PR02: The Egyptian Pyramids Short

The Egyptian Pyramids is a comedic short about an archaeologist and his camel at a dig site in Egypt. The archaeologist discovers a remote which controls the pyramid in front of him; the pyramid rises up, revealing a new structure of a Pharoah's head, and another button creates stairs into the mouth of the head. Leaving the remote behind, the archaeologist goes to investigate. This turns out the be a bad decision, as the camel begins chewing on the remote and pressing buttons, which changes the configuration of the head and ultimately buries it in the sand to the state it was in originally when it swallows the remote. The archaeologist is trapped in there until he is forcibly ejected from the pyramid, landing back with his camel.

There are aspects of 'reversal of perception'; in here as the audience and the archaeologist takes the pyramid at face value, until the camel reveals that there is much more to these structures than we previously assumed. 'Reversal of fortunes' is possibly more applicable here, as the archaeologist discovers something amazing, that could change history, and most likely his life forever before having it all taken away from him by the camel and the story returning to where it was at the beginning. I feel like this creates an effective film, as both the discovery of the artefact/structure and the camel's destruction of the dream do not feel out of place or forced, and lead quite nicely towards each other.