Otterfox
Monday 30th May 2022 9:02pm [Edited]
Tipperary
1,203 posts
EXT. DAY. ARIEL SHOT PANS OVER A TOWNSCAPE.
SWEEPING MUSIC ACCOMPANIES.
NARRATOR (documentary style):
Rising from the depths of despair, traversing misery and misfortune is Clonderton; a town that the industrial revolution bypassed entirely. A town that's failed, a community that failed the town and a government that's failed them both. That was until one man rose up and asked his brother to do something about it. Who in turn, called his cousin. She contacted her sister who knew a man perfectly positioned to help. This is the story of that mans uncle.
JACK (uncle):
When the call came, I knew the hopes of a whole town rested on my shoulders so I contacted my gardener.
CUT TO GARDENER.
GILBERT (gardener):
Well the town was in desperate need of a dramatic pick-me-up. It had been in the doldrums since its founding. It was time to give the people something to be proud of.
GILBERT STARE AT CAMERA CONFIDENTLY.
GILBERT (cntd):
So, I began by simply manicuring a local field, cutting the grass short and painting random lines on it. I put nets at either end to catch butterflies. My assistant Barnaby misherd my instruction and thought I'd said to coach butterflies so he started off by giving them a tiny football. As this is my story I'll pass you over to Barnaby.
BARNABY:
This was going to be amazing - the first ever butterfly football team. The locals bought into the idea and came up with many names for it: Butterball, butterfoot, flyfoot, mothball. We even had the local seamstress design some jerseys. We had a special changing room built, songs were written, the mood changed, the gloom lifted.
INTERVIEWER:
So how did they get on?
BARNABY:
Hmm? Well rubbish. The butterflies never really grasped the footballing concept on any level and most of them were dead within days.
INTERVIEWER:
So what happened then?
BARNABY:
We do what we always do. We called a meeting, put our heads together, pooled our resources and gave up.
ARIEL VIEW OF SAME TOWNSCAPE AS CAMERA SLOWLY PANS OVER AGAIN AND GRADUALLY DRIFTS AWAY.
NARRATOR:
A town in the middle of nowhere, a speck on the landscape. For one brief moment, for a fleeting second a light shone on this dreary town. The air thick with gloom once cleared for us to gain an insight into their world before the black clouds gathered again and our view was obscured forever....or so we thought.
DRAMATIC UPDATE APPEARS ON SCREEN WITH SUITABLY ACCOMPANYING MUSIC.
NARRATOR:
We went back two years later. My brothers cousin picks up the story.
EXT. DAY. BEAUTIFUL STREET.
KIDS HAPPILY PLAYING, FLOWERS ADORN THE STREETS AND BUILDINGS. PROPRIETERS OF SHOPS AND SHOPPERS LAUGH.
PRESENTER:
This time we penetrated the gloom that encircles the town. I'm delighted to say that I'm on foot. We went to Clonderton but conditions were much the same so we came to this much nicer town instead as it looks way better. I'm delighted that this show can make such a difference to the towns most in need of it. From me Phil-
PRESENTER 1 EXITS SHOT, PRESENTER 2 ENTERS. THIS SWAP OUT HAPPENS WITH EACH SUBSEQUENT PRESENTER.
PRESENTER 2: -lip.
PRESENTER 3: Mont-
PRESENTER 4: -gom-
PRESENTER 5: -er-
PRESENTER 6: -ie.
ALL SIX APPEAR IN SHOT.
ALL PRESENTERS:
Goodnight.