I don't have much else to post about, so I decided to post an excerpt from a screenplay I started working on last night.
EXT. Deckor city - morning
JARED HOLMES, age twenty three, is walking through the city through the large crowds. The song "What I got" is playing, as he makes his way to his apartment.
When he reaches it, he goes in the front door, and enters a seedy looking front lobby.
INT. Apartment lobby - morning
He walks through, ignored by the man at the counter, and goes into an elevator.
INT. Elevator - morning
He pushes the button for the floor his room is on, and the elevator does nothing. Jared kicks the floor, and it starts going up.
after a second, he has to pry the door open, and then walks down the dirty and old hall to get to his room.
INT. Jared's room - hallway - morning
He walks down the hall, to his door. He reaches into his pocket, and gets his key. He has trouble getting the door to unlock, but finally forces it open.
INT. Jared's ROOM - MORNING
He walks inside, pausing for a moment to look at the small room that is his home.
It is mostly empty, with an old futon to one side, and an oven on the other. There is a small beanbag chair, which is ripped open. Jared sees this, and...
Jared: Gregor!
A small dog, GREGOR walks out from the small bathroom, with a guilty look on his face.
Jared: (Continued) Don't ever chew up the beanbag chair again. I can't...
He sighs, and plops down on the futon. He turns on the TV, and starts watching a show.
After a few seconds, he glances sideways at the clock on the TV tray beside him that says 6:59, and gasps.
He sits up quickly, and walks over to the window. He pulls the shade down when a bizarre grinding sound is heard. Gregor whimpers.
Jared picks the dog up, and opens a hatch on the floor. The inside is completely dark. He goes inside, shutting the trapdoor. The sound of him latching the chain lock is heard from inside.
There is a one second pause, when everything is quiet. Then suddenly, the sound of a futuristic laser is heard, so loud, it's deafening. It lasts for a few seconds, and after it stops, the TV and everything else goes black except for the small glowing blue digital clock beside Jared's futon.
The sound of him unlatching the chain lock is heard, as the trap door slowly opens a crack, enough for him to look at the clock. It still says 6:59.
He stares at it anxiously, until the number changes to a countdown:
The number 3 appears on the clock, as Jared jumps, and lowers his head, closing the hatch.
2, he latches the chain.
1, the sound of a scream is heard, and everything stops.
EXT. DECKOR CITY - MORNING
The city is very dark like night in the city, as we look down at it from high up in the air. We hear a faint noise like that of a tornado in the distance.
After a second of taking in all of this, we start to barely make out some dark shapes moving through the deserted city...
There you go. I know it isn't professionally formatted like a real script, and that's because when I copied and pasted it over from the file it was in, it removed all of the formatting, so I had to redo it on here. And this post box isn't made for script formatting.
