• The title of the documentary is Lagged to the Future.

• Lagged to the Future is about an arrogant overly enthusiastic curator who tries to flaunt the Museum of Moving Image as an institution brimming with cutting edge technology to a tech savvy group of Freaks only to realize that the museum has yet to create a cohesive discourse of web 2.0.

• Lagged to the Future is an irreverent Comedy Drama.

• Lagged to the Future depicts themes of Media, Technology and Moving Image

• TONE: Irreverent Humor

• The setting takes place inside the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.

PLOT SUMMARY: Sam has a crush on Daniels and is interested in dating. While complaining about a class project, Daniels mentions the Museum of the Moving Image and finds out that Sam is passionate about James Hansen and had previously written a paper about the museum. Proust, who is a new tour staff of the museum, will let these three students to visit the museum but he doesn’t has the same knowledge as Sam does. Eventually, Sam becomes a tour guide  in the museum and she finds her passion on enlighten people, like James Hansen.

SUB PLOT SUMMARY: Jack and Daniels are secretly recording their museum tour so that they transcribe Proust words as their own for a classroom assignment. To help alleviate the stress of actually thinking, they are agreeable and continue saying the words, “fascinating please tell me more,” even though they for the most part disagree with him and continue insulting him underneath their breath.

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Intro-25%

1. This is the first day of work for Proust. He is practicing his speech in the mirror as 1812 Overture plays. Jack yells, “turn that shit down. I’m trying to take a crap and you’re scaring the shit back into my asshole.”

1. Sam arrives to the museum and finds Daniels waiting in the lobby. Daniels ask Sam if she brought the papers and Sam said yes but I’m not sure of how important her papers are being as the conclusion she draws is largely from a female lens but I suppose there is some good information about Carrie Fisher. Daniels gives a disappointed look because he was actually talking about rolling papers. Jack comes out of the bathroom and immediately starts complaining about an annoying guy in the bathroom (Proust). Sam then realizes that Daniels and herself are not taking the tour alone.

1. Jack then tells Daniels that he paid for a tour guide for their visit, which would make it easier to do their paper by simply recording the tour and then paraphrasing it for their paper. Proust introduces himself to the group as the museum tour guide with a half hearted handshake which is taken back before any of the group can actually shake his hand. Jack and Daniels introduce themselves as Jack and Daniels. Proust is perplexed as to why someone would give their kid a plural name. Daniels tells him my mother was a big woman. Proust says “interesting” sarcastically and asks “does anyone else smell a skunk?”

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Middle-50%

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1. Proust starts the tour and begins introducing pieces of the exhibitions.  First, they go to Behind the Screen aisle and  Proust mentions about the makeup, clothes and toys that are parts of the production. However, Sam says that these artifacts are the first phase of  production, which is pre-production. Whereas making toys, magazines and posters are parts of post-production.

1. Proust emphasizes that the museum has video game consoles from the 80’s. Sam highlights that although the museum provides such items, the museum lacks a representation of streaming video, social media and online gaming. However, when this museum involves more with social media and the internet, it will allow wide audiences to understand its beauty even better.

1. Proust only takes the team to see the Sesame Street Exhibition of Jim Henson because he believes that Henson is the only one famous for this show. On the other hand, Sam claims that Jim Henson is a revolutionary puppeteer and filmmaker and his puppet even went to SNL as a cast!

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Ending-75%

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1. Proust gets very upset and starts to question Sam about how can she make the museum better than it is now. Sam gives suggestions to Proust  politely by saying the real thoughts: “ First, the museum should ask stream video producers, like HULU and NETFLIX, to film a documentary video about how the Behind the Screen exhibitions are used in real movie productions as well as how Jim Henson made in impact in the industry.” Nevertheless, she didn’t realize that her ideas had been heard by the manager, in which he was intended to see how Proust was doing so far.

1. Later, Sam asks for the museum’s WiFi and because Proust was upset and embarrassed, he tells her that he does not remember and starts blowing up.

1. Proust trips over a cord and falls down the stairs since he rapidly walked away from his visitors and Sam.

1. As a result, Proust gets injured and tells his manager that he is going to be out of work for a couple of days and the manager without doubt offers Sam a job as a tour guide instead. Sam agrees and she feels satisfied that she is going to use her knowledge to inspire others, like Jim Henson did.

1. At the end, Proust and the Freaks sit in the main theater and watch the Great Train Robbery together.

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