It will be 3 minutes long and consist of one main character, as well as one main location (a house).
The basic plot outline is that a bored character is wandering around their house, not a lot going on when visiting the various downstairs rooms. He visits the play room and his mum waves him to go away as she chats away on the telephone. He feels useless, decides to go upstairs, into his room and go to sleep. It is this 'sleep' that sends his room spinning, forcing the picture to blur and distort. A bright light appears between the cracks in the door. He opens his eyes and normality resumes, everything appears the same. He gets up and head towards the stairs.
On approaching the stairs, everything still seems normal, however as he puts his foot onto the first step of the staircase he is whisked away to a forest! He's shocked and brings his foot up immediately, sending him back to the top of the landing. He's confused, yet intrigued and decides to continue down the stairs, again being whisked away to this strange place as he makes his way down. He walks through trees and bushes, pushing it away from his face to clear a gap. He stops, he's reached the bottom of the stairs.
Overlooking the hallway and the trickling fish tank opposite, everything is back to normal it appears. Wait, there's a snorkel and mask hanging on the bannister next to him, he ignores it and puts a foot down onto the floor.
Suddenly he's plunged underwater! Bubbles and splashing everywhere! He pulls his foot up, his face now drenched, he's extremely worried. He looks behind him, forest. He looks in front, hall way which turns to water, he's still intrigued so puts on the mask and jumps in!
He's swimming underwater, looking all around him at the underwater hallway, he's fascinated. He surfaces and there's a POV shot of him looking around the hall at each door. He ends up looking at the kitchen and heads towards it.
The kitchen door opens, water rushing in and the soggy character walking in. He takes his mask off and his jaw drops in disbelief. The kitchen is manic; chefs cooking, waiters running around, flames everywhere, sizzling sounds and things burning all over! The character heads towards the cupboard to get a drink but to his horror everything has changed to a restaurant kitchen and everything has gone! He checks another cupboard and gets agitated, backing away from it all he ends up clattering into a waiter. He moves around in shock as people rush past. A plate is brought out emitting a wonderful smell, the character picks up on this and follows the plate and the waiter through to the dining room. The character puts on his mask expecting a flood but this doesn't happen.
The dining room is just as bad... Packed with a large, loud dinner party. Chewing, laughing, chatting, a lot of noise and stress! The character circles the table a couple of times, being ignored by the loud guests. They start to get louder, with their laughing and chewing becoming almost too loud, the character tries to get out but the doors locked. He tries to barge his way through the connecting doors to the lounge and is successful.
The character peers over the sofa he's landed behind. He looks at the TV and is slammed right in the middle of a football match, defending a free kick in a wall. He's standing next to a few people in the same football kit as him now, standing in the typical wall pose. A player is running up to take the free kick, as he kicks the ball, we're sent back into the lounge and the ball comes flying through the TV and smacks the character, standing there like a lemon behind the sofa, in the face! The crowd goes wild, literally a gang of football fans starts going mad, cheering and celebrating they pick up the character and celebrate even more! The character eventually, uneasily gets free and legs it to the playroom.
Forgetting about the water he's drenched again! But he doesn't really care as he's quite worried now. He opens the play room door and peers in, his mum still on the phone, waving him away again! He puts his foot down this time and storms in. Looks outside he tries the windows but they're locked! He then looks at the exercise bike and hops on and begins to pedal. As his feet get faster, he is suddenly cycling along the road on a real bike! He's not really surprised by the sudden change of location, almost as if he knew this might happen. He has a plan, he turns the bike around and heads into an estate.
He arrives at his own house on the outside. He cycles up to the window in which he's on the exercise bike and gets off the bike. As he does this he's whooshed back into the play room, he goes to the window and peers outside, there's a Bike there! He looks at his mum but she's away with the fairies on the phone still. He gets back on the exercise bike and suddenly we're outside again. He moves up to the window on the bike and looks inside. He's in shock. There sat in front of him on an exercise bike is himself. Not only is it himself, but he's mimicking every expression he's doing on the outside. Peering in, knocking on the window, waving. The actions are the same, but there's no recognition!
The character goes to the front door on his bike, he tries to get in but it's locked, he leaves the bike on the pavement outside the door and suddenly we're back in the play room.
He puts his mask on and swims to the porch, tries the door but it's locked, he looks outside and sees the bike there on the floor. He rummages through the keys but none of them work, he needs to come up for air so heads for the stairs. Now he's back there he takes his mask off and puts it back, he looks at the door then heads back through the forest and back up onto the landing.
He heads into his room and as he shuts the door, that same bright light shines through the cracks and suddenly out character opens his eyes.
He jumps up, heads to the landing, hesitates then jumps down the stairs with ease. He holds his breath before he steps into the hall, but everything is really back to normal. He looks in the kitchen and all the other rooms and everything is normal! He goes to the front door, opens it and from the outside the character basks in the freedom and fresh air. The camera then tilts down to reveal the bike left on the pavement. The character looks down in horror.
The End.
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