"Mental" Notes: The Composer

"Mental" Notes is a bicentennial column that features specific ideas I've had that can't be fleshed out into a full short story/short film/blog post. On certain posts, it's almost meant to be a public brainstorming forum. Unlike regular posts, I'll post background information in the comments on a later date. This particular post was originally thought up as a brief animated short film.

The short opens in empty space. Absolutely nothing can be seen. A spectral figure appears, wearing a long cape almost the same size as his body. Only bits of him are shown with quick cuts, one cut reveals his gleaming eyes, sparkling with ambition and arrogance. He raises his arm and suddenly points it dramatically in the opposite direction. He creates a note (resembling the bells from the opening of John Lennon's Mother) and simultaneously creates a slow and gradual explosion of color. He repeats himself with the other arm, some of the paint balls receding into the others. He (doesn't actually have a gender but just for the purpose of typing) raises both arms and makes an another circle of color. Realizing the perfection of his composition, he begins flinging his arms out in different directions, creating many explosions of color and making a painful reverberation of the bell tone that almost pierces the fabric of space. His composition now complete, the composer puts his arms into himself and recedes hastily back into the emptiness of space. The short ends with the last paintball shrinking and disappearing into space.

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