The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl - Plans

Over this month me and Rosie will be making a short film based on the 'The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl' from Ray Bradbury's book 'The Golden Apples of the Sun'. This is a short story about a man, Michael Caine William Acton, who murders someone Poirot but is so obsessed with cleaning evidence of the crime that he can't leave the scene and is eventually caught by the police. 


We've chosen the most important points of the story to fit into our 2-5 minute film and scripted/planned how we could shoot it:


1. We'll use the framing device of a scene of Acton losing his sanity after the murder at the beginning and end. Begins with camera flashes of light over the trashed house moving onto Acton sitting in the room next to the body of Huxley.
2. Earlier, Acton and Huxley argue over a woman, intercut with shot of them fighting until Acton strangles Huxley leaving his body lying on the floor.
3. Acton puts on gloves and polishes the objects he touched e.g. glasses, the fruit, with close ups of his fingers to highlight his idea of his fingerprints being everywhere.
4. Acton becomes obsessed with polishing everything in the house, cleaning everything. 
5. Cuts to the house trashed, a repeat of the first shots of the film.
8. Police officers, the source of the camera flashes, walk through the house and find Acton. They lead him out of the house and he polishes the door handle as he goes.