New Story & Storyboards

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The Story

Part One: The film starts with an extreme close up focused on a child’s eyes. The eyes are searching or studying something intently. The next shot is an extreme close up of the eyes of a porcelain doll. Coupling these shots will contrast the life in the child’s eyes with the inanimate eyes of the doll. The camera pulls out to a close up of the face of Anna as she continues to study her doll. Her hand comes up to the doll’s face and tentatively fixes the doll’s hair. Suddenly a shadow falls across Anna and her doll. The child looks up to see a figure silhouetted in the door frame. The figure is the child’s mother who beckons to the girl. When she reaches her mother, the mother grooms the child in a manner similar to how the girl groomed her doll. The gesture is mechanical and without affection. Behind the mother there is the sound of a faint waltz and people socializing. The mother presents the child with a beautiful music box, again in a manner that reveals their remote relationship. Anna stares at the twirling figures dancing in the music box. Enamoured she reaches for it but the mother snaps the lid shut and raises the music box out of reach. The mother leaves, shutting the door behind her, leaving the girl alone and in silence. Cut to black.

Part Two: Mimicking the spinning motion of the music box figurines in the previous shot, the camera circles Anna as she is having a tea party with the china doll established in part one. The camera is spinning in time to the waltz originally heard behind the Mother in the first act. At first it is just Anna and her doll having tea, surrounded by vacant seats. Yet every time the camera circles, a new doll occupies a once empty spot. The waltz becomes faster and more askew as more and more dolls encompass Anna. Anna appears not to notice the dolls and the scene ends as she places her tea cup on a plate.

Part Three: Anna is once again studying her doll when she suddenly hears music. Confused she looks in the direction of the sounds. Confusion quickly turns to excitement as she recognizes the tune from the music box. Anna heads towards the music leaving her doll on the floor. As she crosses the room her shadow falls across her doll collection as they silently watch her. Anna arrives at the vanity where the music box is place. Watching the figures dance around and around, Anna once again reaches out to touch them only to find the music box is just out of grasp. As she strains her fingers the music box begins to wind down. Anna’s movement start to stiffen and become jerky. Just as she is about to reach the figurines, the music box stops and Anna freezes. Stiff as a board Anna falls to the ground. The camera moves to an extreme close up of Anna’s eyes. Lifeless dolls eye stare outwards as the camera pulls away to reveal Anna’s transformation into a porcelain doll.