FADE IN;
INT. BEDROOM – DAY
Early morning. Curtains are closed. Lights are on. Character 1 is sitting on the computer, finishing a blog post. His room is plastered with superhero posters, newspaper articles and fan mail.
He walks over to the closet, grabs some clothes, and dresses. Picks up action figure, plays with it, and places it back down on the table. Picks up the car keys next to it, and exits the room, shutting the door behind him. Lingers on action figure.
INT. COUNCIL HALL – DAY
Neville is the head of the town council. He stands at the head of a council table. He addresses his fellow town council members as they enter the room and take their seats. He waits until everyone has sat down, before taking his own seat.
Neville queries local issues with council members, Each member has a meaningless and irrelevant issue and speak simultaneously, the volume in the room increases, and a ruckus occurs.
Silent Neville reaches under the table into his briefcase, pulls out a recent issue of the local newspaper, and throws it down the centre of the table. The council falls silent. Lingers on newspaper headline.
INT. BEDROOM – DAY
Lingers on the same newspaper issue that features in the council hall. Transition from newspaper to action figure on the opposite side of the room. Action figure twitches…
INT. COUNCIL HALL – DAY – CONTINUED
Council members are discussing prominent issue of a superhero vigilante scandal. Neville as head of authority brings the council to order, to bring reasonable explanations to the council’s attention.
Character 1 enters the council with mop or broom in hand. Dressed in an overall. He begins to sweep/mop as the council continues their discussion in the background.
INT. BEDROOM – DAY
Action figure replicates the movement of character 1 in the council hall. Action turns head towards corner of the room..
INT. COUNCIL HALL – DAY
Character one turns his head to face council in a movement that matches that of the action figure. Council continue to discuss specific details of supernatural events occurring in the town.
Focuses on character 1 from behind, as he imitates a superhero like pose (chest pushed out, fists on hips). He appears as a silhouette against the backlight.
INT. BEDROOM – DAY
Superhero figure is in a flying pose. OR in a single arm gun show pose (arm up, and tensed, hand rotating from front to back).
INT. COUNCIL HALL – DAY
Council talking about the description of the vigilante/superhero. Neville describes a person that sounds very similar to what character 1 looks like and a detailed profile of the vigilante’s stature, build, hair and facial features are put forward
Council fall silent yet again, and draw their attention towards character 1, as he continues to sweep. Character 1 becomes aware of the silence, stops sweeping, and looks up at his audience in a confused manner. Focus draws back to each council member as they each in turn convince themselves of the stupidity in their assumption.
One of the council members breaks the silence by declaring he is late for his 12 o’clock doctor’s appointment (open to another excuse to leave, etc) and this causes the meeting to adjourn, with each member peeling away for other commitments, leaving character 1 and Neville alone in the room.
Character one finishes his shift, and undoes his top button on his overall slightly revealing a suspicious looking garment beneath his overall. He says farewell to Neville, and heads for the door turning his back to Neville. Neville picks up on the unusual garment as he’s walking away and questions Character 1 on it. An awkward silence follows.. *sound effects – dramatic piano note.* Character 1 replies confidently that it’s a fancy dress costume, and he’ll be going as the vigilante. He’s a massive fan. Neville replies with a witty phrase.
Character 1 leaves, attention is brought back to Neville (facing the audience), who is packing his papers back into his briefcase, sat at the end of the table, closes his briefcase, slowly looks up, eyes flash red, and our superhero is revealed…
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