Thursday, 12 April 2012
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Design Practice 3: Assignment 3: DePict: Inspiration and Brainstorming: Part Four
As people are having some trouble understanding my idea I have decided to break it down into manageable scenes with a short explanation for each, I have also produced a visual aid to accompany each of the scenes, hopefully this will give a sense of the mood, pace and tension I am trying to achieve, as well as elaborating on the main story of the piece.
Scene 1
A mentally disturbed man who has recently been released from hospital is sitting crouched up in a dimly lit corridor, we cannot see his face. We hear mysterious voices and see that the man is experiencing a sequence of traumatic flashbacks, by the looks of it they have something to do with a letter. At the very same time a post vehicle is heading for the man's house, we see ourselves getting closer and closer to the man's house and front door, until eventually some letters are posted through the letterbox. The man hears the letters being posted and 'wakes up' from his psychotic episode in the utmost shock, the mysterious voices disappear and a sense of normality kicks in, it is as if he has woken up from a terrible dream. The man proceeds to stand up to go fetch the letters, he walks down the stairs and inspects his porch.
Scene 2
As the man is sorting through his letters he comes across one entitled 'DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TIME OF DEATH', at this point the mood begins to build tension, we see a look of terror on the man's face as he reads the title. He quickly walks out the front door in a hurry and proceeds to a old shack type building he has in his garden. He opens the door to his 'shack' and we see it's creepy interior, newspaper clippings everywhere, cobwebs and mysterious objects in jars and test tubes. The man paces up and down nervously, until he decides to sit down at a desk in the middle of the shack and inspect the letter once more, he is nervous, restless to the point where he can't keep his hands or body still, he is putting off opening the letter. He paces up and down the room for a while longer until he finally gives into the allure of the letter, we see him grab a letter opener.
Scene 3
The man rips open the letter to reveal lots of individual scraps of paper inside, he lifts it upside down and they all float down to his desk. The mood begins to get even tenser now, he starts to breathe heavy and aggressively looks through the scraps of paper for some sort of answer... until by luck he eventually pieces two pieces together. At this point we see that the scraps of paper in fact make up a photograph. He proceeds to tape the pieces together in a hurry, his breathing getting heavier all the time, until finally the complete picture is formed and repaired.
The tension stops and his breathing calms, we see him lifting the picture up to his face in complete shock, the picture is revealed to the audience , we see it is the man himself holding a gun up to his own head. He flips the picture around and on the back it reads 'patience was never my strongest virtue', before we have time to process what has just happened we hear a sharp noise behind him, the man jumps up and looks around, the scene fades to black. The scene is brought back and we see the man is dead, face down and lifeless on his desk, pools of blood surround him, we are left at the end with a shot of the photograph lying in a pool of blood.
Scene 1
A mentally disturbed man who has recently been released from hospital is sitting crouched up in a dimly lit corridor, we cannot see his face. We hear mysterious voices and see that the man is experiencing a sequence of traumatic flashbacks, by the looks of it they have something to do with a letter. At the very same time a post vehicle is heading for the man's house, we see ourselves getting closer and closer to the man's house and front door, until eventually some letters are posted through the letterbox. The man hears the letters being posted and 'wakes up' from his psychotic episode in the utmost shock, the mysterious voices disappear and a sense of normality kicks in, it is as if he has woken up from a terrible dream. The man proceeds to stand up to go fetch the letters, he walks down the stairs and inspects his porch.
Scene 2
As the man is sorting through his letters he comes across one entitled 'DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TIME OF DEATH', at this point the mood begins to build tension, we see a look of terror on the man's face as he reads the title. He quickly walks out the front door in a hurry and proceeds to a old shack type building he has in his garden. He opens the door to his 'shack' and we see it's creepy interior, newspaper clippings everywhere, cobwebs and mysterious objects in jars and test tubes. The man paces up and down nervously, until he decides to sit down at a desk in the middle of the shack and inspect the letter once more, he is nervous, restless to the point where he can't keep his hands or body still, he is putting off opening the letter. He paces up and down the room for a while longer until he finally gives into the allure of the letter, we see him grab a letter opener.
Scene 3
The man rips open the letter to reveal lots of individual scraps of paper inside, he lifts it upside down and they all float down to his desk. The mood begins to get even tenser now, he starts to breathe heavy and aggressively looks through the scraps of paper for some sort of answer... until by luck he eventually pieces two pieces together. At this point we see that the scraps of paper in fact make up a photograph. He proceeds to tape the pieces together in a hurry, his breathing getting heavier all the time, until finally the complete picture is formed and repaired.
The tension stops and his breathing calms, we see him lifting the picture up to his face in complete shock, the picture is revealed to the audience , we see it is the man himself holding a gun up to his own head. He flips the picture around and on the back it reads 'patience was never my strongest virtue', before we have time to process what has just happened we hear a sharp noise behind him, the man jumps up and looks around, the scene fades to black. The scene is brought back and we see the man is dead, face down and lifeless on his desk, pools of blood surround him, we are left at the end with a shot of the photograph lying in a pool of blood.
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