Screenplay basic ideas and scenes (C)

introduction;

• lying on a pink silk bedsheet, only see her lips - close up.

Kitchen;

• in the kitchen - she drinks coffee and watches him from the other side (female gaze), there is a visible distance between the two, in the background there are several coffee cups and a calendar with several red crosses and a moon to symbolise lack of sleep.
• chiaroscuro focusing on eyes and the mind.
• sleepless nights, cold blue lighting on her, camera gets closer and closer, extreme close up, suffocating, jerks head to the right, romantic pink lighting on the mannequin.
• include items that have to do with sleep. (dream catchers??)
• romantic pink lighting, shadows on the wall, narration recalls a night with Mr Sleep, almost like she's longing for a lover.
• long shots that seem to drag - almost dreamlike or like you're half awake. ( dragging the shutter)
• combination of sudden movements? - restlessness.
• ideally want mix of passive and active spectatorship

Mr Sleep scene:

• narration throughout the whole scene about meeting someone, let her smoke and drink and then took her home and put her to bed.
• walks onto scene with a drink and a cigarette and stand opposite the mannequin, she is wearing a long black dress and the mannequin wears a black coat.
• as the narration goes on she gets closer to the mannequin - keeps long angle shot and pink lighting, filmed from the side so their shadows are larger and displayed on the wall behind them.
• switch to a close up of her own arm through the jacket caressing her.
• back to long angle shot, reaches the mannequin and throws her arms around the "neck"
• switch to an extreme close up of her mouth smiling against the mannequins face. 
• low Jazz is playing throughout the scene, like detective style.
• switch to a close up of her sleeping on a silk sheet
• an extreme close up of the camera panning down the side of her face 
• back to the scene where she is being caressed by her hand. 
• the narrative ends.

technical: 

• pink lighting - wrap a pink piece of plastic round or place in front of a light to get this effect, it should look dreamy and romanticised.
• blue lighting - achieve this through the same method using plastic, this should have the opposite effect and make it colder and hopefully create an effect of loneliness and solitude.
• the entire set will remain in one house, or perhaps remain in the bedroom so that it emphasises that's woman life revolves around sleep, the fact that the blanket will be pink will also exaggerate that romanticism of sleep.
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