A Dream of Bliss and Ruin
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Screenplay
A Dream of Bliss and Ruin Scene 1 INTERIOR. NIGHT. FLORA COMPOUND, DAHLIA’S BEDROOM DAHLIA WALTERS is a teenager who has grown bored with the repetivity of life and, to cope, starts to have very vivid dreams in which she is the queen of a desert terrain. She enjoys reading and often daydreams. DAHLIA is preparing to go to bed by brushing her teeth and then climbing into bed. DAHLIA WALTERS ( Voice over ) My life is not exciting ( Pause ) Until I go to sleep-that is Scene 2 EXTERIOR. DAWN. TELAL DESERT DAHLIA is exploring the desert and discovers a rock in the sand, she admires it before putting it down and walking away. DAHLIA WALTERS ( Voice over ) Of course the whole waking up thing ruins it Scene 3 INTERIOR. DAY. DAHLIA’S HOUSE. SALLY is DAHLIA’s mother who enjoys control and values cleanliness and often views the world in a pessimistic way. SALLY WALTERS ( Yelling but muffled through the door ) Dahlia DAHLIA WALTERS ( Opening eyes ) Hmm SALLY WALTERS Dahlia DAHL...
Week 14
This week, as a class we decided to look at postmodernism in order to take a brief break from screens and so we looked at the different conventions of postmodernism and identified which of there principles applied to various brief media texts.