PlayTime - Short Film Production
Playtime (Story)
The professor has finished connection of the last wires and perched at the display of the time machine. Looking at the monitor he mumbled something and raised his eyes upwards. In a second, having thought something out, he unhurriedly typed on the keyboard (or display) «1980» and pressed the big green button. The date and time on the display began to decrease. The rays run through the table, the energy whirled, critical point, a flash... and old-style reel-to-reel recorder appeared on the table. The professor shuddered, he was astonished. He attempted to reach it with his finger, but at the last gasp he changed his mind and decided to touch it with a pencil.
He touched one of the bobbins with a pencil. It rested upon the bobbin, and the professor understood – it is real and not a mirage. Happy, he jumped up a little, even dropping the pencil. Gaily and excited he tapped his little fists upon his legs. And decided to type the other number. Having looked at the red button, without long considerations he patted it and… a flash, and at the same moment the recorder disappeared. The professor at once typed one more number, impatiently and hurriedly he typed «-65 000 000» and patted the green button. The date and time on the display began to decrease quickly. The rays run through the table, the energy whirled, critical point, a flash... and a little dinosaur appeared on the table (mini T-Rex).
Happy with his achievements the professor attempted to reached it with his finger – but, one moment and crunch – the little dinosaur grasped professor’s finger with his teeth. The professor screamed frightenedly, having raised the hand, on the finger of which there still was a little dinosaur. The professor swung his hand to the left, then to the right, hit the dinosaur onto the table and abruptly swung it to the side – the little dinosaur fell down from professor’s finger and having fled through the whole lab was bumped onto the wall, bounced, then it fell, stood up harshly, was again on his feet and run on to the professor. Looking for anything of any help the professor took a view of the room and saw the red button – he quickly patted it – a flash... and a little dinosaur was gone. Looking to the place, where the little dinosaur was, the professor sighed relieved and happy turned to the display, stroke the hands together and rubbed them, preparing to type the other number.
With admiration and pride of himself he typed «3010» and feeling proud pressed the green button. The date and time on the display began to increase. The rays run through the table, the energy whirled, critical point, a flash... and on the table there is all in silver (similar to another professor) – a small man from the future. Slightly moving over the professor stared at the man in astonishment. Having observed the frozen professor, the man, with little thought, took out from his pocket some kind of a remote control, directed it to the professor and pressed the button. Energy ray from the remote control rushed towards the professor, he shined..., a flash… and only a smoke was left from the professor. The man calmly went to the red button, pressed it with his foot and disappeared.
The screen fades to black and the titles appear.
Titles.
Afterwards the screen fades back from black to picture and the camera shows the view close to the chair leg: lying fuming professor opens the eyes, stands up and looks around. He notices that everything in the room is very big and in terror realizes that he was diminished. The camera takes the close-up, the professor in panic looks around and starts screaming, the camera moves away, and the small professor keeps on screaming far on the floor.
The screen fades to black and the title of the movie appears.
In a couple of seconds the screen fades back from black to picture and camera shows the professor, who managed to climb on the table, now he keeps in jumping on the red button, attempting to force it in with his weight and cancel the last events.
The screen fades to black, the title “the end” appears.