Here are the ideas that we worked on during the acting class with Dan. We focussed mainly on 'The Wrong Response to Death'. These are just quickly written out for now and we will work further on specific movements and a more resolved script outside of class.
The Wrong Response
to Death:
Granny sitting in
her living room, fussing over tea set, seat and photo album.
Pan around to see
Death approaching the door and then knocking ominously.
Granny rushes to
answer door and after a small pause adjusts her glasses.
Death raises a
finger to point, very close to grannies forehead.
Pause.
Granny grabs Death's
hand and kisses it, before fussing over him.
She grabs Death's
scythe and rushes off screen to place it next to the chair she was fussing over
earlier.
She returns and
beckons Death inside, tottering around him in a circle, exclaiming over his
height, he seems annoyed.
She then stares up
at him expectantly.
CUT
Granny showing Death
the photo album, he holds a cup of tea and seems very bored.
CUT
Granny putting a
blanket over death, he looks aggravated, incredulous.
Granny turns out the
light and totters off.
END
The Wrong Response
to a Kisscam:
A kisscam is pointed
at a man and a woman at a football game.
The man looks
hopeful and turns to kiss the woman, the crowd around them leans in
anticipating.
Pause.
Instead of kissing
the man the woman bursts out laughing.
He looks hurt and
she continues to laugh, the crowd are shocked.
CUT
The woman is
laughing so hard she slips off her seat.
The man shrinks in
on himself and the crowd are mostly focused on the game, with one or two people
glancing at the not-couple.
The woman pulls
herself back on the seat, fanning herself, she calms down and turns to look at
the man.
Small pause.
She starts laughing
again, the man looks dismayed.
CUT
It is now dark and
everyone but the man and the woman has left.
She is still
laughing.
The man gets out of
his seat and edges away.
The woman continues
to laugh.
END
The Wrong Response
to a Hair Disaster:
A woman sits at the
hairdressers with a hair drying helmet on, reading a magazine.
There are other
women around her, dressed in drab clothes, some have rollers in their hair.
The hairdresser
comes and starts to remove the helmet and she puts her magazine down, seeming
excited.
CUT
The helmet comes off
and there is a huge frizzy mess underneath, it is very unlike any of the other
hairstyles in the room.
The hairdresser
looks mortified and the other customers are sneering and shocked.
The woman seems
ready to explode.
CUT
She shoots her arms
out and exclaims with joy! She becomes very colourful.
She dances around
with happiness as everyone else looks confused.
She shakes the
worried hairdressers hand and bounces about.
END
We also have an idea that is set at an Art Gallery and a dead insect on the wall being mistaken for art, but this was not fleshed out as much, I have written out my interpretation of this idea, but don't yet have a title.
The Wrong Response
to '???':
A janitor is
sweeping at an art gallery.
He sees a mosquito
and chases it around, through the guests and art, eventually splatting it
against an empty space on the wall.
He looks at the mess
and tries to scrape it off but just smudges it so it is bigger.
He steps back
worried as someone comes along and stares at the dead insect, but they just nod
at it and move along.
CUT
There is now a large
crowd around the 'art', taking notes and photos, murmuring excitedly.
The janitor has
returned with some cleaning supplies, he edges through the crowd to get to the
insect.
CUT
The janitor
awkwardly cleans away the mess and there is pause as he stares at the crowd and
they stare it him.
The crowd then
bursts into applause, thinking that this was all part of the 'art'.
END
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