Sunday, 14 December 2014

Ideas for first 4 scenes

Opening
A nightclub line. Eric and Duncan are out on a night out. Duncan has pulled Eric another nightclub for a couple more drinks. Eric is drunk enough already but Duncan doesn’t seem drunk at all. The reason he wanted to go into this club is because he saw a girl that he liked the look of.
They join the line and end up standing behind the girl Duncan liked. He introduces himself to her and the girl introduces herself as Amber. Eric hums to himself while they talk and ends up in the line on his own after Duncan and Amber leave the line. Eric also leaves after noticing he is on his own.

The next morning
Eric is sitting at a table nursing a hangover from hell when Duncan comes in with a massive smile on his face. He says that he got Amber’s phone number and intends to call her soon. Eric runs off to be sick in a different room giving Duncan the best time to call Amber without being disturbed. Duncan and Amber arrange to meet the next night at a local pub.

(MAY NOT USE) Several months later

Amber and Duncan have been together for a couple of months now and are really happy together. But lately Duncan has been getting the attention of another girl, Lindsay Newton, a girl who he met on a night out and somehow she got his number and keeps calling him, he agrees to meet just to set things straight. Duncan tells Eric that some random girl keeps calling her and now he has to meet her secretly. Eric suspects him of cheated on Amber. Amber questions Eric about what his conversation with Duncan was about, Eric lies and tells her it was his boss calling saying he needed to work tomorrow night.

A couple weeks later
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Thursday, 4 December 2014

Changing the death of Amber

For the last fees days I have been thinking of ways to show Amber's death on stage, ranging from filming a model that was on fire and showing on a projection screen. This wouldn't work because the main problem would be the model would need to be very realistic and I'm not good at art.

A second idea was with lighting but none of the lights in the room didn't look like they would be useful or effective at looking like fire flickering.

To solve this major problem I decided to make the death occur off stage and thought of a way that could be done effectively.
Amber dies on bonfire night, due to someone messing with fireworks causing one to smash through a window and explode in Amber bedroom, setting fire to it at the same time.
This would be the start if the un naturalistic style in the piece, as a person would come on stage with a model firework on a stick, they would be holding the stick near the rocket, 'light' a match, then push the stick away as fast as they can to make it look as if the rocket took off.

The rest of the scene would be mostly lighting effects, pre-recorded screaming and sound design, as you hear a window smash, see the rocket explode and the fire start.