Scene List (Beat Sheet): Sir Reginald’s Q3 Objectives

Target Runtime: 3:15 - 3:45 Tone: Pure Absurdist Comedy. Bright, deadpan, slapstick.

Master Settings

• Setting 1: SynergyCorp Supply Closet. Cramped, fluorescent, lined with identical boxes.
• Setting 2: The Corridors. Sterile white walls, gray carpet, glass partitions.
• Setting 3: Lord Craig’s Office. Executive suite. Floor-to-ceiling windows, sleek glass desk, ergonomic chairs. Bright daylight.
• Setting 4: The Breakroom. White laminate counters, harsh overhead light, the Keurig machine (The Cursed Chalice) sits prominently.
• Setting 5: Accounting Department (Third Floor). A sea of beige cubicles. Oppressively mundane.
• Setting 6: Reginald’s Cubicle (The Keep). A standard cubicle adorned with medieval banners and a rack for his shield.

Scene 1: The Arrival (0:00 - 0:45)

Establish the visual joke immediately.

• Shot 1 (Wide, Static, 8s): The supply closet door swings open. Sarah (HR), holding a mug, stares blankly. Sir Reginald, fully armored, stands amidst knocked-over boxes of dry-erase markers.
  • Motion Prompt: Camera is completely static. Reginald slowly stands up amidst the scattered boxes, clanking heavily. Sarah stands perfectly still, staring at him.
  • Characters: Reginald, Sarah
  • Setting: Setting 1 (Supply Closet)
  • Dialogue (Sarah): “Uh.”
  • VO: “Agincourt it was not.”
• Shot 2 (CU, Reginald, 6s): Reginald’s face visible through his visor. Confused but determined.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close up. Reginald jerks his head around, looking confused, then locks eyes with the camera and shouts.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 1 (Supply Closet)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “Show yourselves, demons of this strange keep!”
• Shot 3 (CU, Sarah, 5s): Deadpan. She takes a sip of coffee.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close up. Sarah slowly blinks once, then mechanically raises the coffee mug to her lips and takes a sip.
  • Characters: Sarah
  • Setting: Setting 1 (Supply Closet)
  • Dialogue (Sarah): “Are you the new agile coach?”
• Shot 4 (Medium, 6s): Reginald points his sword at her collarbone (comedic framing, not threatening).
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald aggressively points his sword forward. Sarah does not flinch or react.
  • Characters: Reginald, Sarah
  • Setting: Setting 1 (Supply Closet)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “I am Sir Reginald of Dunsfold! Take me to your liege lord!”
• Shot 5a (Static Wide, 8s): Sarah and Reginald walk through the frame left to right down the sterile corridor. He clanks loudly.
  • Motion Prompt: Camera static. Reginald and Sarah walk across the frame from left to right. Reginald’s walk is a heavy, clanking march. Sarah walks normally.
  • Characters: Reginald, Sarah, Background Extras
  • Setting: Setting 2 (Corridor)
  • VO: “And so began the dark ages of Q3.”
• Shot 5b (Medium Tracking, Dolly Right, 8s): Close up on coworkers staring from cubicles as the clanking continues.
  • Motion Prompt: Camera dollies smoothly to the right, following behind office workers in cubicles who turn their heads to watch the off-screen commotion.
  • Characters: Background Extras
  • Setting: Setting 2 (Corridor)
  • VO (cont.): “A time of disruption. A time of… synergy.”

Scene 2: The Pitch & The Pivot (0:45 - 1:45)

Reginald meets management and discovers his true enemy.

• Shot 6 (Wide, 8s): Reginald stands before Lord Craig’s glass desk. Craig leans back in his Patagonia vest.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Reginald stands rigidly at attention. Craig leans back in his chair, looking relaxed and confident.
  • Characters: Reginald, Craig
  • Setting: Setting 3 (Craig’s Office)
  • VO: “Lord Craig, VP of Regional Sales, sought a champion.”
• Shot 7 (Medium, Craig, 6s): Craig makes aggressive hand gestures.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Craig leans forward, making aggressive, enthusiastic corporate hand gestures.
  • Characters: Craig
  • Setting: Setting 3 (Craig’s Office)
  • Dialogue (Craig): “We need out-of-the-box thinking. Our Q3 numbers are softer than a wet noodle.”
• Shot 8 (Medium, Reginald, 6s): Reginald slams his gauntlet on the desk (cracking sound effect).
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald violently slams his armored gauntlet onto the glass desk.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 3 (Craig’s Office)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “I shall take this hill, Lord Craig! These ‘paradigms’ shall be broken!”
• Shot 9 (Two-Shot, 5s): Craig laughs, pointing finger guns. Reginald looks confused but honored.
  • Motion Prompt: Static two-shot. Craig laughs and points finger guns at Reginald. Reginald stares back, rigid and slightly confused.
  • Characters: Reginald, Craig
  • Setting: Setting 3 (Craig’s Office)
  • Dialogue (Craig): “Love it. You’re hired.”
• Shot 9a (Wide, Static, 6s): Reginald sits at a tiny computer desk in his cubicle (The Keep), attempting to type with metal gauntlets.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Reginald awkwardly and violently pokes at the keyboard with his metal gauntlets.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 6 (Reginald’s Cubicle)
  • VO: “But modern warfare requires modern weapons.”
• Shot 9b (CU, Monitor, 4s): A bright white screen showing a terrifyingly complex Excel spreadsheet.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close-up on the monitor. The Excel spreadsheet cursor slowly moves across the cells.
  • Characters: None (Object Focus)
  • Setting: Setting 6
  • VO: “The dreaded grid of endless torment.”
• Shot 9c (Medium, Reginald, 6s): Reginald glares at the screen, gripping the mouse like it’s a live rat.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald glares fiercely at the monitor, gripping the plastic mouse so hard he appears to be crushing it.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 6
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “Reveal your secrets, dark sorcery!”

Scene 3: The Cursed Chalice (1:45 - 2:20)

A quick set-piece demonstrating his problem-solving.

• Shot 10 (Wide, 6s): The breakroom. Junior analysts gathered around a flashing Keurig.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Analysts stand around awkwardly while Reginald approaches the Keurig machine aggressively.
  • Characters: Reginald, Background Extras
  • Setting: Setting 4 (Breakroom)
  • VO: “The peasantry required guidance.”
• Shot 11 (Medium, Reginald, 6s): Reginald points accusingly at the machine.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald points an accusing metal finger directly at the Keurig machine.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 4 (Breakroom)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “What sorcery is this? It flashes red? It is angered!”
• Shot 12 (CU, Keurig, 4s): The flashing red ‘add water’ light.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close up on the Keurig machine. The red “Add Water” light blinks rhythmically.
  • Characters: None (Object Focus)
  • Setting: Setting 4 (Breakroom)
• Shot 13 (Medium, 8s): Reginald forcefully rips off the water reservoir with a screech of plastic, spilling water everywhere.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald violently grabs the plastic water reservoir and rips it off the machine, water splashing slightly.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 4 (Breakroom)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “Huzzah! The beast is disarmed!”

Scene 4: The Budget Wars (2:20 - 3:25)

The climax. The Siege of Accounting.

• Shot 14 (Medium, Gary’s Desk, 6s): Gary (Accounting) adjusts his glasses, looking stressed. He holds a scroll of parchment sealed with wax.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Gary nervously adjusts his glasses and holds up a rolled-up parchment scroll with trembling hands.
  • Characters: Gary
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Gary): “I cannot approve an expense for ‘three dozen lances’.”
• Shot 14a (Two-Shot, Gary and Reginald, 6s): Reginald leans over Gary’s desk, intimidating.
  • Motion Prompt: Static two-shot. Reginald leans menacingly over Gary’s desk. Gary shrinks back slightly in his chair.
  • Characters: Reginald, Gary
  • Setting: Setting 5
  • Dialogue (Gary): ”…And this expense report must be in PDF format. Not parchment.”
• Shot 15 (CU, Reginald, 5s): Furious, visor down.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close up. Reginald slowly lowers his metal visor with a dramatic clank.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “You deny the Director of Synergy the tools of war?”
• Shot 16 (Slightly Elevated Wide, 8s): The Siege. Reginald stands atop a filing cabinet, rallying the sales team.
  • Motion Prompt: Slightly elevated static wide shot. Reginald stands triumphantly atop a filing cabinet, waving his sword, while the sales team cheers below him.
  • Characters: Reginald, Background Extras (Sales Team)
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • VO: “The Siege of Accounting would echo through the halls of corporate history.”
• Shot 17 (Static Wide, 6s): Sales team firing rubber bands from catapults across the cubicles.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Sales team members frantically pull back and release rubber bands from makeshift desk catapults.
  • Characters: Background Extras (Sales Team)
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
• Shot 18 (Medium, Gary, 5s): Gary ducks behind a stack of binders, clutching a stapler like a weapon.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Gary cowers behind a stack of thick binders, clutching a red stapler to his chest in fear.
  • Characters: Gary
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
• Shot 18a (Medium, Reginald, 5s): Reginald parries a barrage of paperclip shrapnel with his kite shield.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Reginald dynamically raises his kite shield, blocking a barrage of unseen paperclips.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “Hold the line! For Synergy!”
• Shot 19 (Wide, 6s): Craig enters the chaos, looking shocked.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Craig steps into the frame, freezing in shock with his mouth open as he surveys the chaos.
  • Characters: Craig
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Craig): “What is the meaning of this?!”
• Shot 20 (Low Angle on Reginald, 6s): Triumphant pose, sword raised. Unmotivated god-ray hits him.
  • Motion Prompt: Static low angle. Reginald strikes a heroic, triumphant pose, his sword held high in the air.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “Victory, my liege! The budget is ours!”
• Shot 21 (Medium, Craig, 6s): Bemused, looking at a tablet.
  • Motion Prompt: Static medium shot. Craig looks down at an iPad tablet, blinking in surprise, then looks up and smiles.
  • Characters: Craig
  • Setting: Setting 5 (Accounting Dept)
  • Dialogue (Craig): “Reginald… our Q3 sales numbers are up 400%.”

Scene 5: A New Crusade (3:25 - 3:55)

Resolution and set up for the future.

• Shot 22 (Two-Shot, CEO and Reginald, 7s): The CEO points out the window at the rival skyscraper.
  • Motion Prompt: Static two-shot. The CEO slowly points a finger towards the window. Reginald follows his gaze.
  • Characters: Reginald, CEO
  • Setting: Setting 3 (Craig’s Office - repurposed as Executive Suite view)
  • Dialogue (CEO): “Apex Global Solutions. They threaten our market share.”
• Shot 23 (CU, Reginald, 6s): His eyes narrow.
  • Motion Prompt: Static close up. Reginald’s eyes narrow in extreme determination and focus.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Setting 3
  • VO: “A new foe. A new crusade.”
• Shot 24 (Wide, 6s): Reginald turns to Craig, drawing his sword.
  • Motion Prompt: Static wide shot. Reginald dramatically draws his broadsword from its scabbard. Craig stands beside him, smiling.
  • Characters: Reginald, Craig
  • Setting: Setting 3
  • Dialogue (Reginald): “We march at dawn! Or after the 10 AM stand-up!”
• Shot 25 (Extreme Wide, Static, 8s): Reginald stands in the descending elevator, looking resolute. The doors close.
  • Motion Prompt: Static extreme wide. The elevator doors slowly slide shut, obscuring Reginald who stands perfectly still in a heroic pose.
  • Characters: Reginald
  • Setting: Elevator
  • VO: “He was Sir Reginald. And he would not be defeated by pivot tables.”

The Blind Watch Check

Question: If someone with zero context watched this mute, would they know it’s a comedy? Answer: Yes. The visual juxtaposition of a fully armored knight engaging in serious combat with a coffee maker and rallying office workers from atop a filing cabinet with rubber bands is inherently absurd and slapstick. The flat, bright lighting and deadpan framing will cement the comedic intent.

Editorial Guardrails (For Design Brief Addition)

• NO dead silence pauses for dramatic effect. Keep it snappy.
• NO slow, creeping pull-ins on characters.
• NO heartbeat bass drops or somber music. Keep the score light, whimsical, or ironically triumphant (like a kazoo playing a medieval march).