Logistics and Breakdown of Script

3 actors required: girl, mother and father

Girl: 17 scenes; about 8.5 minutes
Mom and dad: 5 scenes; about 3 minutes

about 5 locations: house (exterior, kitchen, bedroom, living room, sunroom, dining room), apartment, beach, church, car (city and country both shot from car)

special effects: green screen for mirror scene

"special costumes": church attire, casual attire, beach attire

props: mirror, luggage, birds, dog

Location: photos posted below of church and house. I do not have a map of the church, but below is posted the map of the house as well as it's lighting sources. The beach and car scenes will be sunlit.

Days of shoot: approx. 5 (not including pickups)

Saturday 3/12: apartment, car/ driving sequence, and kitchen; early morning, afternoon, sunset, and night - Actor: girl
Sunday 3/13: parent's house - kitchen and sunroom flashback scenes; afternoon, kitchen sound effect of mother's voice during dinnertime; Actors: Mom and Dad
Monday 3/14: living room, dining room (if birds need to be reshot), bedroom; afternoon and night; Actor: girl
Tuesday 3/15: beach; early morning; Actors: girl, Mom and Dad
Wednesday 3/16: church; afternoon (2-3 pm); Actors: Mom, Dad, and girl
Thursday 3/17: pickups in house, or reshoots; all day; Actors: Mom, Dad and girl
Saturday 3/19: pickups in car and apartment or reshoots; all day; Actor: girl

Contact:
Church: 843-884-4612

Breakdown of Script:

Apartment scene: establishes the main character, her habits and where she lives, and that she is going on a trip
Car scene: establishes how far she is going and a change in mood from a crowded city to more open spaces and a more historic community

Parent's house scene: contrasts her apartment with lots of open spaces and emptiness as well as the past with the present. Her parents are not there to greet her like they did before, and she is on her own

Kitchen scene: shows how she must take care of herself now, and how the "warmth" of her parent's presence is gone. She feels out of place coming home now.

Dining room scene: she finds the birds that are her responsibility and the reason she came to take care of the house. Like the birds, she was trapped in her apartment and must reconcile with these open, empty spaces that are no longer like her home.

Bedroom scene: she is still a traveler with her bags, and her childhood bedroom is no longer a place of comfort but more like a place to look at neatly placed relics. Sitting on the bed, which used to be comfortable, draws her back to the church.

Church scene: again she returns to a place she used to frequent in the past with her parents. She remembers them there through a home video and how she used to belong. She is alone there now and it is just an old empty space, but she has to figure out what has changed since it was the same as she remembered it. She goes through the front doors like one does in a dream, opening to a bright light and appearing into a new scene.

Beach scene: another place that she would frequent with her parents, the beach is a place to enjoy, but now it has become a place for her to contemplate. She sees her parents again in a home video memory, this time walking ahead of her. There is a sense of distance now. She sits alone and thinks.

Living room scene: she sits on the burgundy couch "looking into her past" so to speak as she imagines another home video while staring into the sunroom (facing the living room where she is sitting).

Sunroom: a home video of her parents, her father playing and the loud dog contrasting with her mother's quiet demeanor. This is how she remembers each of them. It is brightly lit, but shot like a home video so it is both real and dream-like.

Dining room: she feels now she is able to confront these birds after reconciling that it is actually herself that has become different. She tests the bird, it comes out and flies away like she did by moving away, but then returns to it's cage by instinct.

Bedroom: she now comes into the bedroom, but unable to sleep in the cleanly made bed, she approaches the mirror and truly confronts herself. It becomes a kind of out-of-body experience where she is truly able to see herself from the outside, but she also finds that she has been in control this whole time, both actor and observer. With this realization, change becomes possible.

Her parent's serve not only as a memory but also childhood comfort.