Week 11

CONCEPT REVISED

"Life would lack poignant drama without the use of imagination and we probably would not have the courage to follow our dreams and desires. Without imagination we would be condemned to live a purely instinctive life. We would still be deficient in social compassion and empathy. We would have no thought of the great beyond and never contemplate our existence."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." – Muhammad Ali

There is a creature sitting alone on a busy street. people pass him by, all blurs of motion, no one notices or acknowledges him. No one can see him. This is because he is what the world considers not real, imaginary in fact. Imaginary, yet he is as real though perhaps to most unseen. He comes and goes out of peoples lives, he is what we fathom an imaginary friend. Not a fictional character created in the minds of young children out of boredom or loneliness, but a creature as real as you or I, visible to any such mind that is willing look beyond the convention, the set and the routine. They might not linger forever, but they are an accompaniments to life that are not always understood.

synopsis 1

The imaginary friend sits on a bench on a busy street. People are busy rushing around with their daily routines. No one stops or even bothers to look at him. No one can even see him, they are blind to his presence. There are many other imaginary friends on the street, all with a partner of some sort that can see them. But this one imaginary friend stands alone, desolate, despondent, rejected. He gets up and begins walking. He comes to a bridge and begins to cross it. Halfway across the bridge he mets a boy. The boy stares at him. He stares back. The imaginary friend puts out his arm and hands the boy something. It is a seed. When the boy opens his hand and looks at it the environment around him begins to change. Nature begins to spurt out from every crevice. He clasps his hands shut again. The nature recoils. He once again opens his hands, this time lets the nature take over.

ending?

- the boy develops wings and flies over the city (muhammad ali quote)

synopsis 2

Moving away from the typical concept of an imaginary friend, the protagonist acts as the creator or more accurately the instigator of the imagination. He is a tall slightly obscure looking being, with a solitude persona. He walks down a bland darkened grey street, people are walking by and alongside him, yet none are aware of his presence. He goes unseen and is unbothered by this as if the is the only one around.

He comes to a bridge and begins to cross, his finger trailing across the rail. As his finger glides across it leaves a yellow streak on the bridges wooden railing. A young boy at this point is noticed following him. The imaginary friend comes to a halt at the very peak of the bridge. He turns around a greets the boy. The boy stares at him, baffled and a little scared. The imaginary friend stares back. As he stares he holds out his hand to give the boy something. Reluctantly the boy holds out his hand to accept.

ending?

As the boy opens his hand the world around him begins to change. nature begins to spurt from the bridges railing anding color to the otherwise dreary scenery. creatures like fireflies begin to form around him. The boy looks around in awe. The imaginary friend smiles watching the boys contentment.

-A bit of time passes and the boy clasp his hand shut. Everything recoils. Content with his experience he hands the seed back to the imaginary friend. Surprised the imaginary friend indicates that the boy keep it. -The boy instead gives it back and takes hold of the imaginary friends hand and they walk away together.

- The imaginary friend and boy leave and go their separate ways. The boy still holding the seed.

-It becomes to powerful and creatures that the boy can no control start to emerge. The imaginary friend takes the seed back off the boy, and then keeps walking leaving the boy standing on the bridge.

ending?

The imaginary friend holds out his hand and as he produces an item all the street lights flicker. A little creature emerges from his palm. It flies around the boy. The boy looks at it it awe. The it comes to rest on the imaginary friends head, who picks it up and gives it to the boy. The imaginary friend provided the boy with his own imaginary friend. The final scene is the boy holding the creature up, however in the final shot you see the boy holding up something, but his hands are empty.

parent could come and pull the child out of the world that he has created. the boy however is still holding the seed. The imaginary friend waves by to him, the boy waves back his hand firmly clutched around his present.