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Narrative ideas - UNTITLED

CONCEPT 1.

the first concept will be a Sri Lankan based story. Since the competition is for Sinhalese. Going with a Sri Lankan story will impact more and relate with our audience. There will be no Sinhala dialogues though. Themes displayed : melancholy, Tragedy.

synopsis of story: tragic life of a homeless women.

inspired by: idk bro i see alotta beggars everywhere. Also to experiment with visual story telling in 2D cus yes.

What i wanna convey in the film: flex my abilities, To give a understanding of the bad ending that can happen to a beggar who is not successful.

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World setting:

The story takes place in present time Sri Lanka.

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Character setting:

Main character: A old homeless women.

Side characters: MC's mother. (faceless)

Background characters: -Teenagers (students and casuals) -Adults (with jobs and casual ones) -Doctors and nurses

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Unofficial Narrative idea:

part 1:

The story hits off by showing a normal sunny day around 11am in Sri Lanka and then directed at a group of teenagers having fun (background characters) walking towards a supermarket. Match cut of drowning water. From there the MC is introduced idle, sitting under a tree taking cover from the sun in the car park next to the pavement and selling items (matchsticks, Incense, small items used in Buddhist preaching). Also seen scratching her feet while looking at the ground to show boredom match cut with water drowning again to emphasize her drowning metaphorically.

cuts to her eyes that look very tired and lifeless and then dry lips moving. She stares at the teenagers and then at a car that is reversing to park in the parking zone.

The MC blinks and then changes to her perspective from her eye's perspective. Mc's hands are seen scratching lightly revealing a very malnutrition and thin physique. Her hands are also sort of shivers. She then starts fidgeting with her fingers. (to emphasize on the dry skin.) While still in her perspective, With the slow take a surprise element happens. A hand with a bill of 20rs appears in front of her, The mc takes the bill and reaches out to get a pack of wicks however as soon as she looks at the stranger, He is walking away. In gratitude the women prays while holding the bill (still in her perspective).

cuts to wide shot of this scene.

She goes back to sitting idly. Match cut with a cycle of the same wide shot in different timelines. 1st cut she is seen selling items day time 2nd cut she is seen feeding a stray cat. day time with questionable weather 4th final cut is a day time but with heavy rain. She is seen taking cover under a roof in the car park.

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part 2:

while taking cover in the rain. the wide shot camera is interrupted by person's silhouette walking outside of the supermarket. The camera transitions from the wide shot to a close up of the MC. the women is seen shivering. Her eyes start wavering and she feels dizzy and falls down. black screen. Close shot of her opening her eyes. MC is is confused and shocked, looks around a bit and finds herself surrounded in a neutral white empty space. The camera as she looks around changes to her eye''s perspective. As it goes around a white figure appears who looks like her mother. In immediate surprise the mc runs towards the mother. In the process she slowly gets younger. once close enough the mc hugs the mother in her now child form. close shot on the face of the mc's lips saying something and smiling. With this melancholy scene at its highest , match cut to a close shot of the present old mc's lips which looks dead. The mc is dead laying on a bed in a general public hospital.

da end :D

Number of scenes: 3 Assumed duration: may exceed 55 seconds.

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