When thinking about the script I looked at what the words have in common a plastic surgeon tries to preserve beauty in people and a taxidermist tries to preserve animals. Both things seek to preserve things, the only difference is that taxidermist do it when an animal is dead, and plastic surgeons do it on people who are alive. So the connecting component has to be the ball bearings. These are the two main ideas that I could think of after brain storming with friends.
Idea 1
An overweight woman
walks to her favourite cake shop as she stares at the new pastiseries in the
display cabinet . She catches her reflection in the window and is sighs as she
looks at her weight gain over the
years. She takes a deep breath, and sucks her stomach in, turning to see
herself from the side. She smiles at this drastic change but then realises that
she can’t hold her breath in for much longer. She exhales and the sudden force
sends her button off into the air.THUD. a dead pigeon lies motionless in the
distance. She turns towards the sound and sees a beautiful woman leaving the
Harvey Plastic Surgery Clinic. Her eyes focus on the sign out side of the
surgery.
Do you need to loose 50 pounds?
Are your grey hairs revealing your years?
Do you need to turn back time?
Then use the Plasto Mato it takes you back to
your golden years
She didn’t need to
read anymore she was inside the surgery with her robe on, the surgeon asked if
she had paid the fee. She nodded, and he then walked her over to an usual machine
and prompted her to stand inside of it. The machine door closed and the sound
of clashing and scraping and waxing fills the room. The surgeon then turns to
his secret volt where he decides to count his earnings for the day. A pound
coin rolls out of the safe and down into the mechanics of the machine loosening
the ball bearings. The machine goes crazy then finally stops letting out a red
gas. The smoke clears and the machine doors open, the lady appears no different
than when she arrived only now she had spray tan everywhere and her hair now
looked like a bird could live in it. She looked to her left and the surgeon was
frozen in his steps with her money in his hands.She walks out taking her money
with her.
A month later the
plastic surgery clinic has the word Taxidermist painted over the words Plastic
surgery clinic. The frozen surgeon is now a part of the window display holding
up a new sign that reads
You never have to let your pets or loved ones
go…
Character Biographies for Idea 1
I thought about the character biographies after I had written the story and I think that their profiles match the characters in the story well
Margret Cathworth
A single unmarried
woman about to turn 40, she has 9 cats and likes to take her favourite cat
tipsy out for walks. She was a very beautiful woman in her teens but has let
herself go after the death of her cat misty five years ago. She’s a bubbly person
with a quirky personality.
Likes: Cats, cakes and
baking
Dislikes: Dogs
Doctor Cooper Harvey
A plastic surgeon,
that has bought the newest piece of equipment for his clinic. The machine the
Plasto mato is the latest in plastic surgery and is equip with the ability to
perform any plastic surgery asked of it. Dr Harvey is greedy and only focuses
on people’s imperfections so that he can make money from them. He has a
fixation with the preservation of beauty and believes that his job is helping
those who are not perfect.
Idea 2
A female plastic
surgeon obsessed with the idea of creating the perfect man grafts the leftover
skin from her patience to a robot. Her perfect man then develops feelings for
the surgeon’s receptionist leaving the Surgeon heartbroken. She decides to take
his ball bearings out in revenge to destroy the robot.
Character Biography for Idea 2
Dr Sarah welding (Plastic
surgeon)
Sarah from a child has
always liked the idea of mending things and keeping things in perfect
condition. After her pet hamster chilli died when she was eight her family were
sad at the thought of her being distressed, so her father a taxidermist thought that he would stuffed the hamster
in perfect condition to make her happy . He was right , it made her ecstatic , she’s 32 and still has
that hamster to this day. Sarah’s obsession with things being perfect equip her
for the job as a plastic surgeon, she could be in an environment that means
that she can fix a persons imperfections. Sarah’s search for perfection in
everything , lead to her wanting to create the perfect mate. She learnt about
taxidermy from her father so she knew how to preserve skin.
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