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jamiesfootball · 7 months
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I have loved all the comments I’ve gotten on my post season three fic (like you don’t even know how much I have reread all of those bad boys they give me oxygen), but by far one of the most gratifying ones I’ve gotten has been:
“you made that last episode seem so much more reasonable”
THAT WAS THE GOAL
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toorumutsu · 7 years
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camiran-blog · 7 years
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Deliverable #4 - Script
Overview of Premise and Purpose
The premise of the project: Recently, many youths suicided because of their boyfriends /girlfriends, because they only focus on the love rather than other parts of their life.
Some people will do whatever their lover asked since they already forgot that the other parts of their life also very important, such as family, friends, learning, work, and so on. It also shows the consequence that those youths will eventually lose themselves. Even one of my friend told me that she had tried to suicide many times last year, just because she had fights with her boyfriend. And I have seen a lot of similar news that youths suicided because of their lover. For instance: Teen girl ‘who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself’ appears in court trying to get her police statements thrown out of manslaughter trial (cite: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3670166/Court-OKs-trial-girl-texted-boyfriend-urging-suicide.htm), A 19-year-old lady allegedly committed suicide following a quarrel with her lover (cite: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/19-yr-old-girl-commits-suicide-fight-boyfriend/). This phenomenon makes me feel sad.
The core idea in a nutshell: We want to reveal this phenomenon, and exaggerating the potential harm to tell our audiences that love is not everything in their life, and people shouldn’t lose themselves because of love.
The fundamental purpose of this project is to teach that everyone’s life is precious; youths shouldn’t lose their everything, just because of their lover asked, or a little tricky in front of their face. What’s more, we want to show the consequence of blind love.
 Medium and platform
We will use video websites like YouTube and Vimeo to show our project. It can also be spread on social network such as Facebook and Twitter as our presenting platform. What’s more, we will develop our own blog that is not for our project, but the related fictional product in our film – the beauty spray. Our project is not only a short film, but also a story with transmedia so that our audiences can get involve into our story world in different ways.
YouTube is a platform for original videos, and it can deem its videos potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old. By 2013, people were watching six billion hours a month of YouTube videos, double the amount of the previous year. If that amount of video watching were dispersed around the world, it would work out to one hour a month for every person on Earth! (from Shelley Palmer’s blog, May 2, 2013, http://www.shellypalmer.com/).
This is suitable for making sure our video is viewed only by the audiences older than 18. What’s more, YouTube has many different platforms, such as mobile phone, iPad, and smart TV. In this case, the videos in it can be attached and spread easily and fast. We will also communicate with our audience through the comments.
Adding to the social nature of the experience, our audience can make comments and talk about their own experiences about losing weights or heart-broken relationships; and post them into the comment area, the Facebook and Twitter topic page, which is powered by the storytelling platform.
However, the video platforms do have some limitations. The main function of them is to show the film and let the audiences to choose the endings. Nevertheless, the text materials and interactivity are few. Though we have the comment board, it is not enough. And the choosing endings can only achieve the goal of participation, but not the community building.
That’s why we have our blog for the film and the twitter and poster for the beauty spray.
We have created a homepage (link attached at the end of this article) and a Twitter account for our fictional product- the Beauty Spray.
Facebook and Twitter are two famous and popular social network. The features of these two networks are they have huge age range of users (which is beneficial for us due to our huge age range for the target audience); users can post and interact with message; and they can transpond the message. These can help our video to be spread.
 Features and intended Audience
Clearly communicates the project features and their suitability for the target audience based on user characteristics and market appeal. Arguments are drawn based on the research of similar projects.
Our target audience is females between age 18 to 35. We wish out audience can realize two things. The first one is your girlfriend/boyfriend is not everything in their lives; and it is not necessary to change themselves much or even suicide for the one they love. The second one is that some cosmetic surgical procedures are risky, and people might lose themselves or the things they care about. 
This short film if only for people over 18 due to some horrible (violent) factors in it. YouTube and Vimeo are two video websites that target on most people especially youths. Females between these ages are willing to watch makeup tutorials or other related videos through these platforms. 
Girls may want to do the cosmetic surgery without any cautious without thinking about the possible risky consequence. Our project targeted on those girls who have the thoughts about doing cosmetic surgery for “love”, or have trouble in their relationships because of their appeals. We hope our video can have a little effect on helping them loving themselves and how they look like originally. 
“Women have different emotional cues and core drivers to men - but many brands fail to understand their audience” (from https://www.raconteur.net/business/targeting-lucrative-female-market-is-growing-trend). So another point we care about our audience is the self-expression for women. Our theme relates to women’s main topics – beauty and love. Women are also the significant roles in our project. These are also the factors we use to give them the challenge and reward.
All the characters have their own thoughts and features. When the audience take on the role of Jane, a device called a ticking clock will show up to pump up the adrenaline and keep the audience glued to the story. For instance, this project was given a specific and limited period show that how time left before the jane’s boyfriend will leave her. If the audience make the decision on time, the protagonist will get more days to stay with her boyfriend. If the audience doesn’t make the decision on time, the protagonist might lose the part of her own body, or lost Alex's love. Thus, audience members can assemble the story in any order, depending on the order in they make their choices.
Storyworld and Subsetting
Our story in this project is based on the real world, but a virtual one with things can impossibly happen in the real world. The main item that plays important part in our story is the Beauty Spray – a spray can make people’s body become easily to reshape, along with the side-effect of the re-changed body will become dystrophy and get dark.
Many interactive projects include a virtual world developed by themselves. One example is the game “the Sims”. In this game, the users are guided to get into a virtual doll world. Just like the real world, the Sims has weather changing, different seasons, and any other possible natural hazards. What’s more, all the virtual people have their own thoughts and characters. And they can grow up with the same progress in real world.
As what the Sims has created, the virtual world in our story also has many parallel items from the real world. It includes all the setting in the real world.
Our story happens during a period that most people consider slim, roman nose, and big eyes as beauty. This phenomenon comes from the real society. Recent years, weight-loss and face-lifting are getting more and more popular. It is good to keep in shape to stay a healthy situation. However, many girls do not use the healthy way to lose their weights by fast but unhealthy ways such as being on a diet and eating a lot of medicines. There are also many girls do not satisfy with what they look like originally. And they go to lift their faces – some common degrees such as double eyelid surgery and nose surgery; but some of them using the facelift surgery to change a totally different appearance. A very famous one would be the woman who spent $500,000 on surgery to look like Barbie. There is meaningless for us to judge if this phenomenon is right or wrong, but we want to reveal it, and exaggerating the potential harm to tell our audiences the achievement that got easily may lose easily. What’s more, we want to show the consequence of greedy.
Rules and structure provide an equally fair and consistent playing environment to all players.
For the same reason, stories in every medium have a structure and format of how they begin, develop, and end. Furthermore, although stories don’t follow set rules, they are guided by internal conventions. This ensures that behaviors and events within the fictional universe are consistent and logical and make sense within the story. Even a fantasy universe like the one portrayed in the Harry Potter novels, films, and games must remain faithful to its own internal set of rules. For instance, if it is established that characters cannot pass through physical structures unless they recite a secret spell, Harry or one of his classmates should not suddenly be able to blithely walk through a wall without using the spell. That would violate the rules of magic already established in the story. Internal conventions provide a narrative equivalent of a fair playing field.
We will not only create the story world based on the real world, but also use the real world’s tools to make the story world “real”. That’s why we will develop Twitters for the Beauty Spray and the two main characters. 
The Disney’s movie “Zootopia” gives us a lot of inspirations. Disney is a good example of using transmedia and developing a successful story world. Even though it is a cartoon movie, the products in it come from the real world. For examples, the character uses a smartphone called looks almost the same as iPhone except the apple has been changed as a carrot. And the app appears in the movie, which is supposed as a fictional one, also comes out in the real world. 
In this case, we will develop a parallel between the story world and the real world.
  Interactivity: User's role and point of view (POV)
Audiences have many possible roles they can play in an interactive narrative. In digital storytelling, we have two major categories of characters; one large group consists of the audience characters. These are the characters over which the audience have direct control. This project offers the audience an array of choices of role, such as the protagonist (Jane), Alex, or the antagonist (Ivy). In this way, audiences can view the virtual world from more than one possible point of view. And, characters in interactive narratives can break the fourth wall and talk directly with the user. At the same time, introducing an element of uncertainty can also increase dramatic tension, since uncertainty is a close cousin to suspense, which is the burning desire to know what will happen next. For example, in this project, Ivy might have enemies in disguise. When the audience took the first-person POV with the role of Ivy, they can decide what this character should be: kindly or being a jealous people, clever or silly. If the audience decided Ivy is a jealous people, the character will seduce Alex and let him fall in love with her. At the same time the audiences can hear the thought of Ivy, such as how she envies about Jane, and how she has a favorable impression of Alex. If the audience decided Ivy is a kindly and clever people, Alex would love her; in this case, Ivy did not know. Besides, when the audience took the role of those characters, they can make decision depend on the specific situation, or their personality opinion. It will lead to different sense, and different ending.
We will mix the first- and third-person POV together in this virtual world: via the first-person (Jane, Alex, or Ivy) and third-person (audiences) POV, because of the first- and third-person POVs each have their advantages and disadvantages. In this film, the decision whether to use the first- or third-person POV depends on to a large degree on the kind of situation being offered in this film. When this film needs to illustrate the character’s mood, the first-person perspective gives us great immediacy and impressiveness. It can create a sense of connecting to the user and the material. On the other hand, the third-person POV allows us to see the character’s movements and facial expressions, so the character is so well-defined visually. When emphasizing some particular actions, using the Beauty Spray, for example, we can use the third-person POV to show character’s face, such as exciting, or anxious. When the character chooses to kill Alex, the third-person POV can also show character’s face with nervous, guilty, or ferocious.
With a first-person POV, we see the action as if they were right there and viewed it through our own eyes. We can see the world around them, but we don’t see ourselves, except for perhaps a hand or a foot or something are holding. The first-person POV is much like the way their experience things in real world. For instance, with a first-person(Jane) POV, we see the how she becomes depressed and changes to be jealous when she saw Alex and Ivy’s endless chatting. As an introvert girl, others do not talk with Jane much. However, after using the Beauty Spray, Jane gets more attention from others, and she became expects other’s praise to her own. Also, when Jane brushes her teeth and suddenly see a piece of black meat in her arm, she is scared and tries to wipe off the black, but it is still there. The screen can only show the arm, like seeing this through Jan's eyes. Meanwhile, when Jane turns to Alex, she sees that Alex is looking at Ivy, while Ivy is shyly and smiling. The screen can moves as Jane’s head, from the center and turns to Alex and Ivy. In this way, audiences can see the different mood with the first-person POV. Furthermore, with a first-person POV, people can feel more reality. For instance, when Jane using the computer and trying to find a way to get beauty, the screen can only show Jane's hands, and the computer. In this way, people can seeing as many as Jane. In addition, when Jane pours the Beauty Spray into the bathtub, or open the package and take out the Beauty Spray, all illustrate in the first-person POV. Thus, audiences might feel that they are the protagonist, and they are the person who doing these things.
With the third-person POV, on the other hand, we are watching those characters in the distance in a movie. We can see the character’s body in motion and can see his or her facial expressions, too. Sometimes, the audience can guess the development of the story be based on the current behavior of characters. For example, Ivy is shyly and smiling when Alex is looking at her. Audience can infer that Ivy might have feelings for him (Alex). Also, with the third-person POV, our protagonist can be extremely well-developed visually. Cut scenes show characters from the third-person POV, as well. At the end of the movie, audiences know more than characters. Meanwhile, when people are watching the narrative, they can make the decision and see the different outcome. For example, when the sight of their backs(Jane, Alex, and Ivy) walking closely and happily, frame shot, and three small box appears on the screen — choose the character you wanna use through the whole story. Different options leads to different line. When audiences choose different character, they can hear different character’s O.S. — which is change the third-person POV to first-person POV. Also, It can create a sense of game. Besides, people can make different decisions in the third-person POV to influence the story. It will create a sense of participation. For example, people, who care more about the beauty of the appearance or want to see how the consequence of this behavior, might decide to use Alex’s body to fill her own body. Or, other people might choose the one that makes a huge difference from the other. June, in this ending, will get a well-proportioned body and let Alex love her more. By contrast, in Alex POV, people might want his girlfriend to become more beautiful. Jane keeps using the Beauty Spray, and then kills Alex for filling her own body.
 Narrative or Gaming Elements
Each character had the specific trait, and those traits lead to some particular plots. Take the protagonist Jane as an example, she will always do whatever their lover asked, because in her opinion, love is everything, and she would like to sacrifice herself to earn Alex’s love. On the other hand, audience can see each character’s action and guess their trait, which creates a whole story.
Since we use multilinear, each presentation of a storyline can be different. Characters in linear media are created exclusively by writers and can never change, but audiences are story driven. Because the major events or challenges that the audience will need to deal with during the narrative is that audiences need to make different decisions for different characters. Even if narrative plays an essential role, and the choices made by the audiences profoundly affect how the story is experienced. It means that sequences of events can play out differently in the same medium and the same narrative, so, for example, there can be different endings, beginnings or middles of a narrative each time it is run through.
The tone of this narrative is from literary to dark. In the beginning, we want to slowly prove the different plots step-by-step. Within the soothing music, mostly, the audience won’t feel any depressed, excepting the limited period when audience makes those decisions. In the end, when the music stop, audiences can saw some pieces of jewelry stay in the tub, or Jane gets a bowl of water from bathroom and heating. At that time, they know more than that character, and realize what is happening (Jane kill herself by mistake, or Alex got kill by Jane). It will create a sense of fear.
Storyline:
Jane finds her boyfriend, Alex, particularly apathetic to her recently. She feels very upset about it, but she does not know how to solve it. Jane loves her boyfriend so much and would like to do everything Alex asks for.
When audiences took the first-person POV with the role of Ivy, the girl who works with Jane for a long time, they can decide what this character should be:
A: being a jealous people
B:kindly and clever
—> A: If the audience decided Ivy is a jealous people, the character Ivy will seduce Alex. Such as texting with Alex, or hand out with him, and let Alex fall in love with her.
—> B: If the audience decided Ivy is a kindly and clever people, Alex and Ivy always chat and laugh at her work place. In most of the time, Alex meets Ivy and talks with her for a while when he goes to the tea shop for finding Jane. When Alex encountered problems, Ivy always give him some advices. And Alex think she is beauty and smart. Gradually, Alex love Ivy; in this case, Ivy did not know.
One day, Alex inadvertently says that she may be more beautiful if she gets bigger eyes and a higher nose. Jane knows that it is because of Ivy. Ivy has a sexy slim body shape, and her small face has big eyes, long lashes, high nose. Jane knows Alex and Ivy always chat and laugh at her work place. From then, Jane thinks Alex does not like her as before is because her face. Thus, she starts searching on the internet and tries to find a simple way to do the face lifting. She finds a product named Beauty Spray. Per the introductions, the body will soften and people can change their body by pinching after spraying this product for 30 minutes. Jane buys three bottles of Beauty Spray, and she successfully changes her face. When Alex sees her, he is surprised and happy. When she looks at his eye, she is satisfied with herself.
A few weeks later, Jane and Alex were watching a film at home. Alex looks at the heroine and said: “If you have firm abs, that would be perfect!” So, she buys another three bottles of Beauty Spray again and shaping to the perfect firm abs.
When audiences took the first-person POV with the role of Jane, they can decide what this character should be:
Ending A: she wants to get a well-proportioned body
Ending B: she changes to love her beauty more, rather than her boyfriend.
—> Ending A: Again, and again, Jane starts paying more and more attention on her own appearance. One day, when she looked in the mirror, she wants to make a big difference and get a well-proportioned body. This time, she buys a large box of Beauty Spray. She sits inside the bathtub after spray the Beauty Spray, and then wait for the change. However, she falls asleep and then entirely melts into water… When Alex comes to her place in the evening, he does not find Jane but only the polluted water in tub. He thinks Jane forgot to clean up the tub, so he washes it away and then goes to the living room. In the bathroom, only some pieces of jewelry stay in the tub.
—> Ending B: Again, and again, Jane starts paying more and more attention on her own appearance, and even expects other’s praise to her own. She keeps using the Beauty Spray, but she finds out the Beauty Spray has a side-effect that some re-change body will dystrophy and darken. Jane still loves Alex, but after being “beautiful” and achieving praises, she changes to love her beauty more. To keep her beauty, Jane decides to use Alex’s body to fill her own body. One night, when Alex was showering, she sprays the Beauty Spray on him quickly and quietly. Eventually, Alex melts into water. Every time Jane wants to re-fill her body; she gets a bowl of water from bathroom and heating…
 Functionality: Structure and User Interface
The overall function of our project is to tell our audience a fictional story, let them get involved into the story and understanding the purport we want to share. We will do this project through transmedia productions.
Transmedia productions typically include both traditional media and digital media platforms. And we have three media types to show the transmedia of our project. “Transmedia narratives have the potential to become highly personalized through these devices, and that in turn can generate powerful responses on the part of the audience participant” (Digital Storytelling, 3rd edition). We will tell our story through these different ways, to make it believable and attractive.
We do not set a sequence of browsing those platforms for our audience. Below are the forms and platforms we will share the project to our audience.
1.     The video: 
Our video is the first and the main part of our project. It is a short film revealing today’s social phenomenon. Stacey Spiegel, the CEO of Immersion Studios, has pointed the three points of involving audiences in a movie. “First, the immersiveness of the stories facilitated the suspension of disbelief. Second, the members of the audience were put in the position of having to make decisions, and their decisions had consequences. And third, the collaborative social element—being an active participant in a group drama—reinforced learning.” (‘Digital Storytelling’, Chapter 21)
Our audience can get involve into our story by watching it from different character’s point of view; and the character is chosen by the audience themselves. After choosing the character, we let the users to choose direction of the plots, and these plots lead to different endings. But it is not just a choice of ending; it is a choice of the character’s behavior and causes to different ends. What’s more, the users can discuss and share their thoughts through the comments. These can express themselves. And they can understand that we want to tell them the truth. And it can let the users make their wishes known and control what they see and do.
Another way of getting involve into our story from the video is the comment board from the video website. Our short film has the function to let the audiences have comments, and they can reply and like each other’s. They can see the amount of their “likes” or replies. And they can also know the amount of times of watched. 
2.     Our blog:
We will develop a blog for our project. “Originally, blogs were utilized to cover nonfiction subjects—everything from child-raising to politics to food—so first we’ll look at non-fiction blogs and then turn to fictional or faux blogs—blogs that resemble their true-life cousins, but are actually make-believe stories” (‘Digital Storytelling’ Chapter 16).
This blog is mainly about the links to our video, the story background, sidelights, and other related information. This platform can navigate the users to learn more about the project and satisfy their curiosity about the video. This platform is clear for presenting information, and it connects the video and other media types of our project. What’s more, this blog itself is another message tells a fictional product and relates to other fiction’s narratives. Even the people have not watched our video can still get information about the fictional world of our narrative.
3.     The poster for the Beauty Spray, and the Twitter for the main characters and the Beauty Spray: 
These two media tools are designed for the fictional product in our film. The users can add comments to this product or the main characters’.
Giving our fictional characters their own Twitter account is a way to let them present our story world from a first-person voice. It can also amplify a character’s personality and show shades of that person that might not be revealed by other forms of media.
In this way, the users can participate in our story world. Twitter has an app that can be downloaded to the smart phone. In today’s society, the smart phone has become the first source to achieve information and entertaining for most people. And it is very convenient. Therefore, we chose it as one of our platforms. What’s more, because the events we post in the Twitter are fictional, the users will be as a part of this story though they have not participated in the shooting. It will also connect to the characters’ Twitter to make this story real.
In conclusion of this part, our audience is the fulcrum of our project. They inserted into the story by different ways through different kinds of platform, and the decisions that he or she makes drive the narrative forward.
 User's engagement
Because interactive cinema is a direct descendent of movies, one of the contemporary world’s most beloved forms of entertainment, we want to build some material that would make audiences want to invest their time in it.
A certain feature that was designed to create tension and offers reward for the participants to keep the user interested and involved. All the characters have their own thoughts and characters. When the audience took on the role of Jane, I will use a device called a ticking clock to pump up the adrenaline and keep the audience glued to the story. For instance, this project was given a specific and limited period show that how many days (such as 2 days) the man (Alex) will leave Jane. If the audience makes the decision on time (in 1 minute, for example), such as use the Beauty Spray and become more beauty, the protagonist will get more days (e.g.30 days) that stay with Alex. If the audience doesn’t make the decision on time, the protagonist might lose the part of her own body, or lost Alex’s love. Thus, audience members can assemble the story in any order, depending on the order in which they. The protagonist will be upset if she loses Alex’s love, which is a kind of penalties, and being happy if they still being together, which is a kind of penalties. Because, for the protagonist, love is everything. It can create gameplay that is exciting and complements the narrative.
Moreover, we decided to devise narratives that are designed from the ground up to “live” in several forms of media simultaneously. Each relates a different aspect of the story, or relates it in a different manner. In this new approach, at least some of the story is offered in an interactive medium, so that people can participate in it. We want to use two platforms overlap in such a way that they are integrated at the core: traditional media, which is a poster for the product Beauty Spray; and interactive media, which is the Internet (YouTube, the Twitter account for each character individually, and a blog as a community building). On the macro level, works of digital storytelling can be constructed to exist across some media platforms with parts of each story available on different media platforms and with the whole story interconnected. This is transmedia storytelling, and it includes a new type of narrative hybrid, the alternate reality game. For instance, we plan to create a poster that introduces the product Beauty Spray. Also, create a blog (as a community building), to allows individuals to communicate with each other and share their thoughts, concerns, and opinions. When people visit a community building, particularly one that focuses on a fictional world they especially care about, they look for community-fostering options like comments boards and chat features. Such as discusses the character, related information with the phenomenon (youths suicided because of their boyfriend /girlfriend, they only focus on the love rather than other parts of their life), background stories, opinion, and so on. When audiences log in to the Twitter, and searching those materials about the Beauty Spray, or each character’s Twitter account, those materials can seem as true. At the same time, it can offer a much more enriched version of the story. After audience watching the film on YouTube, they can provide their opinion or other relative information on the community building. It can generate powerful responses on the part of the audience participant.
Meanwhile, audiences have many possible roles they can play in an interactive narrative. This project offers the audience an array of choices of role, such as the protagonist (Jane), Alex, or the antagonist (Ivy). In this way, audiences can view the virtual world from more than one possible point of view. Introducing an element of uncertainty can also increase dramatic tension, since uncertainty is a close cousin to suspense, which is the burning desire to know what will happen next.
Eventually, the curiosity of the audience gets satisfied, as if we would go to a movie or TV show. At the same time, they can understand that we want to tell them the truth. At the end, when audiences make the last decision, it reveals the phenomenon that some people already forgot that the other parts of their life is also very important, not just lover, or themselves. It is also exaggerating the potential harm to tell our audiences that love is not everything in their life, and people shouldn’t lose themselves because of love. The consequence will give them more impresses within interactive (audience makes the decision), rather than watching the film.
Character Design (script)
EXT. PARK (DAY) JANE, a young Asian girl, holding a cup of coke, stands at the gate of the park. She checks her watch and seems worried. FREEZE SHOT, AND A SMALL BOX APPEARS BESIDE JANE, IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE THE CHARACTER:          JANE,  as an introverted person,          always worried that her boyfriend          Alex will lose from her, the main          reason in the Jane is probably          because she loves Alex so long.
EXT. PARK (DAY) ALEX, comes to Jane.                    ALEX          Honey, the traffic is too congested. FREEZE SHOT, A SMALL BOX APPEARS BESIDE ALEX, TO INTRODUCE THE CHARACTER:          ALEX, as the center of people’s          attention, has grown up in a rich          scholar family, and not mature          enough. Most of his friends are          very handsome rather than smart.
EXT. PARK (DAY) Ivy arrives.                    IVY          Hey guys, sorry I am late. FREEZE SHOT, A SMALL BOX APPEARS BESIDE IVY, TO INTRODUCE THE CHARACTER:          Ivy is Jane’ colleague in a tea          shop, and they have worked together          for a long time. When Alex          encountered problems, Ivy always          gives him some advices. CANCEL THE FREEZE SHOT.                    JANE          No worries, Ivy. Shall we go?
EXT. PARK (DAY) The sight of their backs walking closely and happily. FRAME SHOT, AND THREE SMALL BOX APPEARS ON THE SCREEN:         Choose the character you wanna         use through the whole story.
OPTION A.         Player 1 JANE:         love levels: 1         Feature: would do everything her         boyfriend asks for.              (If A, leads to Line A1)
OPTION B.         Player 2 ALEX:         love levels: 3         Feature: seeking for people’s         appearance.              (If B, leads to Line B1)
OPTION C.         Player 3 IVY:         love levels: 4.5         Feature: beautiful girl with a high         EQ.              (If C, leads to Line C1)
LINE A1
EXT. PARK (DAY) FRAME SHOT, EXCEPT JANE. Jane turns to Alex, she sees that Alex is looking at Ivy, while Ivy is shyly and smiling.                    JANE(O.S.)          Over time Alex and I have been          together for four years. However,          recently, I felt that Alex is no          longer concerned about myself, I          felt anxious with a little blaming          myself. Maybe that is because... ---------------------Line A1 Ends--------------------
LINE B1 EXT. PARK (DAY) FRAME SHOT, EXCEPT ALEX. Alex turns to Jane.                    ALEX(O.S.)          Jane and I have been together for          such a long time, but why she never          think about changing even a little          bit? No wonder people say couples          always get bored when they          radically know each other. Alex turns to Ivy.                    ALEX(O.S.)          Well, Ivy, she is tall and          beautiful, and she is always          willing to help. If my girlfriend          as beautiful as her... ---------------------Line B1 Ends--------------------
LINE C1 
EXT. PARK (DAY) Frame shot, EXCEPT IVY. Ivy is bow down, shyly and smiling.                    IVY (O.S.)          Jane and I have been workmates for          6 months, freeze and she rarely          hangs out with me. But her          boyfriend, Alex, often chat with          me, and I am surprised that we have          so much in common. I always have          a good conversation with him. Don’t          know why Jane had invited me today. ---------------------Line C1 Ends--------------------
EXT. PAR (NIGHT) Jane and Ivy stand at the gate of the park.                    IVY          I have had a good time. Thanks for          inviting me, Jane! Jane turns to Ivy, and smiles.
                  JANE          You are very welcome, Ivy! ...... A car arrives. Alex opens the car’s window.                    ALEX          Ivy, it’s dark now, we can drive          you home. INNTERACTIVE: CHOOSING PART FRAME SHOT, AND TWO SMALL BOX APPEARS ON THE SCREEN:          What decision Ivy’s gonna make?
OPTION A. Agree with Alex’s invitation, and sit in the seat besides Alex.               (If A, leads to Line A2)
OPTION B. Decline Alex’s invitation, and walk to the bus station.               (If B, leads to Line B2)
Line A2:
EXT. STREET (NIGHT) Alex opens the front door for Ivy, and she gets into the car.
INT. CAR (NIGHT) The atmosphere is silent and awkward. Alex switches on the music, tries to reduce the mood. The song is noisy, and Alex turns to the next one, but it is still really noisy; so he turns the radio off. Jane’s face is not good. Obversely, she is angry about Alex letting Ivy to a seat beside him. Alex focuses on driving, does not notices his girlfriend’s emotion changing. Ivy turns back and face to Jane.                    IVY(CAREFULLY)          Jane, sweetheart, why are so upset?          What’s wrong?
Jane forces a smile                    JANE          I’m fine, just a little tired. Don’t worry. Ivy smiles back to Jane, and turns back. But the smile does not disappear on her face; it deepens, and then becomes a complacent one. ---------------------Line A2 Ends--------------------
Line B2 EXT. STREET (NIGHT) Ivy smiles to Alex and Jane.                    IVY          Thanks Alex, but my home is not          that far. And it is not on your way          home. I can take the bus, no          worries. Thanks guys!
Jane hugs Ivy and says goodbye. Alex seems a little unhappy, but he shows to understand.                    ALEX          Ok! Then take care! Hope see you soon! IVY OK, bye! Ivy turns and walks to the bus station. Jane looks at Alex happily; but when she sees his face, her smile freezes on her face. ---------------------Line B2 Ends--------------------
INT. CAR(NIGHT) Jane and Alex stay in the car silently. Jane feels a little uncomfortable and sad.                    JANE (PRETENDING TO BE HAPPY)          What a wonderful day!
                  ALEX (ABSENTMINDED)          Yeah, it is.                    JANE          How do you think about Ivy? At the same time, the red light warns; and Alex suddenly stops the car, replies Jane’s question without facing her.                    ALEX          I think she’s nice. And she has big          eyes. And I think she’s losing          weight? Because she looks slimmer          compared to the first saw her three          months ago. Jane does not say any word but ruminates.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) Jane is searching on the internet (try to find a way to get more beauty). Jane opens the official website of Beauty Spray. Jane looking at the introduce of the Beauty Spray product, and some comments from other people. Jane buys two bottoms of the Spray on the website.
IDR. JANE’S HOME(DAY)
Jane comes home, and bring a small box. Jane opens the box and sees two bottoms of the Beauty Spray.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM(DAY) Jane sprays the Beauty Spray on her face and pinches it.
IDR. JANE’S HOME(NIGHT) Alex back to home, when he opens the door, he saw Jane. Alex is surprised because Jane becomes more beauty in one day.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane and Alex sit on the sofa and watching a film.                    ALEX(UNINTENTIONALLY)          The heroine has a good body shape. Jane turned to look at Alex, and Alex focusing on the film without notice. FRAME SHOT, AND TWO SMALL BOX APPEARS ON THE SCREEN:          What decision JANE’s gonna make?
OPTION A. Jane wants to get a well-proportioned body               (If A, leads to Line A3)
OPTION B. Jane changes to love her beauty more, rather than her boyfriend (Alex).               (If B, leads to Line B3)
A3: IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt A) buys two bottoms of Beauty Spray on the website.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt A) sprays the Beauty Spray on her arm.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt B) buys two bottoms of Beauty Spray on the website again.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt B) sprays the Beauty Spray on her stomach. Jane looks at the mirror, and smile.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt C) buys a large box of Beauty Spray on the website again.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane pours the Beauty Spray into the bathtub. Jane puts the clock beside the bathtub. Jane sets one foot into the bathtub. Jane soaked in the bathtub and closed her eyes.
IDR. JANE’S HOME (NIGHT) Alex opens the door and back to home.                    ALEX          Jane, I am back.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Alex walked to the living room and tried to find Jane.                   ALEX          Jane?
IDR. JANE’S BEDROOM (DAY) Alex opened the bedroom’s door and tried to find Jane.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Alex opens the bedroom’s door and sees the polluted water in the bathtub.                    ALEX(SIGH)          Why she always forgot to clean up          the tub? Alex walks into the bathroom and plugs the bathtub drains. (Draining sound) Alex walks out of the bathroom. (Suddenly quiet) Half water is gone, pieces of Jane’s jewelry stay in the bathtub vaguely visible.
---------------------Line A3 Ends--------------------
B3: IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt A) buys two bottoms of Beauty Spray on the website.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt A) sprays the Beauty Spray on her arm.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt B) buys two bottoms of Beauty Spray on the website again.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt B) sprays the Beauty Spray on her stomach. Jane looks at the mirror, and smile.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt C) brushes her teeth and suddenly see a piece of black meat in her arm. Jane is scared and tries to wipe off the black, but it is still there. Jane sees more black on another arm. Jane is shaking her hand, pulls up the clothes a little bit. Jane sees a large piece of black meat on her stomach, and then quickly covered with clothes.
IDR. JANE’S LIVING ROOM (DAY) Jane is surfing on the internet, because she tries to find a way and fix the side effect of the Beauty Spray. Jane wiped the sweat from his brow with his hands. Jane sees someone said that people can use other people’s body to fill their own body. Jane is shocking, she quickly closed the computer and frowned.
IDR. JANE’S BATHROOM (NIGHT) Alex is showering (large fog). Jane goes to the door, open it a crack and make sure Alex did not notice. Jane goes into the bathroom, and plug in bathtub drains. Then, Jane’s hand over the shower curtains, sprays the Beauty Spray above him quickly and quietly. The sprinkler hit the wall with a thumping sound. Jane pulls the shower curtain away, only sees a polluted water in the bathtub.
IDR. JANE’S KITCHEN (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt A) gets a bowl of water from bathroom and heating, in order to re-fill her body.
IDR. JANE’S KITCHEN (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt B) uses a bowl of water and heating, her arms already become normal.
IDR. JANE’S KITCHEN (DAY) Jane (wearing Skirt C) uses a bowl of water and heating, her stomach already become normal. Jane smiling strangely. ---------------------Line B3 Ends--------------------
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Beauty Spray’s Homepage: https://beautyspraycom.wordpress.com/
Beauty Spray’s Twitter: @thebeautyspray
Three main character’s Twitter:
Jane - @Janeyeyeye
Ivy -@Ivyiyiyi
Alex - @AlexAlittleDrum
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