Here is Beat Four and the Craigslist add. I hope you enjoy it and understand the complex genius that went into writing such a complex and genius scene. I hope you feel better soon Nena and I will see you on Sunday. I have some good ideas for number five, I am thinking they go to the camera store together and V doesn't have enough money for the camera she likes. K gives her some money, even though K will be broke as a result of this, V is touched.
Beat four—(The Wallet Scene)
a. K and V see each other as they are walking down the stairs to go to the liquor store. (Long shot from the bottom of the stairs) as K yells, “Hi” to V, but V does not acknowledge her. Ariel shot of K as she reaches the front door and struggles to open it. This will be a result of her only having one hand handy, because she is holding her camera up. We then will go the left of V (medium shot) as she struggles and struggles again and again.
b. Long aerial shot of K as she walks down and meets V at the bottom and say’s, “Can I help?” V ignores her.
c. (Over the shoulder) of K as she says, “I will help you.” She goes to open the door.
d. (Medium shot) V, as she smacks her hand away, almost dropping her camera, she then tries to open the door and says, “I will be fine, but I—but I—I appreciate the—the help K.”
e. (Close up) of K as she smiles.
f. (Medium long shot) K sneaks her hand in and opens the door.
g. We follow the two with a hand held camera the rest of the way. We stand outside and watch as the door swings open, we watch as the two walk to the liquor store, they shuffle in and we follow K as she watches V look around for something good to eat and some batteries for her camera.
h. K leans over V (Wide shot) and asks, “Why can’t you put that thing down, you are at a grocery store—it seems to be impairing you?”
i. V looks up, still holding the camera, and say’s, “This is not a grocery store it is liquor store.”
j. Switch to K (Medium shot) she say’s “I see no difference.”
k. Switch to V (Medium shot) she say’s “A liquor store is smaller than a grocery store.”
l. Switch to K (M.S.) she nods her head and says, “I see—in Russia we would call this a grocery store.”
m. Switch to V as she looks back down at a product with her camera and says, “See that is exactly what’s wrong with your country you all don’t know the difference between a liquor store and a grocery store.”(V picks up what she wants. (Wide Shot) as the two stand face to face, V tries to get around her, but K remains in her way, the two dance, it results in a stand still.
n. K, still blocking V asks, “It would be easier to get around in here
if you did not always film.”
o. Shift to V (M.S.) she holds the camera in her hand and looks around the store. We shift angles (M.S.) to K who is smiling, back to V who laughs, she smiles back at K and says, “I used to miss a lot of things, but when I have the camera I don’t.” V picks the camera back up and commences with her filming. (We follow the two with the camera, as they walk to the counter, along the way K taps V on the shoulder, V does not respond. K says, “I got you to put the camera down—I did.” V looks back and K giggles. V sighs, reaches the counter and glances around to see if the store has batteries, she can’t find them.
p. We focus on V (Over the shoulder) and the store clerk as V yells,
“Where are the batteries? Last time I was here they were directly
behind the register just to the right of the cigarettes—where are they, what have you done with them?”
q. (Medium shot of the clerk) “Why do you always yell at me and always with the camera?”
r. Wide shot of K as she walks to another part of the store and yells, “She has the camera because she is afraid she will miss life if she puts it down.”
s. Back to the Clerk (M.S.) who laughs,
t. Back to V (Close up) as she grimaces.
u. Wide shot of K as she looks for batteries. We hear arguing in the back round, but focus the camera on K as she snatches the battery pack, we follow her as she places them on the counter in front of V. (A wide shot of the three as they stare down at the batteries) V picks them up and K says, “Its okay they are just in a different place.”
v. V looks up at the clerk and says, “What do you mean by moving these things around, what’s wrong with you?”
w. We hear another person enter and briefly point the camera at him (Long Shoot) and then cut in to the store keeper (M.S.) as he says “I am tired of you you are the worst customer I have ever had, even worse then the homeless.”
x. Shift to V, (Wide Shot) K is in the background, as V responds with, “I bet you’ve never had a friend in your life.”
y. Wide angle shot as the customer snatches V’s wallet from her back pocket, the store keeper and K watch him run away as V keeps on with, “You’ve probably never been with a woman either she would be…” V notices them looking at the door, she turns around (still holding the camera) and asks, “What’s going on?”
z. (M.S.) as K responds with, “Someone just took your wallet.” V slams her fist on the counter as she does this her camera falls and breaks. We hear a scream (End Scene.)
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