I WOULD LIKE TO CREATE A TALK SHOW TAPING WHERE I SHOWCASE MY SUNGLASS COLLECTION AND WHICH EACH PAIR THAT I PUT ON I MAGICALLY TURN INTO A NEW CHARACTER. AND I WOULD END THE SHOW BY SHOWING MY NEWEST COLLECTION OF...BROCHES. THIS WOULD BE DONE MUCH LIKE THE LESLIE HALL VIDEOS THAT I PREVIOUSLY POSTED ON MY BLOG.
LESLIE HALL
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
NEW IDEAS FOR VIDEO #2:
I WOULD LIKE TO CREATE AN "INTERVINTION" LIKE EPISODE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS A PROBLEM WITH EXCESSIVE THIRFT STORE SPENDING PROBLEM.INTERVENTION
NEW IDEAS FOR VIDEO #3:
I HAVE A SPECIAL AFFECTION FOR INFOMERCIALS...PARTICULARLY THE NEW GOLD FOR CASH ONES. SO I WAS THINKING I WOULD CREATE MY OWN INFOMERCIAL IN OFFERING TO PROVIDE THE VIEWER WITH MY EXTREAM CONFIDENCE PROGRAM IN EXCHANGE FOR A MERE 6 PAYMENTS OF $19.99. INFOMERCIAL
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Reaction to filming...
I found the second time around filming to be a less intimidating but it was still very stressfull during the process. I had a lot more people helping which made filming easier but since theses were not the people I used in rehersal it made filming drag out and take forever, since I had to explain what they were doing in each scene. but all in all it went alot smoother.
Character through lighting
I would like to create a crazy glam rock character that is way more awesome in her mind than in reality. sorta like the videos below. The lighting would be dramatic as well as hazy to make it feel dream like and in her mind.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
LIGHTING QUIZ:
1. KEY- This is usually the strongest light and has the most influence on the look and mood of the scene. The key is placed on one side of the camera/subject so that this side will be well lit and the other side will have some shadow.
FILL- This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. Used to fill the shadows created by the key. Fill usually softer and less bright than the key. To achieve this the fill light should be further away or use light some spun. Might want to set the fill to more flood than key.
BACK- The back light is placed behind subject and lights them from the rear. Rather that providing direct lighting (like the key or the fill) its purpose is to provide definition & subtle highlights around the subject from the background and provide a 3 dimensional look. Basically the back creates depth.
2.Use a reflector to bounce the direct sun light away from the subject, this reflector could be made of a number of things such as white foam core, a shinny silver surface(aluminum foil,) or a back cloth covered board.
3. In any scene you should never move the camera angle more than 180 degrees,so as not to make the viewer sick. Or, it could have to do with the 3 point lighting and thats the distance between the camera and all 3 lights: key-30degrees, fill-50, and back-100degrees.
FILL- This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. Used to fill the shadows created by the key. Fill usually softer and less bright than the key. To achieve this the fill light should be further away or use light some spun. Might want to set the fill to more flood than key.
BACK- The back light is placed behind subject and lights them from the rear. Rather that providing direct lighting (like the key or the fill) its purpose is to provide definition & subtle highlights around the subject from the background and provide a 3 dimensional look. Basically the back creates depth.
2.Use a reflector to bounce the direct sun light away from the subject, this reflector could be made of a number of things such as white foam core, a shinny silver surface(aluminum foil,) or a back cloth covered board.
3. In any scene you should never move the camera angle more than 180 degrees,so as not to make the viewer sick. Or, it could have to do with the 3 point lighting and thats the distance between the camera and all 3 lights: key-30degrees, fill-50, and back-100degrees.
RESPONSE TO REHEARSAL:
RESPONSE TO REHEARSAL:
Once behind the camera, the rehearsal was very nerve racking… Initially, I was so set on perfection that every time the slightest thing went wrong, I re-shot the whole scene from the top of that scene, and after I spent over an hour on the first two scenes I realized, this was ridiculous. After, letting go of my need for a instant excellence the whole process go a whole lot better and I started having fun, and so did the assistant. The most important information that gained from the rehearsal was that I need more than one assistant; I decided that two are essential for the final filming and three would be even better. So, I have added one additional assistant, Katie Benjamin, she is actually the only one who was able to help me last night because Tori my other assistant, was busy. I also made a decision, I would like for Katie to read the voice-overs in addition to myself to see which one of us is easier to understand and sounds more natural. As the rehearsal progressed we had so much fun that we even started adding additional comments and sounds to the original script, which I think really added more of a humorous dynamic to the video. However, one major down fall to this rehearsal is the horrible sound effects I attempted to make were awful. The water sounded like I was beating around in a box and the thunder, well it sounds like microwave popcorn popping. So I need to decide if I want to push this really tacky sound aesthetic or if really natural sound effects would make the video a little more polished. Also, there were a lot of things that I did not have or need to improve, such as, need to finish my dioramas and make the background image larger than 8x10 possibly 11x14 would work better. (I USED BOTH GLOSSY AND MATT PAPER WANT OPINIONS ON WHICH LOOKS BETTER.) Needed more people. Need to find several red color gels for the lighting. Need a fan to make the wind movement and sound, also it was not in the cards for me to use a grill to make grill marks on my meat so I used paint and I kind of liked it but I think the grill marks would look better, or maybe I could blend the two. I needed more in my scenes and I think by enlarging my background I will have more space, and I do not need to do the “storm” scenes in my apartment. Finally, I think that I needed more camera control and a lot more subtle movement, another thing I did to compensate for the color gels was make the white balance more yellow and NOW I think this was a bad idea because I could have edited with the computer instead of compromising the only material I have to work.
Once behind the camera, the rehearsal was very nerve racking… Initially, I was so set on perfection that every time the slightest thing went wrong, I re-shot the whole scene from the top of that scene, and after I spent over an hour on the first two scenes I realized, this was ridiculous. After, letting go of my need for a instant excellence the whole process go a whole lot better and I started having fun, and so did the assistant. The most important information that gained from the rehearsal was that I need more than one assistant; I decided that two are essential for the final filming and three would be even better. So, I have added one additional assistant, Katie Benjamin, she is actually the only one who was able to help me last night because Tori my other assistant, was busy. I also made a decision, I would like for Katie to read the voice-overs in addition to myself to see which one of us is easier to understand and sounds more natural. As the rehearsal progressed we had so much fun that we even started adding additional comments and sounds to the original script, which I think really added more of a humorous dynamic to the video. However, one major down fall to this rehearsal is the horrible sound effects I attempted to make were awful. The water sounded like I was beating around in a box and the thunder, well it sounds like microwave popcorn popping. So I need to decide if I want to push this really tacky sound aesthetic or if really natural sound effects would make the video a little more polished. Also, there were a lot of things that I did not have or need to improve, such as, need to finish my dioramas and make the background image larger than 8x10 possibly 11x14 would work better. (I USED BOTH GLOSSY AND MATT PAPER WANT OPINIONS ON WHICH LOOKS BETTER.) Needed more people. Need to find several red color gels for the lighting. Need a fan to make the wind movement and sound, also it was not in the cards for me to use a grill to make grill marks on my meat so I used paint and I kind of liked it but I think the grill marks would look better, or maybe I could blend the two. I needed more in my scenes and I think by enlarging my background I will have more space, and I do not need to do the “storm” scenes in my apartment. Finally, I think that I needed more camera control and a lot more subtle movement, another thing I did to compensate for the color gels was make the white balance more yellow and NOW I think this was a bad idea because I could have edited with the computer instead of compromising the only material I have to work.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
revised from tuesday
1. IN DEPTH ANALYSIS—OF THE SCREENPLAY
a. Determine each character’s spine – life goals/objectives
The goal of my character is to get off Horn Island alive to prove to herself that she can survive terrible challenges while still remaining creative and seine preferably without full-blown skin cancer.
b. What are each major character’s obstacles to reaching their objectives?
Attempting to survive life on a tropical island with large punctures on the bottoms of both feet, 10th degree sunburns over 90% of her body, and a collapsed and mangled tent.
c. What are the actions the characters will use to overcome their obstacles and reach their objectives?
The character is dropped into the first scene.
After putting up the tent walks to beach to cool off but cuts foot on the way, finally makes it to the beach and puts foot in slat water to clean wound.
Leaves beach and walks back to tent.
Walks around tent area but does not do a lot because of sunburn.
Goes inside tent to sleep since the weather got worse.
Lying inside tent the elements finally take their toile on tent and it inevitably collapses onto character.
d. What are the ways and means the characters will use?
Character is basically just dropped into the scene and situation.
After clumsily putting up tent character scurries to the beach to cool down but on the walk down cuts gash in foot when finally get to beach character reluctantly put cut foot into water to clean wound.
Carefully walks back to tent.
Anxiously pacing around tent area worrying about foot, sunburn, and the increasingly bad weather.
After waiting around enough character gets inside tent, painfully lying down hoping for some sleep.
While lying in the tent the storm finally collapses the tent…right on top of character.
e. What adjustments do the characters make when their actions and means don’t succeed?
Her actions inevitably do succeed until then there is not much she can do but make the best of her uncomfortable situation by seeing the absurd humor in this whole trip.
f. What realistic doings are the actors engaged in?
Character is actively engorged in the act of surviving for example when she cuts her foot, she continues the walk to the beach so that she can flush out her wound to prevent infection. Also, she plays it safe just kind of staying right around her tent.
2. BREAKDOWN—OF THE SCREENPLAY/SCRIPT
a. The number and types of actors required. The one actor, so to speak, is my own “personification” which is projected onto a large hunk of meat illustrating/ explaining in detail what Horn Island made me feel like or how it impacted me physically and emotionally.
b. How many scenes each actor will be in and the total length of their performances. The actor is actually a personification. I will use a hunk of raw meat as the “stand in” for the actor in my film. I am hoping to utilize no more than 2 hunks of meat (these will be a larger than a fist.) In addition, I need at lest 2 assistants during the filming process to help with lighting, creating sound effects (waves crashing and thunderstorm,) and controlling the rainstorm (rain, lighting, and wind.) The meat is actually performing in 5 scenes.
c. The requirements, number, and types of locations. There are two primary locations (inside my apartment as well as outside.) Within these two locations there are going to 7 dioramas changing with each scene (inside apartment scenes 1-3, outside scenes 4-6.) There are a number of special requirements for the 7 dioramas, each scene has a different background, environment, sand configuration. The types of locations existing inside each diorama are beach imagery: scene1. background image: horizon line at the beach/dry sand scene2. background image: sunny day horizon line beach image with sandy shore in close proximity. (few yards)/dry sand background image: shell shards littering the beach/dry sand scene3. background image: either existing or create photo with red tent on beach with out water/dry sand scene4. background image: night landscape at Horn Island without tent/dry sand scene5. background image: night at red tent/wet sand scene6. background image: collapsed tent image and red fabric/wet sand
d. The number and types of stunts and special effects.
Creating the illusion of wind using an oscillating fan. Waves crashing using a sink full of water someone is churning. Red color gel in scenes 2-3 for hot hazy feeling. Pots, pans, and thick paper rumbling to make thunder scenes 5-6. Flashing light behind background in scenes 5-6 for lighting.
e. What special costumes and makeup will be required?
No make up except for applying small sweat beads to meat for scenes 2 and 3 as well as possibly insert meat thermometer in scene 3.
f. What props are required?
Most important props are 7 different dioramas (all with individual background photographs and sand configurations.) Water hose with a spray nozzle. Loose sand. Pots, pans, and thick paper. Hot lights. Red gel filters. Sink full of water. Meat thermometer. Fishing line, skewers, or rope. Red fabric.
3. LOCATION SCOUT—POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
This location could be a problem especially outside if the neighbors are still doing work on house as well as the sound from the fan is going to be an issue indoors with film.
4. CONFIRM LOCATIONS – Draw an overhead map of the natural and electrical power sources.
5. MASTER SHOTS - #1. An out of focus shot of a photograph (the horizon line at Horn Island) with the sound of waves crashing on to the shore. The sound will be made by running hand through a sink full of water.
Also determine in each scene what realistic doings the actors can be engaged in so that they aren't just standing around and reciting lines. Real people are always engaged in some kind of doing, preparing a meal, reading a book, surfing the web, while they are engaged in the various dialogs and actions that happen as they try to achieve their objectives.
a. Determine each character’s spine – life goals/objectives
The goal of my character is to get off Horn Island alive to prove to herself that she can survive terrible challenges while still remaining creative and seine preferably without full-blown skin cancer.
b. What are each major character’s obstacles to reaching their objectives?
Attempting to survive life on a tropical island with large punctures on the bottoms of both feet, 10th degree sunburns over 90% of her body, and a collapsed and mangled tent.
c. What are the actions the characters will use to overcome their obstacles and reach their objectives?
The character is dropped into the first scene.
After putting up the tent walks to beach to cool off but cuts foot on the way, finally makes it to the beach and puts foot in slat water to clean wound.
Leaves beach and walks back to tent.
Walks around tent area but does not do a lot because of sunburn.
Goes inside tent to sleep since the weather got worse.
Lying inside tent the elements finally take their toile on tent and it inevitably collapses onto character.
d. What are the ways and means the characters will use?
Character is basically just dropped into the scene and situation.
After clumsily putting up tent character scurries to the beach to cool down but on the walk down cuts gash in foot when finally get to beach character reluctantly put cut foot into water to clean wound.
Carefully walks back to tent.
Anxiously pacing around tent area worrying about foot, sunburn, and the increasingly bad weather.
After waiting around enough character gets inside tent, painfully lying down hoping for some sleep.
While lying in the tent the storm finally collapses the tent…right on top of character.
e. What adjustments do the characters make when their actions and means don’t succeed?
Her actions inevitably do succeed until then there is not much she can do but make the best of her uncomfortable situation by seeing the absurd humor in this whole trip.
f. What realistic doings are the actors engaged in?
Character is actively engorged in the act of surviving for example when she cuts her foot, she continues the walk to the beach so that she can flush out her wound to prevent infection. Also, she plays it safe just kind of staying right around her tent.
2. BREAKDOWN—OF THE SCREENPLAY/SCRIPT
a. The number and types of actors required. The one actor, so to speak, is my own “personification” which is projected onto a large hunk of meat illustrating/ explaining in detail what Horn Island made me feel like or how it impacted me physically and emotionally.
b. How many scenes each actor will be in and the total length of their performances. The actor is actually a personification. I will use a hunk of raw meat as the “stand in” for the actor in my film. I am hoping to utilize no more than 2 hunks of meat (these will be a larger than a fist.) In addition, I need at lest 2 assistants during the filming process to help with lighting, creating sound effects (waves crashing and thunderstorm,) and controlling the rainstorm (rain, lighting, and wind.) The meat is actually performing in 5 scenes.
c. The requirements, number, and types of locations. There are two primary locations (inside my apartment as well as outside.) Within these two locations there are going to 7 dioramas changing with each scene (inside apartment scenes 1-3, outside scenes 4-6.) There are a number of special requirements for the 7 dioramas, each scene has a different background, environment, sand configuration. The types of locations existing inside each diorama are beach imagery: scene1. background image: horizon line at the beach/dry sand scene2. background image: sunny day horizon line beach image with sandy shore in close proximity. (few yards)/dry sand background image: shell shards littering the beach/dry sand scene3. background image: either existing or create photo with red tent on beach with out water/dry sand scene4. background image: night landscape at Horn Island without tent/dry sand scene5. background image: night at red tent/wet sand scene6. background image: collapsed tent image and red fabric/wet sand
d. The number and types of stunts and special effects.
Creating the illusion of wind using an oscillating fan. Waves crashing using a sink full of water someone is churning. Red color gel in scenes 2-3 for hot hazy feeling. Pots, pans, and thick paper rumbling to make thunder scenes 5-6. Flashing light behind background in scenes 5-6 for lighting.
e. What special costumes and makeup will be required?
No make up except for applying small sweat beads to meat for scenes 2 and 3 as well as possibly insert meat thermometer in scene 3.
f. What props are required?
Most important props are 7 different dioramas (all with individual background photographs and sand configurations.) Water hose with a spray nozzle. Loose sand. Pots, pans, and thick paper. Hot lights. Red gel filters. Sink full of water. Meat thermometer. Fishing line, skewers, or rope. Red fabric.
3. LOCATION SCOUT—POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
This location could be a problem especially outside if the neighbors are still doing work on house as well as the sound from the fan is going to be an issue indoors with film.
4. CONFIRM LOCATIONS – Draw an overhead map of the natural and electrical power sources.
5. MASTER SHOTS - #1. An out of focus shot of a photograph (the horizon line at Horn Island) with the sound of waves crashing on to the shore. The sound will be made by running hand through a sink full of water.
Also determine in each scene what realistic doings the actors can be engaged in so that they aren't just standing around and reciting lines. Real people are always engaged in some kind of doing, preparing a meal, reading a book, surfing the web, while they are engaged in the various dialogs and actions that happen as they try to achieve their objectives.
Contact Sheet: Actor/Crew
FILM CONTACT SHEET: ACTORS AND CREW
Amanda Ingram
PHONE:
334-300-6616
ADDRESS:
267 N Avalon
Memphis, TN 38112
Tori Green
PHONE:
615-430-9851
ADDRESS:
267 N Avalon
Memphis, TN 38112
Amanda Ingram
PHONE:
334-300-6616
ADDRESS:
267 N Avalon
Memphis, TN 38112
Tori Green
PHONE:
615-430-9851
ADDRESS:
267 N Avalon
Memphis, TN 38112
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
SCRIPT;
SCENE ONE:
The film begins with a voice over with the sound of ocean waves crashing onto the shore and an out of focus shot of the diorama without the raw meat.
VOICE OVER: Initially the idea of immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island seemed dreamy. Imagining my skin drenched in the luxurious texture of velvety sand, its refreshing silky feeling on my bare skin, the unending sound of the cool ocean water waving peacefully to and fro.
Immediately after this is said I think I want the hunk of meat to dramatically plop into the scene and change the whole dynamic of the previous voice over.
The diorama, in the middle of a hot afternoon, bright sunlight beaming down onto the meat as it attempts to move around the box. Would like for this whole shot to have a red hue. And maybe end with a sound bit similar to that of “Debbie Downer” from SNL.
SCENE TWO:
Becoming acquainted with the island… sweating profusely after my sad attempt to put up tent I meander a few yards down to the ocean, however, in route I step onto a shard of broken sea shell, cutting a gash into the bottom of my left foot. Finally arriving to the sea I decide to place my bloody foot into the salt water to clean the wound….
VOICE OVER: Fuck, man I was not expecting such a shocking sting. Sitting there secretly congratulating myself for erecting my tent, lugging all 70 lbs of my gear like 6 miles across ridiculous sand dunes, and all without air-conditioning, motorized vehecials, or an ice cold coke. I was feeling pretty invincible at this point and decide to mosey around to evaluate the progress of my peers.
SCENE THREE:
Arrive back at my tent.
VOICE OVER: I begin to notice a burn on my freshly exposed skin. After investigating a bit I see pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of my smooth fair ivory complection. Damn it this is just great… day one and already a fucking sunburn.
SCENE FOUR:
Later that night in the cool night breeze…
VOICE OVER: That night the beach breeze kick up and felt chilly on my burned bare skin, yet under the sunburn it felt like I was internally radiating heat, I feel like a life sized Easy Bake Oven. But after a bit the wind pick up even more and it started to feel like I was being stung by invisible bees all over my body… damn it, there’s like tons of sand worlying around in the wind. And then out of nowhere it starts pouring down rain, well this totally fixed the windy sand problem, and brought an even more painful one.
SCENE FIVE:
Standing outside tent about to go in for shelter.
VOICE OVER: Deciding that it is a stupid idea to torment my tender skin anymore I decide to go into my tent for shelter. Inside I lie down on uneven sandy floor of my tent still feeling like a beacon of radiating heat I attempt to sleep. As the rainstorm turns into a thunderstorm.
SCENE SIX:
Inside my tent the thunderstorm rages on outside making my droop a bit from the weight of the rain and wind. Uncomfortably lying there, it finally occurs to me that maybe my tent might not be able to handle the intense wind. Damn, now what should I do if… and before completing the thought the damn thing crashes on top of me.
The film begins with a voice over with the sound of ocean waves crashing onto the shore and an out of focus shot of the diorama without the raw meat.
VOICE OVER: Initially the idea of immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island seemed dreamy. Imagining my skin drenched in the luxurious texture of velvety sand, its refreshing silky feeling on my bare skin, the unending sound of the cool ocean water waving peacefully to and fro.
Immediately after this is said I think I want the hunk of meat to dramatically plop into the scene and change the whole dynamic of the previous voice over.
The diorama, in the middle of a hot afternoon, bright sunlight beaming down onto the meat as it attempts to move around the box. Would like for this whole shot to have a red hue. And maybe end with a sound bit similar to that of “Debbie Downer” from SNL.
SCENE TWO:
Becoming acquainted with the island… sweating profusely after my sad attempt to put up tent I meander a few yards down to the ocean, however, in route I step onto a shard of broken sea shell, cutting a gash into the bottom of my left foot. Finally arriving to the sea I decide to place my bloody foot into the salt water to clean the wound….
VOICE OVER: Fuck, man I was not expecting such a shocking sting. Sitting there secretly congratulating myself for erecting my tent, lugging all 70 lbs of my gear like 6 miles across ridiculous sand dunes, and all without air-conditioning, motorized vehecials, or an ice cold coke. I was feeling pretty invincible at this point and decide to mosey around to evaluate the progress of my peers.
SCENE THREE:
Arrive back at my tent.
VOICE OVER: I begin to notice a burn on my freshly exposed skin. After investigating a bit I see pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of my smooth fair ivory complection. Damn it this is just great… day one and already a fucking sunburn.
SCENE FOUR:
Later that night in the cool night breeze…
VOICE OVER: That night the beach breeze kick up and felt chilly on my burned bare skin, yet under the sunburn it felt like I was internally radiating heat, I feel like a life sized Easy Bake Oven. But after a bit the wind pick up even more and it started to feel like I was being stung by invisible bees all over my body… damn it, there’s like tons of sand worlying around in the wind. And then out of nowhere it starts pouring down rain, well this totally fixed the windy sand problem, and brought an even more painful one.
SCENE FIVE:
Standing outside tent about to go in for shelter.
VOICE OVER: Deciding that it is a stupid idea to torment my tender skin anymore I decide to go into my tent for shelter. Inside I lie down on uneven sandy floor of my tent still feeling like a beacon of radiating heat I attempt to sleep. As the rainstorm turns into a thunderstorm.
SCENE SIX:
Inside my tent the thunderstorm rages on outside making my droop a bit from the weight of the rain and wind. Uncomfortably lying there, it finally occurs to me that maybe my tent might not be able to handle the intense wind. Damn, now what should I do if… and before completing the thought the damn thing crashes on top of me.
PRE-PRODUCTION PACKAGE 1-5:
1. IN DEPTH ANALYSIS—OF THE SCREENPLAY
a. Determine each character’s spine – life goals/objectives
The goal of my character is to get off Horn Island alive to prove to herself that she can survive terrible challenges while still remaining creative and seine preferably without full-blown skin cancer.
b. What are each major character’s obstacles to reaching their objectives?
Attempting to survive life on a tropical island with large punctures on the bottoms of both feet, not having a container for drinking water, 10th degree sunburns over 90% of her body, and a collapsed and mangled tent.
c. What are the actions the characters will use to overcome their obstacles and reach their objectives?
First, survival is finding a usable water bottle to transport drinking water back to her tent from main camp. Then coping with layers of fierce sunburns she endured from the previous days she must rig her windswept tent up for shelter from the pelting rain storms. As well as, continuously cleaning and re-duck tapping the seashell shard gashes on the bottoms of both feet.
d. What are the ways and means the characters will use?
Forcefully, praying for deliria from prolonged sun exposer as well as, digging deep within herself for the determination to overcome the island’s harsh conditions.
e. What adjustments do the characters make when their actions and means don’t succeed?
Her actions inevitably do succeed until then there is not much she can do but make the best of her uncomfortable situation by seeing the absurd humor in this whole trip.
f. What realistic doings are the actors engaged in?
Survival in complete unbridled nature.
2. BREAKDOWN—OF THE SCREENPLAY/SCRIPT
a. The number and types of actors required.
The one actor, so to speak, is my own “personification” which is projected onto a large hunk of meat illustrating/ explaining in detail what Horn Island made me feel like or how it impacted me physically and emotionally.
b. How many scenes each actor will be in and the total length of their performances.
The actor is actually a personification. I will use a hunk of raw meat as the “stand in” for the actor in my film. I am hoping to utilize no more than 2 hunks of meat (these will be a larger than a fist.) In addition, I need at lest 2 assistants during the filming process to help with lighting, creating sound effects (waves crashing and thunderstorm,) and controlling the rainstorm (rain, lighting, and wind.)
The meat is actually performing in 5 scenes.
c. The requirements, number, and types of locations.
There are two primary locations (inside my apartment as well as outside.)
Within these two locations there are going to 7 dioramas changing with each scene (inside apartment scenes 1-3, outside scenes 4-6.)
There are a number of special requirements for the 7 dioramas, each scene has a different background, environment, sand configuration.
The types of locations existing inside each diorama are beach imagery:
scene1. background image: horizon line at the beach/dry sand
scene2. background image: sunny day horizon line beach image with sandy shore in close proximity. (few yards)/dry sand
background image: shell shards littering the beach/dry sand
scene3. background image: either existing or create photo with red tent on beach with out water/dry sand
scene4. background image: night landscape at Horn Island without tent/dry sand
scene5. background image: night at red tent/wet sand
scene6. background image: collapsed tent image and red fabric/wet sand
d. The number and types of stunts and special effects.
Creating the illusion of wind using an oscillating fan.
Waves crashing using a sink full of water someone is churning.
Red color gel in scenes 2-3 for hot hazy feeling.
Pots, pans, and thick paper rumbling to make thunder scenes 5-6.
Flashing light behind background in scenes 5-6 for lighting.
e. What special costumes and makeup will be required?
No make up except for applying small sweat beads to meat for scenes 2 and 3 as well as possibly insert meat thermometer in scene 3.
f. What props are required?
Most important props are 7 different dioramas (all with individual background photographs and sand configurations.)
Water hose with a spray nozzle.
Loose sand.
Pots, pans, and thick paper.
Hot lights.
Red gel filters.
Sink full of water.
Meat thermometer.
Fishing line, skewers, or rope.
Red fabric.
3. LOCATION SCOUT—POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
This location could be a problem especially outside if the neighbors are still doing work on house as well as the sound from the fan is going to be an issue indoors with film.
4. CONFIRM LOCATIONS –
Draw an overhead map of the natural and electrical power sources.
5. MASTER SHOTS -
#1. An out of focus shot of a photograph (the horizon line at Horn Island) with the sound of waves crashing on to the shore. The sound will be made by running hand through a sink full of water.
Also determine in each scene what realistic doings the actors can be engaged in so that they aren't just standing around and reciting lines. Real people are always engaged in some kind of doing, preparing a meal, reading a book, surfing the web, while they are engaged in the various dialogs and actions that happen as they try to achieve their objectives.
a. Determine each character’s spine – life goals/objectives
The goal of my character is to get off Horn Island alive to prove to herself that she can survive terrible challenges while still remaining creative and seine preferably without full-blown skin cancer.
b. What are each major character’s obstacles to reaching their objectives?
Attempting to survive life on a tropical island with large punctures on the bottoms of both feet, not having a container for drinking water, 10th degree sunburns over 90% of her body, and a collapsed and mangled tent.
c. What are the actions the characters will use to overcome their obstacles and reach their objectives?
First, survival is finding a usable water bottle to transport drinking water back to her tent from main camp. Then coping with layers of fierce sunburns she endured from the previous days she must rig her windswept tent up for shelter from the pelting rain storms. As well as, continuously cleaning and re-duck tapping the seashell shard gashes on the bottoms of both feet.
d. What are the ways and means the characters will use?
Forcefully, praying for deliria from prolonged sun exposer as well as, digging deep within herself for the determination to overcome the island’s harsh conditions.
e. What adjustments do the characters make when their actions and means don’t succeed?
Her actions inevitably do succeed until then there is not much she can do but make the best of her uncomfortable situation by seeing the absurd humor in this whole trip.
f. What realistic doings are the actors engaged in?
Survival in complete unbridled nature.
2. BREAKDOWN—OF THE SCREENPLAY/SCRIPT
a. The number and types of actors required.
The one actor, so to speak, is my own “personification” which is projected onto a large hunk of meat illustrating/ explaining in detail what Horn Island made me feel like or how it impacted me physically and emotionally.
b. How many scenes each actor will be in and the total length of their performances.
The actor is actually a personification. I will use a hunk of raw meat as the “stand in” for the actor in my film. I am hoping to utilize no more than 2 hunks of meat (these will be a larger than a fist.) In addition, I need at lest 2 assistants during the filming process to help with lighting, creating sound effects (waves crashing and thunderstorm,) and controlling the rainstorm (rain, lighting, and wind.)
The meat is actually performing in 5 scenes.
c. The requirements, number, and types of locations.
There are two primary locations (inside my apartment as well as outside.)
Within these two locations there are going to 7 dioramas changing with each scene (inside apartment scenes 1-3, outside scenes 4-6.)
There are a number of special requirements for the 7 dioramas, each scene has a different background, environment, sand configuration.
The types of locations existing inside each diorama are beach imagery:
scene1. background image: horizon line at the beach/dry sand
scene2. background image: sunny day horizon line beach image with sandy shore in close proximity. (few yards)/dry sand
background image: shell shards littering the beach/dry sand
scene3. background image: either existing or create photo with red tent on beach with out water/dry sand
scene4. background image: night landscape at Horn Island without tent/dry sand
scene5. background image: night at red tent/wet sand
scene6. background image: collapsed tent image and red fabric/wet sand
d. The number and types of stunts and special effects.
Creating the illusion of wind using an oscillating fan.
Waves crashing using a sink full of water someone is churning.
Red color gel in scenes 2-3 for hot hazy feeling.
Pots, pans, and thick paper rumbling to make thunder scenes 5-6.
Flashing light behind background in scenes 5-6 for lighting.
e. What special costumes and makeup will be required?
No make up except for applying small sweat beads to meat for scenes 2 and 3 as well as possibly insert meat thermometer in scene 3.
f. What props are required?
Most important props are 7 different dioramas (all with individual background photographs and sand configurations.)
Water hose with a spray nozzle.
Loose sand.
Pots, pans, and thick paper.
Hot lights.
Red gel filters.
Sink full of water.
Meat thermometer.
Fishing line, skewers, or rope.
Red fabric.
3. LOCATION SCOUT—POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
This location could be a problem especially outside if the neighbors are still doing work on house as well as the sound from the fan is going to be an issue indoors with film.
4. CONFIRM LOCATIONS –
Draw an overhead map of the natural and electrical power sources.
5. MASTER SHOTS -
#1. An out of focus shot of a photograph (the horizon line at Horn Island) with the sound of waves crashing on to the shore. The sound will be made by running hand through a sink full of water.
Also determine in each scene what realistic doings the actors can be engaged in so that they aren't just standing around and reciting lines. Real people are always engaged in some kind of doing, preparing a meal, reading a book, surfing the web, while they are engaged in the various dialogs and actions that happen as they try to achieve their objectives.
REVISED: GENRE/LOGLINE/SYNOPSIS EXERCISE
GENRE:
Experimental/ Comedy
LOGLINE:
A young woman’s academic expedition thrust her into nature on an uninhabited island.
SYNOPSIS:
A young collegian enrolls in a 10-day summer class to experience Horn Island; however, absurdly ill prepared she embarks on an environment she never suspected.
Experimental/ Comedy
LOGLINE:
A young woman’s academic expedition thrust her into nature on an uninhabited island.
SYNOPSIS:
A young collegian enrolls in a 10-day summer class to experience Horn Island; however, absurdly ill prepared she embarks on an environment she never suspected.
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