Shooting Script

INTRO MUSIC

HEADER: “I am the Walrus” Lennon/McCartney
Header flies off in different directions

LS - A person in an animal mask stands stationary in a field. CAMERA tracks in, swaying and dreamlike.

DRUMBEAT – montage of CU’s of people’s faces, all staring into the camera blankly.

LS – The same masked person spinning around
FADE INTO: A person blows smoke into the screen, screen goes hazy and fades into next shot.
CU – person singing

JOHN
I am he as you are he as you are me

One person on screen, adds another person, adds another person, adds another.

JOHN
And we are all together

Heads merge into one, zoom into close up

JOHNSee how they run like pigs from a gun,

Four people run backwards from the camera

JOHN
See how they fly.

Jump backwards into tree
SPLIT SCREEN – lips singing
JOHN
I'm crying

Person with mask on head looks down. Lifts up, mask is gone. They’re crying colours.

GEORGE
(guitar)

Quick montage of London.
FLASH of the eggman at the top of the hill JOHN
Sitting on a cornflake,

LAS, Camera tracks fast across the zebra crossing
MS – Someone meditating on zebra crossing

JOHN
waiting for the van to come.

EGGMAN sits down at bus stop.

GEORGE
(guitar riff)

PAN along people at the bus stop as they look at egg man.

JOHNCorporation tee-shirt,

Back to masked people in field. JIGGLING to music, clicking.

JOHN
stupid bloody Tuesday.

MS - Big Ben. Tilt down to egg man at the bottom.

JOHNMan, you been a naughty boy,

Montage: LSD dropped into mouth, coke snorts backwards into person, smoking pot.

JOHN
you let your face grow long.

Lips singing. Turn to a serious frown.

JOHNI am the eggman,

EGGMAN on top of the hill, dancing.

PAUL AND GEORGE
WHOOOO!

Camera swoops in on four swaying people – psychedelic colours.



FIELD


JOHN
they are the eggmen.

HAS. Random montage of people in London. Masked people stand in the middle of them.

PAUL AND GEORGE
WHOOOOO!

Camera swoops in on four swaying people – psychedelic colours.

JOHNI am the walrus,

EGGMAN puts his arms up, three random strangers behind him put their arms up too.

JOHN
goo goo g'joob.

Masked person sings ^
JOHNMister City

PAUL MCCARTNEY in concert.

JOHN
Policeman sitting

BEATLES get off the plane. Black and white footage of SOPHIE and COURTENAY screaming.

JOHNPretty little policemen in a row.

Policeman walking at night in a row with bright jackets.

GEORGE
(guitar)

People handing out flowers in the street

JOHNSee how they fly

Fireworks

JOHN
like Lucy in the

First man on the moon footage.

JOHN
Sky, see

Girl on trampoline.

JOHN
How they run.

EGG MAN and MORPH GUY running through London.

JOHN
I'm crying. I’m cryyyyyyyyyying.

Hippy stands with flower. Business men walk past her.

JOHN
I'm crying, I'm cryinggggg

Hysterical fans. Slow motion. Paul in concert. JOHN
Yellow matter custard,

Gummy snake goes backwards into somebody’s head.

GEORGE
(guitar)

Montage of random people

JOHN
Dripping from a dead dog's eye.

Lip synching. Three legged dog.

GEORGE
(guitar)

EGG MAN with the soldier, dancing around him.

JOHNCrabalocker fishwife,

The masked people crawl across the dining room table in time to music.

JOHN
pornographic

Flash of egg man

JOHN
Priestess

Masked people dancing in time to music

JOHNBoy, you been a

Lip-synching

JOHN
Naughty girl

Girl unwraps the pill

JOHN
You let your knickers down.

Knickers fall down in CU of ankles.

GEORGE
(guitar)

Boy looks up seductively

JOHNI am the eggman,

Teacher points to white board which reads “I am the EGGMAN”

PAUL AND GEORGE
Whooooo!

Class nod along and lip-synch the words

JOHN
They are the eggmen.

Dwarf sings it

PAUL AND GEORGE
Whooooo!

Hair flows about back and forth, side to side. I know what I mean.

JOHNI am the walrus!

Egg man puts arms in the air with three strangers behind him

JOHN
goo goo g'joob.

Girl with four heads sings that.

GEORGE, PAUL, RINGO
(BREAK)
Setting up a table in the middle of a park

JOHN
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.

Round the table in masks eating ice cream in the bad, bad weather.

GEORGE
(guitar)

Masked people run towards the camera in fast motion
JOHN
If the sun don't

Masked people jumping from behind a wall

JOHN
come, you get a tan

EGG MAN runs across Abbey Road Zebra Crossing

JOHNFrom standing in the English rain.

People with umbrellas run across the Abbey Road Zebra Crossing

GEORGE
(guitar)

Montage of people’s faces



JOHNI am the eggman,

EGG MAN on escalator

PAUL
(inaudible speaking)

Masked people marching in field

JOHN
they are the eggmen.

EGG MAN on escalator

PAUL
(inaudible speaking)

EGG MAN with solider

JOHNI am the walrus!

HA shot of the whole class bunched together, singing the line with their arms in the air.

JOHN
goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Bucket of water over somebody’s head – BACKWARDS!
Pan around London and the sky – psychedelic coloursExpert textpert choking smokers,Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?

PAUL AND GEORGE
HEHEE, HOOO, HAAA!

Cut BEATLES laughing in with SOPHIE and COURTENAY laughing.
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,See how they snied.I'm crying.

GUITARSemolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.

JOHN AND PAUL
Henr-ha-uh-ha-everybody smoke pot (X 100000)

People across zebra crossing
EGG MAN rolls down hill
MORPH MAN picks up a small egg.

THE END.

Ice-skating, people in field, abbey road antics, London montage, egg man antics, Trampoline, Fireworks, Paul in Concert, Hari Krishna, pot, lip synching rubbish, classroom, busking, sex in the shower (knickers girl and seductive boy), dancing in the street, beatles clips, egg in supermarket, hands on balcony, knickers on floor still, hairdryer stuff, police arrest egg man?? – Spontaneous weird stuff