Rough version of the
story:
Title shows
up
Scene opens in a room. A man is sitting on a sofa watching
film (Labyrinth), being completely immersed into it. Everything is quiet.
Except....Tick..Tock. A clock on the wall is ticking. He either catches the
ticking, or the clack starts ringing (alarm). He looks at the time and
registers that he is late to work. He quickly gets up, leaving in a hurry. The
sound of the clock ticking seazes, we can hear the door shutting. Otherwise
everything is quiet. We see him get his headphones out and onto his head. The
muffled sound of David Bowie’s music starts playing (Only mashed bits).
Alternative is, that the man starts humming and quietly singing the songs. The
narration starts here.
He walks down the streets, not interrested in anything. In
this sequence the city is shown, the tall buildings, people and traffic never
seazing it’s beat.
He gets to work and starts his day. Timelapse.
He is leaving work, again with the headphones on. He goes
through the city, when he realizes it has stopped raining. He takes off his
hood/hat and looks up. There he sees a big screen showing the news ‚David Bowie
is dead‘. What follows is a burst of sound, people talking, laughing, dogs
barking, cars honking, clock beating, ambulance horn. The same with vision, we
can see snippets of the news, headlines, interviews. After it gets the loudest,
everything suddenly stops. Narration ended.
Alternative: He takes the headphones off, and all the normal
sound comes in, laughing, talking, etc. And then he notices the news.
Everythingslows down, the sound of his surroundings quietens, but the news get
highlighted in his mind.
It starts raining again and the man starts slowly walking
home. The only sound here is the rain. The man is crying. He gets home, sits
down and plays the movie again. The camera will then slowly back away and tilt
to the dark sky.
Alternative: The film the man was watching in the morning
was on tape and when he returned, the tape was broken.
Alternative 2: The end scene could end with the rain sound
and the sound of the wall clock ticking.
End Credits.
All through the film, New York merchandise will be seen, to
underline the poems roots in New York and at the same time show the place of
death of David Bowie.
