This is our original plan, however, we may extended on it:
"The short
begins in a suburban home, showing a child playing in the (living room?) – The camera
will pan round to show the full setting. Using cross-cutting editing, we will
show a figure walking the streets at night – this enigmatic framing/lighting
will raise questions. The doorbell will then ring, where we will have an adult/parent
open the door; revealing that the figure is a babysitter. Using an OTS shot,
the babysitter will show their black carrier-bag with the line “I bought
dinner.”
The next scene
will show the babysitter preparing the ‘food’. Using restricted narrative, we
the audience will just see; large knives covered in a red liquid, washing their
hands, and scrubbing away anything that looks like narrative. This is where we
will use thriller conventions to indicate that there has been a murder. The kid
will however keep interrupting this scene by asking questions like: “What’s for
dinner?”, “What time am I going to bed?”, “Can I watch TV?”
The babysitter will unnervingly
answer the questions, still looking as though they are hiding something. They
say they are preparing ribs for themselves, and offers the kid tomato soup.
We
will then cut to the child lying on the floor, looking innocent in lightly
(pink, white, pastels etc.) coloured pyjamas. In contrast to their innocence,
the child will maliciously draw dark pictures in a journal/book. The child
attempts to show the babysitter the drawing, where she looks physically shocked.
The babysitter brushes it off and just says that dinner is served. They both
sit at the table, and this is where the audience will believe the babysitter is
innocent. For the very last scene, we were considering having an eyeball
rolling round the soup, looking up at the end. To close the film, we would have
a harsh vignette closing in around the eyeball. For added effects, we are
hoping to learn basic animation to possibly make the eye wink/blink."
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