Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Keyboard Tapping- A Short Film Treatement

1. A guy who hates the sound of computer keys clicking falls in love with a girl in the computer class he dreads.

2. A guy walks into his new class full of computers, holding his schedule. Immediately he hears all of the keys on the computer clicking and freaks out. The teacher points him out to a seat. He focuses in on the keys clicking and awkwardly tries to look away towards the door to distract himself. He sees an attractive girl and a leitmotif plays. The girl sits at some computers with flatter keyboards, behind the boy. The boy looks over awkwardly, she returns his gaze, so he looks away. She then notices how much the keyboards next to him bother him, so she commands him to sit next to her, moving the person next to her to his seat. She exaggeratedly taps the keys and says that “See, this isn’t so loud. Get over it. You got OCD or something?” He laughs nevrvously and begins to try tapping the keys. “I’d tap that” he says with a creepy smile. “That’s about all you’re getting” she says, pointing to the keyboard. He gives an awkward yet creepy smile.

3. This film shows character through the sound design with the main character being described by his annoyance about keyboard clicking noises; the story and the change in the main character is catalyzed by sound. Also, subtext is made important at the end in the way that the main character is showing interest in the girl, showing an evolution in the confidence of his character. Also, there is a use of a light motif whenever the boy is looking towards the girl. Sound Bridge can be when the boy hears the sound of a bazinga and then looks over to the sound of the girls phone ringing. The foley work would be in the keyboard tapping, bazinga and the tap on his head. When the girl taps him on the head and tells him and the person next to her to move, then starts the rhythmic match with her closing his binder, picking it up, forcing him up get up, and pushing him down into his seat.