Pitch 2 Assignment Writeup

Evil Alarm-Clock

Setup: A student is faced with an evil alarm clock that just wont stop going off.


Characters:

Protagonist- Slacker, messy, student who doesn't want to get out of bed.

Antagonist- Possessed alarm clock.

Hero- Organized roommate.

Outline:

-Open with pan of messy bedroom over to a bed piled with books and clothes. They seem to blend into one another seamlessly. It's late morning possibly early afternoon and the sun peeks through the closed blinds.

-We pan to the top of the bed only to get a pair of feet. we quickly pan to foot of bed and get a peek of the top of a persons head.


-Hear alarm(antagonist) fade in. P starts to move head around disoriented.

-POV of P blurry at first, then focuses on alarm clock.

-Wide shot of messy room with P reaching out of mess and smacking alarm.

-Alarm's pitch changes slightly.

-P quickly smacks it again.

-Alarm noise gets louder and worse.

-P sits up straight out of bed,(Med shot) visibly annoyed. (zoom into repulsive closeup)Face swollen, hair matted, drool, and eyeboogers.

-This pattern escalates and becomes beatbox like: quick cuts repeated noises with a tempo.

-cut to a hand pulling the plug on the alarm clock, bringing everything to a screeching halt.


-Wide shot of P's roommate( already dressed, clean and ready for the day) holding the plug.

-Brief pause.

-The roommate scoffs and exits.

-P looks down at the alarm clock in dismay.

-End-