Fiction Adaptation Film: Draft 1

Visual Sound Duration

E/LS (establishing) TRACK shot of Sun set
over village. Fade into...
On London fell a clearer light;
Caressing pencils of the sun
00:00 - 00:05
C/U of female writing poem (have white
rose on her) (present tense)

Defined the distances, the white

00:06 - 00:09
E/CU of her writing one by one (archive
of war flashback, parallel to one by one)
Houses transfigured one by one 00:10 - 00:15
F/BACK (sepia). Husband and wife walking
along wide street, holding hands walk past
camera into a L/S.
The long, unlovely street, impearled. 00:16 - 00:20
(present tense) L/S of her walking alone
(start from impearled), same street
without husband
O what a sky has walked the world! 00:21 00:25
(present) C/U of female writing poem (as if
she is reminiscing)
Most happy year! And out of town 00:29 00:33
F/BACK. Laying with husband on field.
M/LS of them laughing + talking. End with
still shot
The hay was prosperous, and the wheat: 00:30 00:34
(present) GRAPHIC MATCH last still shot.
Zoom out to show it now as picture, until
you see females face.
L/A C/U of her smiling (reaction to looking
at the picture)
C/U Stroke the picture frame (made of silk
if possible?)
The silken harvest climbed the down:

00:35 00:39
C/U Stroke the picture frame Moon after moon was heavenly-sweet 00:40 00:45
GRAPHIC MATCH C/U of stroking going to
her stroking her husbands army jacket
F/BACK. Moment where husband goes to
war. M/S of last goodbye hug
M/CU of husband reaching for his pocket,
pulling out the red rose
Stroking the bread within the sheaves,
Looking twixt apples and their leaves
00:46 00:54
F/BACK. C/U of husbands hand giving rose
to wifes hand.
And while this rose made round her cup, 00:55 01:00
M/S L/S showing husband walk away to
go to war. Fade away as it says armies
died
The armies died convulsed. And when 01:01 01:05
(present)M/S wife sitting on table at night,
lonely. Showing darkness if possible.

This chaste young silver sun went up

01:06 01:010
C/U of her kissing her cross
O/S C/U of her fiddling with the rose
softly
F/BACK; archive of soldiers at war.
Softly, a thousand shattered men 01:11 01:16
Archive footage switching to and from the
C/U of the rose. Rose slowly beginning to
die
One wet corruption, heaped the plain,
After a league-long lob of pain.
01:17 01:26
Cont. of rose slowly dying. Transpose into
montage showing female panicking and
being paranoid. M/S hands on her head,
Flower following tender flower; and birds

01:29 01:33
M/CU her sitting down and quickly getting
back up

And berries; and benignant skies 01:34 01:39
E/CU of fear in her eyes. Made thrive the serried flocks and herds. 01:40 01:48


Fade with L/S of her anger: pushing
something off a shelf, etc.
--Yonder are men shot through the eyes.
Fade into C/U her crying on table, hiding
her face.
O/S M/S showing her cry however then
focus onto newspaper next to her + cross.
Love, hide thy face
From mans unpardonable race.
01:49 01:56
C/U of newspaper showing headline of
deaths. Dying/black rose positioned next
to headline.
Who said No man hath greater love than
this,
To die to serve his friend?
02:00 02:08
F/BACK; shot of C/U of husband handing
over the rose to his wife
So these have loved us all unto the end.
Chide thou no more, O thou unsacrificed!
02:09 02:18
Fade as the rose is handed to her into black
rose. C/U kissing rose.
The soldier dying dies upon a kiss,
The very kiss of Christ.
02:19 02:29
O/S shot putting rose on remembrance
wall. Zoom out and Fade to darkness.
02:30 02:35.
END