What does the character’s mind want?

The characters mind is a complex situation emotionally and is in a very fragile state.

What does the character’s heart want?

His heart longs for things to be as they were and for his father to be still alive.

What does the character’s soul deserve?

The character is not of bad intentions, but his soul has been warped and tormented and twisted with grief causing it to become bitter and uncaring.

Does the character have any traits that would help or hinder their desires?

The character has become bitter and twisted and now has a rather cruel soul. He is no longer able to love the books and stories his father once read to him.

Does the character’s context have any aspects that would help or hinder their desires?

The characters main desire is to have his father back again. His main hindrance is that his mind is in a fragile state because of his father’s death and he no longer is sure what is reality and what is not any more. He is convinced the library is tormenting him when really he is imprisoned in a certain state of mind.

Does the character’s history have any aspects that would help or hinder their desires?

The Librarian used to be an extremely happy person full of a love for stories, an element of his past self still lingers in the shell of the man he has become but this is only a very small part of his being.

Do other characters want the same things?

The narrator views things differently to our Librarian.

The Librarians personality is not what you would typically expect from a person who is supposed to be a lover of books, for this melancholic character despises stories, especially those with a happy ending. The death of Librarian senior brought on the demise of his love for stories, those happy memories of being read his favourite fairy tales once upon a time only remind him of the loss of his beloved father. Inheriting the library that he once loved feels like a graveyard of painful reminders of what he has lost, and our Librarian is sure those horrid books and stories are out to get him. So please, don’t expect a happily ever after as we observe the grief stricken mind of the Librarian.

Story:

• Slow build up, telling the story of his father, he's alone, this is the reality. Close up camera angles on his expression, sighing, eye movements.
• Books come to life, the stories bring out a character in him.
• He tells a story which animates him, books come to life.
• Relates his grief through stories, his emotions become animated.

In reality he is sunken into his chair, part of the chair, looks like he is growing out of it or has become part of it with time. Appearance would suggest that he will never be able to get out of this chair again and is resigned to this fact.

Suggestion that when he tells the stories the sprightly librarian is in his mind, it is his spirit coming to life with the story, himself rememberin the excitment and life in books.

Think about performance over the dialogue.
I often concentrate on dialogue for expressing what I want to say. Using the 1-10 dialogue in performance made me think more about body actions and tone of voice.
You don't need dialogue to express what you want to say all the time.

I'm not going to lie, I did this within an hour in a mad panic to lay some ideas down before the pitch. There are many things that I don't like about it (perhaps mostly the fact that it doesn't make sense!) but there are a few ideas I may take away and build upon.

Art Direction for the Story

This is perhaps the best example I have written so far of what I want to achieve with the story: