Idea Development

After meeting about the film again and discussing ideas, Tony put together this rough outlining of ideas and how the film could play out over the two minutes:

2 Minute Film

Emotional Need – To Make a good impression on a date, he is anxious, nervous, it will be charming and funny as we see everything go wrong as the man prepares for a date.

Opening - exterior house

Cut to Interior - bathroom - a man looks up from the sink and into the mirror, he is finishing of getting ready for a date. White shirt, smart trousers and slick hair, He looks at his watch - 18.10 

We hear the voice in his head as a voiceover:

“Okay, you got this (name) 10 minutes to get there, that gives me plenty of time.”

He takes an over big gulp from his coffee mug, choking and spilling it all over himself, the white shirt is stained. He looks in horror at the reflection.

“No no no this can’t be happening.” The man begins to panic running water and scrambling for cleaning products.

He quickly unbuttons the shirt and scrubs vigorously, eventually so hard that he rips the shirt.

“NO NO NO NO.” He tosses the shirt to the floor, his hair slightly messier now.

He bends down to retrieve the shirt and we hear a rip, his smart trousers have now ripped right on the bum revealing his boxers. We see his face reaction first and then his rear.

He screams in anguish.

He rips off his trousers and is just in his boxers, socks and a vest now.

A few moments of thought, suddenly an idea, his car has a spare pair of smart trousers, he runs outside the door slams, he tries the car but its locked, he turns and runs back to the house and turns the handle LOCKED.

He fumbles for his keys in his pocket BUT HAS NO POCKETS.

“SHIT SHIT NO NO NO.”

He rages outside at his own stupidity.

Checks his watch 18.22

He has to decide what to do, a key cutter could take hours, does he risk standing up his date or does he leave as is.

He looks at the door, and his watch again and in a burst of energy sprints down the road.

POSSIBLY END HERE TIME DEPENDING

We cut to outside a restaurant/café where we see the man sprinting from a distance (tracking shot?)

He arrives flustered and out of breath, people walk past giving him funny looks, a man with no trousers/shoes and clearly messy waits outside a posh restaurant.

He looks around, and then from around the corner a woman appears, jogging as she gets closer she slows and we see that she has messy hair, smudged makeup, stained clothes/pyjamas.

They look each other up and down, and at exactly the same time smile and say “You don’t wanna know.”