Shot List
Shot list – Couch Potatoes
1) MWS Potatoes on couch munching & slurping (0-12s duration 12s)
A) Opening credits for Mouthfuls in Minutes (12-26s duration 14s)
2) MWS Tatty babbles at Spud who hushes her, she continues drinking (26-30s duration 4s)
B) Slices through Potato and chuckles (30-32 duration 2s)
3) MWS Spud is shocked and mumbles with discontent, Tatty elbows him in fear and babbles. Spud looks at her and babbles asking for the remote. She hands it to him. (32-42 duration 10s)
4) CU He presses the buttons but nothing happens. Tatty babbles more frantically.(42-45s duration 3s)
5) MWS he throws the remote at the TV in anger. (45-47s duration 2s)
C) Knife schwings upward into frame (47-48 duration 1s)
6) MWS Spud prods TV with Broom (48-53 duration 5s)
D) Sits on counter dropping potatoes into a boiling pot (53-57 duration 4s)
7) MCU Tatty’s face as she babbles and you see the fear growing (57-59 duration 2s)
E) Wiggling eyebrows and chuckling behind pot (59-1.02 duration 3s)
8) MWS Spud produces a gun, tries firing it but it doesn’t work(1.02-1.05 duration 3s)
9) MCU Spud brings the gun to the side of his face and stares at it intently as he clicks away at the trigger, on the 3rd pull the gun goes off and Tatty jumps and squeals (1.05-1.09 duration 4s)
F) Chef fries potatoes between his legs, one atop the counter (1.09-1.12 duration 3s)
10) MWS Dust can be seen falling from the roof and creaking noises heads. Spud lowers the gun to TV height and fires (1.12-1.15 duration 3s)
11) MWS of TV surrounded by crap with a bullet hole through it and sparking noises head (1.15-1.18 duration 3s)
12) MWS Spud and Tatty breathe a sigh of relief, more dust seen coming from roof and creaking noises get louder (1.18-1.20 duration 2s)
13) MWS Roof cracking and giving way (1.20-1.21 duration 1s)
14) MWS TV falls into shot, killing Spud. Flickers to life and game show starts playing, Tatty slowly turns, makes a pleased noise and continues to slurp from her drink (1.21-1.30 duration 9s)
G) Credits (1.30-1.38 duration 8s)
1) MWS Potatoes on couch munching & slurping (0-12s duration 12s)
A) Opening credits for Mouthfuls in Minutes (12-26s duration 14s)
2) MWS Tatty babbles at Spud who hushes her, she continues drinking (26-30s duration 4s)
B) Slices through Potato and chuckles (30-32 duration 2s)
3) MWS Spud is shocked and mumbles with discontent, Tatty elbows him in fear and babbles. Spud looks at her and babbles asking for the remote. She hands it to him. (32-42 duration 10s)
4) CU He presses the buttons but nothing happens. Tatty babbles more frantically.(42-45s duration 3s)
5) MWS he throws the remote at the TV in anger. (45-47s duration 2s)
C) Knife schwings upward into frame (47-48 duration 1s)
6) MWS Spud prods TV with Broom (48-53 duration 5s)
D) Sits on counter dropping potatoes into a boiling pot (53-57 duration 4s)
7) MCU Tatty’s face as she babbles and you see the fear growing (57-59 duration 2s)
E) Wiggling eyebrows and chuckling behind pot (59-1.02 duration 3s)
8) MWS Spud produces a gun, tries firing it but it doesn’t work(1.02-1.05 duration 3s)
9) MCU Spud brings the gun to the side of his face and stares at it intently as he clicks away at the trigger, on the 3rd pull the gun goes off and Tatty jumps and squeals (1.05-1.09 duration 4s)
F) Chef fries potatoes between his legs, one atop the counter (1.09-1.12 duration 3s)
10) MWS Dust can be seen falling from the roof and creaking noises heads. Spud lowers the gun to TV height and fires (1.12-1.15 duration 3s)
11) MWS of TV surrounded by crap with a bullet hole through it and sparking noises head (1.15-1.18 duration 3s)
12) MWS Spud and Tatty breathe a sigh of relief, more dust seen coming from roof and creaking noises get louder (1.18-1.20 duration 2s)
13) MWS Roof cracking and giving way (1.20-1.21 duration 1s)
14) MWS TV falls into shot, killing Spud. Flickers to life and game show starts playing, Tatty slowly turns, makes a pleased noise and continues to slurp from her drink (1.21-1.30 duration 9s)
G) Credits (1.30-1.38 duration 8s)
Stop Motion & 2D Animation
Sofa Set – Stop Motion Set, TV Set – 2D Animation
Sofa Set. Opens on a close up of a strange, green hand taking a crisp (McCannibal’s Flame Grilled) out of the bag and putting it into its mouth. Very loud annoying, rustling and crunching sounds.
Scene zooms out to show the two characters, Spud and Tatty, male and female overweight, unattractive potatoes with short, stumpy legs and shoes on, sprouts for hands and long goggly eyes. Set – A dark living room, illuminated by the light from a TV set, shown on the left corner of the shot. The potatoes are sinking into a blue couch, surrounded by empty boxes of snack food and drink, including McCainnibal’s Oven Chips. It is obvious that they have been sitting there glued to the TV for a long time now. The male potato, Spud, continues to crunch while Tatty slurps from a drink in the gaps.
Switches to a shot of the TV screen, shown by the black screen round the outside. Hand drawn animation of the TV programme. A bar and a bottle of soap are singing opera.
Shot switches back to the sofa. The quiet sound of opera can still be heard.
TATTY (They speak their own mumbling, burping, indistinguishable language) : RURURURURURJUBBAJUHS.
SPUD: BUH.
Switches back to TV screen. The soap opera has got to a tragic ending, the soap bar having decided to stab itself while the bottle cradles it and sings its final note. The programme ends. The next programme comes on, Hell’s Kitchen. The opening credits flash up, followed by a view of a kitchen. Dramatic music.
COMMENTATOR (Loud, American accent) : AND NOW. THE CONTINUATION. OF HELL'S KITCHEN. THIS WEEK THE CANDIDATES MUST IMPRESS CHEF RAMSAY WITH THEIR STEAK AND CHIPS.
Sofa shot.
TATTY and SPUD continue to look blankly at the screen. TATTY slurps.
TV shot.
COMMENTATOR: [Insert cooking candidate name] IS FIGHTING TO STAY IN THE KITCHEN. WILL HIS CHIPS SAVE HIM?
The man places some potatoes on the counter and a chopping board. He picks up a knife. Close up of the gleaming knife. DRAMATIC MUSIC.
He picks up a potato and holds it down.
Sofa shot.
TATTY (nudging SPUD worriedly): SPUDSPUD. BLEBLEO.
SPUD hushes her and takes another crisp.
TV shot. The man goes to cut the top of the potato off.
Sofa shot.
TATTY frantically elbowing SPUD: GABBANANAN.
SPUD looks a tad repulsed by the programme: UHHUHUH.
He starts feeling around for the remote, but can’t find it.
TATTY is getting more and more frantic.
SPUD: DOBDOBGUB?
TATTY’s eyes are glued horrified to the screen. Absentmindedly she picks the remote up from beside her and passes it to him.
SPUD (impatiently): GUH.
TV shot.
The man is half way through chopping the potato.
Sofa shot.
SPUD is pressing away at the remote trying to change the channel, but it isn’t working and he’s getting more and more angered by it. Meanwhile, TATTY is urgently prodding him and squealing at him, which just frustrates him further. He stretches for an empty chip box and hurls it at the TV, but it hardly travels any distance. He gets more annoyed as he tries to chuck more stuff at the TV.
TV Shot. The chef moves towards a pan of boiling water with the potatoes.
DRAMATIC MUSIC.
Sofa Shot.
TATTY: WHAAWHAAA. NAA.
She grabs at SPUD.
SPUD looks around, thoughtful, looking for a way to turn it off. He sighs, looking warn out at the effort of trying to change the channel. He reaches beside the sofa and grabs a completely unused broom and tries reaching the TV with it, prodding at it to try to hit the off button.
TV shot.
CHEF (RAMSAY): I NEED THIS *BLEEP*ING FOOD AND I NEED IT RIGHT NOW.
The chef takes the potatoes and sweeps them into the boiling water.
Sofa shot.
TAFFY covers her eyes with her hands. SPUD who has dropped his stick now, looks mortified and quickly reaches down the side of the sofa for his gun. He fires a shot at the top of the TV. It does the trick, hitting the off button.
TV Shot. The screen cuts out.
Sofa Shot. The potatoes breathe a massive sigh of relief and all is silent and calm. Then, unexpectedly the bullet, that had glanced off the TV hits SPUD in the stomach. He blows up into a pile of mashed potato. Meanwhile, TATTY is inspecting the remote control. With an ‘OH’ she realises it has no batteries in it. Reaching under her, she finds the two batteries, puts them in the remote and turns the TV back on, quickly changing channel. Her face is expressionless, oblivious to SPUD’s demise. The sound of opera starts back up.
CU of TATTY. She resumes her normal, hypnotised expression, picks up her drink and slurps loudly.
Screen fades to black.
Sofa Set – Stop Motion Set, TV Set – 2D Animation
Sofa Set. Opens on a close up of a strange, green hand taking a crisp (McCannibal’s Flame Grilled) out of the bag and putting it into its mouth. Very loud annoying, rustling and crunching sounds.
Scene zooms out to show the two characters, Spud and Tatty, male and female overweight, unattractive potatoes with short, stumpy legs and shoes on, sprouts for hands and long goggly eyes. Set – A dark living room, illuminated by the light from a TV set, shown on the left corner of the shot. The potatoes are sinking into a blue couch, surrounded by empty boxes of snack food and drink, including McCainnibal’s Oven Chips. It is obvious that they have been sitting there glued to the TV for a long time now. The male potato, Spud, continues to crunch while Tatty slurps from a drink in the gaps.
Switches to a shot of the TV screen, shown by the black screen round the outside. Hand drawn animation of the TV programme. A bar and a bottle of soap are singing opera.
Shot switches back to the sofa. The quiet sound of opera can still be heard.
TATTY (They speak their own mumbling, burping, indistinguishable language) : RURURURURURJUBBAJUHS.
SPUD: BUH.
Switches back to TV screen. The soap opera has got to a tragic ending, the soap bar having decided to stab itself while the bottle cradles it and sings its final note. The programme ends. The next programme comes on, Hell’s Kitchen. The opening credits flash up, followed by a view of a kitchen. Dramatic music.
COMMENTATOR (Loud, American accent) : AND NOW. THE CONTINUATION. OF HELL'S KITCHEN. THIS WEEK THE CANDIDATES MUST IMPRESS CHEF RAMSAY WITH THEIR STEAK AND CHIPS.
Sofa shot.
TATTY and SPUD continue to look blankly at the screen. TATTY slurps.
TV shot.
COMMENTATOR: [Insert cooking candidate name] IS FIGHTING TO STAY IN THE KITCHEN. WILL HIS CHIPS SAVE HIM?
The man places some potatoes on the counter and a chopping board. He picks up a knife. Close up of the gleaming knife. DRAMATIC MUSIC.
He picks up a potato and holds it down.
Sofa shot.
TATTY (nudging SPUD worriedly): SPUDSPUD. BLEBLEO.
SPUD hushes her and takes another crisp.
TV shot. The man goes to cut the top of the potato off.
Sofa shot.
TATTY frantically elbowing SPUD: GABBANANAN.
SPUD looks a tad repulsed by the programme: UHHUHUH.
He starts feeling around for the remote, but can’t find it.
TATTY is getting more and more frantic.
SPUD: DOBDOBGUB?
TATTY’s eyes are glued horrified to the screen. Absentmindedly she picks the remote up from beside her and passes it to him.
SPUD (impatiently): GUH.
TV shot.
The man is half way through chopping the potato.
Sofa shot.
SPUD is pressing away at the remote trying to change the channel, but it isn’t working and he’s getting more and more angered by it. Meanwhile, TATTY is urgently prodding him and squealing at him, which just frustrates him further. He stretches for an empty chip box and hurls it at the TV, but it hardly travels any distance. He gets more annoyed as he tries to chuck more stuff at the TV.
TV Shot. The chef moves towards a pan of boiling water with the potatoes.
DRAMATIC MUSIC.
Sofa Shot.
TATTY: WHAAWHAAA. NAA.
She grabs at SPUD.
SPUD looks around, thoughtful, looking for a way to turn it off. He sighs, looking warn out at the effort of trying to change the channel. He reaches beside the sofa and grabs a completely unused broom and tries reaching the TV with it, prodding at it to try to hit the off button.
TV shot.
CHEF (RAMSAY): I NEED THIS *BLEEP*ING FOOD AND I NEED IT RIGHT NOW.
The chef takes the potatoes and sweeps them into the boiling water.
Sofa shot.
TAFFY covers her eyes with her hands. SPUD who has dropped his stick now, looks mortified and quickly reaches down the side of the sofa for his gun. He fires a shot at the top of the TV. It does the trick, hitting the off button.
TV Shot. The screen cuts out.
Sofa Shot. The potatoes breathe a massive sigh of relief and all is silent and calm. Then, unexpectedly the bullet, that had glanced off the TV hits SPUD in the stomach. He blows up into a pile of mashed potato. Meanwhile, TATTY is inspecting the remote control. With an ‘OH’ she realises it has no batteries in it. Reaching under her, she finds the two batteries, puts them in the remote and turns the TV back on, quickly changing channel. Her face is expressionless, oblivious to SPUD’s demise. The sound of opera starts back up.
CU of TATTY. She resumes her normal, hypnotised expression, picks up her drink and slurps loudly.
Screen fades to black.