My Idea

Title : The Curse of Life

Length : 3 minutes

My film will be a series of drawings depicting the journey of a young woman. i will use non-dietetic sound (like wind) in a diegetic way, that is relevant to the image. i will also have a voice over that will be the inner monologue of the young woman, explaining how she has ended up where she is - both mentally and physically.

“Its at this point in life I start to wonder if there even is a point. why have we been sentenced to a life - if you can call it that - of heart ache, pain and cruelty. when will we be told what our penance is for; what our doings in our past lives caused us to spend, what feels like a torturous eternity, repenting for them.

if I were to know that this is what life was, and if I had a choice, eternal darkness -where senses are unnecessary- doesn't seem like the worse option. judgment and resentment are all I feel. and the constant fluctuation between what seems to be happiness, and what I know to be sadness, has become tiring. To much effort, time and energy goes into making others happy and keeping everybody else sane whilst, I myself slowly drift into madness.

 having no one and nothing at this point is more of a blessing than it would ever be a curse. all there is left to do now is embrace my desire to depart  and welcome the release of death.”

The narrative follows the young lady from her metaphorical birth (which I will depict by showing her in the fetal position), to her actual death. everything in between will be a representation of her lost faith, torturous life and loneliness. 

I have chose to draw out my short film as I want it to seem like a book, and adult fairytale. the book idea will be emphasised at the beginning, with the opening shot being of a book with the first line of the young lady's monologue written on. Also there were some shots that i wanted to include to enhance the narrative, that i would have not been able to shoot. for example i want to include a shot of a girl falling from a cliff into water.