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a Wake Drama & Zoning Media film Rob Underhill, writer, director & co-producer Aravind Ragupathi, director of photography & co-producer Project Overview Dark drama. Suspence. Overall motivational and spiritual in nature. Intended for major festival. Length approx 30 minutes. Completely original story like never seen before. Original score. Four weekends to complete principal photography, beginning Feb 2007. Mastered product will be leveraged to gain financial backing to produce “Still Life” as a feature length film. Goal is to begin filming feature in 2008. Main Characters Sabeen Age 30, female forensic scientist, introverted, non-social, workaholic, self-confident; like in Amelie, Sabeen is the central driving force moving the story forward. Scott Male, age 35, surgeon at a city hospital’s terminal ward, Sabeen’s brother. Jacob Male, age 27, Sabeen’s newest subject. Ms. Hollingworth female, age 50, owns a large estate, Sabeen’s closest confidant. Other characters: Sabeens subjects, all "makes and models;" Sabeen’s supervisor and co-scientists; Scott’s co-surgeons Elvis and Willy; Sabeen’s relatives; relatives of Sabeen’s subjects. Story Synopsis Fog blankets the predawn dips and valleys of the wood. Gray tree canopy burns red as Dusk lightens the torch of sun. Prisms of color spray against the forest floor in early morning. Sabeen’s shadow leads her on the many paths she has laid herself. Everything here is scientific and calculable. It is the populated world where the mysteries linger. Some bodies simply disappear from the public domain: funerals closed casket, fabric and wood rot in designated pit, while body turns to soil in the sun. Many more for the statistic books, none for consecration. Stories of persons’ contributions to life literally extended past their natural ends; Sabeen shares her unique professional experiences with life, death, and unlife. Sabeen is engrossed by living records. And in death, how one is capable of miracles. Her days pass on the "Farm": government forest, unharvested for years. A workaholic, she spends dusk holed up pouring over stories, documents, personal affects. Days-off lead her on expeditions on life paths becoming overgrown; a hobby become obsession; she must know them intimately, she will know them better than their closest survivors. Into them she breaths life anew, though to the outside they remain… dead still. Direction of Photography Specs. High Definition (HD). Wide-screen. 24p (Progressive) Digital imagery. Shallow Depth of field, desaturated urban color, supersaturated rural color. Visual taste. Outdoor monochromatic lighting. Striking primal forests. Anxious, clustered public settings. Zoning Media Aravind Ragupathi, director of photography www.ZoningMedia.org | www.myspace.com/zoningmedia ---------- Wake Drama Rob Underhill, director wakedrama@gmail.com | www.myspace.com/wakedrama ---------- WAKE DRAMA & ZONING MEDIA. Recent Projects: Order Up! (pilot pitch): www.zoningmedia.org/portfolio/OrderUp/ Economic Sense: www.ZoningMedia.org/portfolio/EconomicSense Move Cary: www.ZoningMedia.org/portfolio/MoveCary