Treatment

Treatment:

Act I

Begins with a big title screen, then shows the setting in Oliver Moore’s living room, with his cat sleeping peacefully in its cat bed. Oliver speaks loudly as he walks purposefully past the screen, his booming voice abruptly waking the cat. Silver Jewel slowly trails behind Oliver, clumsily walking into the coffee table and falling over. Oliver is standing in the doorway holding the door and listing the chores which he needs to accomplish before heading to work. He sees Silver banging into the coffee table and sighs over-dramatically. Oliver leans forward, face-to-face with Silver and commands him to stay put and not to mess with anything. Silver nods nervously as he marches to the couch and slumps down into the cushions. Oliver lets out a low growl and leaves, slamming the door behind him. With the slamming of the door, we see the room shake and an item moving, teetering closer towards the edge of the shelf.

Act II

Silver looks around, bored, but notices the item about to fall from the shelf. He looks shocked and horrified. He rises quickly and dives to catch it as it falls. As Silver lands on the ground he accidently knocks Oliver’s coat-rack, which topples over onto a cabinet. Silver rushes past the screen to stop the cabinet from falling, causing papers to fly up around the room and hit more items that then begin to move and fall, creating a chain of events. Silver then desperately scurries around trying to stop the chaos as it erupts. He is disheveled and dismayed when he notices Oliver’s prized item being pushed towards the edge by Oliver’s mischievous cat. Silver hurls himself across the room, reaching in seemingly slow-motion in a desperate attempt to save the item from its doom. Silver hits the cabinet, which shakes upon impact. The next scene reveals Silver leaning against the cabinet clutching the object, having successfully caught it. He then slowly rubs his head, due to his collision with the cabinet, and Oliver’s cat then drops from above, landing directly in his lap. Silver, wide-eyed, cracks a smile. He stands and puts the object back on the cabinet. Silver then looks around the room, in a complete mess with Oliver’s cat standing beside him.

Act III

From the other side of the door, we hear Oliver’s voice. Silver looks in its direction, panicked. Oliver bursts in and freezes. The room is tidy, but all the items are now in different spots from their original positions. Silver is sitting on the couch, looking ruffled and untidy due to rushing around, with a large fake smile plastered on his face. Oliver, stunned, shakes his head and complains about Silver’s appearance as Silver stands to look at him. Oliver exclaims that he does not wish to take Silver outside when he looks like that as, but then rushes Silver out the door while saying he is late for work.

End