The Judgement Multimedia Screen/Stage Treatment
FRAME 0
Image: Black screen
Text: This is called...
FRAME 1
Image: Title frame text, "The Judgement"
Text: ...The Judgement
FRAME 2
Image: UFO landing, stars and moon in background
Effects: Vocal processor high voice
Gesture: Finger to mouth, move up and down like a baby
Text: Wah-wah wah-wah wah-wah (pitch going down)
Effects: Vocal processor normal voice
Text: Nobody knew the aliens had landed.
FRAME 3
Image: Close-up of judge's hand, gavel hitting block.
Text: The trial dragged on and on, BANG! BANG! BANG! "ORDER IN THE COURT!"
Gesture: Pantomime judge's hand, gavel hitting block.
Effects: Vocal processor low voice, on BANG! BANG! BANG! "ORDER IN THE COURT!"
FRAME 4
Image: Long shot of court room with judge, jury, prosecutor and defendant. Prosecutor is pointing finger at defendant.
Text: for as soon as the prosecution practically proved the defendant guilty
Gesture: Pantomime prosecutor, begin pointing at defendant. Hold pose, advance to next frame. Stage-view plastic cut to close-up of defendant...
FRAME 5
Image: handsome upper class male in suit and tie, prosecutor finger pointing at him in foreground
Text: a handsome upper class male in his mid-thirties
Gesture: ...continue pointing at defendant.
FRAME 6
Image: Close up of gun and sack of money. Tags on items say "EXHIBIT A" and "EXHIBIT B."
Text: new evidence would be introduced, kik-KIK ka-BOOM! (gun sound)
Gesture: make gun out of hand, shoot, and recoil.
Effects: Vocal processor low voice on gun sound, "kik-KIK ka-BOOM!"
Text: which invalidated all previous evidence,
Gesture: swipe hand sideways
FRAME 7
Image: Close-up of face smiling
Text: while unquestionably proving the defendant innocent.
Gesture: Smile at audience, stand up straight
FRAME 8
Image: Prosecutor pointing finger in air with sweaty underarms, other hand resting on table top, books and paperwork in background.
Text: "SOMETHING REALLY WRONG IS GOING ON HERE!"
Gesture: Hand out shaking like, "Oh my God" (do not directly pantomime image)
Effects: Vocal processor low voice
FRAME 9
Image: Close-up of sweaty underarm and hand resting on table tip
Text: Finally after much difficulty, the prosecution rests.
Gesture: Pantomime hand resting on table top
FRAME 10
Image: Close-up of stop watch with radiating shock triangles
Text: The jury deliberates for weeks and weeks, TICK! TICK! TICK! a verdict is reached.
Gesture: Hand to mouth making ticking noises.
Effects: Vocal processor high voice, hand to mouth when making ticking noises.
FRAME 11
Image: Close-up of women's finger to lips. Lipstick, nail polish, beauty mole (sex is good for performance art!)
Text: All is quiet, SH! and the judge addresses the defendant,
Gesture: Pantomime image, finger to mouth
FRAME 12
Image: Judge with sewage pipe for mouth, garbage flowing out of pipe.
Text: "YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND, BY A JURY OF YOUR PEERS, TO BE GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY BEFORE SENTENCING?"
Gesture: Point at audience
Effects: Vocal processor low voice
FRAME 13
Image: Pabst Blue Ribbon Round 13 medal (taken from the movie Raging Bull)
Text: BING! BING! BING!
Gesture: Hand holding mallet hitting bell
Effects: Vocal processor high voice
FRAME 14
Image: Close up of defendant's face
Text: "YES," says the alien,
Effects: Vocal processor high voice on the word, "YES"
FRAME 15
Image: Alien shedding human mask of defendant
Text: shedding its' disguise like a gypsy moth, BUZZ!
Gesture: Pantomime pulling mask off
Effects: Vocal processor insect voice on, ''BUZZ!"
FRAME 16
Image: Group of aliens shedding human disguises dripping with goo.
Text: All of the witnesses and court observers follow suit.
Gesture: Point at aliens on screen
FRAME 17
Image: Medium shot of alien shedding human costume, dripping with goo, pointing at viewer
Text: YOU AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF JUDGEMENT!
Gesture: Pantomime image, point at audience
Effects: Vocal processor high voice
FRAME 18
Image: Aliens shoot judge's head off, blast jury, limbs fly.
Text: The aliens then proceed to destroy the judge, ZAP! the jury, ZAP! the court house, ZAP! and themselves, ZAP!
Gesture: Point and shoot phaser gun at invisible judge, jury, and courthouse in audience; then point gun at head and shoot yourself.
Effects: Vocal processor high voice on "ZAP!"
FRAME 19
Image: Shot of earth from space, missiles with vapor trails orbit and explode, radiating shock triangles in background
Text: Thermo-nuclear missiles orbit the globe like cobwebs, the explosions echoing noiselessly into the boundless,
Gesture: Move hand in big circles
FRAME 20
Image: Earth blowing up
Text: ka-BOOM!
Effects: Vocal processor low voice on "Ka-BOOM!"
by TJ Richter
© April 1985 Theodore J. Richter |
