Scene 1:
Location: Whistling Woods
Scope: Black and White, low frame rate
The focus is set in black and white (with distortions giving a vintage effect) on the luminous sight of the sky and the clouds hovering by and gradually moves on to the institute building with the students and faculty piling in and guests lolling about. The engagement of the human activity is shown through a slight jerky and archaic footage with major distortions (white spots and lines) till the camera deliberately pans right and focuses on a single individual who is mopping the floor.
Transition is shown through a deliberate err in editing where the screen blacks out for a second or half till the next scene
Scene 2:
Location: A & D Wing
Scope: Black and White, mediocre frame rate
The camera focuses on the man mopping the floor with a dull look on his face till a waltz number begins and his face perks up. He listens to the music with intent and then looks at the mop and bucket and continues with his work. Only this time he slowly starts dancing with the mop while indulging with the work. His little number becomes more and more romantic, as if the mop were an imaginary woman till he tips it and comes back with only one hand on the mop and the other in the air. He turns and slips, the mop drops and clatters to the floor.
Scene 3:
Location: A & D wing
Scope: Black and White, Increased frame rate
The man comes into the frame in an attempt to catch his balance. As soon as he does he notices the sudden change in his environment and he takes a look at himself. He finds himself dressed in waist high trousers, suspenders and hat and says something but is barely audible. He tries again till he says something obviously silly and then laughs as he realizes he can speak but there is no sound coming from his lips, instead he gives up and claps his hand to initiate a burst of sound in polka/ clarinet instrumental and does a silly jig. He tries to spin around and this time he finds a small red rose in the backdrop, whose red sparkles against the black and white back drop and he picks it up with a shy look in his eye.
Scene 4
Location: A & D Wing to Recreation Room
Scope: Technicolor
The footage shudders and the man thinks he is in and earthquake till he finds ground and balance and he sees himself without a warning in a Technicolor frame and looks at himself with an audible “aha!” He looks around at his surrounding and hears a small romantic tune playing in the distance.
Alternative 1:
See’s a woman in the distance wearing white/ blue and attempts a romantic interlude by handing her the red rose. They hold each other and he looks her in the eye, till she turns and in a dramatic mood throws her face in her hand and with the other pushes him away. He turns dejected and notices a door with the quote “Exit” and walks through it.
Alternative 2:
Hears the tune and follows it till he reaches a door (recreation room) and knocks on it with a romantic look in the eye. Instead of the door opening, there is another knock on the other side. He knocks again to hear another knock in reply. He knocks musically, to get another musical reply… till he bursts through the door.
Scene 5:
Location: Recreation Room
Scope: Eastman Chrome tone
He finds himself at the billiards table with the sound of jazz, and the footage mostly continues with shots of cigarette in hand, smoke twirling in the air, the clink of whisky tumblers and the activity of the billiards with emphasized focus on the pocket balls flying helter and skelter with a cue break, and the obvious passing of the gave with a few frames devoted to the roll of the red ball towards the pocket and the cue ball hitting the 8.
Scene 6:
Location: A & D Wing
Scope: Eastman Color.
Coming out of the room, the man walks back down with a simple smile as he forgets about his earlier activity and the wet floor, till he slips and falls hard to the floor.
Scene 7
Location: A & D Wing
Scope: True Resolution
Finding himself on the floor, the man is shown rising to the sound of inspirational music and finds himself rising back in his overalls and reaches the mop to look around at the true resolution. He goes back to work, the camera focuses on him and slowly focuses out spanning in a few seconds as the credits start rolling.
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