So me and a friend of mine have a pact to make a short film together so I gotta get brainstorming. So far I have...a title and a general premise. I like the title and will not change it :P . Some of this is copy and pasted from my first brainstrom.
Alone in the Moonlight
- About dementia
- Dreamscape
- Images to include
- In a rocking chair by the window (maybe looking at moon?)
- Post-it notes with different reminders, repeated, with shaky handwriting
- Caretaker appearing and vanishing in different places in the room
- Child appearing and vanishing on couch
- Seasons seeming to change constantly (or maybe not at all though the calendar has changed)
- Half-read books (as shown by bookmarks or books left open)
- Half-done crosswords
- Clutter
- Clothes
- Newspaper
- Charging cables
- Glasses (maybe blurry shots when lost?)
- Half-eaten trays of food
- Mirror
- The moon (maybe opening and closing shot?)
- Scenes to include
- Walking in the snow in slippers
- Maybe in leaves if we shoot in the fall or just outside depending on the weather
- Repeated questions
- Who are you? Why are you here? (to the caretaker)
- Why are you talking this way? (to the child)
- What do you do? (to the child)
- What's wrong with me? (to the child)
- Muffled responses?
- Caretaker and child tidy
- Maybe questions happen during this time
- Calling someone the wrong name
- Could show by slight disappointment on face and/or calling the person the correct name at another time
- Child of main character
- Concerned
- Tries to be patient
- Tidies out of anxiety
- A little prim
- Less present than caretaker
- Looks a bit frazzled at times
- Hair awry
- Rumpled clothes
- Caretaker
- Kind
- Patient
- Respectful
- Insistent
- Tidy (in both manner and action)
- Wears uniform (assuming we can get scrubs or something of the kind) but accessories and hairstyle change to demonstrate change of time
- Accessories: hair clips, shoes, hair scrunchie, headband, jewelry
- Main character
- has dementia (maybe hint at cause being alcohol during scenes with repeated questions?)
- male (I could easily be swayed female) [maybe this will just depend on who we can cast lol]
- short term memory very bad
- has better memory of things long ago
- still knows who child is (assuming we have this character)
- still tries to do mental things like read books and do crosswords
- wears glasses, but loses them
- most of film is from their POV
(Prompt by me but also kind of Amelia Sacco)
"Helen Taft, May Allison (LOC)" posted by The Library of Congress
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