‘Glasgow Jack’ – Look Book
Logline or Synopsis?: Jack moves into a house and discovers a sideshow attraction doll in the attic and begins to experience memories he cannot recollect as his own, and soon finds himself on the brink of madness, as the amusement park icon forces him to face his demons.
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Outline the overall composition, style, and direction of submitted script (8-15 pages).
– Describe genre, theme, tone, mood, key takeaways and provide visual references
Genre:
Psychological Horror (The Mind as Multiverse).
LOGLINE:
An iconic amusement park doll forces a man suffering from a traumatic loss and depression to face his demons.
SYNOPSIS:
Glasgow Jack is essentially a “fish-out-of-water” tale where the fish has also forgotten he’s a fish.
Jack, a commercial photographer, moves into the attic of a house after a personal loss looking to “cocoon” himself in order to regain his center. There, he discovers a sideshow attraction doll among the dusty ephemera and begins to experience disturbing memories he cannot recollect as his own, and soon finds himself unsure of his identity. Determined to gain insight into the cause of the frightening recollections and supernatural occurrences before he descends into madness, Jack begins to unpack the history embedded in the life belongings stored in the rustic space.
One thing is certain: the wooden carnival mascot is the center.
Theme:
MEMORIES ARE IMPORTANT. The primary theme in Glasgow Jack is the horror of memory loss as a result of a traumatic experience. It explores the experience of living in a world where memories feel foreign and are unrecognizable as your own.
Mood and tone:
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key takeaways:
It is often said that “a life without memories is a life not lived.” But the flip side of that is that just because you have forgotten your memories, does not mean that your memories have forgotten you. And they will come back for you, for better or worse.
Young Jack believed that is he had not wanted the doll, his father might still be alive. Catharsis: He discovers that his father was killed by the owner of the amusement park, and gains revenge (Or Smiley does).
Visual references:
Cinematography: Dutch angles, shallow dept-of-field, and extensive use of background bokeh. A tilt-shift lens will be used to for unusual and dynamic selective focus that assigns a warped sense to the imagery.
The use of shadows will also be a convention in the film to coney Jack’s the split duality.
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– Short character descriptions with visual references or casting inspiration
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– Comparable projects
Before I Go to Sleep / Memento / The Resurrection of Peter Proud / The Number 23 / The Forgotten / The Sixth Sense / Angel Heart / Spider / Ninety-Five Senses
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