Narrative Ideas

ACT 1

1. Child on stairs bumping down like young children do when learning to walk, at each step his clothes change, showing that this is a daily routine.
2. He is sitting at the Kitchen table surrounded by 7 very neatly organised cereal boxes, meticulously he picks a certain amount of grains per box and places them in his bowl. He then pours the bowl until it reaches exactly half full. He stirs twice clockwise with his spoon and thrice anti-clockwise then licks the spoon to check its ok. Then he begins eating
3. All the time his parents have been moving around him doing their own morning activities. The scene is played at an increased speed but filmed in two motions, it will seem that the boy is eating at a normal speed but that the parents are moving far faster around him, appearing in and out of the shot wearing a dressing gown then a suit etc. To show how long it takes him to eat his cereal
4. Now the boy is standing staring at something out of shot of the camera, the camera rotates 180* to show a large lego sculpture that the boy walks towards and begins to add more pieces, slowly picking the pieces from a colour coded box and adding them precisely, not forcing them on but placing them definitively in their correct location. 

ACT2

1. It's now been established that the boy has some kind of OCD or mild form of autism from the meticulous acts we've seen in ACT1, in this first scene we see a young babysitter enter through the front door, roughly age 18/20, but noticeably younger than his parents. The child awkwardly greets the babysitter, and watches his parents leave. It's apparent that he has become tense from the babysitters presence and her overly friendly, patronising tone. 
2. He sits very still at the central isle of his kitchen, watching the babysitter made his lunch. She is a very messy cook, she leaves everything out on the sides and re-uses the pan for several different foods. Each time she creates more mess, he twitches slightly. 
3. Finally he can no longer handle it and gets up abruptly, moving away from the kitchen, to the living room where he sits crossed legged in-front of Planet Earth or some other wildlife show. 
4. Moments later the babysitter brings over a messy plate of food, the couscous is mixed in with everything and the plate is simply a pile of mush. She leaves the plate in-front of him and goes back to the kitchen to tidy up.
5. The child stares astonished, and then recoils slowly away from the plate, we can see the babysitter out of focus in the kitchen, moving around pans and occasionally taking a sip of juice or shoving bread in her mouth. 
6. The child slowly starts to whimper and cry, only quietly at first. He then starts squirming and screaming. Gradually this becomes more violent until every muscle in his body is tensed and he is almost paralytic in upset on the floor of the living room
7. The babysitter comes running over and is clearly distraught, she has know idea what to do or how to help. She calls his mother, whilst trying to comfort him and rubbing his back. 
8. He is slightly calmer now and the babysitter is hurriedly getting a glass of water for him to drink. She has used tap water in a dirty looking glass cup. 
9. As he sees her approaching with the glass his episode heightens and he begins to return to the fit he had previously been having.
10. His mother rushes in through the door and seeing the plate of food on the floor and glass gets the babysitter to move it and then holds her son. 
11. It takes a good five minutes for the child to finally calm down. At which point the mother puts back on the wildlife program crosses his legs for him. The mother goes over to the kitchen where the babysitter is sitting and clearly looks very upset. 
12. The mother tries to pay her and comfort her, but the babysitter refuses the money and hurries out, apologising profusely all the time. 
13. The boy is now relaxed again and in the final shot we see the opposite of the opening sequence, him climbing the stairs in a different set of clothes each step. 

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