Sunday, November 23, 2008

Miniature play : Scene

A daughter and father duo are performers at a circus. The daughter is trying to express some restraint to the performance believing that they have to practice more.
No words are exchanged between the daughter and father.
They are approaching the ladder to take her up to the top.
When they reach the top, the acrobats fling themselves around beautifully.
Alas the climax of the movie comes; there is worry in her eyes as she approaches the swing. She is to let go of the rim and let her father catch her.
She lets go of the rim, but her father misses her, letting her fall to her death.

(THE SCREEN GOES BLACK)

She wakes up in a meadow. Unlike the opening scene there are only 3 distinct colors. Green, Blue and white.
She awakens as a little girl.
There is beauty and peace here.
A hand comes to hold her.
The camera zooms out so the audience can see that it is the father.
He is holding out his hand for her.
She draws back.
He whispers a secret in her ear only for her to know
Satisfied with the answer she eagerly gives him her hand to hold.

3 comments:

nadia said...

This is trully a great scene that you choice to do. You can even expand this scene and create an actual play with dialogue and expansion of character. I liked the plot you set up of the death of the performer and her death, and then her aftermath. Great job!

Ashmeena Teakram said...

this is a great start to something beautiful.i like how u showed the scene at the circus and it seemed that the girl had some trust issues with her dad but relentlessly she gaved it a try and trusted him.....also as she woke up, the scene shows that there was mistrust from a tender age between the father n daughter.
this is beautiful!!

Justine said...

I like the two parts to the scene. I think that the first part really helps to set up the second part. This is very original, and I like the idea of it.