Sick as a Dog

An extract of a short non-dialogue farce script I wrote:

SCENE 4 - INTERIOR - WAITING ROOM

Arthur walks over to a seat and sits down, swinging his legs

at the seat he is sitting in. He sees a woman sitting next

to him with a cat cage beside her.

(CONTINUED)

Arthur starts to make cute faces at the cat cage and starts

wiggling his finger at it until he gets closer and closer

until the cat tries to attack him.

A huge roar is heard from the cage making Arthur jump back

in fear. Arthur barks at the cat cage in retaliation. The

woman sitting beside him looks at him, seeing this he stops

and looks awkwardly away.

Arthur pulls out a PSP and looking very child like and

innocent he starts playing it.

Arthur is handed a medical form to complete, he looks

thankful to the person giving it to him.

Arthur looks down to form and then starts to fill it out. He

looks up as if thinking about something and starts to fill

out form again.

He looks confused over some of the questions he was

answering but continues on.(some of the questions animal

related i,e. breed)

The hand that handed him the medical form takes it from him,

he hands it over with a smile.

Arthur looks around room endearingly. A weird and slightly

psychotic looking doctor in a white lab coat walks out from

his office, a bit untidy looking, and as he does he reaches

into the inside of his lab coat, pulls out a flask and takes

a swig, quickly putting it back inside.

The doctor calls out Arthur’s name.

Arthur hearing this gets up and walks over, accidentally

lifting the woman’s cat cage instead of his own bag, shaking

the doctors hand as he walks in his office. The doctor takes

one more swig from his flask before he follows.

SCENE 5 - INTERIOR - DOCTORS OFFICE

Guy sits down on the table, realizing he has the cat box he

looks a bit confused wondering how he got it; he sets it

down. The doctor walks over to him.

The doctor makes a series of gestures to ask what’s wrong

Arthur makes a sad face while motioning to his throat and

stomach.

The doctor grabs Arthur face while moving it up and down,

side to side examining him.

Copyright Pearse McKeown (C)

Comedy Short

So last week me and my production crew finished the shoot for a comedy/farce project we had to do for class.

It was called 'Sick as a Dog' and is about a naive, dumb-wited guy who gets sick and attempts to travel to a doctor surgery but instead ends up at a vets.

We are currently in the post production stages of the film process (editing).

It was a two day shoot and we had two locations to shoot in. One problem we had was the scenes we thought would be difficult to shoot turned out to be the easiest; and vice-versa. Through a little bit of of extra planning though we managed to get around the scenes.

I will upload an extract of the script on the next post.

Dislocation Film Blog

If you read my last post you would have seen that I talked about having to create a new blog for my end of year film, which has the theme of Dislocation.

To see how that's going here is the link: Dislocation Film. I will continue to post on this blog however.