High School 5

 THE HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY NARRATIVE 

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HIGH SCHOOL 5

Int. A basement in a low rent row house. Evening.

Tom is watching TV — the news.

Broadcaster: Our top story tonight — Mao Ze Dong, the revolutionary who became China’s paramount leader and both ruled and transformed that great nation for several decades, is dead. The entire nation is in mourning. From Beijing, our reporter Brian Henderson….

Cut to:

Int. The basement. Thirty minutes later.

Tom, tired, his expression impassive, fatigued, rises from his impromptu sofa, the weirdly coloured styrofoam slabs, and turns the TV off.

Cut to:

Tom, in his bedroom, five minutes later.

It’s dark out, and dark inside, too.

He does not turn off the light in his room to change into pajamas. He just stares hypnotically out the window.

SFX: … The wet buzzy drone of the rain….