Sunday, September 24, 2006

Week8 - Audio Arts -Screen Script

I hope you all enjoy my attempt at creative writing for Ashley Klose's screenscript exercise.


There is a man sitting in a bedroom, holding a 20 cent coin. He sees the wardrobe door slowly opening. He walks/slides barefooted across to the door and peers inside and sees a flashing yellow light in the distance. He steps inside and there is a massive door slam (and not the slam of an ordinary wardrobe door).
  • Music track of bass, drums, guitar, and possibly some spoken-word style vocals.
  • Creaking of door.
  • Sound of bare feet and rustling of the man.
  • A buzzing sound from the yellow light.
  • Step into wardrobe.
  • Door slam.
The man finds himself in brilliant sunshine and in a corridor made from hedges. The ground is hard. Eerily there is no sound other than the man's steadily increasing breathing. The yellow light is still in the distance; the man runs. He reaches the object of the light. It is big and heavy. The man drops his coin and exclaims, "what the hell is going on?"
  • Music track may include xylophone.
  • Sound of breathing.
  • Buzzing of the yellow light.
  • Running steps on the hard ground.
  • The sound of the coin hitting the ground.
  • The dialogue.

1 Comments:

At 12:58 pm, Blogger unknown said...

I was just thinking about the difference between creative and realistic uses of sound. Like in the lord of the rings (or something) when the ring hits the table in slow-motion and you hear deep bell-like sounds rather than gentle tapping sounds. Even though Ashley asked us to use 1 heavy object and 1 light object, one could write a script where the sound doesn't necessarily complement the object it's attached to. It's the 'dropping of the coin' that led me to think of that. Nice work.

 

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