Time Abridged

The idea for this piece came to me while I was having trouble sleeping a few nights back. I worked it out so well in my head that when I woke up I instantly took to writing it out without any problems.  Of course, the fact that this was an idea for a short film helped because from the very beginning I was thinking in that mindset as opposed to a written narrative. I did not take the time to write this in a proper format due to the fact that I have no hopes in regards to being able to shoot this idea. That, and the fact the film would have no spoken words, may make for a piece that is hard to read. In this form it is largely a concept.

The basic idea of being able to manipulate time, but, on a small, personally scale, is inspired by the 2008 video game “Braid”. In that game the concept of time manipulation started out as mostly a game play mechanic but eventually came to have a complex relationship with the narrative. That idea really stuck with me, mainly because I am the type of person that will think of various encounters I have had and how differently they would have gone with only a slight change. “Braid” was a sort of realization of this idea and so is this piece.