TFOTP Infomercial

Face shots very serious

Shot 1> Tight close up shots, fast cuts. Single sentence.

1A: S: Caution.
1B: A: This.
1C: S: Is.
1D A: Your.

1E S: Average.

1F A: Infomercial.

Shot 2> Tight mid shots. Fast cuts. Single sentence.

2A: S: But don't change the Channel.

2B: A: We do not promote
2C: S: Roti-Makers
2D: A: Abs
2E: S: Gem Stones
2F: A: and Anti-Aging Capsules.

SPLIT SCREEN.

Shot 3> Wider mid shots.

3A: A: Imagine a Photographer gets together with a Magician

3B S:Pulls out an animated Victoria Memorial from his ears with an ear bud. *Victoria memorial
animation*
3C A: (Turns towards the split screen with a camera) is so stunned clicks only to realize the lens cap is on.
Finds lens cap. Clicks again. As the shutter is pressed,

CUT TO

Shot 4> Solo shot.

4 S: Or when a Musician gets together with a Cartoonist

Back to split screen. Shot 5> Mid long shots.

5A :A: Doodles Mohiner ghoraguli (Note pad, black pen, and the doodle itself) *Doodle appears.*
5B: S: (playing a guitar) Two lines from a mohiner ghoraguli song.
5C: Anisha’s reaction. They look at each other, smile and shy away.

5D: Soumendra’s reaction. He hits a dissonant chord on the guitar. CUT TO

Shot 6> Solo shot

6 A: Or when a Film Editor gets together with a Poet

Shot 7>Back to split screen

7A: S: Recites an Abol Tabol poem
7B A: Sits with a laptop and deletes parts, enters play
7C S: Recites the poem with lines in between missing.

7D: Soumendra’s awkward moment.

7E: Anisha shuts laptop. Her split screen goes off.

8 ( soumendra on one side of the frame) S: Every collaboration has a potential.

Anisha reappears. Back to splitscreen.

9A A: And here's your chance to explore Kolkata.
9B S: The way you'd love to.
9C A: If you're anything between 16 to 25
9D S: Then make a team of 2 to 5 crazy and creative people like yourself
9E A: Pick any alley, bridge, spot, locality that you think is Neglected (enter graphic of a crying monument
in the city) * animated monument appears *

9F S: *animated monument moves to Soumendra’s side* And make a project. Yes, just about any
project. Contribute your creativity to make the place come alive. *Animated monument floats up,
soumendra tries to catch it* Hey! With the jump, CUT TO

Shot 10> Solo shot

10 A: You could do any of the many beautiful fancy things that every body who goes to film-school learns
11A Split screen reappears as Soumendra’s side pushes it’s way into the frame. S: Basically, make a film
or a photo story or anything else that comes to your mind.
11B A: Or it could be LIVE!
11C S: These projects will be mentored by international experts. For example:
Gerard Da Cunha
11D A: WHo built THIS
http://img10.deviantart.net/4f42/i/2015/115/f/9/houses_of_goa_ar_gerard_da_cunha_by_pkpiiii2000-
d4oas2s.jpg

*Animation appears.*
11 E: Soumendra Tries to look at it from all sides.

11F: Anisha looks at it from all sides.

*animation bloats up to fill the entire screen.” CUT TO

12A A: Amit Chaudhuri

12B S: Who won THIS http://www-cdn.oneindia.com/img/2015/10/14-1444809313-sahitya-akademi-

award.jpg

(Sahitya Akademi Award) Stares at it in awe. *Sahitya Akademi award appears.*

12C: Soumendra’s reaction to the award

12D: Anisha’s reaction to the award

*numerous tiles of the award covers up the screen.* CUT TO

13A S: Iftekar Ahsan
13B A: WHo put together THIS

https://calcuttawalks.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/telegraph-pic-day-2.jpg

*Animation appears.*

13A continued : Soumendra shoves it up.

13A continued Soumendra brings new image down
S: And
http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/BYOMKESH_0
_0_0_0.jpg
13B continued A: SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT?
13A continued S: DIBAKAR BANERJEEE!

Awkward pause. INVISIBLE CUT TO TWO SHOT AS SPLITSCREEN DISAPPEARS.

14> Two shot.

A and S: Awkward Pause

S: The Last Date for Application is the 20th of March.
A: Once you register, the short listed teams will be mentored by the experts.
S: Out of these teams, 5-6 projects will be chosen and Commissioned. (Looks up. money falling
animation.)
S snaps and A says: TFOTP
S: Acronym for The Future of The Past
A: Which is an initiative by The Future Media School.

A and S awkward pause. A nudges S.

S: (points down, text appears below fingertip) Oh to register, log in to: www.futuremediaschool.in/tfotp
Smile awkwardly
Pack up, pack up, pack up.
Hits the splitscreen as they are about the leave, as the splitscreen reappears in another invisible cut.

15> Getting trapped in the split screen.

15A: Soumendra’s part.

15B: Anisha’s part.