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.