1. Beams
Scoops
Fade
2. Scoop?
3. Beam light
4. Fade
5. White card adds overall light to the area without glare
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Script Breakdown
1. a. 3 actors - 2 male one female to play the roles of a grandma, a young man, and his friend. I will double as the young man and also as the deep male voiceover.
b. young man will be in the first scene only, the friend will only be in the second scene and the grandma will be in the third. They are only about fifteen second scenes that fade up and freeze on their faces then fade out.
c. There will be four different locations two inside an apartment and two outside next to the street.
d. There will be one stunt to make it seem as i am running over a baby.
e. I will need a grandma's outfit and a small plastic baby doll to perform the run over stunt.
f. (read above) and also a strobe light and a blue plastic screen.
2. Sound will not be too much of a problem with the new script since it will all be done with voiceover. Lighting can be manipulated easily inside my apartment and my friend's who will play as the grandma's house. I will need a strobe light with a blue screen to create a police strobe look on the first scene. I do have a light i can use to add more light in the street as well.
b. young man will be in the first scene only, the friend will only be in the second scene and the grandma will be in the third. They are only about fifteen second scenes that fade up and freeze on their faces then fade out.
c. There will be four different locations two inside an apartment and two outside next to the street.
d. There will be one stunt to make it seem as i am running over a baby.
e. I will need a grandma's outfit and a small plastic baby doll to perform the run over stunt.
f. (read above) and also a strobe light and a blue plastic screen.
2. Sound will not be too much of a problem with the new script since it will all be done with voiceover. Lighting can be manipulated easily inside my apartment and my friend's who will play as the grandma's house. I will need a strobe light with a blue screen to create a police strobe look on the first scene. I do have a light i can use to add more light in the street as well.
Monday, February 9, 2009
test shooting notes
ok.. first i made the dumb move of not charging batteries the night before so i started charging them at noon and went scouting for some locations to shoot, while the large battery charged. at about 2 thirty i got back tried to start filming but yet again more set backs. For some reason the larger battery won't remain connected on the charger so it had absolutely no charge when i returned. i charged the smaller one for an hour leaving me with only an hour to run to my locations and shoot footage. What i found was that it is extremely hard in memphis to find a place where i may pull over and not have a car driving by every 5 seconds. So noise was a major problem. I also found that photo development places aren't exactly the best film locations either. And third i have no room for changing light around at these same locations. I shot some footage but have decided to start another idea i have that is more indoors and therefore more accessible and easier to manipulate. I will be staying up to write my new script with characters, costume, and prop information.
I will be filming a parody of Memphis public service announcements.
I will be filming a parody of Memphis public service announcements.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
"Let the Music Play" Plot and other info
3. a. Travis is a Graphic Design student in Memphis, TN who is attempting to complete the simple task of developing film at 9am.
b. He actually plans to pick up the film after class at noon yet his car stops dies on the way home and his cell phone is a piece and stopped working.
c and d. After pulling to the side Travis attempts to call for help but his phone glitches out and won't turn back on. After a moment of frustration attempting to get the car running he collapses in the driver's seat of the car. After a moment, a knock breaks the silence as a fairly inebriated homeless man is peering in the window. The man is offering to help yet Travis misunderstands, assuming that he is asking for money and is dismissive. After the hobo walks away there are a few more beats and Travis notices a cop approaching. He gets out and waves his arms at the cop as he approaches but the cop just waves back and drives by. Travis chases after the cop with no success and trips over the homeless man's plant. He gets up as the the man begins crying over the plant claiming it is hurt. After calming down the man demands an apology from Travis to his plant which is apparently named Jay Jay. After a brief argument Travis reluctantly agrees to apologize, to which the plant apparently does not accept. Nicholas begins wailing again because the good luck necklace he gave Jay Jay is lost. Travis promises to help if Nicholas will stop causing a scene. This causes for more frustration for apparently this necklace is imaginary and it takes Travis to eventually learn to play along and act like he found the necklace in his car. Nicholas makes some ambiguous statement of how the necklace causes the chaos of the world correlate in favor of the those who just let it exist. Unable to really grasp what this seemingly insane man is talking about, Travis looks for change in his car to go find a pay phone. Travis then notices Nicholas doing something under the hood of his car and adamantly asks what he is doing. Nicholas simply says, "Your film is ready", and shuts the hood as his body vanishes and the plant is nowhere to be found. Travis tries the engine and it cranks right up. He is already late for class so he heads to get his film anyways, curiosity most likely helped as well. Upon leaving Walgreens, drops the film on the ground revealing pictures of himself, Nicholas, and the plant that had taken place over the past hour.
e. Travis begins to lighten up and accept more of what happens that isn't under our control. He also is more apt to be generous.
f. i hope going to get filmed developed is realistic. Homeless are evident around this area and therefore realistic. Maybe some eccentric characters but hopefully made within a believable range. Some magical qualities will be evident.
b. He actually plans to pick up the film after class at noon yet his car stops dies on the way home and his cell phone is a piece and stopped working.
c and d. After pulling to the side Travis attempts to call for help but his phone glitches out and won't turn back on. After a moment of frustration attempting to get the car running he collapses in the driver's seat of the car. After a moment, a knock breaks the silence as a fairly inebriated homeless man is peering in the window. The man is offering to help yet Travis misunderstands, assuming that he is asking for money and is dismissive. After the hobo walks away there are a few more beats and Travis notices a cop approaching. He gets out and waves his arms at the cop as he approaches but the cop just waves back and drives by. Travis chases after the cop with no success and trips over the homeless man's plant. He gets up as the the man begins crying over the plant claiming it is hurt. After calming down the man demands an apology from Travis to his plant which is apparently named Jay Jay. After a brief argument Travis reluctantly agrees to apologize, to which the plant apparently does not accept. Nicholas begins wailing again because the good luck necklace he gave Jay Jay is lost. Travis promises to help if Nicholas will stop causing a scene. This causes for more frustration for apparently this necklace is imaginary and it takes Travis to eventually learn to play along and act like he found the necklace in his car. Nicholas makes some ambiguous statement of how the necklace causes the chaos of the world correlate in favor of the those who just let it exist. Unable to really grasp what this seemingly insane man is talking about, Travis looks for change in his car to go find a pay phone. Travis then notices Nicholas doing something under the hood of his car and adamantly asks what he is doing. Nicholas simply says, "Your film is ready", and shuts the hood as his body vanishes and the plant is nowhere to be found. Travis tries the engine and it cranks right up. He is already late for class so he heads to get his film anyways, curiosity most likely helped as well. Upon leaving Walgreens, drops the film on the ground revealing pictures of himself, Nicholas, and the plant that had taken place over the past hour.
e. Travis begins to lighten up and accept more of what happens that isn't under our control. He also is more apt to be generous.
f. i hope going to get filmed developed is realistic. Homeless are evident around this area and therefore realistic. Maybe some eccentric characters but hopefully made within a believable range. Some magical qualities will be evident.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
While We Wait
Genre: Comedic
Logline: A student goes to develop photos, pitting himself to wait an hour in his car and find amusement out of watching or interacting with his surroundings.
Synopsis: What is it about dreams that completely ignores the rules of reality. Everything affects us as though it is real yet laws of our world are lifted completely. This is incorporated into the forced waiting of an individual who starts on in the walgreens parking lot, just watching the outside world. A couple fights and he begins to mock them, realizing that what he does to them inside his car manipulates their actions outside. At one point he is even transported outside of his car and acts completely unmoved, as if this was normal. When do we finally realize that it is all a dream and wake up?
Logline: A student goes to develop photos, pitting himself to wait an hour in his car and find amusement out of watching or interacting with his surroundings.
Synopsis: What is it about dreams that completely ignores the rules of reality. Everything affects us as though it is real yet laws of our world are lifted completely. This is incorporated into the forced waiting of an individual who starts on in the walgreens parking lot, just watching the outside world. A couple fights and he begins to mock them, realizing that what he does to them inside his car manipulates their actions outside. At one point he is even transported outside of his car and acts completely unmoved, as if this was normal. When do we finally realize that it is all a dream and wake up?
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