Brandon Talks True

Dear fellow tumblrs, and all who reign herewithin,

It’s been quite some time (obviously) since I have posted a blog. I will admit I’ve forgotten, and frankly, get tired of typing so much (I am a writer, but it doesn’t mean I want to write when not writing. Say that 10 times fast)

Two things I want to cover.

First, yesterday I posted a snidbit(sp?) of the movie I’m currently working on. It is loosely based on a monologue I performed back in my first semester of college. I found it, and talked with the owner (Mike Smith of the “According to Michael III” blog) http://accordingtomichaeliii.blogspot.com/ I got his permission, and I started writing. Even though his monologue is so brilliantly written, I still had to make some changes to it to get the results I wanted. Not too many though. This movie practically writes itself!

Although I have two weeks until I get out of school, I want to film this movie during the summer. How, might you ask, am I going to do that before I’m even close to finishing it? I. Have. No. Clue. If you have one, help me. But I have a tight deadline, and I’m going to stick to it. I want this movie filmed over summer if it kills me. Which it probably will.

Secondly, I thought I would throw a little self promotion in there (that is what blogs are for, are they not?)

I have two things for my second section of the blog.

Secondly Firstly, I am involved with a podcast run by myself and my girlfriend Christina Saunders. It’s called A Guy, A Girl, and a Podcast. It’s available on itunes, and the stitcher app. We are working on it so it will be more accessible to anyone and everyone who has a phone or computer, so if your medium is not listed, don’t worry, it will be soon. You can find us on facebook and twitter at @GuyGirlPodcast.

Secondly secondly, I also have a youtube account with which I post all of my films I’ve been working on lately. It’s called HearYouSpeak (www.youtube.com/hearyouspeak) and it consists of (so far) nothing but silent films! They’re 1-2 minutes long and such a blast to work on! If you’ve got a minute (that’s all you need!), you should check them out! :) and if you have 20 minutes to spare, check out the podcast too.

That’s all for now,

Brandon

This is the first draft to the opening sequence of a film I’m writing. Currently, I’m going to call it “Moments” but, that’s always subject to change. That’s what I would like to call it, though.

EXT. FRONT DOOR - MORNING

ADAM is holding a satchel around his neck as he walks out of his apartment. He closes the door behind him, making sure the door is locked. He jiggles the handle, then turns and faces the street. He closes his eyes and inhales a deep breath; exhaling with a smile.

ADAM (V.O.)
I miss the moments..

Adam walks away from his apartment and makes his way down the stairs. He grabs his bike that’s leaned against the wall and hops on it. He begins bicycling down the street. It zooms out and we see that he’s just a small guy bicycling in a big world.

cut to:

EXT. COFFEE SHOP - MORNING

Adam walks out of a coffee shop with a big doughnut and a cup of coffee. He sits down on the side of the curb watching the cars drive by. He takes a big bite of his doughnut.

ADAM (V.O.)
As I sit here.. Writing this note.. This, this letter to you. The one you’ll never actually see.

The owner of the coffee shop comes out with a coffee jar.

COFFEE SHOP OWNER
This ones almost empty. I’m going to dump it out anyways, do you want some extra? On the house.

ADAM
I.. Sure! Thanks Eddy.

Adam pops the top off of his cup and Eddy pours the last of the coffee into his cup. Adam puts the lid back on, and takes a huge drink from it. He shivers at the warmth and smiles up at Eddy. Satisfied, Eddy turns and goes back into his shop.

ADAM (V.O.)
I reminisce on the moments where time stood still for us and nothing else in the world mattered….

cut to:

EXT. SIDE STREETS - MORNING

Adam is riding his bike down the side of the road. Cars are passing him by left and right. He pulls up to a red light and stops. He pulls out a bottle and takes a quick sip from it, trying to get it in before the light turns green. It does, and he quickly shoves the bottle into his satchel.

ADAM (V.O.)
…As long as we had each other.

Adam puts his foot on the pedal and begins pedaling hard to get himself moving. Then he stops and coasts downhill, he takes his hands off the handlebars and spreads his arms wide, smiling and enjoying the thrill. 

Dear fellow tumblrs (and those of likeminded blogging enjoyability),

As a few of you know, I have been going through an issue at work lately. This particular issue arose when I signed up for my classes for this upcoming semester, and now it’s grown to something I want no part of(sadly, it’s completely about ME!)

Let me start from the beginning:

This semester(starting in the next couple weeks) I signed up for 4 classes. I waited a little too long to start signing up, but I got it all figured out and I have a schedule I really like. Once class is on monday night and three classes from 11-3:15 on tuesday and thursday. All of these classes I plan on enjoying thoroughly. Then I thought about it. I’m going to have to tell my boss about them. See, here’s the deal. I work most nights of the week from 4-9, sometimes 1-9/2-10/whatever. That clashes with my work schedule. But recently at work, they hired a new seafood clerk, so it shouldn’t be a problem. There’s three days out of the week I cant work, then the other four I do. Simple, right?

Here’s the catch: There’s three people that work the seafood counter. Me, the new seafood clerk, and the seafood manager. So, me not working three days is easy. The seafood manager opens, and the other clerk closes for three days. Then the rest of the week we can vary it up however we need. On tuesdays and thursdays though, the seafood manager HAS to have off because she has a second job.

I told the meat manager about my schedule and he asked if there was any way to change it. I signed up a little late, so there really isn’t anything I could do at this point. I couldn’t change my days. So he goes and talks with the store director and the store director says to send me back up front to being a bagger. He doesn’t try to explore any other options. Just goes “make him a bagger” and thats it.

My manager talked to me and told me he doesn’t want to lose me, I can always come back, tells me how great of a worker I am, etc. Then tells me I’m going to be losing pay because of it. Huh!? Excuse me? No. I have worked at Smith’s for the better part of two years. What I make now I have earned with a smile, and good customer service. I have put too much of my time and effort into this company to be dropped back to my starting wages. They. Can’t. Do. That.

Smith’s is a Kroger company. Kroger supports their student employees and their education. When I was a bagger, they supported me, and worked with my school schedule, but here they are demoting me against my will because I want to go to school.

Last semester I didn’t have a car, I had to take the bus everywhere(it’s still that way) and I had to be at work tuesdays and thursdays by 4. Before I got promoted, I signed up for a class that ended at 3:15. Guess what I had to do? Drop that class to be able to stay at work. I’m not letting that happen this semester, and I’m getting screwed over because of it.

I haven’t seen him yet, but I am going to go talk to the store director myself and set him straight. Not only does he seem to not support education, because he didn’t try to find a way for me to keep my promotion, but he’s also discriminating against me and the betterment of myself. Oh, and cutting my pay as well.

Now, that’s not all. My immediate manager(meat manager) told me that he was sorry to see me go because I was a hard worker, but then turned around and criticized my work behind my back, and to my face, seems to not ever care that I’m there working with him by giving me all of the chores and making me clean up after him like his nanny, called me a liar, and has also solicited my job to other employees while I was standing right there.

This is the situation I have been going through for the past couple weeks. I have felt unappreciated, and overworked. I have begun to slack on my job, because I know the inevitable is coming, and honestly, at this point, I would rather be a bagger. I don’t want to work for someone who would treat me like that. I know all of the managers I will have when I’m a bagger again, and none of them would ever treat me the way I have in the meat dept. I just don’t care to be there anymore. Time to start sending out resumes.

That’s all for today,

Brandon

I miss the myspace days when there was a huge surveys that you answered all the questions with. I wanna take those again every once in a while.

Reblog and bold what applies to you.

• I’m loud.
• I’m sarcastic.
• I cry easily.
• I have a bad temper.
• I’m easy to get along with.
• I have more enemies than friends.
• I’ve smoked.
• I drink coffee.
• I clean my room daily.

My appearance:

• I wear makeup.
• I wear a piece of jewelry at all times.
• I wear contacts.
• I wear glasses.
• I have braces.
• I change my hair color often.
• I have a piercing.
• I have small feet.

Relationships:

• I’m in a relationship now.
• I’m single.
• I’m crushin’.
• I’ve missed an ex before.
• I’m always scared of being hurt.
• I’ve told someone I loved them when I didn’t.
• I’ve told someone I didn’t love them when I did.
• I’ve been in love more than two times.
• I believe in love at first sight.

Friendships:

• I have best friends.
• I have at least ten REAL friends.
• I’ve gotten a phone call in the last 48 hours from a friend.
• I’ve beaten up a friend.
• I’ve been in a serious fight with a friend.
• I can trust at least five people with my life.

Experiences:

• I’ve been on a plane.
• I’ve taken a taxi.
• I’ve taken a city bus.
• I’ve taken a school bus.
• I’ve made a speech.
• I’ve been in some sort of club.
• I’ve spent 24 hours on the computer straight.

Music:

• I listen to R&B.
• I listen to pop.
• I listen to techno.
• I listen to rock.
• I’m one of those people who play songs repeatedly until I hate it.
• I download music.
• I buy CD’s.

Family Life:

• I get along with both of my parents for the most part.
• My biological parents are still together.
• I have at least one brother.
• I have at least one sister.
• I’ve been kicked out of the house.
• I’ve ran away from my home.
• I’ve sworn at my parents.
• I’ve made my parents cry.
• I’ve lied to my parents.
• I’ve lied to my parents about where I am.
• I’ve lied to my parents about what I’m doing.
• I’ve lied to my parents so I’d be allowed out.
• I can’t lie to my parents.

Hair:

• I’ve been brown.
• I’ve had streaks.
• I’ve cut my hair in the past year.
• I’ve dyed my hair in the past year.
• I’ve been blonde.
• I’ve had black.
• I’ve been red.
• I’ve been light brown.
• I use conditioner.
• I’ve curled my hair.
• I’ve straightened my hair.

Dear fellow tumblrs (and anyone else who enjoys reading these thing),

I’ve been very busy with work as of late and have been slacking on anything hobby-like that I love doing. With school being over, and the winter break ahead of me now, I plan to take my hobbies and run with them. It’s been a long time coming, and I’m hoping that I can have the drive I need to push myself to accomplish them.

I have so many things on my list of to-do lists that it almost seems like a grocery list. Like I’m going to go to the store and find all of this stuff on the shelf. That’s not the case.

As most of you know, I’ve taken a screenwriting class this past semester (I’m pretty sure I failed due to loathing online classes, not my writing skills) and what came out of it, I’m very proud of. I wrote a short script that I plan on making a little longer and turning into a short film.

To do so, I need the support of ALL of my film-interested friends and someone to help me sit through and fine tune the script to perfection (I HATE rewriting.)

Over the next couple weeks, I’m going to find someone with amazing writing skills to help me with my rewriting dilemma. Once that is over with, I’m going to go straight into pre-production (provided we can get all the locations we need, I guess that’s a part of pre-production, right?) and then on to production. I’m super stoked about this project. Seeing as I’ve only PRODUCED one short film that never hit 100%, but was SUPER amazing!, and filmed a couple of super short movie-like projects as well, I’m ready for this next step to director-hood.

In other news, I’m in talks of a weekly podcast with my LOVELY girlfriend Christina Saunders. The two of us would sit down, talk about life, love, each other, production news, on the set, etc. It would essentially be a podcast about anything, but would give me the opportunity to do something wonderful and exciting with someone I really care about. So look for that in the future. We’re in the pre-production stage of that, and it looks like it’s going to start soon.

I’ve got a lot of scripts and ideas on the back burner, and these are just two of the bigger projects I’m going to start and work on over this next month I have. I’m excited to get into stuff I love, and cant wait to share it all with you!!

Also, side note, when I get everything I need together for the movie, I am going to post a note, event, whatever saying what bodies I need in front of the camera and off the camera, so ALSO be on the look out for that!

Til next time,
Brandon 

Dear fellow tumblrs (or those reading this cause you’re a fan;P),

I got plenty to talk about right now. Firstly, I’ve been watching a great deal of South Park lately. When I was little I wasn’t allowed to watch the show. Not only that, but I never got into it. My girlfriend showed me a couple of episodes and I got sucked into it. Obviously: I’ve finished almost 4 seasons in two weeks. This has inspired me in many, many ways.

So firstly, I wrote another scene in my Screenwriting class. I may or may not post it. I’m still trying to figure that out, but I have two of the key scenes out of the way which is pretty cool. This is one I can see myself really getting into and filming when the time is right.

Secondly, for the longest time (probably a year or so now), I’ve been developing a cartoon called Irony Man. I’ve been putting it together, and have some of the pilot episode finished (written), but I’m in a rut. I cant decide if I want it to be an adult cartoon (like South Park, Family Guy, etc.), or if I want it thrown onto Nick/Cartoon Network etc. It’s a dilemma I’ll have to try both out with and see what can work.

On top of that, I have my own movie I’m working on, that I want to be ready and try to film in the summer. It’s going to be a lot of work (I still have so much to develop in the story) but I like where it’s going so far.

Just thought I’d give the update. I feel like it’s my civic duty to.

Til next time,

Brandon

Dear fellow tumblrs (and anyone else who’s reading this as well),

I told you earlier this morning that once I got the scene all typed out and sent in to class that I would show it all to you. So I am. I usually use a screenwriting program to write all of my scripts, but my class wouldn’t let me do that, so I had to go and copy and paste it to Word, which turned it all crazy and I had to go and fix the entire thing. Thankfully I didn’t have to do too much more work than fixing up some little things here and there.

I have included my scene and I would like you to give me some feedback if you will. I loved the way this flowed, which made me want to go out and film it as soon as I finish the script (I doubt my work would let me do that, we’ll see:P)

I also have to say: I work as a seafood clerk at Smith’s and this is based lightly off of me and my work. Don’t look at it and go “oh my goodness he has it so bad back there!” but, think of it as an “inspired by” because even though there IS one person who the manager is inspired by, this is not my actual situation. This is fictional, made up, the truth is stretched for the purpose of entertainment. All of the characters actually do exist, though. All based off of people I work with, or a combination of a couple different people. It seemed funner that way.

Without further ado: Fish for Thought!

EXT. SMITH’S – LATE AFTERNOON

Shane is in the car with Brooke, his girlfriend. She is dropping him off at work. Brooke pulls up to the front of Smith’s.

SHANE
(turning to Brooke)
Alright babe, I’ll see you after work!

BROOKE
I’ll be here.

She stares at Shane a minute.

BROOKE (CONT’D)
I still cant get over you in that stupid hat.

SHANE
(chuckles, pushes Brooke’s shoulder)
Shut up.

Shane leans over and kisses Brooke, the two smile at each other and Shane opens the door and gets out. He turns to Brooke.

SHANE
Love ya.

BROOKE
Love you too, dude.

Shane closes the door and walks into Smith’s.

INT. SMITH’S – LATE AFTERNOON

Shane walks into work, and heads over to the punch in clock. To get there, he has to pass by the front end. He sees Amanda, his old front end buddy, checking for a customer who is still trying to get their groceries out of their cart. She catches his eye and Shane stops nearby her so they can chat.

AMANDA
Hey Shane, what’s happening?

SHANE
Clocking in. Ready for another day of work.

AMANDA
Did you see the new Family Guy episode last night?

SHANE
(sigh)
Nah, I had to record it. I was shopping last night. It was time we stocked up and Brooke didn’t get off work til 8:30, so I had to miss it. I’ll catch it after work today and text you!

AMANDA
Cool. (turns to customer who’s finished unloading her groceries) How are you today?

SHANE
See you later, Manda.

AMANDA
(waves and mouths)
See ya.

Shane walks away from her, and pulls his clock in card out of his wallet. He slides it through and walks to the back of the store towards the meat department.

As he’s walking to the meat department, he sees Ethan in the bakery.

SHANE
Ethan! What’s up man!

Ethan looks up from what he’s doing, see’s Shane and waves.

ETHAN
Shane! Hey buddy! Just work, you?

SHANE
Gearin’ up to get ready for it.

ETHAN
Good luck, man.

SHANE
You too.

CUT TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT - LATE AFTERNOON

Shane walks into the meat department. He passes by the seafood counter, and past his department through to the cutting room, where he goes to grab a coat. He put’s it on and rolls up the sleeves. He walks out and takes a look at his seafood case.

A few things are missing, or low, so he walks back into the cutting room and towards the cooler in the corner of the room that hold his fish, as well as all the meat that needs to be cold. As he gets near to opening it up, Chet, Shane’s 52 yr old coworker who took Shane under his wing, breaks through the double doors with a rack of meat to put out.

CHET
Hey buddy, what’s happenin’?

SHANE
Grabbin’ some fish.

CHET
You looked pretty low on some shrimps and cod.

SHANE
That’s what I was grabbing, yeah.

Chet start’s pulling the rack past Shane and goes towards the doors to leave the cutting room. Shane turns to go into the cooler but Chet stops him.

CHET
Hey, bud, don’t forget, today we’ve gotta get all of the rest of that stuff marked down and thrown out.

SHANE
Right! Almost forgot. Thanks man.

Shane walks into the cooler and looks around, grabbing all the stuff he needs. He walks out of the cooler and back to his seafood case. From the backside, he starts putting in more shrimp. As he’s doing that, Chet goes by, heading back to the cooler.

CHET
Look alive today man.

SHANE
Why’s that?

CHET
We’ve got a new manager coming in.

SHANE
Wait, what? What happened to Greg?

CHET
(shrugs)
It was his time to go. He got sick of management here and put in his two weeks.

SHANE
He didn’t say anything to me.

CHET
He didn’t say anything to anybody, man. He told me only this morning as he was walking in to get the last of his stuff.

SHANE
(shaking his head)
That makes no sense.. Do you know anything about the new guy?

CHET
He comes from some other store somewhere; I think out of state. That’s all I know. But he’ll be here in an hour or so to check things out. He starts officially tomorrow.

SHANE
I hope he’s something like Greg. That guy was awesome. He knew how to train me right. When I was trained as a bagger up in front end, they kind of assumed I knew what I was doing and let me at it. I didn’t know where anything in the store was. Up there was crazy.

CHET
It seems like it. I walk in everyday and there seems to be such unorganization.

SHANE
There is! I’m glad I’m back here now.

Chet shakes his head and starts taking his rack to the cooler. Shane turns back to his counter. He see’s a customer standing there.

SHANE
Hi there, how are you today?

CUSTOMER #1
Good sir, how about you?

SHANE
Just fine. What can I get for you today?

CUT TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT - LATE AFTERNOON

Shane is just finishing up stalking more of the frozen sausage and is taking his six wheeler into the cooler. Chet is down the meat case facing stuff. As Shane is pulling the six wheeler into the seafood dept, Aaron, a 45 yr old man, walks up. He’s dressed in a white polo, nice blue pants, a big watch on his wrist, and big glasses. He’s a little bit shorter than Shane.

SHANE
Hi there, may I help you sir?

AARON
I’m Aaron, the meat manager.

SHANE
Oh, you’re taking over for Greg?

AARON
No, I’m the meat manager.

SHANE
(stares at Aaron for about half a second quizzically before responding.)
Greg was the old meat manager?

AARON
I know.

SHANE
(thinks about it, doesn’t get it)
O..K… So you’re here to check out the department. What we do, how we do it?

AARON
(frustrated)
I already know all that. Look kid, I’m pressed for time. I’m going to see how clean everything is, and then I’m going to leave.

SHANE
Alright, but just so you know, it’s only 6:40 and we can’t start closing and cleaning until 8 when the department is supposed to close.

Shane points to a sign at the top of his seafood case that shows the hours of operation for the meat department. Aaron looks at the hours of operation for a second or two.

AARON
Unacceptable. It’s supposed to be clean already. Show me your cutting room.

Chet walks over from facing the meat and sees Aaron standing there. Shane gives him a look of desperation.

CHET
(extends arm for a handshake)
You must be Aaron. Hey there, I’m Chet.

AARON
(stares at it, then up at Chet)
You the closing meat cutter?

CHET
(taken aback at the hostility)
Yes sir.

AARON
Show me your cutting room.

CHET
Follow me this way.

Chet grabs his rack of meat and gestures to Aaron to take a few steps ahead of him. He turns back to Shane and gives him an “oh uh” kind of look.

SHANE
(whispers)
Are you sure that’s the new manager? That guy seems off.

Chet shrugs and goes into the back room. You can see Chet pointing at this, talking about that, etc. as Shane watches for a second. Then he looks back to his six wheeler and realizes he has to go into the back room to put it away.

SHANE
(to himself)
No way.

He decides to push it against the wall behind the seafood case.

He sees another ex-bagger friend of his, Jessica, in the deli, which is only a few feet from the end of his department and he calls out to her.

SHANE
Jess!

Jessica looks up from wrapping some meat and smiles and nods in his direction. She turns back to her work.

JESSICA
Hey ShaneMaster. What the f***’s up?

SHANE
(steps into Jess’s department)
Well, I just got a new manager.

JESSICA
(puts down the deli meat she was wrapping for a second)
Huh!?

SHANE
Greg left. This place was too much for him.

JESSICA
(goes back to wrapping)
S*** dude, this place is too much for anybody. I’m getting the h*** out of here as soon as I can.

SHANE
Same here.

Shane looks back to his department and sees Aaron near the door to come out to the front. He turns back to Jessica.

SHANE (CONT’D)
Better look busy, I’ll talk with you later. This guy seems like a harda**.

JESSICA
If he gives you s***, I’ll deal with him. Peace.

Shane walks back into his department, grabs the six wheeler and starts pulling it towards the back room. Aaron walks out with Chet and sees Shane pulling the sausage.

AARON
You aren’t done with that yet? You were working on that 20 minutes ago.

SHANE
Uhm, no, I just finished a minute ago.

AARON
Be done faster. You’ll never get anything done if you’re not doing it fast enough.

Aaron walks past Shane and leaves. Shane turns to Chet

CHET
That guy’s nuts, man. He’s just.. Crazy!

SHANE
This guy is no Greg. You said he comes in tomorrow?

CHET
Yes, sir.

SHANE
What time?

CHET
1-9.

SHANE
Ugh, I come in at 4. Kill me now?

Chet chuckles and walks away. Shane looks out at the meat department, looks down to the ground and shakes his head.

FADE TO:

INT. SMITH’S – LATE AFTERNOON – THE NEXT DAY

Shane walks into the seafood department. He sees Aaron facing the meat case. Shane speeds up to get into the cutting room faster, and grabs a coat. He heads out to his department and Aaron is standing there.

AARON
Where have you been?

SHANE
(confused)
What do you mean?

AARON
It’s 4:03. You’re three minutes late.

SHANE
I’m sorry, there was some traffic getting here.

AARON
(takes his glasses off)
That’s precious time thrown out the window. You could’ve been done filling your case back up. Which looks terrible, by the way. Get right on that. When you’re done, throw all the cardboard and trash away. I have a ton in the back you have to throw out.

Aaron walks away, putting his glasses back on, and starts working on some stuff in the meat case.

Shane stands there agape, watching Aaron walk away. Then he turns to go get fish from the back.

FADE TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT - LATE AFTERNOON

Shane gets back from throwing out the cardboard. He’s pulling an empty six wheeler behind him.

He see’s Jessica standing in her department. She looks over at him and smiles. He frowns and shakes his head. Jessica gives him a confused look. Shane drops his six wheeler off in the seafood department. He steps over into the deli.

SHANE
This guy’s insane!

JESSICA
The meat b****?

SHANE
(nods)
He’s having me do all his stuff for him! It’s driving me crazy. I have all my own stuff to do and I cant do it if he keeps this up.

JESSICA
What’s he having you do?

SHANE
Throw all of his cardboard and trash out.

JESSICA
Wait it out bud, maybe that dude has other s*** he’s gotta get done. Don’t sweat it, amigo. Just do your own s*** and leave him alone.

SHANE
I guess.. But what if…?

A customer walks over to the deli. Jess turns from Shane to the customer.

JESSICA
Hi there! May I help you?

CUSTOMER #2
Yeah, I’m just trying to figure out which meat I want this week.

JESSICA
Take your time, I’ll be right here. Just let me know when you know what you want.

CUSTOMER #2
Ok, thanks.

Jess turns to Shane and rolls her eyes

JESSICA
(mouths)
F*****’ people.

SHANE
(smiles)
I’d better get back before Mad Man comes back.

JESSICA
Where is he?

SHANE
(shrugs)
He disappeared.

JESSICA
Alright, catch ya later ShaneMaster. Be careful out there.

SHANE
Later Jess.

CUT TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT – EARLY EVENING

Shane is putting out some frozen sausage, part of his job, and Aaron walks up. Shane hasn’t seen him for almost 20 minutes.

AARON
You done with cardboard?

SHANE
Yes, sir.

AARON
Cleaning off the mats?

SHANE
You never said to do that.

AARON
I shouldn’t have to tell you. You should already know. I’m really busy today, so you’re going to have to do it. Don’t forget to scrape up all of the little meat bits off the floor when you’re done.

SHANE
Should I finish sausage first?

AARON
Hurry.

Aaron walks away and Shane starts slapping the sausage down angrily.

FADE TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT - LATE AFTERNOON

Shane walks over to Aaron who’s putting out some more meat.

SHANE
Your floors are done.

AARON
Did you clean off the saws?

SHANE
I don’t know how to do that.

AARON
(stops what he’s doing to stare at Shane)
No one taught you how to do that?

SHANE
(slowly)
No. That’s not my job.

AARON
(to himself)
Buncha retards we’ve got working here.

Shane sits there a minute as Aaron goes back to work.

SHANE
I was thinking of taking a quick break.

AARON
(raises eyebrows)
Oh, you were? Well, I don’t get a break.

SHANE
Do you want one? I can handle this for a minute

AARON
No. Now go before I change my mind.

Shane turns around, rips off his coat, throws it in his department and speeds away outside.

CUT TO:

EXT. SMITH’S – EARLY EVENING

Shane is sitting on a bench to the side of Smith’s. He’s called Brooke to complain about the job to her.

SHANE
I am going crazy, babe! This is too much work…. I’m tired, my feet hurt, and now cranky if you didn’t notice. This guy is ridiculous…. No, I don’t want to tell him off, he’s my manager… There’s nothing I can do!.. Whatever, I’ve gotta go back in… Love you too babe.. Yeah, bye.

Shane stands up, puts his phone away, and goes back inside.

CUT TO:

INT. SMITH’S MEAT DEPARTMENT - EVENING

Shane just finished helping a customer.

CUSTOMER #3:
Thank you very much, sir.

SHANE
Of course. Have a good evening, miss!

Aaron walks out from the back room.

AARON
Time to weigh up some pork.

SHANE
Ok.

Shane goes to the back to the scale. Aaron has all the pork there, and the two start weighing it all up. Aaron reads out the numbers, and Shane takes the pork after it’s weighed and slaps the price sticker on it. There’s a long pause between the two, with no other dialogue except for Aaron reading off the codes.

AARON
You like football?

SHANE
I’m not really a sports person.

AARON
Oh.

There’s a long pause again as they weigh up all of the pork. When they’re done, Aaron grabs the rack and starts leaving.

AARON
Throw all those boxes and plastic away.

Aaron walks out. Shane looks after him angrily.

EXT. SMITH’S - EVENING

Shane stands outside waiting for Brooke to pick him up.

So that’s that. My teacher told us that our catalyst scenes are only supposed to be 3-5 pages long. This is 13 pages. I am such an overachiever!!

That’s all for now.
Give me your thoughts and critiques!
Brandon

Dear fellow tumblrs (or whoever else is reading this)

I am now finishing my catalyst scene for my Intro to Screenwriting class. For those of you who don’t know, a catalyst scene is the scene in a movie where the protagonist’s world is upturned. For example: The Lion King: Mufasa’s death. Toy Story: Buzz taking all the glory form Woody. Bruice Almighty: Bruce recieving all of God’s power.

I now have to go through and fine tune it with a comb before turning it in, but when it’s done, I’ll post it on here for you all to read. I am going to share it all with all of you, because I feel like this is my best script yet!

That’s all for now,
Brandon