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Here's the trailer for one of my character's films.  "Low Voltage" is the
name of his production company.  "Shotgun Wave" is a term used to describe
an especially powerful and highly-compressed wave.

--
suffah, pope
ryan@chronic.lpl.arizona.edu

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[ESTABLISHING SHOT:  Waves roll in at dawn, crashing against the
silhouetted buildings of LA's Venice.]

[CLOSEUP on the face of a man in his early twenties, with two day's
growth of beard, red-rimmed bloodshot eyes, and close-cropped
bleached-blond hair.  An eerie moaning sound is heard in the distance,
punctuated by a regular rhythm--"tick tick BOOM tick tick BOOM."]

YOUNG MAN [grinning]:  Hey, you don't have gloves, so keep your hands out
of the water when we paddle through this next bit. 

VOICE [offscreen]:  Why?

YOUNG MAN [grin takes on a feral cast]:  Rats can swim, man.

[RAPID MONTAGE: two men and a woman in neon-colored wetsuits surf through
a parking structure under flickering fluorescent lights, swerving between
concrete pylons, rusted cars, and chasing the waves up ramps, intercut
with washed-out flatscreen footage of 2010-era cars in a similar parking
structure; grimy bills being handed off under a plastic table in a
fast-food chain; two LAPD officers casually getting out of their patrol
car while thick black smoke rolls up from a building two miles away;
flashing red-and-blue lasers sweep across the crowd at a dark and very
crowded nightclub as loud music plays; a small group of surfers seen at a
distance out past Venice shoving a surfboard bearing a sheet-wrapped
burden in the shape of a human body out into the waves; a closeup of a
tattered and faded blueprint for an office building, with an "X" scrawled
on it in thick grease pencil]

[CUT to tastefully-decorated OFFICE.  An older man in an expensive-looking  
business suit sits in a comfortable leather office chair.  Faint 
green-and-blue light from the monitor inset in his desk glints in his
eyes.  His hair is greying.]

OLDER MAN:  If it wasn't dangerous, I'm sure they wouldn't be doing it.

[OLDER MAN turns to look out the window behind him; CAMERA PERSPECTIVE
PANS smoothly up and over his right shoulder.  Out of the window we see
that the afternoon tide is coming in]

OLDER MAN [thoughtfully]:  That's the only reason I ever did it, anyway.
It's the only reason I ever did /any/ of those things.

[CUT to BLACK.  FADE IN TITLE, off-white letters:  "SHOTGUN WAVE".  MORPH
to TITLE: "a Low Voltage documentary".  MORPH to TITLE, blue-white
letters: "directed by Tom Pierce".]

[CUT to EXTERIOR WATERLINE UP-ANGLE SHOT of parking structure
half-submerged in water.  One man and one woman in neon-colored wetsuits
rocket off the top level in a spray of foam, clinging to their
surfboards; the camera follows them down to the water.  The white splash
of their landing obscures everything.  FADE IN TITLE, black letters
rimmed with red: "this summer".  MORPH to TITLE: "every summer".]