Eiffel Tower: POV

Eiffel Tower Parasitic Structure


Film: Static POV shot
Runs for approx: 120 seconds
Location: Top of the Eiffel Tower, lying on viewing platform looking down
POV: You are the person waiting for the bullet


*BEGIN*
Black (or white) screen: Possibly uses extremely out-of-focus film/image from top of tower.


Sound of the wind fades in: Actual sound recorded from top of Tower, possibly including background noise like car horns, sirens, [very very faint] but no voices. Also possibly very faint sound of breathing. Just a few seconds.


Screen slowly focuses: You see that there is ground far below, out of focus, extremely faint, possible tiny movements? Small parts of Tower structure? Probably filmed from the Tower if we could get an acceptable angle. This is a shot I can visualise but find hard to explain…


Focus settles on a space not far in front of you, where there is the top of a ‘tube’: Again I can visualise but find hard to explain…


This carries on for *?* seconds, with the blurry ground, the tube directly in front, and the faint sound of the wind.


*AFTER 60 SECONDS*
There is a loud sound, a click, a buzzer, a siren: Not sure what would fit here. It means that the gun has been fired. Now you are really waiting…


*?? SECONDS AFTER THE SOUND*
The bullet (suddenly?) grows large in the frame as it emerges from the top of the tube and stops a few centimetres from your face: Has to be very close, but not so close you can’t focus on it. Perhaps there is the faint sound of an intake of breath, or holding breath – depends if this is part of the sound at all.


The bullet slowly turns: It is a small cone-shaped projectile and you see it stop fleetingly, pivot and fall away again.


Screen focus switches back to the top of the tube: The bullet is falling back to the ‘collection point’. Again we are waiting, looking at the tube and listening to the wind.


*?? SECONDS AFTER THE BULLET STOPPED*
There is another sound, a click, a buzzer, a siren, different to the first one: It means that the bullet has landed back on the ground.


Abrupt end: The screen goes black (or white) and the sound stops.


*END*