57. Diegetic Definition

"This is where the witches come out." - Mr. Aaronson

When reviewing the rough cut, Mr. Aaronson said that, and at the time it didn't mean anytime, until now. 

I didn't play too much into the fantasy/magic genre that my story had, so why not add it now! It would be a play on a typical magic book that a protagonist finds at the beginning of their journey and gives them all the information that they will need for their quest. Not exactly like that, but a magic/old book that holds the entire definition, cause and cures to the Hanahaki Disease. Adding this might give the audience a more fairytale fantasy genre, which I don't really want, but I'm willing to sacrifice a bit to get this definition in a more creative way. 

The scene itself would be V in a whole new outfit and location, indicating a different day/time, of the first time V got the Hanahaki Disease. 

The location would be a dark area, with a sliding drawer (because that movement looks really cool). I could also try to add fake spider webs to make it look extremely old and no one has been in it in a long time. 

The location for the scene; it is meant to be dark.

The sliding drawer movement.

V would be looking into an old-looking drawer with a hundred old books inside (shown using an overhead shot). Slowly she takes out books, looks through them and puts them to the side (this will show how many books there is in the drawer and how long/hard it is to find out what the disease is). Once V finds the right book, she will open and (verbally) read the definition, cures and causes to the audience, along with the close up of the pages in the book. 

Instead of having a chaotic bathroom scene, it would now intercut between this new scene and the bathroom. Most likely starting with the flower drop transition, to give the physical location transition I thought of when I made it. 

For the book itself, it would be similar to typical, magic looking books in fantasy genre medias. They have a brown/leather cover, yellowing/browning pages with many rips and tears, sometimes have bookmark ribbons, and may have metals or fancy looking drawings on the cover. 

Some stories have the books glow once they're opened, but I feel that would play way too much into the fairytale genre, plus I don't see how I could do that. 

My idea is to take a thin, white book and stain it with coffee to get the slight brown pages and I would probably have to paint the cover to be really brown. Then I'll burn the edges of the pages to look old or worn.

For the title cover of the book, I wouldn't put 'Hanahaki Disease' because V wouldn't know what that is. The options are to either have it say something with 'love, diseases, blood' etc. or to have it say nothing, to give a little more suspense (plus that could intercut again with the bathroom). 

One example of a fairytale book. 

Another example of a magical book, with a glowing light coming out of it.