BLACK

WAVES hitting a sandy beach; CRIES of seagulls; WIND in the leaves of palm trees … the sounds of a paradise beach

MICHAEL’S FACE

Extreme c/u; sleeping happily, mumbling; some blue screen reflection on his face 

MASTER - MEDIUM SHOT

MICHAEL sits in a swivel chair, stretched half over the keyboard of his running computer, headphones down to his shoulders, a Diskman nearby, Camera pans over his working place SLOWLY ZOOMING IN … the running computer, posters in the b.g.: game posters, postcards, , one poster showing a wide open beach, one print-out map of the level to be built; one big half-naked girl poster, a sexy femal voice starts to talk about Mappy technology; end on C/U on face of beauty

MICHAEL’S FACE C/U

MICHAEL grins happily, but a second more aggressive voice fades in demands work and talks about deadlines; MICHAEL moves uneasy in his sleep

MASTER – MEDIUM SHOT CLOSING IN

Camera explores more of the place, closing in more and more on details: notes, pencils, working schedules, finally ending on a especially evil action figure on the top of the screen

COUNTERSHOT FROM BEHIND EVIL FIGURE

The voice gets to it’s peak, the figure is looking down at MICHAEL – focus first on the figure, then pulling to MICHAEL – voice reaches peak “Wake up!”; MICHAEL moves uneasyly

MICHAEL dreams. 
-	in his dreams MICHAEL hears the sounds of a paradise beach 

-	MICHAEL hears a sexy female voice explaining the technology of Mappy

-	MICHAEL grins happily in his sleep
-	MICHAEL hears a more aggressive voice calling him to fulfill deadlines and tasklists
-	MICHAEL moves uneasy in his sleep

STILL THE COUNTERSHOT

MICHAEL’S head moves – he wakes up – the voice disappears

MASTER – (like start position) MEDIUM SHOT

MICHAEL sits up, brushes over his hair, rubs his eyes, yawns

MASTER – (like start) MEDIUM SHOT 

MICHAEL on his swivel chair; MICHAEL moves too fast so that the chair rolls away to the back and MICHAEL falls down

MICHAEL – C/U 

MICHAEL reappears from below the desk, grabs the chair and sits on it again; he looks up

ZOOM IN on clock next to screen

MICHAEL REACTION C/U

“Oh No!” 

MASTER – MEDIUM SHOT

In panic MICHAEL checks the watch on his wrist – even worse – 

MICHAEL REACTION C/U

“Oh NO!”

MASTER MEDIUM

MICHAEL sits up to the computer, leans forward to switch on the machine

EXTREME C/U

MICHAELS finger switching the screen on

MICHAEL wakes up.
-	details of waking? Evil figure falling down, hitting MICHAEL or hitting the coffee cup and coffee is splashing on MICHAEL's hand

-	MICHAEL sees the clock at his computer’s side

-	MICHAEL checks his own watch
-	MICHAEL curses

-	MICHAEL brushes over his hair 

-	MICHAEL puts on headphones

-	MICHAEL starts Diskman

MICHAEL hacks away into his computer.
-	MICHAEL’s finger dance over the keyboard

-	Polygons appear on the screen

EXTREME C/U

MICHAEL puts on his headphones

EXTREME C/U

MICHAEL switches on the Diskman – sound starts (if possible some introduction soundscape such as the crackling sound of old albums)

EXTREME C/U

MICHAEL’S eyes

THE SCREEN C/U

blackness

CUT TO: [as the music sets in with a real upbeat]

EXTREME C/U – MICHAEL’S FINGERS

MICHAEL fingers start hacking into the keyboard

C/U MICHAEL

MICHAEL’S eyes move up and down from the keyboard to the screen and back

THE SCREEN

Polygons appear – the sound of the clicking keyboard mixes with the sound of the rock’n roll song to one creative symphony

C/U FINGERS

MICHAEL’S finger hack into the keyboard – start the “dance-pan”

-	polygons grow and form complex shapes and parts of maps

-	textures fill the empty polygonal shapes

-	details become visible:
-	a tunnel
-	a bigger room
-	the “end of VR”

-	creation of Henry 

THE SCREEN

Polygons get arranged and start to form shapes – a tunnel becomes recognisable – the virtual camera pans just like the real one, circling around an invisible centre – textures start to fill the empty shapes

MASTER – MEDIUM SHOT

Panning around MICHAEL as he hacks into the keyboard

THE SCREEN – E C/U

spikes on the floor that appear magically and get textured

CAMERA OPENS to reveal:
walls form out of nothing, corners appear – panning away in the rhythm of the song

MASTER – M/S

Starting in MICHAEL’S back, circling to the other side

THE SCREEN M/S

The “end of VR” - panning

E C/U

MICHAEL’S eyes

E C/U

MICHAEL’S fingers – [mouse and/or keyboard]

E C/U

A polygon hand – a polygon face – a polygon machine gun – 

M/S

A polygon skeleton – HENRY – still the “dance-pan”

-	MICHAEL’s finger type a command line. (first line visible)

-	MICHAEL stops Diskman
-	MICHAEL puts down headphones
-	MICHAEL leans forward to screen

MASTER M/S

End of “dance-pan” as MICHAEL switches off the CD

E C/U

MICHAEL types a command line in

THE SCREEN C/U

“Start program HENRY” appears on the screen

MASTER M/S

MICHAEL takes off his headphones and leans forward

THE SCREEN C/U

“Starting HENRY” appears – followed by the usual rush of different messages on screen (unreadable) 

BLACK

FADE UP TO

THE DUNGEON 

HENRY POV – PUMP STATION

Looking around in the pump station; pipes, pump machine, shadows, some lights, a machine gun in the corner
The camera walks towards the machine gun.
The camera “picks up” the machine gun. [the machine disappears]
With a K-CHINK the machine gun appears in the bottom of the HENRY POV
The machine gun spreads fire.

MICHAEL C/U

MICHAEL laughs, satisfied

HENRY POV – INTO TUNNEL

HENRY steps into one tunnel. Slowly moving forwards. Turning around, checking suspiciously the environment. 
Turns back again – when a WALL OF FIRE explodes right into the camera [soundeffect]

MICHAEL C/U

“Damn!” 

HENRY POV – IN TUNNEL

Shrieking of pain, HENRY runs away.
HENRY bumps straight into a dungeon wall. 
HENRY falls backwards.

MICHAEL C/U

“You stupid thing! You dumb little bot!” 

HENRY – POV

Slowly standing up. Insecure moving. We HEAR more cursing.

Henry awakes to life in the dungeon.

Henry finds a machine gun. 
-	Henry picks up the gun

-	Henry uses the gun

-	MICHAEL laughs satisfied

Henry explores the dungeon.
-	Henry runs into the fire trap
-	Henry shouts horrified in pain focus on Henry’s reaction as parallel to MICHAEL’s reaction when he runs into the same trap

-	Henry runs in panic and bumps into a wall
-	MICHAEL’s jaw drop in disappointment
MICHAEL curses Henry.
-	Henry hears the cursing inside the dungeon

MICHAEL hits the monitor 
-	the dungeon shakes 
-	throwing Henry back to the ground
-	Henry looks “up” to MICHAEL (the source of the cursing and the shaking)

MASTER – M/S

MICHAEL hits the screen. “you useless piece of zeros.”

HENRY POV – ENTERING SECOND TUNNEL

The whole dungeon shakes from the impact of MICHAEL’S hand. [earthquake effect]
HENRY stumbles even more.
HENRY spots a lever [specially lit?] and makes his way.
MICHAEL’S cursing continous on the sound track.
HENRY grunts in response.
HENRY reaches the lever.

LEVER C/U

HENRY pulls the lever.

MICHAEL C/U

MICHAEL freezes for a second – a COPY of MICHAEL appears and seperates itself from the real MICHAEL. [Like a ghost, halftransparent]

MASTER – M/S

The COPY sits next to MICHAEL. Both versions of the same body look at each other in astonishment. 
MICHAEL reaches out.

HAND – C/U

MICHAEL’S hand goes through the virtual COPY body like through a mist.

THE COPY – C/U [maybe even extreme]

Looks down at himself in astonishment. Then invisible forces pull the COPY towards the screen. 

MASTER – CLOSER 

MICHAEL jumps forward, grabs the screen. [could be followed by a C/U of screen] 

-	Henry makes his way to a special lever

-	Henry pulls the lever 

MICHAEL gets “copied”.

SPECIAL EFFECT SHOT

White screen, lines appear from the edges and race into the screen middle.
More lines, more and more lines. The whole screen fills with black lines that meet in the central spot.
This central black spot seems to explode.

BLACK – FADE TO A VERY DARK DUNGEON INT

HENRY POV

Panning to see: the COPY still sitting on his swivel chair. Grabbing he chair. Frantically the COPY looks around.
The COPY looks directly into the camera. A face of astonishment.
The machine gun appears (again with the K-Chink) in the downer part of the window.

THE COPY C/U

The COPY’s eye widen with horror.

E C/U

The COPY pushes his feet against one wall.

HENRY POV

The COPY on his swivel chair darts away while the machine guns spreads lead to the place where the COPY has been seconds before. 

M/S THE COPY on his chair

The COPY goes down the tunnel like on a rollercoaster.

The Copy gets sucked into the computer screen.
-	option: white screen – more and more black lines rush to the middle
-	finally black screen (in fact: not “absolutely” black but inside the dungeon)

-	the Copy’s head appears from under the screen
-	the Copy looks around, puzzled
The Copy escapes Henry’s attack in the dungeon world but runs straight into the fire trap and gets hit. 

-	“K-Chink” the machine gun appears in the lower part of the frame
-	The COPY’S eyes widen
-	The COPY - still sitting on his swivel chair – pushes himself against a wall and speed away in the other direction

-	Bullets hit the wall where the COPY has been seconds before

-	The COPY rolls down a tunnel and bumps into a wall

-	The COPY gets hit by the fire trap

As the Copy gets hit, MICHAEL receives a hit in the real world.
-	MICHAEL’S t-shirt starts burning and his face suddenly bears black ash-traces

Henry chases the Copy further into the dungeon. 
-	The COPY’s turns

-	HENRY is rampaging through the tunnel towards the COPY

-	The COPY runs further into the dungeon

OVER THE SHOULDER – COPY into TUNNEL

Rolling down like in Indiana Jones.  A wall comes nearer and nearer. The sound of bullets hardly missing behind. The chair hits a wall.

THE COPY C/U

The COPY rolls down on the floor. 
The COPY stops the rolling, looks up (straight into camera)

[DIFFERENT C/U?]

The same fire wall hits the COPY that hit HENRY before. Fire fills the whole screen. The COPY cries out in pain.

REAL OFFICE - M C/U - MICHAEL

MICHAEL sits upright in his real-world-swivel-chair; his face is black with ashes, his hair seems to fume, his T-Shirt and arms are blackened.

FAST DISSOLVE – M C/U – THE COPY

Looks exactely the same. 
The COPY turns around.

HENRY – POV

HENRY is stomping down the tunnel. He finds the deserted swivel chair. 
Camera pans left and right – searching for the COPY.

E C/U – COPY FEET

The COPY’S feet: running very fast

E C/U – COPY BODY

The COPY running, breathing fast. 
The COPY looks behind.

HENRY POV

HENRY stomping down the very same tunnel.

M/S COPY 

The COPY runs towards the camera. The COPY turns back into the running direction again.
Headstart the COPY falls down [out of shot], arms waving.

M/S OFFICE – MICHAEL

MICHAEL gets hit on the head, blood pours out of a small wound. MICHAEL’s T-Shirt gets ripped open.

HNERY POV – APPROACHING THE SPIKES

HENRY steps closer to the place where MICHAEL just fell down. The frontal part is a spike-filled pit. 
The COPY is crawling ahead between the spikes.
HENRY turns and goes back.

C/U – COPY

The COPY is crawling between the spikes, sweating, swearing, hurt. Bleeding – miserable.

C/U – MICHAEL

MICHAEL tells the COPY to be careful.

C/U END OF SPIKES – COPY

The COPY pulls himself up on the tunnel floor again. Looking up to the ceiling and snaps back at Michael’s remarks.

HNERY POV – CORNER

HENRY turns around a corner. There ahead stands the COPY.

E C/U MICHAEL’S LIPS

MICHAEL shouts to warn the COPY.

The Copy falls into the spike trap.

-	Headstart the Copy falls into the spike trap

-	As he falls MICHAEL’S t-shirt gets ripped apart in reality and his haed bumps against an invisible wall
-	HENRY approaches the spikes (E C/U)

-	Henry turns around and runs of in another direction

-	the COPY crawls between the evil spikes, breathing heavily, swearing

MICHAEL talks to the COPY telling him to be careful.
-	Michael talks to the screen

-	The Copy argues back (“it was You who build in these traps in the first place!”) as he pulls himself out of the spike trap on the other side

HENRY turns around a corner – facing the COPY.

MICHAEL shouts instruction to go left.

M/S THE COPY – INTO SMALL TUNNEL

The COPY dives into the tunnel running straight into the camera (that zooms back at the same time).
Behind you hear the bullets hitting the walls.
“Where am I going?”

C/U – MICHAEL

MICHAEL looks at the map sketch pinned on his board.

E C/U FINGER

MICHAEL’S finger follows one path on the map.

M/S - COPY [following camera]

The COPY runs straight into blackness; only some lonely polygons are lying around in the END OF VR

MASTER – END OF VR

(from outside half facing the end of the tunnel) The COPY looks around – completely lost.

HENRY POV – END OF VR

HENRY reaches the end of the tunnel. 
HENRY stops at the end of the polygonal world. 
The machine guns fires at the COPY in the distance.

M/S – COVER

The COPY dives for cover behind one of the few spread polygons. Bullet explode on the other side of the thin cover.
The COPY shouts to MICHAEL to do something.

M C/U MICHAEL

MICHAEL hacks into the keyboard cramped over the computer.

HENRY  POV – END OF VR

While HENRY is shooting, the machine gun fades away.
HENRY grunts angrily.

The COPY backs away into a smaller tunnel to the left bullets ricocheting behind him.

HENRY follows the COPY into the tunnel.
The COPY darts down the tunnel, asking MICHAEL “Where am I?”

MICHAEL searches the map-sketch. 

MICHAEL’S fingers run across the sketch. The Fingers end at an unfinished part of the dungeon.

The Copy runs straight into blackness where only some lonely lost polys offer cover “Oh No!”

HENRY catches up.
HENRY backs away from the blackness. He runs into a barrier.
HENRY empties his machine gun towards the COPY.

The COPY dives for cover behind a single polygon.

The COPY shouts to MICHAEL to “do something”.

MICHAEL hacks into his keyboard.
HENRY’S machine gun disappears.
The COPY stops and catches his breath.
So does MICHAEL.

HENRY grunts angrily.

HENRY walks up and down like a tiger.

MICHAEL types “Delete program HENRY” (option: the words could appear around the COPY?)

The COPY stops him “We need him to get me back into reality. Do something different.”
MICHAEL “What?”
HENRY grawls.
COPY “Don’t know. Bribe him, make him happy, anything.”

MICHAEL hacks into his keyboard. “Make him happy.”

A cake appears next to HENRY. 
Henry swallows it. He burps friendly. 

MICHAEL puts his CD in the CD-ROM drive and the music fills the dungeon.
More cakes appear – HENRY eats them like the Tasmanian devil, more and more satisfied.
Henry stops walking up and down.
The COPY steps nearer. 

The COPY raises his hands in a gesture of peace.
HENRY does not attack, but steps back into the tunnel.
The COPY gives a “thumbs up” through HENRY’S pov to MICHAEL.

E C/U MICHAEL’S FINGERS

Fingers hacking into the keyboard.

E C/U SCREEN

White gigantic letters appear: “DELETE PROGRAM ..”
CAMERA opens up to reveal ..

The COPY looking up [like an over the shoulder] into blackness where these letters appear ..  “… HENRY”
The COPY shouts up to stop this.

C/U MICHAEL

Looking at screen, finger right above the ENTER key. “Why?”

C/U THE COPY

On face; “Because we need him to get me back into reality!”
OFF MICHAEL “So what can I do?”
Bribe him.

M C/U MICHAEL

MICHAEL stops, thinks, types. Not really convinced.

HENRY POV

A cake appears right in front of HENRY. 
HENRY swallows the cake with a greedy sound.
More cakes appear further into the tunnel.
HENRY goes for them back into the dungeon.

M/S THE COPY

The COPY steps nearer, into the tunnel. 
The COPY checks carefully. 

HENRY POV

The COPY looks straight into the camera, hands raise in a gesture of peace. HERNY grunts less aggressive.
The COPY gives a “thumbs up” to MICHAEL through the pov.

M/S MICHAEL

MICHAEL leans back, breathes relieved.

HENRY POV

The COPY walks half in front, looking back.
The COPY stops at the spike trap.
The COPY shakes his head. “We need a bridge here!”

M/S MICHAEL

MICHAEL hacks into the computer.

OVER THE SHOULDER FROM COPY

A bridge appears.

HENRY POV [=C/U on the COPY]

The COPY smiles to HENRY.
HENRY laughs friendly. [option: HENRY could have very basic shaped hands to give a nice gesture] 
The COPY goes on.

E C/U CD-PLAYER

MICHAEL inserts his CD in the Computer. Music starts.

C/U MICHAEL 

MICHAEL hacks into the computer

TRACKING DOWN – CAMERA sinking into HENRY POV

The COPY steps into the big pump station.
The room is filled with cakes.
HENRY laughs (this should be the moment when the camera is back into HENRY pov)

C/U MICHAEL

MICHAEL laughs satisfied.

C/U COPY

The COPY looks amazed at the mountain of cakes. The COPY looks up and smiles in approvement.
The COPY looks down again.

MICHAEL breathes relieved.

The COPY and HENRY walk back through the dungeon. 
The COPY demands more light.
MICHAEL hacks in his keyboard and the place lights up.
The COPY and HENRY reach the spikes.

MICHAEL hacks in his keyboard.

A bridge appears and offers passage over the spikes.
The COPY and HENRY reach the bigger room where the COPY was sucked into VR and the room is filled with cakes from bottom to top.

HENRY laughs happily.

HENRY POV 

from the cakes panning to the COPY
COPY sits down on the deserted swivel chair.

C/U COPY

COPY says, he has to go back.

HENRY POV

HENRY approaches the very same lever.

C/U THE COPY

The COPY hold onto the swivel chair.

C/U MICHAEL

MICHAEL leans forward – concentrates on the screen.

C/U HENRY POV – THE LEVER

HENRY activates the lever.

C/U THE COPY

The COPY looking to HENRY – Picture fades to white.

FADE IN from white – C/U MICHAEL 

MICHAEL breathes deeply.
MICHAEL looks at his hands. MICHAEL laughs reliefed.

HENRY POV

HENRY walks over to a second lever.
HENRY pulls the second lever.

The COPY sits down on the deserted swivel chair. “I have to go back.”

HENRY operates a lever.

MICHAEL and the COPY get reunited.

HENRY pulls a second lever.

M/S MICHAEL

MICHAEL examines his hand. Light fades up from the window.
The sound of the paradise beach fades in.

MASTER - OFFICE

MICHAEL stands up. 
MICHAEL opens the curtain. Light fills the room. The beach sounds swell up.

MICHAEL runs out of shot

CAMERA zooms into the window

E C/U

The CD-ROM starts playing.
A CD menu gets activated on the screen.

W/S through the curtains = HENRY POV

MICHAEL runs down the paradise beach, happily laughing and dancing.
HENRY’s hand touch the curtain.
HENRY laughs.
The curtain gets closed – to BLACK

CREDITS

END

The beach appears around MICHAEL’S office.

MICHAEL happily enters the beach.
HENRY laughs OFF.