This week our main focus was to plan, write and complete our
story for the project. We decided that our story be very simple but have a sort
of meaning or a moral at the end. The moral of our story is something along the
lines of ‘Don’t trust strangers’ or ‘Don’t meet up with someone you have met
online’/ ‘Social media is deadly’. Below is a summary of our story:
James (the
main character) who is extremely rich and owns many hotels and golf resorts around
the country doesn’t have many friends and if he does, they are only friends
with him because of his money. So one day he decided to make an account on a
website to meet people online. He started talking to this man named Nate and
James was so happy that he liked him because of himself that just after two
weeks, they decided to meet up at a café. After a while at the café it starts
raining heavily and so they find shelter in a dark alleyway away from everyone
else. However right from there everything starts to go downhill. Nate which obviously
is the villain, demands James for money but James refuses and starts slowly
walking backwards. Nate demanded again, however this time Nate takes out a gun.
James is very scared and takes out his phone to call the police and starts
screaming but nobody hears him. Nate then shoots him. The pistol was raised, it
shone so bright, the trigger was pulled, James saw the light…
However,
because this story is aimed for families and children, we wanted to end the
story with a happy ending. So James sees the light again but brighter this time
and wakes up to a candy land with froot loop trees and candy flowers, chocolate
waterfalls etc. THE END
Aria,
Yasmeen and I wrote the story whilst Jackson and Mario started planning out the
two characters James (hero) and Nate (villain) and Maria and Rana started looking
up backgrounds for the performance since we are going to combine Phantasmagoria
and Puppets.
Our Story
‘Is 5 o’clock okay?’ messaged James.
He couldn’t wait to finally go see Nate, his online friend, who he had been
talking to for around two weeks. They had planned to go to the newly opened
Thunder Café downtown. He couldn’t wait. James was an influential man with a
very influential business. He owned a chain of successful 5 star hotels and had
various golf clubs around the city. However, he didn’t have many friends and
the friends he did have only liked him because of his money. He wanted a
change, he wanted someone to like him for his personality, rather than his
money. That is why two weeks ago he made the account. He knew this day will
change his life forever.
‘Yup, sounds great! Can’t wait to see you,
dude!’ Nate replied. He was ecstatic and went to fetch his favourite red coat
from his cupboard. He bustled out the door, almost forgetting to grab his
wallet. Rushing to his new sleek red Porsche, he slipped on a little puddle of
water. ‘Oh no my new black pants!’ angry that he was going to make a bad
impression on Nate, he looks up at the sky and sees that the sky is a grey as
dust, ‘It’s going to rain today,’ he thinks to himself.
After about 10 minutes, James arrived
at the Thunder Café and spots Nate already sitting down at a small table. ‘Hey
man, how are you?’ asked James and from then they start chatting for hours and
hours. Well, what felt like hours. It must’ve been after 30 minutes that it
starts raining heavily. Droplets of rain
were splattering across the pavement, in our drinks and on our clothes. The sky
was angry and the clouds were crying. People were rushing inside restaurants,
shops and houses, eventually the streets became bare, like a desert in them
middle of summer. The smell of clean air was stunning and the sound of drops on
every object outside was like music to James’ ears. However, those soft notes
turned to loud drums. There was thunder and lightning racing across the sky and
the big booms were scaring the children.
James and Nate quickly grabbed their
jackets and found shelter in a dark alleyway near the train station. It was
cold but very dry, spider webs decorated the thick brick walls and every now
and then you could spot some rats sprinting to the holes underground. The
alleyway was pitch black making it hard for James and Nate to see. Yet they
still made out where they were going. There was the smell of urine mixed with
expired yoghurt, it was very hard to tell the last time someone had actually
come there. The rats and bats were looking at James and Nate like they were
some kind of intruders, disturbing them from their daily work. However, it was
perfect, no rain and no noise, especially no people, James thought. Though this
was exactly what Nate was thinking…
It seemed almost too perfect and that perfect soon stopped.
Suddenly Nate halts and demands James to give him his money, ‘I want all the
money that you have, NOW!’
‘I don’t understand Nate, I thought you were my friend.’
‘Obviously not, I knew who you were right from when we started
talking. I can’t believe you’re so stupid and thought you could find a ‘best
friend’ on the internet!’, ‘Now I want the money!’
James starts walking backwards and quickly takes out his phone and
dials 999 but Nate was faster than him. He takes out a gun aims for James’s
heart and shoots. The pistol was raised, it shone so bright, the trigger was
pulled, James saw the light…
He must’ve been dead, of course he was dead, he thought to himself,
‘But why am I still talking to myself?’ James indeed was dead but he had actually
been transported to another land. Seconds after James sees the light again, but
this time brighter. Gently he rubs his eyes and after adapting to the bright
light, realises that he is not in the alleyway or in the café neither at his
house. There were colourful froot loop trees, chocolate waterfalls, sour candy
flowers. The ground was made of liquorice and the street light of gummy candy,
the stop signs of candy cane. It was magical. It was candy land.
