8 seconds))
Flashback ends rather suddenly in the form of a very quick cut to a close up of an open jar of vaseline on the floor (3 seconds)
Cut to a close up of main characters face which holds an aghast and disgusted expression. (3 seconds)
Cut back to the same mid shot of the main character diving back into the bathroom and starting to wash his face in the sink. (5 seconds)
Cut back to a close up on the main characters face over the side of the sink as he washes until he stops and breathes heavily over the sink, wipes his face for a moment and shudders a bit and gets back up from over the sink. (5 seconds)
Cut back to the mid shot of the main character coming through the bathroom door, he see's his friend in the same place and gives a disgusted shudder and seems to make to punch him but lowers his fist with the same disgusted expression only slightly despairing as well, he walks out of shot past the camera which lingers for an extra second to catch him yelling something like 'GOD!' or just a general moan of horror. (8 seconds)
Cut to a long shot from within the kitchen, through the door to see the main character emerging from down the stairs and slowly drag himself through the door, a hand going back to his hair, as he reaches the doorway his hand slowly returns to his side as he walks into the room, an expression of blank incredulity on his face as he walks past the camera which pans with him and on a bit so that we are now presented with an OTS shot of a man draped over the kitchen table asleep, severely lacking in clothes, his arse bear to the camera. The main character pauses, taking in the scene before staggering slowly forwards. (20 seconds)
Cut to a slightly low angle mid shot with the arse on the left of the screen and the main character looking at it in the same blank slightly befuddled expression. (4 seconds)
Flashback mark 2, same slowed down framed grainy effect with very quick cuts within it to actually make it flashy, fleeting glimpses of a group of people playing cards with bottles all over the table, people gradually taking their clothes off with laughing faces, it is evident that they are playing strip poker, the flashback ends on the man who owns the offending arse starting to take his trousers off before snapping back to reality. (11 seconds)
The snap back to real time is in the form to the rather sudden image of the arse again. (2 seconds)
Cut to a POV shot of the main character from the arses point of view, looking blankly at it. He glances to the side of him and picks up a marker pen, bending down slightly towards the camera and reaching out with the pen. (5 seconds)
The camera cuts back round to a mid close up of the main character drawing a face on previously mentioned arse, he pulls back to admire his handywork and chucks the pen over his shoulder. (5 seconds)
The camera to a side on close up of the main characters slightly smirking face, but as he looks off into the distance his expression turns from curiousity to shock and finally horror as he looks off into the distance, he says something like 'no' and turns away from the camera, running. (6 seconds)
Cut to outside, long shot of the main character coming outside and slamming the door behind him, running up towards the camera, slowly coming to a halt with his hands on his head exclaiming something softly like 'oh christ'. (6 seconds)
The camera cuts to above the main character focusing on the garden floor which has a swasticka emblazoned upon it in toilet paper. Character's voice can be heard in the background saying something like 'why?' (5 seconds)
Cut to a close up on the main characters face which is aghast with horror as he yells several things such as 'why the fuck etc'. (6 seconds)
Cut to next to the back door looking across the wall at him storming back down the garden and opening the door. (5 seconds)
Cut back to inside the kitchen as he comes back through the door, slamming it as he goes. He goes to storm back down the kitchen. (3 seconds)
Cut to an ECU of the marker pen he had thrown over his shoulder earlier, as he slips on it. (2 seconds)
Quick cut to a mid-close up of his head and shoulders as he slips and falls, lingering for a second on the now blank bit of wall that was behind him. (3 seconds)
Cut to a mid close up high angle of him splayed on the floor in pain. (3 seconds)
Cut to a close up through the table legs of the arse man of his head and most of his upper body, as he starts to painfully roll over and his eyes train on something the camera cant see, he looks puzzled before reaching towards the camera. (8 seconds)
Cut to a close up of a smashed picture of him and his girlfriend being picked up by the main character. (5 seconds)
Cut back to the shot through the table legs as he gives a puzzled thoughtful expression before the last flashback commences. (4 seconds)
Flashback of him and a girl in bed. Door opens to reveal his girlfriend. A fight ensues between the two girls, culminating in his girlfriend falling out of sight. Shot from the top of the stairs of the girlfriends corpse at the bottom of the stairs. Shot of the other girl running down the stairs and over the body, we hear a door slam. OTS shot of girlfriends face as he carries her down the stairs and into the kitchen, sobbing as he goes. (20 seconds)
Cut back to the same shot through the table legs of the main characters shocked face, he drops the picture and jumps up as though electrocuted. (8 seconds)
Cut to a side on close up of the main characters panting face as he backs against the kitchen counter, the door to the basement out of focus behind him. He slowly looks at it and it is put into sharper focus. (9 seconds)
The screen appears to have turned to black, but a door opens and light streams in around the silhouette of the main character, revealing that it is actually a low angle mid shot from the basement of the door to it. Main character says something along the lines of 'Lisa?' or 'hello?' or something like that. Screen cuts to black. (10 seconds)
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