December 15th Posting
Central immediate concerns:
1. Attempting to finailze scheduling for practice times -timeline
-reguar work sessions
2. agreement with Robin
3. story outline work
4. workshopping story bits
5. equipment set finalize
Story notes
Draft Story Outline Notes
12/15/2015
Act I
Inciting incident:
a. Memory/flashback: Death of father
Playing outside, hears something break
Comes inside
-lamp is on its side
-rope sound
-horrified mother takes him away
-reaction of child bemused, unaware, perhaps smiling:
-image in background of family together
b. Conversation resumes: -sitting with psychiatrist
‘And it wasn’t something you discussed’
‘I guess it was, but I don’t remember.
It wasn’t like we wouldn’t talk about it; we just never did.’
c. VO ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5’ ‘There is a personality to numbers.’
*add dialog form p. 4/5 book notes
d. Party invite
e. at Party -displays his special ‘powers’
-freaks out
f. hospitalized
g. returns home
-computer is away
-pulls out
-begins to write essay on it
h. home (cont.)
-stacks book like crazy to organize
-aflls asleep
i. vision
–wakes up with beautiful woman / glowing
steps forward, opens robe/ mounts
transforms into old/with deep dream stylings/laughing
Act II Magic journeys
given rules for experience: -don’t die -stay away from water/ocean -‘is it real?’ ‘It’s real and it’s not real, just like life’
looks at self in mirror: -sees father dissolve to -sees deep dream image -passes out -time dissolve transition:
on ground -Toby!Toby! They look worried in reaction shot.
they take him away
she sneaks in
he goes on own into experience room [earlier told never to go ]
learns about patient Anthony: -where’s he now (asks doc) -received card earlier ‘ASK ABOUT ANTHONY’ – doesn’t mention card
released too early > goes to home
in front of Cassandra he tries to hold it together: exchange: ‘I left my kingdom for you’ she smiles ‘you’re so weird.’ -holds his hand -kisses cheek:‘see you later’
starts to see the images from experience room everywhere: -screams / parents walk in -nude on ground/shaking -‘this is to turn off:’claps hands
-given
Act III
vision with angel
calls Cassandra [off-scene, she calls for help
at room -they bang on door -he climbs out window -they bust open door/window open/wind on curtains -looks down:he’s limping away
vision: -sees sperm and egg [public domain] -sees girl / sees nurse [they merge]
Doc guides him / talks with him
He’s in experience room again
Tombstone visit
“we’ve lost him” -pg 96 – book notes – intense light visions -wants ot stay here in the magic world
Cassandra finds him in the place they always go
TV/game vision: -sees self watching TV and playing game -with all the characters of his life (characters as stick / 8 bit figures): -crazy -mother -school -friends
[end sequence matter]
