my scipts (二)

• An old woman sat and smoked a pipe. She exhaled smoke from her mouth. The smoke became images what in her memory. She coughed, stopped her memory.

• What if using the Kuleshov Effect in my film to misguide audience?

The camera focused on an old lady’s face. She looked at the camera, and then closed eyes. [cut to another shot] A young girl going down stairs, she met a young man, the scene was so romantic. [cut to the shot of old lady.] She opened eyes and smiled. [cut to previous shot] The girl’s boyfriend left her; she was so sad and crying. [Cut to shot of the old lady] She was in tears quietly, too, and then closed eyes again. [Cut] The girl stood on top of a hill, then the end titles moved up. The old lady went to sleep when she was watching the film.

• What if the lady had an opportunity to change her life?

A lady holding a lantern was running in evening. She held a ticket tightly. She went on board ship, and wanted to leave here with her lover. They arrived at a new place and began a new life. They had babies and happy life.
Cut to shot of an old lady. She looked at an old ticket in her hand. The ticket had never been used. Tears dropped on it.

• An old lady lives alone in an old house. Every day she cooks for herself, seems so alone. But this day, she cooked for two persons, set the table for one more person. She ate alone, after a while, a young man sat beside her. The old woman seemed quite happy and smiled to the man. After finishing the meal, she tidied up, but food in the man’s bowl was not eaten at all. (That day was 14th July in the lunar calendar, like Chinese Halloween.)
  

• What if it’s something’s memory? a photo? a camera?

[We can read the story through camera’s eye]
What if the camera can see something human cannot see? like inner personality.
The camera always follows a girl. She is beautiful, happy and bright in camera’s eye. One day, the camera’s owner left the girl, he went out for a trip. The girl was always waiting for the man day after day. She became more and more nervous. There were three personalities appearing in image through camera. One was a cowardly little girl crying. One was a raging devil taking out anger on anything. The last personality was the same as the one in beginning, is positive and bright. But this personality was eaten by the angry devil in the end. And then it broke the camera.

• What if every injurious thing happened to her left marks on her body? What if scar remained like a marking will never be forgotten? Never vanish?

A kid is running towards the camera. He seemed very poor but happy. He fell down and broke his leg, but he still smiled, and then he grew up (and still running). War broke out, the bomb blew up near him, and his forehead was bleeding. Then he became a soldier, enemy fighter flying above his head, he was still running towards camera. His right leg was cut because of injuring. Then the war ended, he was walking on crutches towards us. Someone running past knocked him down. He’s growing older and walk slower. His teeth dropped out, he had to use wheelchair. In the end, he’s smiling to us with wound all over his body. (This short film is a little bit like the Sony Quantum of Solace HD AD, James Bond was hit by bomb.)