Shift Control Delete [shift+ctrl+del]
Veronika Ipserova 2023
LCC BA Animation Arts
INTRO CREDITS
S H I F T
C O N T R O L
D E L E T E
- LIVING ROOM / DAY
Parents singing ‘Happy Birthday’
POV HANDS UNCOVER EYES
DARKNESS TO LIGHT
A sleek smartphone in its box
A brief feeling of surprise
A massive feeling of joy on the Polly’s face and a look directed at her parents (out of shot).
- BEDROOM / DAY
360 OF THE PHONE
Scrolling
HAPPY SONG
- BEDROOM / NIGHT
POV scrolling through social media feed on smartphone.
POLLY, young teenager, mousy hair.
It’s all pink and pretty. Suddenly one video is a horror video.
She is scared but intrigued.
V.OFF FROM PHONE (SVENGALI’S VOICE)
Shift, control, delete.
POV: feed shows Satisfying sounds and keys.
Song
Down the rabbit hole
Wonderland
A palace of your own
You can do what you want
/CLOSEUP/
Face surprised/mixed feelings as she faces this content
She stares and stares and it stares back at her
Every time there is a cut, she looks more like a rabbit
She sees herself in the mirror and freaks out.
Her parents knocking on the door.
PARENTS / off screen
Dinner’s ready!
Polly!
Are you there Polly?
Polly is even more creeped out.
SVENGALI An echoing voice says
Shift, control, delete is the shortcut
umps into the rabbit hole that appeared on her iPhone, iPad and desktop computer – it is clearly the biggest one she can get through.
- OTHER SIDE / NO MAN’S LAND
Hyperpop song : this is my palace in no man’s land
It’s her room but without the parents just hermetic silence and strange lighting.
She goes back into bed. Everything looks really cool and aesthetic.
An aesthetic spider web starts growing
It grows and it catches her in. she can’t move.
V.OFF SVENGALI
Just look at the screen!
The phone levitates towards her face and floats.
V.OFF SVENGALI
You can scroll with your eyes.
She is paralysed and scrolls with her eyes.
It is obvious she is not enjoying it.
She starts screaming.
‘Let me out’
Svengali
You can go live, but you cannot escape.
fOR THE FIRST TIME WE SEE HIM SITTING APPEARED FROM NOTHING BEHIND THE COMPUTER. HE IS STRANGE.
(…)
ARGUMENT
(…)
FINAL SCENE