MEET 6pm at West Mall aka Bukit Batok MRT station control.
1) injury scene
2)kitchen/balcony scene
SCRIPT
She sits down on the couch, front view. She begins to mug and looks up for a while./
In view of frame behind shoulder. She sees the photo frame and then at him in the balcony . Sparked her curiousity./
She puts down the pen. View of close up./
A How we film: 2 cameras following the 2 people talk
B Close up parts with mouth
C Close up parts with no audio
From view of frame close-up front, we see her reflection and she touches it./
"You must be really upset." she says loud from that view./
"Huh?" from view in the kitchen where he takes up from drawer. He pauses to wonder if she was talking to him. She replies and he looks on./
"Your mum, you must have been really close to her?"
He smiles in reminiscence. "She had always been the one there for me since my dad passed away when I was 8... I was really sad she passed but now I'm okay. I concentrate on my work now." He says as he places cup on table and pours it out.
"Oh...what do you work as?”
“Hmm. I am a transcriber for an online news agency... Just, you know...stay at home and transcribe stuff interviews and articles. (laughs) It's crazy.” he finishes the pouring and brings the drink back into fridge. "Well at least with the advancement of technology these days, i don't have to see my boss face to face. That is a consolation."/
Cheryl laughs. "Well I hope it pays you well. That is all that matters these days isn't it? Good education, good job, good pay. I am graduating this summer, really trying hard to get a first class honors. The society is so competitive nowadays, it is important that i have the edge when i get out to the real world."
"That is true. But my job gets really dry. I don't really get to talk to anyone when I'm working. The only human voices i get to hear nowadays are from the transcripts." (chuckles, he pours finish the drink.)
"You're actually the first person I had a decent conversation in a long time you know?" as he takes the cup and walks off frame./
"Are you serious?"
“Yea.” he says distracted.( when he is out of the kitchen and walks to her in the balcony.)
He brought a large cup of drink for her at the balcony. She smiles at him but he doesn't notice. The text 'It was a cold drink but it warmed her heart.' is on the cup. Camera turns away oddly and quickly to bring us to colour./
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
We Landscape brings us to the view of the 2 back to back. She seems to sense something, turns to face him. 'Eric' she mouths in zoom, it echos to reality.../
Part 4-Talking Gets Personal
“Eric?” her mouth as well./
"Yar?"/
“You...ever had a girlfriend before?” back view sihouette./
Front view of 2. “Erm...” He chuckled and looked down with a smile. It was then that she realized the inappropriate nature of her question in the conversation./
After an awkward while for the both of them, he managed to murmur a “I met this girl online once, but it didn't work out.”/
back view, ''Oh..how come?' concerned./
"I guess,(pause) it just wasn't real enough." forced smile/
Eric looked back to the outside. Suddenly the flat was a void to Eric and he could feel the emptiness of its corners. Wide view of the emptiness as he stood alone in the balcony. Awkward Silence and empathic expression from Cheryl that leads into illusion./
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
Camera pans full circle, Close of dude then back to girl removing blindfolds. Cameraman in the middle . Cut back to exact same emphatic expression. Her blindfold is removed and looks at him with understanding. She reaches out to him with hand. He turns head sideways, recognizing a presence./
He smiles back at her. "So...what about you?"/
"No la, too busy..."She said lying too./
"No one in your university you fancy?"/
"Nope. Studies is my priority now."/
There was a silence. She placed the cup down and began wrenching her ankle which still stung from the fall on the way home./
“Are you okay?” he said genuinely concerned, walking to her./
“I fell.” she looks up at him./
PART 5-SILENT/WHISPERY PART
(SILENT SCENE)
He looks at the wound and walks off. Ambiguous in intent./
Girl looks as he walks off. She winced at a sudden jolt of pain caused by her own wrenching./
From back view,foreground boy, focus: girl. he returns with a box where he took out some bandage and lotion./
She was still in pain. He sat next to her on the right. She turned to him and propped her left leg on his lap./
He opened the pouch. He dabbed purple liquid on the affected area and wrapped cloth on her ankle. He smoothed the wrinkles on the tape out slowly. He watched her to see if he is hurting her. She is silent for a while./
She lunged forward, a silent wince. View of the 2 first, then on the arm as she grabbed his arm, wincing from the pain. A feeling of closeness affects him seen through the close up of his face from arm./
“Sorry...” He whispered./
“No it's me.” She whispered back. She fell back again onto the couch. Her hand loosened and slowly slid off his. He gripped her palm just before it left his And their hands that held settled down comfortably on the couch.
There was a long silence as he continued to bandage the area. We see him see her. He is more careful this time. We see him look at her as she lay on the couch. A woman so close to him now. He forgot about the wound he was fixing as he admired how her hair flopped like frozen ocean waves on the couch. Her face read a beautiful grin.Camera moves to his face for awhile./
“Cheryl... Maybe someone might have came home already maybe you can go check,'' he said without looking at her. Because there was no reply, he looked at her, "Cheryl?”/
She shifts listlessly obviously not listening. He realized she was comfortably lying back on the couch eyes closed and slightly smiling. He looks at her. Camera moves off her face to brighter blank wall.../
LOCATION 1: Chinese Garden Field
From sky down, we see that he removes his blindfold. He smiles from view behind her. She smiles from view behind him. Camera moves behind her head and into the darkness of the hair, follow up darkness of the next scene.../
View of the window, Dark furniture due to setting sun, camera pans to window, the sky should be a deep purple against the red setting sun./
We see a closeness of the two people, a sense of comfort from being together that evening. Maybe how skins of both of them in one frame at many parts./
We see his face looking out at a distant. A slight satisfaction and comfort can be seen from him. Probably from a level ground birds eye view./
In view of his back, we see him look out of the window. Camera pans to window and light brightens out everything, bringing us to the illusion.../
Credits-
Duality of objects seen before.
Eg. 2 toothbrushes
2 cups
2 pairs of shoes outside.