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Fade in:
Flat – MORNING
Derek 36 lives on his own with his cat in a flat. The flat is in pristine condition, everything has a place and he is a bit OCD about it. He has a Cat ‘Jinx’. Derek leaves house to go to work as he does every day in a routine.
DEREK #1
“See you later Jinx”
He shuts the door.


LOCATION #2 – EVENING
People leaving work and Derek stays working late. He is a workaholic and must finish everything he has to do.
WORK COLLEGUE #1
“Staying late again Derek?”
DEREK
“Yes, I have to finish this work – might be a while”
WORK COLLEGUE #1
“You should really go home, you’re always staying late!”
DEREK
“I’ll be fine, I’ll see you tomorrow”
WORK COLLEGUE#1
“Alright, bye”
Colleague exits leaving Derek alone in the office.


Derek sitting at his desk, all is quiet apart from his typing. A buzzing is heard. At first he ignores it. After a few seconds the fly starts to buzz around his head. He waves it away and carries on with his work. The fly carries on buzzing around.
DEREK
-tuts-

He tries to swat it when it lands on his desk with a rolled up piece of paper.
CLOSE UP OF DESK SLOW MOTION
Stop motion fly dodges the paper by evading.
ROOM
The fly flies off around the room again. Derek gets on with his work again.
The fly comes back and he attempts to hit the fly again
CLOSE UP FLY
Fly slow motion barrel roles over rolled up paper
DEREK
“Nuts”
He picks the lamp up again and sets it on the desk. As soon as he sits down the fly comes back and he throws his waste paper basket at it, which hits another desk and paper goes everywhere.
DEREK
“ARGHHH”
He runs around the room trying to hit the fly. As he wildly swats at the fly he is pushing things off the tables and kicking over bins and making a massive mess. The fly lands on a plant and he takes a massive swing at it and the fly takes off and he knocks over the plant.
Brenda getting more and more annoyed making grunts of frustration. The fly then lands on a wall. it sits and he throws a pair of scissors at it, which sticks in the wall. –Close up stop motion dodging-. He grabs a chocolate bar out of his desk and greedily starts eating it with wild eyes.
He calms down slightly and sits down. He looks around the room at the mess he has made.
DEREK
“Oh my god”
The fly then lands on the computer in front of his. He stares at it as the fly stares back. He then slowly gets a book and raises it. Just as he brings the book down the fly flies off and he smashes it into the computer.
The fly lands on a different desk and he throws a box of staples at it. All the staples come out and the fly slow motion matrix style dodges them all.
The fly lands on his head and he runs into a wall in an attempt to get it off in which he knocks himself out on.
ALTERNATE ENDING
The fly dodges the staples matrix style, but gets stuck under one. It can’t move and Derek lifts the rolled up paper to splat it and he gets whacked by a giant fly holding a fly swat.