Editor treatment narrative

A Toy’s Life

While you’re away the toys will play.

This narrative is about extraordinary events involving everyday life. It will be shot with a combination of stop motion animation and video. The video portion of the animals will be shot at angles that will not show the hands that are controlling the animals. The humans in the story will be shot so that their faces don’t show so that the focus is always on the toys. The video will be in full color at a natural level of saturation because the story is supposed to be one that happens in an otherwise ordinary situation. There will be no dialogue, but there will be sounds effects (such as the animals grunting). There will also be some music, but not necessarily throughout. The main character is a stuffed animal that was given as a gift.

The doorbell rings. A young woman opens the door to find a special gift sitting on her doorstep.  She picks it up, and sees a quick note scrawled from her boyfriend. She hugs the new stuffed animal, and sets it with her others before leaving the house.

The door closes behind the young woman as she leaves, and all of the stuffed animals turn to stare at the newcomer. They lose interest and begin to walk around the house.

A stuffed bear discovers some gummy bears, and begins eating them to the horror of the new stuffed animal. The other toys begin to get out of hand as they enjoy full reign of the house. The newcomer doesn’t want to join in, things are a little too crazy for him.

A food fight starts, with the newcomer in the middle of it. He tries to stop it, and eventually it does stop.

The young woman returns home to discover her house a mess. She doesn’t realize that her toys can come alive, and blames the situation on her dog.

The credits roll.

Script

Two students sitting at a computer, studying together.

Student 1: So, we got assigned honey for our presentation project?

Student 2: Yep. That’s what it says in the email anyway.

Student 1: Well…let’s see what my notes say.

Student 2: Honey is made from bees!

Student 1: Duh. We’re supposed to do it on the nutritional benefits.

Student 2: How can anything that sweet be nutritious?

Student 1: Didn’t you listen to the lecture?

Student 2: Either I missed that class or I was sleeping.

Student 1: And naturally you had to be the one assigned to be my partner

Student 2: Wait a sec while I google honey

Student 1: You know, there’s a section in the textbook about honey

Student 2: Didn’t buy the book

Student 1: How do you expect to pass the class?

Student 2: Not your problem. Why is my internet so slow?

Student 1: According to my notes, the minerals found in honey include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc.

Student 2: Great! Honey is a regular pharmacy

Student 1: Cut the sarcasm

Student 2: Well, this is a dumb assignment. 3,860 results for google. Sheesh

Student 1: Are you going to help or not? If you read my textbook instead of sifting through a lot of phony google results while I look at my notes, we might get somewhere.

Student 2: Fine. But what amazing fact would I find in that textbook. Look at it? It looks like a million paper cuts waiting to happen

Student 1: Shhh, I’m trying to think.

Student 2: Hey, honey has protein!

Five phrases

1. You try living with superwoman
2. I think the problem was they tried to turn the boat around too fast
3. Hey, honey has protein in it!
4. He waits so long to wash his clothes he has to use an industrial washing machine
5. With their diet they consume a lot of wine, namely red wine