Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Painted by Georges Seurat
Logline: This shows a typical spring afternoon on the quad; people studying, having fun, and hanging out.
Treatment: It's a sunny spring afternoon on campus, with people hanging out on the quad. All around the quad, people are busy. They are rushing to get places, to class, to catch the metro, or to go home. On the quad, people are busy, but not in a rushed way. They are busy hanging out, studying, having fun, and relaxing. There is a group of people talking and laughing about a story that one of them just told. To their left, there are people playing frisbee. Not far from the frisbee players is a lone girl sitting near a tree reading. She is having difficulty relaxing, because she is near the commotion of the busy class-goers and can see everyone else having fun with their friends. Near her is another group of people, this time, sitting in a rough circle on their computers and phones, ignoring those around them. During all of this, people are still shuffling along the sidewalks both in the quad and around it and more people are coming to sit on the quad, creating even more of a distraction for the girl. This scene comes to a close by displaying all the activities that are occurring on the quad in one shot which shows the girl giving up and leaving the relaxing area that is the quad and giving into the busy commotion of those surrounding her.
