Libris episode 1

SCENE 1

Exterior, mid afternoon, any season

CA: dolly shot as tristan walks actoss campus.

Open scene: a young man Is walking towards a building he is flipping through a packet of papers.

Zooming out, slipping behind him

he walks into the building, walking past a desk and up to a section of the library. He wanders through slowly, picking up books at random, perusing them making a negative gesture or sound and continues on.

SCENE 2

After a while of this, he is approached by a young woman. She is carrying a few books

Librarian: something I can help you with?

Tristan: yeah, I am looking for a book…

Librarian: you are in luck, we have those here

Tristan: it’s for a paper I am writing on isolated cults.

Librarian: who's the professor?

Tristan: Chioldi

Librarian: ah, the old ball-breaker himself

tristan: yep, one week to get the first draft turned in, start to finish.

Librarian: you have anything in mind.

Tristan: not really

Librarian: how do druids sound?

Tristan: doesn’t feel quite right.

Librarian: voodoo?

Tristan: a bit closer, but no.

Librarian: hmmm… follow me.

SCENE 3

CA: series of static and tracking shots as tristan and the librarian walks through the library. Must have a slightly voyeuristic feel to the tracking shots, while the static shots should highlight the emptyness of the library.

They walk away with the librarian quickly leading the way and Tristan keeping up. After a few shelves, she stops, back pedals a few steps and pulls a manuscript from the shelf and reluctantly hands it to Tristan.

Librarian: this just came in a few days ago. It is from an alum, he took a position up at miskatonic.

Tristan: … thanks…

SCENE 4

Side shot

He walks over to a table, sits down and starts flipping through the manuscript

Frequent cuts to a pan up shot from behind Tristan that angles down staring at his shoulder.

he turns another page and starts to lean forward

SCENE 5

zoom shot on page

switch back to side shot

back to zoom shot

side shot

zoom shot

zoom in on his eyes

rumbling sounds, screams, and running footsteps in background

eye zoom

he closes his eyes

Over the shoulder shot

The librarians hand taps him on the shoulder, and he jumps.

Side shot

Librarian: we have to close now

Tristan: yeah… sure…

Librarian: you get everything you need?

Tristan: not sure, can I take this with me?

Librarian: not that one, but it will still be here tomorrow

Tristan inspects the manuscript one final time, then hands it over

SCENE 6

Sequence of shots of Tristan walking back through the library and out the door. It is night time now and we follow him a short distance, then pan up for a shot of the stars.

SCENE 7

Slow motion(3/4’s time)sequence

Tristan washes his face, camera angle switching from close up of water running, to close up of tristan splashing the water on his face, to an over the shoulder shot of Tristan standing upright. Transition to shots of Tristan walking across a room to a bed, and laying down. Close up of his face as Tristan drifts off, juxtapose with flash of elder sign.

SCENE 8

Tristan is in different clothes, and is looking strained.

Tristan is walking into the library with hir papers under hir arm. he walks up to the desk where the librarian from the previous day is sitting.

Tristan: do you still have that manuscript that I was looking at yesterday?

Librarian: <doesn’t look up from what she’s doing> it’s been reshelved. We found out that Dr. Mournstien died, and until we receive the rest of the document it is in the rare books section.

Tristan: and I take it I'm not allowed to read it again

Librarian: I can give you a couple of hours

SCENE 9

Tristan is walking through the shelves and halls quickly, after a travel sequence, he arrives at the shelve and pulls out the book hurriedly, knocking a few of the surrounding books to the floor.

he kneels over, sets the manuscript next to him and gathers the strewn books. he places the books on the shelve haphazardly, and walks away and around the corner

SCENE 10

TRAVEL SEQUENCE FOLLOWING HIM FROM DEEP IN THE LIBRARY TO A TABLE (SHOOT LIKE A SEQUENCE OF WALKING THROUGH DEEP WOODS)

He sits down at the table and starts to thumb through the manuscript.

SCENE 11

Another close up sequence ending with and extreme closeup of his eye, and yet again juxtapose with the elder sign.

Cut to

SCENE 12

layer with nightmare room sequence

A dingy room with Tristan sitting against the wall. he is wearing ragged clothes. Tristan looks worried. Tristan stands up and walks over to the sink. Tristan washes hir hands, and looks into the mirror.

Close up on his face, pan over to look at the mirror, pan back to tristan’s face

Tristan looks relieved.

Cut to

SCENE 13

Tristan is sitting at the previous table, looking intently at the manuscript. The librarian taps him on the shoulder, and he jumps.

Librarian: we’re closing up; you gotta go.

Tristan: okay… are you sure I can’t take this?

Librarian: sorry, it is a one of a kind manuscript, and a fragment at that.

Close up of the librarian taking the manuscript from hir hands. Hir grip lingers too long of comfort, but finally lets the librarian take it.

The librarian walks away, and Tristan gathers his things.

SCENE 14

FAMILIAR ROUTE OUT!

he stops at the exit, closes his eyes and pushes through the door.

Cut to

SCENE 15

Tristan walking into the library in the tattered clothing from scene 12.

Zoom out, pan down, fade out

End episode.