This week I sorted out the story and wrote it down, organising the logic and counting the time and frames.
Firstly, I organised the story roughly as the boy came home from a hard night’s work, saw the bear on the table and was about to take it in his arms and sit down together on a chair to rest, but missed his seat and fell to the ground and went into a dream. In the dream he becomes a bear playing in the forest, resting, enjoying the freedom of his dream and lying comfortably on the grass. When he wakes up again he is back in the real world and he sits up and touches the bear like he is getting closer to the freedom he wants to live.
Secondly, I wanted to show through this film that the life of a modern working person is too boring and tedious, with little time for rest. As a human being, I long for a free and unfettered life. But in today’s society this life exists in a dream. When I open my eyes, I have to go back to work.
This is what I did in the first week, to put the story together and to sort it out, and the above version is my final script for the short film. Again, there are some details of the story that were dropped.
For example.
- his passage to the dream world.
Wearily he sat down at the table and slumped over and passed out.
He collapsed on his bed and fell asleep hugging his bear.
He tripped over an obstacle on his way home and fell to the floor and passed out. - In a dream.
Bear turns into a big bear in his dream and lets him rest on top of him.
The bear talks and moves in his dream, exploring the forest and having adventures with him. (Reference to Alice in Wonderland)
The hero enters the bear’s world and explores the forest alone eventually finding the bear’s house and playing with him.
Turn into a bear and adventure in the forest. - Return to reality.
He wakes up to the sun.
He gets up, looks at his watch and realises that it is time to go to work and then drags his heavy body to work.
He walks happily because he is relaxed in his dream. (Not enough time)
This is the planning of all the pre-determined stories and details I have made this week.