INT. STAGE32 INTRODUCE YOURSELF VIRTUAL LOUNGE - NIGHT
A MAN in his 30s types on his computer. It's dark. We don't see his face, just the screen and his hands running the keyboard like a piano. He's neither a professional screenwriter nor a piano player. He switches to another window--
ON THE SCREEN: Title on the file he's due to finish - "Post-mortem consulting report."
Closes the windows and switches to Stage32 website again.
JAY (V.O.)
Introduce yourself? Hmmm...Another introduction...Who AM I? A doctor? Consultant? Business doctor...Who cares. This is a web site for filming professionals. Am I?...Naaa, they'll laugh about it...Let's keep it casual - let's say - "I do write sometimes...". Strike that--
Jay's right hand leaves the keyboard and disappears in the darkness. Comes back with a mug of freshly brewed coffee. We can almost sense the smell of Premium Guatemala espresso from the Saint Vincent area on the southern coast. But not really. It is still a script. Jay lifts it, makes a SIP, loud enough we can almost envy his caffeine intake procedure. The hand-darkness trick and we're back to typing action.
JAY (V.O.)
What if I type something like "Ever since Jay was a kid he wanted to be a writer" That's not true. I wanted to be a business consultant. But with pandemic and 2008 crisis, the 2020 meltdown and two divorces.--who cares. I need some good music to make this happen.
Hands disappear. Just a lonely screen. MUSIC starts - Bruce Springsteen - Born to run in the background.
Hands come back. tapping the keyboard in the rhythm of the song.
JAY (V.O.)
...born to run... Exactly what I needed. Now, let's do this. I'm Jay, and I'm just here to write stories and amuse myself and occasional visitors to my page. Have a good one.
We crane up and we see a dark room that becomes illuminated like a stage with a huge 32 shaped platform.
THE END
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Great! Now we have to clear the Bruce Springstein song.
When Jay's right hand disappeared, did the rest of him disappear too, or was it his disembodied hand?
Wanna write the book for a musical about Mark Twain on speck? I know a guy....
Jamey McDunn Just hands, Jamey. Just two hands and the darkness hiding the rest.
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Maybe he can audition for "Thing" on the Addams Family redux!
:)