Moving Images, Understanding Media

INT. JAY’S LIVING ROOM – DAY

SUPERTITLE: 12:16 P.M.

JAY, a senior in high school, passes the time trying to

balance a spoon on his nose, lacking inspiration to do

anything more.

The door bell RINGS. In no hurry, Jay puts the spoon down,

picks himself up from the couch and heads towards the front

door. Waiting on the other side of the door is NORM, one of

Jay’s classmates and good friends, holding a basketball and

ready to play.

NORM

Hey, man. You ready to throw the rock

around!

He tosses the basketball to Jay who looks at it with

indifference and drops it to the ground.

JAY

Eh...no.

Jay turns back into the house and Norm follows him in with

an extra hop.

NORM

C’mon, you gotta braid your hair or

something?

JAY

(Unfazed)

Shut up.

Jay falls back onto the couch and Norm follows. Norm

tosses the tail end of a Power Bar onto the coffee table

and eyes a nearly empty bowl of cereal while Jay fl ips on

the TV.

NORM

You gonna eat that? I haven’t eaten

since like 12.

JAY

What’d you do? Run here? It’s only like

12:15... Yeah, you can have it,

whatever fl oats your boat.

Figure 3-21 A page from the script for Jay & Norm, a short fi lm by Colin

Packard. (Courtesy Colin Packard)

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