Ciaran Caul

Script to Screen
24th January 2018

 The Inventor

Premise
A neglected child finds a forgotten companion.

Logline
An old robot is left to tend the greenhouse of its inventor.
One day someone visits and it manages to find company for a short while.
 The Inventor
Step outline

The animation starts with a car rushing round the driveway of a large house. It stops in front of the door and a child is kicked out.
Before the kid manages to look back the car is already speeding off. The door to the house buzzes and after the child looks into a
large camera lens it opens. With a sigh the child steps inside.

The next scene is about an hour later and the kid is playing with some odd machinery and spare parts. It picks up a few spare parts
from a camera and screws them together. The child looks through them and we see the corner of the room magnified. Exited, they
leave the room to show the inventor what they did but stops short when they see a big “Do not disturb” sign on the door.
Disappointed the child looks for somewhere else to go.

The kid is now in the loft looking out of a big circular window with the makeshift telescope. Looking over the grounds they see a
large, dilapidated greenhouse. Staring at it the child notices movement inside. There are glimpses of something moving around
behind the leaves and branches.

They open the window and lean out to get a better look. Inside the greenhouse an old gardening robot notices the movement and
looks to the house, parting some of the leaves. Seeing the robot the child is taken aback for a second and after a pause, waves.
Focusing his eyes on the house the robot sees the wave and thinking it should respond it raises an arm and awkwardly makes a
waving motion back. Excited by the attention, the robot grasps for something to do. It rushes off and after a few second comes back
with a colourful plant in its hands. Looking pleased with itself, it holds it up to show the kid.

They go on like this for a little while longer but then the child disappears from the window. Thinking it upset the child somehow the
robot looks away and gloomy begins trundling down the track.

As the robot begins to put one of the plants back into a patch of soil it happens to glance out of the window. Surprised, it notices the
child running down the hill. It rushes to the door, stopping just short of the end of its tracks.