My Two Treatments

So it's my job to actually write what happens and I've come up with these two different takes on a similar theme.

The following scenarios are variations on a theme and take place over a five minute period on a Sunday afternoon in Leeds

1: Frantic, Sketchy & Confused

1. Whilst having a sunny Sunday afternoon stroll Jay & Robbie wander into a slightly dodgy part of town.

2. Jay & Robbie realize that they don't really know where they're going, stop and upon stopping see two rather shifty rough characters who appear to have just done something they shouldn't have as they are jogging and are regularly looking over their shoulders. These characters are coming up behind them at about 8 o'clock roughly 30 meters away.

3. The dodgy characters pass by Jay & Robbie yet Jay and robbie decide to walk away briskly (back the way they came) which soon turns into a sprint.

4. Upon seeing that Jay & Robbie are sprinting, the dodgy characters start chasing Jay and Robbie. At this point Jay and Robbie are about 50 meters away.

5. After a couple of seconds one of the dodgy characters stops chasing and Jay and Robbie are then chased for about 200 meters by the remaining dodgy character.

6. Then Jay and Robbie run across a road and a well timed car whizzes past and cuts the dodgy character off. It's at this point that the character shouts from the other side of the road "why are you running?"

7. Jay and Robbie then look at each other in a confused and quizzical manner suggesting that a. their paranoia could have unnecessarily created this and b. they're still not quite sure what the dodgy character's intentions were.

2:Funny, Surreal, Outrageous

N.B despite the "dark" subject matter this scene is entirely comical & light hearted. This is conveyed through music, costumes and overly stylized actions, a bit like Terry Gilliam moveis

1. Whilst on a sunny sunday afternoon stroll, smokin a lil doob, two guys see a character at right angles in a tracksuit moving quickly in their direction.

2. Their impaired vision combined with sudden paranoia (for obvious reasons) cause them to believe that the man jogging is out to mugg them/beat them up and so they start running away. The jogger still has no idea that the two guys are running from him.

3. Upon seeing the three men running, numerous bystanders from all angles along the way wonder what the three men appear to be running after and determined to find out, they start running after the jogger.

4. Eventually the two guys come to a road and a series of fast cars prevent them from crossing, the two guys cower as the jogger draws level and innocently stays jogging on the spot whilst waiting for the road to clear. It's at this point that the two guys and the viewer realise that the man they were running from was a mere jogger.

5. Then on a second glance back they see the huge crowd of people and are utterly bamboozled as why they're all there en mass at which point numerous members of the crowd ask the guys and the jogger "what are you running after?"