RECOMMENDED LOCATION. Oh my, that booth! It's just...perfect for us. The way it's about to trap Paul between snob 1 and 2. The Radisson Hotel feel of it all.
(See that window behind PAUL and SNOB 2? We’ll put a silk outside and knock back the light so it’s not as bright.)
Click forward and I’ll walk us through some key frames.
Oh look…there’s SNOB 1, walking into frame and…
…slumping into the booth as he says…
SNOB 1: “Ech, suffocating conference.”
And here’s PAUL—kind, innocent PAUL—showing a bit of empathy by offering SNOB 1 a bit of BOURNVILLE.
PAUL: “Fancy some dark chocolate?”
A nice shot for SNOB 1 to look at the other actor in the story—our bar of BOURNVILLE—and dismiss it with a…
SNOB 1: “Pffff.”
Which SNOB 2 echoes…right before reaching into her oversized business bag.
SNOB 2: “That’s not dark chocolate.”
And…it begins, with SNOB 1 pulling out a bar of artisanal chocolate from his coat, and setting us in motion.
A SINGLE for SNOB 2, so that they can go back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, one-upping each other with relentless dark-chocolate snobbery.
(Nice shot for some wheelie bags in the background. Maybe a luggage cart in the hallway outside that door. We might even want an Extra sitting at the hightop working away on a laptop. We’ll see.)
And then…a WIDE, for a bit of relief from the SINGLES, for a moment of back-and-forth exchange, for a way to make a CLOSE-UP…
…like this…
…and this, even funnier. And more impactful.
Eventually, after all of it, landing back on SNOB 1 as he says…
SNOB 1: “You eat this with a double expresso you implode.”
SNOB 1: (Turning to Paul) “What are you doing?”
PAUL: (with a mouthful of chocolate) “Enjoying my chocolate?”
SNOB 2: (off-camera) “Ha!”
CUT…to SNOB 2, who says…
SNOB 2: “You’re not supposed to enjoy dark chocolate.”
…then EATS a piece of her chocolate bar and WINCES.