A mini Treatment: My Bestie Gragg? UPDATED

"On a day like any other day, a human being fell out of the sky."

STORY:
So It's taken me more than I should be taking to even think about this idea. It's about shy high school guy whose known nothing about friends, jobs, sports, extracurricular activities, whatever fits your fancies. All he knows how to do is to study and read. Let's call him Jay for now.

Now, Jay's got no aim, but all the motivation in every little wrong place. And it takes this kid, let's call him Gragg for now, to show him something he's been missing out.

The thing is: Gragg's a ghost, but go fig eh? Gragg's the one that sort of freaks Jay out, but keeps him company and somehow manages to become friends with him. For English class, Jay is assigned to write a story that teaches something important to them. And for the first time Jay doesn't know what to write.

He starts getting stressed and lashes out at Gragg, saying something very horrible that causes Gragg to disappear. For a couple of days Jay gets more and more stressed and irritated, and starts to talk to Gragg when he isn't even there, which frustrates him even more and builds guilt up in him like nothing else. He starts remembering bits and pieces of the good memories and gets lonely thinking about what would happen if Gragg really disappeared for good.

Then he starts getting desperate and looks for Gragg like crazy. And when he finds him, he apologizes, where Gragg enlightens Jay that he has friends and has the power to make new friends if he just tried a bit more. So Jay gets sentimental, and says "let's go home." to Gragg. There, Jay successfully writes his story for English as he starts making friends with Gragg secretly by his side. Lots of quick moments of new friends and memories show, and at the end, Jay turns in his story: "My Best Friend Gragg."

The story ends with Jay sitting underneath his favorite tree reading with Gragg in the tree chilling. Jay is called over by his new friends, and Gragg smiles and disappears knowing his job is done.

Jay comes back to pick up his book to find Gragg gone and a message left by him. Jay smiles to offer some kind of gratitude and goes to hang with his new friends. Then it just sort of fades out like that. The end. That offers some kind of closure right?


NOTES:
-I suppose Gragg is nao a handicapped angel of some sort. Maybe just a ghost sent to help him.
-The object that Gragg tosses up and down will be something he's had from the beginning. Probably a baseball.
-This entire story will be narrated by Jay, where it will be interrupted with the actor's dialogue when Jay talks about the times when two people are talking.
-I need to develop the plot more in that Gragg is kind of a guardian angel pushing Jay to be friends with other people: Like instead of just showing Jay and Gragg moments, show Jay moments with new people where Gragg is pushing him and helping him.

SCENES:
Opening:
 You see JAY, sitting underneath a tree on the deserted side of the school. He's reading a book, and the camera zooms out moderately slow(but not too slow) from his face to a full body shot of him sitting.

 JAY (VO)

On a day like any other day, a human being fell from the sky.

 Show's GRAGG falling into frame near JAY. Freeze Frame: JAY freaking out, and Gragg's legs possibly blurred from the motion.

JAY (VO)
Well, to be more precise, he fell from a tree.

Freeze frame rewinds and zooms out, and freezes again. Freeze Frame: JAY reading his book calmly, and GRAGG in the process of slipping out of the tree.

JAY (VO of Title Sequence)

But that's beside the point. Hi. I'm Jay. And this is the day my life turns completely upside down. Up until now, I've only known books. School. The only thing I'm good at, is studying. I don't even have an aim--all I know is, I got straight A's and that, that can get you anywhere. Never had any friends, and probably never will. Well, I thought so anyway, until this guy came into my life. This guy, well--

-INSERT TITLE SEQUENCE HERE-

GRAGG:
Psst. Hey listen to me will you? I'm Gragg. Let's be friends eh? Hey, are you listening to me? Dude, come on. At least look at me. Heeeey duuuude. Heeeey!

JAY: -slamming the desk as he gets up-

WILL YOU SHUT UP?!

The classroom goes quiet, shot of everyone turning around including teacher. close up on teacher.

TEACHER: -slowly as they turn around-

Jay...is..there something wrong? Is someone bothering you?

Two-shot of JAY and GRAGG hanging off of Jay's desk.

JAY:
Yes, this guy won't leave me alone!

Same CU of TEACHER

TEACHER: -getting a bit angry-
Jay...enough with the pranks. I never expected something like this from someone like you!

Close up on JAY.

JAY:
What are you talking about -Teacher's name-?

Same CU of TEACHER

TEACHER: -getting angrier-
What am I talking about?! There's no-one there! Now sit down!

Same Two-shot of JAY and GRAGG, only GRAGG isn't there anymore. CU of JAY turning to look at GRAGG, CU of GRAGG smiling sheepishly.

GRAGG:
Uh..I'm..kind of a ghost...Did I forget to mention that earlier?

CU of JAY's incredulous face in response. End of Opening.


Title Sequence: BGM is something upbeat.
You see JAY walking down the halls, in a fast pace where GRAGG is trailing behind trying to catch his attention, calling out to him and trying to explain things to him.

Wide shot of window wall of the hallway, where you see some high schoolers hanging out. JAY walks through frame where the word: DIRECTED BY appears on the window as JAY walks by. After a little GRAGG is trailing along where my name will appear trailing after GRAGG.

Cut to shot of JAY entering a classroom, and on the door that closes the words "Starring: JAY's Actor's name" where some of the letters fall off when GRAGG goes through the door(negotiable haha)

Cut to shot of Teacher wiping board(POV shot from the door). Cut to shot of whiteboard where the words "Starring: GRAGG's Actor's name" are erased.

Cut to shot of JAY sitting down at his desk and looking down taking out his stuff. POV shot of a classroom desk, where JAY takes out a textbook and opens it, where the words "MY BEST FRIEND GRAGG." pop out like a pop-up book, hovering over the text.  JAY turns the page and the title disappears, and you see another pair of hands placed on the side of JAY's desk. Camera follows whose hands they belong to, finding GRAGG to be the owner. Music ends at a noticeable last note when GRAGG's face is revealed.

Cut to angled two-shot of GRAGG and JAY. End of Title Sequence.


Ending: CU of JAY reading a book again. Zoom out steadily to see JAY reading under the same tree from the beginning. As we zoom out, we see GRAGG chillin' in the tree tossing something up and down.

FRIEND: (Off screen)
Hey Jay!

JAY looks up, puts his book down and after saying a quick brb to GRAGG, gets up and walks off frame.

Waist-Shot of GRAGG tossing up the object once, then looking over to where JAY is.

Shot of Jay's back turned towards camera, where you see his new little group of friends and JAY chatting them up comfortably.

Cut back to Waist-shot of GRAGG as he returns to his first position and smiles and he tosses the object up and down once more.

ECU of object, camera following it as it is being tossed up and down a couple times.

As it comes down, on the last time, cut to Waist shot where GRAGG's mouth, part of his torso, and the hand that the object has been caught with is visible. After dialogue, Object is thrown up once more.

GRAGG -smiling-
See ya in the next world Jay..Let's just hope it's not gonna be anytime soon...

Cut to ECU of object as it is thrown up, and falls down to the floor.

Cut to long-shot of tree. GRAGG is no longer in the tree, and we see the object at the foot of the tree. JAY enters back into frame and picks book up, calling for GRAGG. Because of lack of response, JAY looks around for GRAGG and finds the object.

CU of Object on the floor, where JAY's hand comes into frame to pick it up.

CU of JAY looking at object, turning it around when he sees some handwriting on it.

CU of object as he turns it around, and we see the words "Later J. -G"

Cut to angled(upwards) waist-shot of JAY, who looks around first, then up.

Profile waist shot of JAY looking up, and smiling.

JAY: -as he sort of lifts the object to show the sky-
Later Gragg.

Long-shot of Tree again, where you see JAY still looking up.

FRIEND (Off Screen)
Come on Jay! What are you doin'?

JAY -turning-
Nothin', alright? I'm comin'!

JAY runs towards his new friends as shot zooms out steadily at a diagonal, catching JAY running away from the camera with his friends as they walk away, becoming blurry in the shot. 

Blur some more, and then fade to black. Credits roll. End of Ending.