YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING

Written By

Emma Morley

1SCENE ONE: INT. RESTAURANT KITCHEN - NIGHT

ESTABLISHING SHOT

We are inside a bustling restaurant kitchen. There is a pastry chef, giving orders in a loud and obnoxious voice. In a dark corner we see the Post Wash boy at his station.

PASTRY CHEF(Shouting with a red face)

WHERE IS MY CUTLERY?! WHERE ARE MY POTS?!

CLOSE UP CAMERA SHOT OF POT WASH

POT WASH, flustered, picks up pans with wet hands.

MID CAMERA SHOT

The Pot Wash hurries to carry the pans to the Pastry station but he trips over his own feet and drops them all over the floor, almost knocking over the cake the Pastry Chef is working on.

PASTRY CHEFPick them up, you imbecile. You are like a clown.

Pot Wash picks up pans and places them on the worktop. He sighs heavily.

SCENE TWO: INT. RESTAURANT KITCHEN

PASTRY CHEF walks to the sink and throws knife, pastry brush and other utensils in. He turns on the hot tap and smirks.

POT WASH returns to washing up, but scalds hand as he picks the knife out from the sink. He falls backwards in shock, knocking bubbling pans from the hob.

MONTAGE OF PANS, POT WASH, UTENSILS

CLOSE UP OF PASTRY CHEF, STUNNED

POT WASH falls to the floor, an array of pans, knives and utensils have fallen on him.

Smoke overcomes the room and nothing can be seen. Everything is quiet.

SCENE THREE: THE CLOWN'S REVENGE

LOW ANGLE - POT WASH

2Very slowly we see the outline of the Pot Wash as he stands up and emerges from the smoke.

EXTREME CLOSE UP OF THE POT WASH BOY'S EYES

SLOW ZOOM OUT OF POT WASH BOY'S FACE

We can see that the Pot Wash boy's face has been badly burned and disfigured from the accident and he now resembles a clown.

CLOSE UP OF PASTRY CHEF

Pastry chef realises what has happened and starts to scream in fear.

LOW ANGLE - CLOWN - DUTCH TILT

Clown slowly tilts his head to one side and smiles. His face tears a bit more with every movement of his mouth, which has been cut by a knife during the accident.

MONTAGE OF ATTACK

Clown attacks the chef with the knife.

LOW ANGLE - CLOWN - DUTCH TILT

As the Pastry Chef loses consciousness, the camera slowly zooms in and focuses on his face.

We hear the Clown laughing and giggline maniacally to himself.

We see the Clown painting over the Pastry Chef's mouth using the pastry brush with his own blood.

POV - PASTRY CHEF - DUTCH TILT

We see the Clown walk off slowly laughing to himself, from the Pastry Chef's point of view.

CLOWNWho's laughing now?

END