Considering all the feedback, I have revised the story to fit within the given time frame while trying to keep the core essence/message of the concept intact. I do not why, but I always envisoned the story to be set in a No Man’s Land type setting. At first I thought of creating the story as a bottle episode ( where every situation is happening in one location) as recommended by my peers and teachers, but I felt that since it had no dialouges, I would be like motion design with still images having a bit of movement in them. So I went back and came up a clever way. Flashbacks are a writers easy escape device when he runs low on story and time. Just add a quick flashback scene and you’re good to go. The story during winter time.
The Story
The film begins with a top shot of the battlefield and the camera is slowing tracking in.
Cut to: a track shot of the war field destruction.
The screen fills with smoke. As the smoke clears we see a hand holding a gun. The camera rotates to reveal a young boy (in civillians clothes) holding a gun and pointing at someone/something. His hands are shaking as if he is scared. The camera then pans to reveal a dark monster on the other side. The monsters is similar to molten lava, with his blood shot eyes glowing but his hand also shaking. Camera tracks out to reveal that they are sitting in a trench. This is a very slow scene and is necessary to establish the ongoing conflict.
Cut to: a close up of the boy
cut to: a close up of the monsters with his eyes glowing. The glow over-takes the screen and a dip to white effect.
Cut to: a flashback scene (drawn in black and white similar to anime styles where the backgorund is white and the line art of the character, flat coloured and a weird glow in the scene). In the flashback scene we how fellow monsters being killed and vice versa Humans also dying on the battle field.
A soldier falls on the groud. We pan the camera along to show the horrific war. We come accross a skull and see an caterpillar crawling in to its eye. We zoom into the skulls eye, screen turns balck and when we zoom out (invisible cut) we are back in the trench.
Cut to: the clouds clearing and sun shines. As the sun shines bright, all of the shadows start to dissappear.
the boy is shocked.
The monsters was actually a shadow figure and as the shadow dissappears a policeman is revealed. He realises that it is just his fellow kind and the monster was just his depiction of the other stature. The same realisation is for the policeman as he was experiencing the same thing. For him, the boy was the monster.
Both lower their guns.
Cut to: to shot of the trench.
fade to black.
Arsalan Awais 