Tuesday 21 April 2020

Sample of a detailed plot outline for my film, "It's Everywhere"

Tentative title:  "It's Everywhere"

Music:  Titan symphony by Gustave Mahler, 1st and 4th movements

Characters in bold.

Cassie Bellini comes home from Milan.  She arrives in Vancouver on a sunny spring morning.  She buys a chocolate bar from a kiosk and eats it while she drags her suitcase through the airport.  She licks her fingers.  Carl Trown, the cab driver, picks up her bag and puts it in the trunk of the taxi.  She arrives at Beautiful Vista Care home, pays Carl and tips him, with cash.  Beautiful Vista is a pleasant looking building surrounded by trees.  Cassie is greeted by Emily Revere, her mother's nurse.  Cassie gives Emily a scarf, a souvenir from Milan and shows her how to wear it.  Cassie kisses her mom and sits down to help with her breakfast.  Emily says goodbye and gets on the bus to go home at the end of her shift.  She sees her friend, Alice Chow, on the bus.  Alice is a hairdresser.  Emily drops her purse and everything falls out on the floor of the bus.  Alice and another passenger, Felix Demera, help her put things back into her purse -- her lipstick, tissues, the scarf from Milan, cough drops.  Alice arrives at work at the salon.  The first thing she does is make coffee.  Janice Arkos is waiting for her, reading the Camus novel, The Plague.  Alice offers her a cup of coffee which she accepts.   Janice gives Alice a flyer for the school play ("The Masque of the Red Death") and Alice puts the flyer in the window of the shop.  Alice leads Janice to the chair and they discuss the haircut Janice wants.  Alice puts a cloak over Janice and runs her fingers through Janice's hair, wetting it.  Then I want the camera to zoom out (and the music will change to the 4th movement of the symphony) and show the town and all the characters like tiny ants moving around, coughing, touching things and then maybe a picture of the virus itself, multiplying exponentially, as if it is in space.

At each encounter, I want a close-up of how the virus might move from person to person -- like when Cassie licks her fingers, a close-up of her fingers and then a close-up of Carl's hand picking up Cassie's suitcase.

That's a sample -- obviously, as I work through it, everything is subject to change!

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