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Sylvan Tradegy - Good Short Film Outline
Sylvan Tradegy - Good Short Film Outline
So, in short, a hundred and fifty years back, a couple gets into a fight whereupon the woman
murders the man during an argument, shoves a tree seed down his throat and buries him in a
shallow grave. A tree grows with the corpse, and it's cursed because of the violent nature of the
death and this mans jealousy of those who etch their names with love into the tree. Three couples
will be shown, three writers are going to write separately the three different couples cursed fates
from etching their names into the tree (LF<3BR) style, and each is going to have a separate style
due to the different authors. Each person is going to have about 6-8 minutes of air time, and I
believe the stories of the couples are going to mesh by using flashbacks of the couples meeting
briefly (I want to bring it together somehow, not just 3 straight separate stories and a flashback
of the murder in the past.) The ending is where the cycle repeats after the murder, where the
woman who was cursed by becoming gradually angrier with the one she loves the most, murders
her love. She then jams a chestnut down his throat (this could possibly be part of the murder
method, i'm thinking a very large tree seed, I can get a makeup artist to make this look legit) and
buries him in a shallow grave, repeating the cycle.
I hope writing that out twice revealed some of the intricacies in which I forgot in the first
description, and helped you understand the story more accurately, Now, once again, the kicker is
the three different writers and their different writing styles to write the separate, escalating curses
before the murder which happens to be the last curse before the whole "time passes, history
repeats" jazz sets in. Well, I hope you understand my extremely rushed writing and mediocre
grammar and sentence composition, and so, that's it!