Wednesday, 19 November 2014

"Description of a scene" exercise

As I said in a previous post this exercise helped me to work out some of the fine details of an important scene. What I wrote down is below.


Column 1
Description of scene

Duncan and Eric are sitting at a small table. Eric is reading a comic book, Duncan is strumming at his guitar (attempting to play Full Colour World from Comic Book: the movie). Duncan looks a little twitchy and keeps looking at his phone, Eric doesn't notice.
Duncan's phone receives a message, it beeps a few times before Duncan looks at it. When he does he sighs angrily and puts the phone back on the table without answering. This is when Eric looks up from his comic.
He asks what the problem was and Duncan tells him that some random girl has been texting him for a few days. Duncan shows Eric the message and Eric recognises the name of the girl, telling Duncan that he clearly does know her as she's listed in his contacts.
Eric tells Duncan she works in the bar they went to for Ambers birthday. Duncan question how Eric knows this and says that he's gone to the bar with out Duncan a few times.

Column 2
Specific detail from the scene

Duncan is attempting to play the song "Four Colour World" from Comic Book: the Movie. The song is about how the singer can't understand why they love the person they are singing to.
The song was chosen because this is the scene where it is revealed that Duncan has been cheating on Amber, his girlfriend, and so we don't know if he is singing about Amber or the girl who has been texting him.
Eric suddenly becomes suspicious of Duncan's reaction to him knowing who Lindsay Island begins to think and begins to think Duncan is cheating on Amber. He doesn't know how long this has been happening though.

Column 3
Context of the scene

Takes place in present day. The characters in the scene are both students and are living in student accommodations. Duncan is on a music course and Eric is on an animation course.
Takes place two months after Amber and Duncan get together, but shows that he doesn't really care about their relationship as he has been cheating on her for two weeks and has talked to Amber less and less during that time. Amber on the other hand has become unhappy because her so call 'boyfriend' is not texting her or even talking to her.

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