Act 1 Expanded

Due to the amount and level of polish I want for this film I am expanding Act 1 into almost 3 acts for the short film.

Act 1:
Starts with a close up of the dark fairys feet walking up stone steps to the throne room of Dunvalin. The camera cuts to the worried king who is explaining to his son the desperation of the situation. It then cuts back to the steps as they get closer and closer to the throne room. It then cuts back to the King and the son as the king gives him a map and a pack and is about to give him the gem when we cut back to the footsteps outside right at the throne room door. It then cuts to the king yelling HIDE, to the prince and he stands up to face the threat.

Just then the doors of the throne room fly open and there in full battle armor is a female dark fairy. Without hesitation she slowly walks toward the king. The king stands up and begins to summon fire in self defense. The clearly more powerful fairy laughs as she is still approaching the throne she flicks her wand and conjures metal shackles and binds the kings hands together. She comes about twenty feet from the throne and stops. She says give me the pendent of the phoenix. The king refuses. She conjures a chain around his waist using her wand and drags him off the throne and two her feet. She then magically unbinds the shackles on his hands from each other and nails them to an invisible spot in the room which leaves the king hanging from his wrists full exposed. She snatches the pendent from around his neck and walks away.


We then cut to a short of the prince who is hiding behind the pillar extremely nervous and scared who has been watching everything.

We then see a long shot of the fairy who is now about 20 feet away from the king who is still hung by his wrists in mid air and she gracefully arcs her wand and conjures an extremely long sword. With sword in hand she exposes her large armored dark fairy wings. She turns to face the king. And flies to the top of the throne room. She remains airborne just long enough to catch a wicked grin on her face and she dive bombs out of the air and toward the king.. as she as headed right for him the shackles release their prisoner and she drives the sword right through the king and pushes all the back into the throne and drives the sword right through the king and his throne instantly killing him.


We now see a shot of the prince eyes as he sees and hears whats going on. A look of determination comes over his face. And as the fairy pasts him he conjures a small flame and sends it lunging at the pendent. Unbeknown to him or the fairy once the fire hits the pendent it begins to glow. The fairy sees the boy un aware of the glowing pendent and laughs at his efforts. Just as she un sheathes her wand again, the pendant changes from solid red gem to fiery flaming phoenix of the same size and flies at the boy and is burned into his chest. The prince not fully knowing what he has gotten himself into backs up to the wall and reaches behind him pulling a lever which reveals a secret door that he disappears into and begins running down a stone corridor.


The fairy clearly unannoyed and not quite viewing the prince as a threat ponders the situation then instantly leaps out of the window and takes to the air. We cut to the prince as he is breathing hard and running down a dark circular stair case using the flame in his hand to light his path.


We cut to a shot of the dark fairy hovering in mid air outside the castle, around us we see the volcano the kingdom is built around the burning city of Dunvalin and the rest of the castle. Far below we can see the silhouette of the prince running down a long bridge which leads to a platform overlooking the ocean. Once the fairy notices him she dives down to the bridge and pursues him. She is much quicker and much stronger she catches up to him soon and grabs him trying to carry him off since he appears to be one with the pendent. She lifts him slightly into the air and tries to fly awaybut the wiggles a hand free and sends a plume of fire through her body underneath her armor. The dark fairy screams in pain and drops him back down to the bridge. She lands and quickly gets over the pain and is now very angry. The prince is now at the edge of the platform and the fairy is walking towards him wand exposed. Just when she is about to strike he leaps backwards off the platform to what appears to be a sure death. However, he lands quickly on the deck of a Dunvalin airship and sends another plume of flame into the furnace which quickly propels the ship into the horizon and away from the castle.


The fairy watches the ship sail into the horizon.. after a few moments she smiles and uses her wand to conjure two double bladed scythes. She uses her power to spin them at extremely high speeds and sends them both lunging in a L shaped direction peeling around and tearing the airship into three pieces. The boy sees the scythes coming from about 600 feet and tries to avoid the damage but the ship is hit and he falls and hits his head on a wooden plank and is knocked out as he falls to his death. As he falls the pendant of the phoenix in his chest begins to glow very brightly and when all hope is lost two extremely large phoenix wings emerge from the prince’s back and break his fall. The screen goes to black thats the end of Act 1.