Passage: The passage I will be adapting from Shooting Water (Saltzman, 2005) comes about in chapter two when Devyani talks about when she learned to love photography. There will be a few alterations to the story, as I plan on expanding on this sequence.
Treatment: Open on Istanbul as we see Devyani Salesman and her father Paul walking down the streets. The father and daughter couple walk together down the dark and dirty streets in complete silence as the world around them is bustling with locals. As they walk down the street Paul comes to a stop, Devyani continues to walk forward, not instantly realizing her father has stopped moving. Devyani turns around, and starts walking back to her father, “What’s the matter dad? You smell something?” Devyani jokingly …show more content…
“So this is what you wanted to look at… fish?” Devyani says as she turns to her father. “Devyani, I think there is a lot more than simple fish staring back at you. I think you might see something through a different lens.” Paul pulls out Devyani’s hand-me-down camera from his backpack. Devyani takes the camera chuckles at her dads persistence and pun. She fumbles around with the heavy camera until she finally gets a chance to look through the old lens. We see that Devyani’s expression is a bit blank as she pulls the camera away from her face. Sheets out a sigh and is about to say something to her father when the lights above the fish stands start to flicker on. After she witnesses the flickering of the lights, Devyani slowly puts the camera to her eye as we see the fish start to glow radiantly off the newly formed light source. With that she starts to walk around and take pictures from different perspectives and angles. As she walks away from her father, we see a smile come across his face. For a while the world goes silent as Deviant narrates to the audience “That was special night, the first night in my
Treatment: Open on Istanbul as we see Devyani Salesman and her father Paul walking down the streets. The father and daughter couple walk together down the dark and dirty streets in complete silence as the world around them is bustling with locals. As they walk down the street Paul comes to a stop, Devyani continues to walk forward, not instantly realizing her father has stopped moving. Devyani turns around, and starts walking back to her father, “What’s the matter dad? You smell something?” Devyani jokingly …show more content…
“So this is what you wanted to look at… fish?” Devyani says as she turns to her father. “Devyani, I think there is a lot more than simple fish staring back at you. I think you might see something through a different lens.” Paul pulls out Devyani’s hand-me-down camera from his backpack. Devyani takes the camera chuckles at her dads persistence and pun. She fumbles around with the heavy camera until she finally gets a chance to look through the old lens. We see that Devyani’s expression is a bit blank as she pulls the camera away from her face. Sheets out a sigh and is about to say something to her father when the lights above the fish stands start to flicker on. After she witnesses the flickering of the lights, Devyani slowly puts the camera to her eye as we see the fish start to glow radiantly off the newly formed light source. With that she starts to walk around and take pictures from different perspectives and angles. As she walks away from her father, we see a smile come across his face. For a while the world goes silent as Deviant narrates to the audience “That was special night, the first night in my