Final-timed Writing

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Wang Teng

June 21, 2007

Timed Writing Three

Directions: If you were to create a filmed advertisement (a "trailer"  for a movie based on The Grass-Eaters, which scene would you select? Why? Discuss ways in which you might film the scene. (100%)

I would like to choose the wagon in the story as the scene in the trailer. The reason is: 1) It just caters for the theatrical effect in a film. The scene mainly includes: A disposed wagon, a couple strangely opening and shutting the door, their sleeping in it and waking up find that it was moving. Those are just among the popular elements of the Hollywood eyeball-catching stuff. Therefore, it would surely be very attractive and make a strong impression on the audience. 2) It best summarizes the main content of the story: the moving wagon represents a kind of “thrilling experience”, which fits for what Babu behaved on the surface. However, it is sad to see two slim persons have no stable place to live and indecently try to find a wagon to live, which exactly reveals the terrible tramping life of the couple—as a reflection of the life of the poorest Indians. And that is what the story and the film are supposed to express.

If I were the director, I would film the scene in this way: First, a disposed wagon will be seen from the distance. Then the camera lens moves closer, and the audience would see the main character, Babu and Swapna, with a feature to show their appearance. Then the couple theatrically opens and shuts the door and sleep in the wagon. Then comes with what Swapna said that she did not want her baby born in a moving train. During the each “pause” in the sentence, the audience would see the moving wagon. After that, it is the lens of the couple waking up and finding that they were at a whole new place. At the end, I would like to make the camera lens moves farther with a picture of the couple eating grass by turns of the pictures of the terrible condition of India at that time as something to reveal the name and the main idea of the film.