3 act structure

 ACT 1

  • Establish characters

  • Using a phone message/call/flashback to set up the idea of ‘The Date’

  • Male character conversation with friend saying how excited he is for the date and how he wants to impress - ref superbad convo between jonah and michael

  • OR

  • MMC and friend discuss the date, in a park/pub/house/garden

  • This followed by a montage edit of beers being drunk for example - cans being put down and filling a table full of them.

  • MMC passes out and wakes up to sound of alarm

  • The realises the date is that day and scrambles to wake up


ACT 2

  • Cuts to shot of male character sleeping through alarm - multiple shots of sleeping positions and alarm going off

  • Scrabble to wake up and get dressed and ready for date

  • Juxtaposed to female character being composed

  • Gets ready, forgets zip card/rail ticket, then goes to get it, forgets house keys, then gets on bike - punctured tire - increasing frustration - a comedic and desperate scramble



ACT 3

  • Decides to run, walk, jog to either train station ( to jump the barrier) or  to the venue of the date (tbd)

  • Ends up at the location - realises he’d mixed the days up or that the girl has ghosted him

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