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.