Visuals: Bird's Eye View of City; Follow Car Through Countryside Into Forest

Scenes

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Scene One:

Visuals: Bird's eye view of city; follow car through countryside into forest

Mood: This is a very neutral scene. The main character is happy with the separation between home and nature. The city should not be portrayed in a negative way, it serves as a good place to live. The forest is a place to renew.

Scene Two:

Visuals: Main Char enters the forest and has transformation in the forest; takes in nature; sees a crane in a pond

Mood: Slow, relaxing, warm, reinvigorating. Character has been here before. Character knows what to expect and respects what he/she sees. When character makes contact with the forest, through the ground/feet, a good transformation occurs that is reflected in the character’s internal colors. Colors are saturated, lush, warm, cocoon-like.

Scene Three:

Visuals: Char and crane move towards each other and almost touch; tree falls; crane leaves

Mood: Big transition in mood in this scene. Starts out slow relaxing and warm but falling tree invades and erases any secure feeling. Last part of scene is frantic, sharp, fast moving, overwhelming, loud.

Scene Four:

Visuals: Destruction of trees; pond sucked up; houses plopped down; roads paved.

Mood: This scene is a continuation of mood from the end of Scene Three, frantic, sharp, fast moving, overwhelming, loud. Colors should be drained from the scene over time so that the lush, saturated colors from the tree canopy of Scene Two are no longer there. It should be a sun-baked feeling, dry, paved, artificial.

Scene Five:

Visuals: Strip mall erected; new pond built with fountain

Mood: This scene is a continuation of mood from the end of Scene Four, frantic, sharp, fast moving, overwhelming, loud. Colors should be drained from the scene over time so that remaining colors from Scene Four are no longer there. It should be a sun-baked feeling, dry, paved, artificial. The placement of the pond and fountain should be treated as an ironic event.

Scene Six:

Visuals: Char in parking lot; chases bird through traffic and houses

Mood: This scene is a reveal of what is lost. Consequently, it is sad, quiet, and colorless to begin with as character takes in long views of strip mall and housing. Color drains from character as he/she stands in the parking lot (the opposite of Scene 2, shot 1) Character has a moment of hope in the chase after the bird mirage. There is a sharp awakening to the realities of the change through the introduction of the charging automobiles. Hope holds out for the character throughout the entire scene and character doesn’t seem to know reality from hope. Colors remain lifeless in all shots. Camera moves should add to confusion with blurred swish pans as character searches for the bird among the houses.

Scene Seven:

Visuals: Discovers crane at pond; touches and reveals brass; camera pulls out; end

Mood: This scene starts out full of hope. The bird should be rendered so that it looks like the real bird to the character, in other words that is the way he/she sees the bird at that point. When the character draws close to the bird, Shot 4, the color in the character returns to the hand, head, heart of the character then quickly dissipates by the end of Shot 5 when the fake bird becomes apparent. Shot 6 reveals the full housing complex which should be rendered as a very cold, lifeless, technical rendering.