First, thanks for this board Mods and Rockers. It should be good.
This is an effort at a one minute film, a bit weird, it was written as the outcome of a day course I did in London (NPA/ScreenLab) for one minute scripts. Some of the formatting is lost in the copy/paste procedure- dialogue should be page centered.
Hope someone likes it.
Chip
(The Hourglass copywrite Chip Tee)
THE HOURGLASS
FADE IN
INT. AN HOURGLASS ON A TABLE - MORNING
Sand is running through an hourglass seen in close up. Gentle music matches the steady flow. Neither the top nor the bottom of the glass can be seen.
FATHER
(o/s)
Sand runs and measures time.
The sand flows faster, the music keeping pace. Red, orange, black and yellow sands flow through the glass.
CHILD
(o/s)
When will my egg be ready, Daddy?
MIX TO
EXT. A BEACH - CONTINUOUS
The beach stretches for miles with high dunes on its landward side, a wind blows eddies across the sand, small crabs scuttle past. A slipslop sound of someone walking over loose sand is heard off camera.
A vortex develops spinning in the loose sand, sucking in sand to disappear into a deep revolving hole. The music’s rhythm spins at pace.
MIX TO
INT. GIANT HOURGLASS - CONTINUOUS
A child wearing slipslops stands looking with rapt attention at the sand flowing through the massive glass. He holds an ever-filling plastic beach bucket under the open bottomed glass collecting an unending flow of sand.
CHILD
I want to eat my egg, Daddy. Tell it to stop.
FATHER
(o/s)
Time goes on forever, Son.
FADE OUT
