Below is the painting I bought in Salzburg, Austria, which lead to the idea for my graduation film.
While staring vacantly at my recently acquired art piece sitting in it's frame on my desk - wondering what story I was going to tell in my final film - looking at the place I had been but weeks before suddenly devoid of the throngs of people I began to wonder several things. The first, is what would it take for that place to be deserted at that time of day; what would it be like to be there by yourself; and what if you didn't really notice that the people were gone.
Deciding that you'd have to build some kind of imaginary world to occupy yourself, I released that it could only be a child lost in a never ending story in their head, constantly changing and evolving; shifting like the reality in dreams. But if a child is wondering around there by themsleves, were are all the adults - the child's parents in particular? And why does the child not notice?
Thus, these questions and their answers are how I came up with the story.
Overall plot (roughly):
A little girl gets into an accident when she is nine years old that leaves her in a vegetative state for nearly a decade. While she is asleep, she plays and occupies her time in a world inspired by the picture above, denying all other possibility for existence, just her in her world where it is never day nor night. But because it has been so long, she is beginning to question the world she has encased herself in. With the doctors on the outside trying to shut down her machines, will she manage to find the way out before it's to late?
Yes, probably.
