story (2nd Draft)

It's a dark evening in our coastal setting and the only thing that can be seen is the old lighthouse that stands by itself on top of a cliff edge. It’s quite misty outside but at this point the weather remains fairly peaceful.

Inside is a lone lighthouse keeper. Though he spends his time unaccompanied, he is quite content to sit solving crossword after crossword, although he completes them in only a quarter of the time he should, due to intermittent lighting.

Eventually the lighthouse keeper hits a tricky question and becomes rather stuck. Before this point we hear a rhythmic scribbling going on as he writes down the answers in time with the light. Now however the pattern is broken and the scribbling is replaced by the occasional tapping of his pencil on the table. After the light illuminates him a couple more times (his face appearing more confused/ frustrated each time) it eventually comes to an end. The bulb blows and the light goes off but still continues to spin. He is now left in darkness.

We now start to hear the weather outside changing, the winds suddenly pickup and we hear a collection of boat horns and crashing noises to go along with the loud winds.

At this point the keeper lights a gas/ or candle lantern, however its not quite as bright as his former source of light. He presses his face to the window, trying to see outside, however cannot. He then looks to his crossword, it’s not quite bright enough for that either. His attention now focuses toward the big light bulb (slowly) and then back towards his desk (worringly) - he fixates on his beloved crossword for a couple of seconds, before looking back up toward the light, glaring at it with a look of determination.

Next he makes his way down the circular stairs and out of the door, where outside there is a tremendous storm. We see him taking a couple of difficult steps, battleing against the wind.

He then struggles through another door before pushing against the wind to close it. He is now inside a little convenience store.

He walks towards a shop counter and points. The shopkeeper reaches for a lightbulb, however the lighthouse man waves his hand as if to say "no". So the shopkeepers pointing hand begins to move around, being directed by the mumbling of the lighthouse man. Eventually he makes a noise signifying what he wants. Again he targets lightbulbs, however this time the shopkeeper pushes several of them aside before revealing, to his own apparent surprise, an unusually large bulb at the back of the shelf. After paying the shopkeeper the lighthouse man hugs both arms around the bulb, hoists it off the counter and makes his way back to the exit.

When we see him back inside the lighthouse he is attaching the bulb with difficulty (we can still hear a chaotic racket from outside).

Once he finally gets the light up and running again we are given a quick glimpse of what has been going on outside in the darkness. We see a large ship being pulled beneath the surface by what appears to be some kind of sea monster. ( could just be the end of a tentacle)

We go back to the lighthouse keeper, who has been watching all of this too. He appears still for a moment, like he’s in shock. However after a few seconds of taking it all in his face begins to turn from shocked to a more satisfied, but at the same time curious look. His head turns to his desk, where he reaches for a book. He then flicks through several pages until he finds the right one. He runs his finger down a page and begins to look back and forth between the goings on outside and his book. He now has a delighted look on his face and we now see that the book is an encyclopedia of sea monsters.

The film ends with the now joyous keeper going back to his crossword and filling in the final answer, which is “Kraken” ( or some form of sea monster). He leans back in his chair and and lets out a sigh of relief.