Thursday, October 25, 2007
Megan: Episode 2
A loud resounding thump.
The screen is white, but out of focus.
Another resounding thump, the camera jumps slightly with it.
The screen focuses, it's a white tiled floor.
A third thump is heard, the camera jumps again, it's getting closer.
The camera pans around something fuzzy and green is approaching.
Another thump as the fuzzy green shape fills the frame.
The camera pulls back, it's a towel wrapped around someone. A woman's legs are seen from beneath the towel and take a step. The resounding thump is the sound of her walking. The steps are in slow motion, the legs are plump and can be seen to wiggle and jiggle in slow motion with each step.
She walks past the camera, the camera focuses on how enormous her back side appears when wrapped by the towel. She steps on a scale, and we return to normal camera speed: there is a blood curdling scream. The woman turns around, and is revealed to be Megan Stewart, her hands on her face, and her mouth hanging open.
Music plays, and the titles come up: "The Comeback: Megan Stewart". A subtitle appears after the credits, declaring "Episode 2: Turning it Around"
***
Megan is standing on the scale in the bathroom, wrapped in a towel. The towel is large and fluffy, and Megan looks absolutely gigantic wrapped up in it. Her hands are clapped over her mouth, and her eyes are wide as she looks between the camera and the readout on the scale.
The camera moves and zooms in past her pudgy toes to the readout on the scale: 186 pounds.
Megan turns and runs from the bathroom.
Geraldine is sitting on the couch, she's dressed in shorts and tight top, revealing her slender figure, and reading Variety. Megan runs into the room, still wrapped in her green towel and sits down on the couch. Geraldine bounces up and down with the force of Megan's weight hitting the couch.
Geraldine turns to Megan, "So how much?"
Megan whimpers.
"160?"
Megan whimpers and turns her head no.
"170?"
Another whimper, and a finger pointing upwards.
"Not 180!"
"One hundred," Megan's voice is trembling, "and eighty six pounds."
Geraldine whistles, "I'm sure glad I'm not you! But we'll get through this. Your agent called, you've got an appointment with a nutritionist, and a personal trainer. You'll look like me again in no time."
Megan smiles at Geraldine.
"Oh, one more thing," Geraldine adds, "I've got an audition!"
Megan's smile turns to a scowl as Geraldine gets up and walks out of the room.
***
The camera is again focused on the scale, the view turns, and in slow motion Geraldine walks into the washroom wrapped in a towel that is tight to her curves. As she approaches the scale the towel drops away to reveal Geraldine in her underwear. She steps up on the scale, and the readout quickly displays 120.
Geraldine smiles at the camera and walks away with a sexy swagger.
***
Megan is sitting in an office. She's wearing a tracksuit that appears a size too large. A man walks into the office, he's tall, dark hair, well tanned. He's wearing bicycle shorts and a muscle shirt to show off just how fit he is.
He smiles and takes her hand, "I'm Eduardo. I'll be your personal trainer Miss Stewart." As she stands up, he looks her over with a bit of disdain, "I see I have my work cut out for me!"
A montage video has Geraldine being weighed and measured, poked and prodded, and finally doing a variety of fitness tests. At the end she poses in a sports bra and shorts, which have her flesh bulging around them, for her 'before' pictures.
***
As the last flash from Megan's picture goes off we switch back to her house. Geraldine is sitting at the kitchen table with a stack of photo albums. She's flipping through them, and stops to hold a page to the camera.
"See? That's not long after we met. We were working together at some place off the strip. Everyone told us how much we looked alike." The camera zooms in, Geraldine and Megan are standing, wearing matching uniforms, looking practically identical.
Geraldine stands up and mimics the pose to show that she has changed very little since the picture was taken.
She sits back down at the table and grabs a cookie to eat. The camera catches, for just a moment, that there is a whole plate of cookies beside the stack of photo albums. Geraldine reaches for another cookie and continues flipping through the pictures.
***
Exhausted by her fitness test, Megan is now talking with Angela, an impossibly tiny blonde woman, about eating habits and propre nutrition. Angela lectures about food groups, eating strategies, what to avoid.
Finally Angela equips Megan with a massive binder. "This has all your recipes, and you're going to eat every day. After a week we'll see how you're doing."
***
Megan comes home, and sees Geraldine looking at the pictures, "what are you doing?"
"Looking at pictures of you when you were hot like me," Geraldine grinned. The plate of cookies is briefly in view, and clearly empty. "Come on, I'll get you a snack."
Geraldine reaches for another bag of cookies, and Megan stops her. She flips open the binder, "Nope, I'm scheduled for..." she walks over the fridge, opens it up and searches, "... aha, carrot sticks!"
"Suit yourself," Geraldine sets out another plate of cookies as the two friends start pointing at old pictures of each other.
Labels: FA, fiction, Geraldine, Megan, TV show, weight gain
: 6:08 AM I'll try to add 'non show' posts.
How are the 'show formats' though? Do you feel like you're watching it on TV?
Interspersed doesn't seem to fit the format, so either separate chunks or perhaps short before and after bits as "behind the scenes" chunks might work as a format? Not sure.
Anyway, take heart, it is a good bit of work :)
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