The Sculptor [Revisited]
After realizing my previous story line was a bit too long for a 60 second script I simplified it by getting rid of the characters background story and focusing on what he is actually facing in the main duration of the script:
Sculptor who sculpts prizes for a fairground game he lives
behind in the countryside
Not many children play his game
Along comes a spoilt rich woman offering him money to sculpt her a decorative silver egg
He spends day and night making it
After making it he goes to sleep
A magpie sees the egg through the window and takes it to its nest on the top of the grounds Ferris wheel
On discovering a feather in his room he realizes it was the magpie and climbs the Ferris wheel to retrieve the egg
After getting to the magpies nest, the sculptor and the magpie wrestle for the egg and in the struggle it falls off the edge of the Ferris wheel
The rich woman who paid the sculptor happened to be walking to see him and catches egg
As they all rejoice at the wellbeing of the egg, a huge eagle flies by and grabs it straight out of the woman’s hands
They all stand frozen in astonishment
Not many children play his game
Along comes a spoilt rich woman offering him money to sculpt her a decorative silver egg
He spends day and night making it
After making it he goes to sleep
A magpie sees the egg through the window and takes it to its nest on the top of the grounds Ferris wheel
On discovering a feather in his room he realizes it was the magpie and climbs the Ferris wheel to retrieve the egg
After getting to the magpies nest, the sculptor and the magpie wrestle for the egg and in the struggle it falls off the edge of the Ferris wheel
The rich woman who paid the sculptor happened to be walking to see him and catches egg
As they all rejoice at the wellbeing of the egg, a huge eagle flies by and grabs it straight out of the woman’s hands
They all stand frozen in astonishment
Imaginative - but your fairground isn't really being used is it? It's just a place in which the stuff happens and the whole 'sculptor making an egg trophy' doesn't feel like anything I recognise in terms of actual behaviour.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens if your sculptor is a sculptor of waxworks - often found in Fairgrounds and carnivals? That sounds like a more logical combination of those two components at least...
The Fairground is used: he lives in it (in a caravan), works in it, sculpts prizes for it, its where the menacing magpie lives
ReplyDeletemaybe the spoilt rich woman was a bit bogus though so i'll try and see what I can come up with that sounds more feasible