Egill Week 8: Draft of Scene Structure

Welcome to Greenland, We are Now Serving Tofu

Scene I: Intro to place.

  Act 1: Age and Kristian on a boat--TITLE SLIDE--something is spotted, excitement.

  Act 2: They wait and search. Close up of faces and hands on trigger.

  Act 3: They return. Sense of place. Icebergs and ocean.

Scene II: Intro to characters and place.

 Act 1: Lea's one sentence.  

 Act 3: Donny one sentence.

 Act 4: Nanna two sentences.

 Act 5: Scene with Kristian in a window.

Scene IV: Intro to Donny.

  Act 1: Getting the vacuum cleaner.

  Act 2: Ringing the bell.   

  Act 3: The Mass.

Scene V: Tourists I

  Act 1: A frame overlooking the church and the Bay as tourists arrive on speedboat.

  Act 2: Close up of police stamping passports.

  Act 3: The tourists spread around town.

  Act 4: Tourists taking pictures of Sara, short interview with her.

Scene VI: Leaving

  Act 1: Lea talks about how young people have left.

  Act 2: Nanna explains her trip.

Scene III: Staying.

  Act 1: Time laps of the village.

  Act 2: Age at construction work.  

  Act 3: Age speaks to the old man about his future plans.

Scene VII: Donny and the surgery.

  Act 1: Broken clock, takes the phone.

  Act 2: Retells the conversation about morphine and his new face.  

  Act 3: On the computer.

Scene VIII: Fire!

  Act 1: The warning and fire fighters arrive at the scene.

  Act 3: Kristian fighting the fire.

  Act 4: Bystanders: Children taking pictures, Âge walks the scene.

  Act 6: Kristian after work, close up, has become a man now.

Scene IX: Donny hike. Sense of place.

  Act 1: Donny hikes in the snow. Explains why we have a gun.

  Act 2: Starts shooting.

  Act 3: Donny on phone, talking about how great it is having the food when he arrives back.

Scene X: Tourists II and sailboat arrives

  Act 1: Days pass. Tourists arrive, again.

  Act 2: Small boats arrives, to pick up Nanna.   

  Act 2: Nanna outside the house, talks about leaving. Ends with shot on burning cigaret.

Scene XI: Nanna departs.

  Act 1: Skipper waits at the harbour.  

  Act 2: Nanna locks the house.

  Act 3: On board, the dogs watch the boat -- it sails away.  

Scene XII: Text slides about the continuation of character’s lifes; Donny with new face, Nanna in France, Age in a finished home, Kristian gone, Lea gone.