Second installment of my little movie

I can't find my Singles album by Suede so I have to resort to a mixed CD of songs by The Corrs that I got for Kris Kringle 2 years ago.

Would You Be Happier starts playing. I love this song. Why does it seem slower than I remember it to be? I think The Corrs are awesome (because they're Irish... just kidding. Not just that. Hey, Ash are Irish too. Okay, I'll stop with the degrees of association.)

I'm waiting for the right song to strike something within me. (Where's my Suede CD??? Damn it.) Here, Radio's intro seem to do something to squeeze out the creative juices from the dark recesses of my mind. And here we go.

The MRT-McDo Semi-silent Segment
This one is partly done verite since the environment won't be regulated much. Hopefully nobody's going to stare straight at the camera... which is somewhat unprobable given the ususero nature of Filipinos.

1

Morning, as in 6-ish in the morning early.

It's a steady camera shooting at midlevel. Our location is at the MRT North Avenue Station. You can see the platform on the other side. Hopefully there are a few sitting on the benches and so. Little by little some people will be standing on the right portion of the camera, lining up where the yellow arrow points where the train door will be. And then we wait, wait, wait, and wait until the train comes. People flock in. And then some dude comes in running, too bad the train door closes on him. This unfortunate guy is who you should look out for because he, or rather, his life, will be the focus of this short one.

So we wait and wait again for the next train. The guy eyes the people who start positioning themselves around his spot as well. He makes sure he's first through the door of the next train. You know how we sometimes casually or secretly observe the people beside us in the MRT when we're waiting for the next train to arrive? That's kinda how it'll be like.

Sometimes the shots will cut to (a) a perspective from the same angle and place but on the other side of the platform; (b) a close-up of the guy's face; (c) other people being bored or other people anticipating the next train.

And then a few seconds before the train's rushing is heard the camera cuts to it's first position. And so train arrives, guy gets in, you'll see him facing the camera from the inside (either sitting down or standing up).

And then we move to the inside of the MRT. And it's just that. Of course, this is routine for him so imagine how ordinary and pretty boring it is. And some shots of different people inside.

He gets out on his designated station.

A low camera angle of the train station and everybody just walking by, feet shuffling and all. When the character's feet suddenly appears, the shot picks itself up from the ground and then follows him.

2

He goes to work, we show him entering his building. And then we show a bit of what happens inside the office.

After he enters the building, the scene cuts to him seating in hs office chair arranging folders to be used for the day. Cuts to him on the computer. Cuts to him writing stuff. Cuts to him drinking coffee. Cuts to him leaving for lunch, cuts to a couple of other scenes of him doing office work (one of them actually is just staring straight ahead.) All these clips are 4 seconds long or somewhere along that as long as not above 5 seconds.

We just show a little of how it's like in his life.

3

He leaves for work. Goes to McDonald's for dinner (it's past 6 already). And then he makes his order.

What happens in the rest of this thing

We show the same routine. Only in the 1 scenes sometimes he's standing up in the train, sometimes sitting down. Sometimes he makes it in, sometimes not. One of those he let's an old lady sit down. But then the next day he's particularly unlucky, he misses the train 2 times (first he's late, next he goes to the restroom) and so he doesn't let an old lady sit down. He fakes sleep instead.

We're not going to show much of the work scenes next. Maybe we'll show five 4 second clips or so but that's it. The point is that it shows that he hesitates to make himself known in his job, thus his unlucky state in the office. (Sometimes he has this 2-line-exchange convos with his officemates, you know.)

And we show the same McDonald's scene over and over. The same cashier takes his order. One time, he's really very hungry because of a 2 hour overtime or so, he goes in McDonald's but after looking around, he doesn't eat. Why so? I don't want to spoil things hehe. He sees fishballs outside or some other place to eat, he tries that instead.

This whole cycle repeats around four times only (or somewhere along that so as not to make you sleep). It fast forwards in time a bit everytime (but not so much.)

After that four times, quite some unlucky happenings in the office, he gets increasingly frustrated with himself already. (Actually, he's a bit frustrated with himself already if you come to think of it.)

Until he goes to McDonald's. He's a bit early. But he buys a whole meal anyway. And then after half-finishing his meal he goes back to ask for a plastic fork (even though he doesn't need it). And then when he's done he goes back to ask for a spoon (even though he doesn't need it). And then after finishing his fries and the rest of the meal he goes back to buy softdrinks again from Counter A. After taking his order, he double backs and looks at the counter, and then he goes back in line. He falls in line for Counter B, which is a bit long. For a number of seconds Counter A doesn't have any more people in line and then she asks if the guy (who's at the end of counter B) wants to order there. The person in front of the guy looks at him, the guy shakes his head, so that person takes advantage of Counter A.

When our character finally got his turn to order we see the same cashier girl who takes his order every freaking day (imagine if this was on for a whole year already).

Cashier Girl: Good evening sir may I take your order?
Guy: *shakes his head reluctantly*
Cashier Girl: Sir ano pong gusto nila iorder?
Guy: Ikaw...
Cashier Girl: Order niyo po sir?
Guy: Ah, ikaw, ano ba okay?
Cashier Girl: *Suggests whatever meal that she knows by now the guy orders everyday*
Guy: Ah o sige hindi ko pa natatry yun, yun nalang.
Cashier Girl: *processes order*
Guy: *Pays and take the order*

And then after he takes hold of his tray the camera cuts to a shot of him, dead center on the screen, eating his meal while looking straight ahead with his usual so-so, a bit barren, expression.

And then that's the end of it :D

I was thinking the guy goes to ask her out but that kind of thing is not commonplace. It's up to you if you want to keep on thinking that the guy successfully asked the girl out. heh