KAHORYAO STORY - DREAMS

The story is about dreams. A man lives in dreams; he travels from one dream to another dream using ‘Dreamcatcher’ as the portal. The man steals dreams and replaces them with nightmares. He does so for has been cursed to do this.

The thoughts I would like to evoke in the viewers minds: The helplessness of not being in control, the idea of the unexplainable things. Etc. I want the scenes to be dark.

A dreamcatcher the inanimate form of the word for "spider", is a handmade object based on a willow hoop, on which is woven a loose net or web. The dreamcatcher is then decorated with personal and sacred items such as feathers and beads.

Characters: 1. The protagonist is human in general, and in the story it is represented by a  young man.                   

                      2. The antagonist is a character that exists only in dreams. He is an old man.

                      3. The third character is a crow who is the ‘watcher’. What a ‘watcher’ does is it keeps an eye on what the antagonist does, and make sure he does his job, and maybe even give more power to the antagonist. The irony is that the crow itself is a servant just like the antagonist (old man). There is a greater power operating and forcing them to do what they are doing.

The story is not a normal story where there is a beginning and an end; it is more of an incident.

Visualisation:  It starts with a close up of a dreamcatcher hanging motionless; the background is dark. The camera cuts to a close up of a face of a man sleeping intently. (Back to the 1^st shot) Suddenly, the dreamcathcer begins to flutter. Then gory images; flashes of a scary old man laughing (abnormally big mouth), chopped body parts, but somewhere always in the picture is a dreamcatcher. There aren’t any hint as to what is going on, just the dreamcatcher; it is hidden in every frame( of the dream sequence), which will probably make not much sense but just enough to keep the viewer intrigued to what the dreamcatcher is doing there. Different images to make a nightmare flashes (here I feel I have some space to squeeze in some interesting things maybe even images in sequence telling a story). Then suddenly, a mid shot of the young man waking up to find himself sweating profusely. The room is dark and almost bare, the few furniture are the bed on which the man was sleeping, a small table beside the bed, and on top of it is an old table lamp, a clock, there is also a cupboard with few books on it, and a dreamcatcher hanging just above the bed, and it is swinging slowly. The man is sitting up still dazed and sweating.  Then the camera zooms out, through the window, and it keeps zooming until a point where we introduce the crow, which in perched on a branch but we see only it’s back, the crow is looking at the man through the window. In the last shot, the crow’s flown away.

Here, I also thought of another scenario where the old man trapped in the dream was trying to talk to the man dreaming. He is trying to come to this universe with the man's help/through the man.