Short Film - General Notes

Girl leading incredibly dull life - victimized by her family and peers. Retreats to world in her imagination. After a succession of bad luck she undergoes a transformation forsaking her original fantasies for those which are much darker; ultimately leading to her downfall.



Scene 1
Rainbows in the Dark
Tilly and the Wall
Dream sequence - nice
She (stop frame?) is a princess with her subjects who are all stop-frame animals and people dressed in fancy dress.
There is a wizard!
- Wizard says: 'Thank you Princess Jane! For restoring our Kingdom to its former glory, you shall live happily ever after!'
-Everyone standing around awkwardly - cocktail party
EITHER everyone is stop-frame
OR only the animals are stop-frame and we get people to dress up etc

Scene 2
Silence
Wakes up in an empty room
The room has an incredibly neglected air - other peoples junk etc - small attempts at brightening it
Goes downstairs to find parents (and brother?) already having breakfast in a minimalistic(?) kitchen - staring at table
No one greets her
Cut to her sitting at table with parents
Panning shot past her face to a big party and round again to reality
Birds eye shot of empty bowl - mother splodges porridge into it
Smiley face in porridge
P.O.V. shot - Mother hands her an envelope
she opens it - inside is a scrap of paper with 'Happy Birthday' scrawled onto it
She leaves the house - cue music
Scenic World
Beirut
OR
*Section 12 (Hold Me Now)
Polyphonic Spree
Drab streets she walks through fill with her fantasy - singing, dancing, giving her flowers etc

When she enters the school there is silence. She walks into the classroom and sits down.


Scene 3
Title Sequence
Meaningless
The Magnetic Fields
She wanders through the school with credits appearing on everyday objects
T-shirt
Dan's poster
Converse
Graffiti
Carved into a tree
Blackboard/whiteboard
School meal - chips
Stationary
Flute case - Ollie
CD's

Starts with a pan-up from her desk
Overhead and behind shot of students
Everyone is grey but her
P.O.V. shot - teacher shouting and pointing at the board
'Directed by Kirsty Judge and Joanna Graham'
Girl - deadpan expression
P.O.V. of desk w/ claymation animals
She is doing a detailed drawing of the boy in front
The drawing smiles and winks at her

Scene 4
In class she reads out her story
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Grandaddy
Deadpan reaction from class and teacher
As leaving house, guys asks her to hang back
She imagines him asking to marry her - dressed for a wedding
Oh My Love
John Lennon
He says something mean - girls giggle and say "Josh, that was mean!"
Shrink and crush effect - stop frame

Scene 5
Other bad things

Scene 6
Gets home to find many post-it notes on the door - does them
About to leave kitchen - finds another one

Scene 7
Dan comes out of poster and sings
Les Jours Tristes
Yann Tiersen
dances around, spins her - almost kiss?
half-way through mother walks in and snatches poster off wall
Music cuts out - Dan flickers out

Transformation scene
You and Me and Rainbows
The Tear Garden
As she changes, all her plasticene friends are blown back in a ripple effect and melt
She leaves the house - on the way down the stairs she sees a plasticene animal and squishes it

Scene 8
Party scene
Flux
Block Party
As she enters the party she flickers from full out Red Indian war outfit to normal
Party goes badly
Leaves, gets boy to drive her home
Finds Dan on floor, drunk (because she is) flickering
Flickering images/montage of plasticene friends and various depressing stuff
Poster back on wall with a post-it on it saying 'Sorry - We need to talk'
'We need to talk' - spoken by mother, Dan, teacher, plasticene friends etc
Trashes room/house

She sits on her pavement and he sits down beside her and offers her a polo - he waited



Scene 9
Back at party
Kids at party find her dictaphone and a way to play it out across the party
MEANWHILE
they go to a roof - boy parks
meanwhile she sets up - lighting candles etc
plasticene people are back
she considers jumping
With or Without You
Keane
cut to party
laughing - about to set it up
cut back
boy comes back - they talk
a) something goes wrong and she falls
b) they're messing around - she falls
cut to party in silence and slow motion
girl and boy talking over the top
he catches her arm
'Don't let go'

Gardener's Delight
Joanna Graham