Monday, February 28, 2011

O Emily...

1. TITLE CARD: 280 Main St.

2. TITLE CARD: Amherst, Massachusetts

3. TITLE CARD: 1860

4. Blinding sunlight streams through a window, shades drawn apart. Through the sunlight, trees, an enormous yard can be seen. The camera pans back, turns, to reveal a young woman, Emily (about 30), writing on small plain sheets of paper on a writing desk. She’s mid-sentence, lost in thought, looking out the window. From behind her, the bedroom door opens. She immediately covers up her writing, and turns to see her father, Edward Dickinson – a slender, tall, stately man – bald, with thinning hair. He motions for her to come out of her room. [This dialogue is only suggestive.] “Could I have a word with your for a moment, Emily?” The camera pans back to Emily – she hesitates a moment, gathers her writing, puts it under her pillow, and exits the room...

Filmed in October 2010 on a Canon Powershot 480. From a story by Greta & Ladd Wendelin.

O Captain!

1. O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

Camera cuts in as WW is walking halfway through field towards the Lincoln skyscape.



Filmed in October 2010 with a Canon Powershot A480. With Robert Stewart as Walt Whitman. Meant as a companion film to O Emily - sort of a prequel.

Flight of the Bat

1. BLACK: Chirping. A flapping of wings can be heard.

2. It’s morning, around 7 AM. Cars whisk past along a one-way street, all on their way to work. Somehow, oblivious.

3. Later the same day, B. rounds the corner of an apartment building, walking down a driveway in between two buildings. He picks up his mail, flipping through a few envelopes – nothing special today. He crosses to the stairs leading into the apartment and notices a leathery brown wing and legs sticking out from under a cinder block. A bat. He pauses for a moment...



Filmed over the course of 3 weeks in March 2010 on a Canon Powershot A480.