(Script Competition Entry)

THE OFFICE – NIGHT
MICHAEL and JOHN are the only people here.
MICHAEL
I’m BORED. I’m bored bored bored.
JOHN
I’m sure you’re not.
MICHAEL
I’m so bored..
Pause
JOHN
Yes?
He waits.
Jesus!
He leans over the desk and punches MICHAEL in the chest.
MICHAEL
Agh! What? What happened?
JOHN
You’re heart stopped. I’m sorry, I should have realized.

(Script Competition Entry) ***TO BE FILMED AUGUST***

JIM
A Short Film
EXT.DAY. A park and a bench in some recent time, somewhere forgotten. We see a young HILDA in her 20’s, talking to her husband JIM, also in his 20’s.They are both clearly courting on the bench. Sounds of distant voices also somewhere and HILDA is sometimes distracted [...]

(Script Competition Entry)
FADE IN:
INT. THE OFFICE – DAY
On screen : Two weeks previous. Monday
MAX (27) dressed in slacks and shirt, is in his office with two women, his personal secretary JANE, (24) short skirt and low cut top and her assistant KAREN, (19) large lady in very tight trousers and buttons which almost burst off [...]

(Script Competition Entry)
:FADE IN
EXT. PIER HEAD -SAT AFTERNOON
ELLIE (mid twenties)gets out of a taxi, closes the door,
leans in and pays the driver. She crosses over the road to
the ticket office for the ferry.

(Script Competition Entry)

EXT.LIVERPOOL PIER HEAD – DAY

Lots of tourists walk about between the Liver Buildings and
the river taking photos, but the huge space looks bare. A
bedraggled man, HENRY is shambling across the square and
asks people for change. He calls to a suited man, ALEX early
30’s smartly dressed. Carries a briefcase. Walks
quickly, eyes and mind elsewhere.

HENRY mid 20’s dressed casually. A haughty look.

HENRY
Mornin boss, beautiful day.

The suited man turns his head and his pace slows a
little. Henry seizes his chance and moves in, big smile and
walks with Alex.

FADE IN:
INT. CATHY’S KITCHEN – EVENING
Cathy looks down at the salad she prepares. Two lettuce leaves, half a tomato and two slices of cucumber, one scoop of cooked rice
The food is methodically prepared; she cuts a carrot half into two slices and begins to talk
CATHY
Do you remember the day that we became friends? Do you? [...]

Gone?
“How did I get into this mess?”
I banged a fist on the steering wheel, perhaps in some vain hope that an answer would jump out at me, but apart from a slight tinge of fear that I might set off the airbag, no thoughts came to mind. I had been having a quiet drink in [...]