The Vainglorious Watering Can

Version 1 By Anthony Duke

Anthony Duke Flat 1 Doust Way Rochester Kent ME1 1HH

darkconcept@hotmail.co.uk

The Premise
The ideologies of Vanity embodied within a Watering can.

The Logline
A Watering can succumbs to its Vainglorious ways when it falls in love with its own reflection, and becomes obsessed with its self. Soon its obsession leads to its own demise.

The Step Outline

Scene One The watering can enters the scene and walks towards the camera, it then looks around and spots a pond in the distance. The watering can the walks over to investigate. Scene Two When the watering can looks into the pond it sees a reflection of its self and instantly falls in love. It then attempts to make contact with the reflection and fails. Scene Three The watering can decides to sit on the rocks and stare at the reflection, obsessing over it whilst crying until it has used all the water it is carrying. Once all the water has been used, its falls onto its side and the last drop falls from the nozzle.

The Script
EXT. EMPTY PLAIN The watering can walks into view, crossing the empty space. It stops to look around a spots a pool of water in the distance and walks over to inspect it. EXT. WATER POOL When the watering can reaches the pool, it looks down into the water and notices its reflection staring back at it. After admiring its self, the watering can tries to capture the reflection but fails. Upset the watering can jumps up on to the rocks surrounding the pool and begins to cry over the beauty of the reflection.

As it cries, the water it is containing slowly begins to drain until it in empty. Once all the water has drained, the nozzle of the watering can begins to rust, and it falls over on the rocks. The scene ends as the last drop from the nozzle drips down the rocks and into the pond.