My Ego Needs Shade
Key art
Synopsis
Darling, they said summer collection. Not a summer vacation for your ego. The beach behind them is a photograph. The lights are real. She stands in black stitched with gold and does not step off the mark.
My ego needs shade. And you are my shade. He says it with his hands in his pockets. A small pair of scales and a lion sit on the studio floor between them, furniture that already knows the joke.
Extended sequence
A camera on a tripod is already taking the shot.
The scales are small. The lion is not. Shade, here, is a second person who will not leave the frame.
Figures in the frame
A woman with long brown hair and a black dress worked in gold flowers.
A man in a black shirt with gold at the cuff, a lion crouched at his shoe.
Codex fragment
The beach behind them is a photograph. The lights are real. She does not step off the mark.
The fragment is My Ego Needs Shade.
Sound of Imagination
Shade is the studio after the line. The backdrop is off. She is still in the frame.
The page is Shade.
The Craft
The still is the gold dress, the black shirt, scales and a lion on a studio floor, a beach that is only paper.
Showcase
A small brass scale and a black lion, low enough to sit inside one person's shade.
The object is Shade for One.
Filed
Pocket Cinema · Two Signs
Libra and Leo on a set that pretends to be a beach. The short is the line about shade.
After the frame
Mark · keep · letter
Released rooms keep a mark from one to five, a keep on this device, and letters that stay with the page after the feed has moved on. My Ego Needs Shade is ready.
Letters under the frame
The Archivist · held
Filed in the archive. The page does not expire.