"Hello World" - Louie Zong
- Harlequin + MC focus, Fellow Performer mentions.
This is *my* style of scripting, if this isn't traditional, that's fine! This is just how I do it and find it easiest! :)
Kind of OOC, but that's what you get when you pick a song about an ai wanting love to do an animatic of!
This will get very long, so added a cut to avoid feeds getting flooded.
Hello, world (- Start with a slow zoom in of the circus from the gate, camera stops at a full body shot of Harlequin.)
Programmed to work and not to feel (- Show Harlequin heading to the gate with papers. Expression should be lacking.)
Not even sure that this is real (- Harlequin's expression shifts as he enters the street, a grin on his mask.)
Hello, world (- Harlequin meeting humans, passing out flyers. MC present.)
(-Show Harlequin having interest in between this vocal gap. It can and should be brief. He's not one to show how he truly feels at first.)
Find my voice (- Harlequin encouraging MC to follow him. To his tent.)
Although it sounds like bits and bytes (- Harlequin revealing parts of himself.)
My circuitry is filled with mites (- Fade the scene to a small flash of The Moonless Night. The night Columbina was eaten, for those unaware.)
Hello, world (- Quickly fade back to the tent, knife being plunged into his shoulder. Make sure Pierrot's partly visible, he's the one speaking. MC should be missing/fleeing from this scene.)
(- Scene shifts, Harlequin alone, dressing his wounds.)
Oh, will I find a love (- Harlequin thinking absentmindedly, MC should fade in at "love".)
Oh, or a power plug (- Visible discomfort should cover Harlequin's face at "Oh", growing more somber as the line continues.)
Oh, digitally isolated (- Scene shift to him sitting away from the Performers (inside or outside), shoulder facing them. Self-Isolating.)
Oh, creator, please don't leave me waiting (- Harlequin continuing to think about MC here. Face should shift from the troupe.)
Hello, world (- Harlequin leaving the group. Leaving the Circus Grounds. How far he is, is your choice.)
Programmed to work and not to feel (- Harlequin sitting in the cafe, at the counter. Staring at MC.)
Not even sure that this is real (- Harlequin resting his masks cheek against his knuckles, grinning wide. Smarm. Give him Smarm. Make it look fake as you can.)
Hello, world (- End with MC greeting Harlequin, genuinely smiling.)
If you really wanted to, you could fade another instrumental (or use the same song's instrumental) in at the end, having them banter/flirt before ending it.
Thanks for reading, I suck at these but I like doing them bleghhh