Short Film 1 "A Rose Tinted World"

SHORT FILM

 "A Rose Tinted World"

Shot in the first person.

A man (or woman) enters an opticians eye test room. Within are various standard eye test equipments. They are asked to sit in the large chair opposite the wall with a projector screen/eye chart upon it. The opticians face (again male or female) is obscured by the angle of the first person (FP) camera facing the wall, all is seen is chin down as she places the mask for inserting different lenses in front of the eyes is positioned before the FP camera/our man. All the while the optician and our man exchange pleasantries.

As soon as the lenses modifier is positioned, a photo of a man and woman facing each other appears on the screen facing the chair (where the eye chart would usually be placed). These two people in the projected picture have no emotion towards one another and are standing two arm lengths apart just staring blankly. The image is out of focus slightly.

The optician asks our man/us if the image on the screen is clear. To which he replies no and the optician fiddles with the lens of the machine projecting the image above the chair. Once done our man says he can see more clearly now. Satisfied the optician begins.

New lenses, pink tinted, are placed in front of the FP camera/our man where the picture changes to either a good version where the couple are hugging or smiling at one another; or a negative version where they are not even facing one another. Like a normal eye test the optician asks if it is “better with or without” said lens being used and a truthful response is given by our man.

In the background there is the hum of the projector spewing forth the ‘same original’ image. It’s the glasses lenses that change the pictures inclination.

As the exam continues the number of Good to Bad pictures/lenses defer to the positive as the negative pictures of the couple become less violent till the last two (“better before or after”) lenses are two kinds of positive responses of the couple to each other.

 
Happy with the results from the exam the optician removes the lens mask. The picture on the wall returns to the original couple staring blankly at one another from the beginning of the test.

The optician, back to our person scribbling in a filder on a desck, tells our man to wait outside because his glasses would be ready in about ten minutes and he should go pick out a set of frames that he likes. He leaves the room.

End