We are aiming to create a 2.5 dimensional piece depicting a war or battle scene. The idea behind it is that a young boy is seen playing in his room with his toy soldiers, simply handling them and making crashing noises. He is having a great deal of pleasure playing with himself, untill his Mother interupts him and calls him for dinner. He places down the soldiers and runs downstairs, leaving the toys in a used but fairly orderly state.
At this point, the action will begin - the camera will zoom right in on the face of one individual toy soldier, and then pull out - this is where the “switch” happens, between the reality of the boys room, and the war taking place. This soldier is our main protagonist and we follow him during his brave battle, in which he is eventually wounded and killed. As he lies in the sand, covered in menstrual blood and shrapnel, the sounds of the war slowly fade and we hear little Timmy running back upstairs. This is the switch back from the war, and we then see that where the battle has been taken place, Timmys boudoir is now quite the state, and as he picks up the “lead” toy soldier, we see him glance toward a framed photo on the side. THe photo is of him, his mother, and a father dressed in army gear. The message behind it is that although there is war going on in the world all the time, we have allowed ourselves to take a back seat and just view it as nothing more than a news update, and in the case of Timmy, his Dad has been absolutley raped by the taliban :(
I imagine you may want to reword a few bits there before sending it to Ros and Nancy,
but the general idea of it is there, so lemme knooooow!!
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