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a. The number and types of actors required – 4 actors, 1 male, 3 females.

b. How many scenes each actor will be in and the total length of their performances.

RICHARD: Six scenes

ROSE: Five scenes

Rachel: One scene

Counter lady: One scene

c. The requirements, number, and types of locations. 3 Locations. Sexsmith house, Java cabana, Overton Park

d. The number and types of stunts and special effects. 2 stunts. Richard getting slapped and Richard and Rose bumping into each other.

e. What special costumes and makeup will be required?

Richard: Two outfits. A t-shirt and shorts for pajamas, and a shirt and jeans for everyday outfit.

Rose: A dress for pajamas and jeans and a shirt for everyday outfit.

Rachel: A dress.

4 day shoot.

Images

Scene opens with a white man seated on a personal desk writing on a notepad. He tears off pages from it as he writes. After two crumpled pages, he looks like he has had an aha moment. He turns around and looks at his girlfriend.

                         RICHARD

     (A 25 year old white male. He is a

     comedian in midtown Memphis)

     Hey babe.. babe..

                     ROSE

     (A 24 year old white female. She is

      a graduate student)

     Yea, what is it?

                  RICHARD

     Listen to this, if apple made a car,

     would it have windows?

     (Nods his head while smiling)   

                  ROSE    

     ….(Ignores)

                  RICHARD   

     Babe. Baby, would it have windows..        

                  ROSE

     Babe, just stop, stop it! I don’t

     wanna hear your stupid jokes today

     okay.

                  RICHARD

     Stupid?

                  ROSE

     Yes, stupid!

           

                  RICHARD

     And just what do you know about

     writing jokes? 

                  ROSE

     Nothing, but i know that's not funny.

                  RICHARD

      Yeah well I cant cook but I know what
      good food supposed to taste like.

    

                  ROSE

      And just what is that supposed to mean!

Brief silence. 
Cut to both of them breathing heavily on the couch, Their clothing is folded and their hair is messy, suggesting that they just had sex.

            

SCENE 2   

The couple is at a grocery store shopping.     

      

                  ROSE

      Babe what are you doing?

                  RICHARD

      Picking up some cookies.

                  ROSE

      I made some cake earlier this week

                  RICHARD

      OOhhh that was what that was supposed to be

Rose looks furious, but she changes her facial expression to a cheeky smile. 

                ROSE
       (mischevious voice)

        Whh.. Babe, lets fuck..

                  RICHARD

       (Snickers and pokes Rose) 
        Babe, we just had sex this morning


                  ROSE

        Ohhh, so that was what that was 
        supposed to be?!

Cut to the couple in the car Making out.

SCENE 3

The couple is walking up the stairs to get to their apartment. When this scene opens, they are already arguing.

                            

                  RICHARD 

      And have you seen the couch lately!

      It looks like shit! You know for a 
      woman you sure are dirty!

Silence


                  ROSE 

      What did you just say ?                                                                                   

It is revealed that Richard was daydreaming.


                        
                  RICHARD

      And have you seen the couch lately!

      It looks like shit! 
       

                  ROSE

      Well why don't you do something about it then!

                  RICHARD
      Because its not my job Rooosee!

                  ROSE

                what do you mean its not your job, you live in
      the same goddamn apartment!

                  RICHARD
      I wouldn't care to arrange anything because 
      you would take it right back

                  ROSE
      What makes you even think like that!

Cut to make out scene near washer and drier.

SCENE 4

The couple is on the porch, when their friend Natalie walks up to them to ask their opinion on something.

                 
                   NATALIE

      Hey! What do y’all think of this dress?

                

Richard and Rose respond at about the same time.

                 ROSE

      Horrible

                

                 RICHARD

      It sucks

Richard and Rose look at each other awkwardly, and then look away.

Cut to them on the couch. They are fidgeting and awkward around each other. They say the following at about the same time.

                 ROSE

      So we should probably go our separate..

                 RICHARD

      I think it’d be best if we break..

                 TOGETHER

      Yea. Alright.

They get up from the couch, Rose approaches with a hug while Richard anticipates a handshake. They awkwardly put their hands away and walk in opposite directions.

                 TOGETHER

      Okay

SCENE 5

Richard is on the porch of a girl he just met, he has just gotten back from a date with her.

                 RICHARD

      Yea, I really had a good time.

                 RACHEL

      Me too. You wanna come in?

                 RICHARD

      Sure!

They walk into the small apartment.

                 RICHARD

      EARCH now that is an ugly couch!

                 RACHEL

      Excuse me!

                 RICHARD

      (Rambles on)

      And the walls in here are pretty

      messed up too, what’d you do paint

      them yourself. I guess some of us

      just aren’t cut out for that art

      stuff huh!

He looks around and sees art supplies all over the place.

                 RICHARD

      (Smack his forehead) Oh!

She slams door on him.

This is followed by two more doors slamming on Richards face, showing more failed attempts at dating.

SCENE 6

Richard is walking down the park, sad and lonely. He bumps into an unknown female figure.

                  TOGETHER

        Hey watch where you’re going!

        Hey watch it!

The two lock eyes and stare at each other for a few seconds. They smile at each other in an exaggerated fashion and then suddenly put on straight faces.

                        

                        ROSE

        Hey four eyes! watch where the hell
        you're going!


                        RICHARD

        I wish that big mouth of yours could

        blow half as much as it talks!

Cut to makeout scene in the car.                        

END

test scenes

Rob walks in to the house, loosens his tie and smells candles in the house. He rushes to them and blows them off.

ROB

Honey, you know how I feel about lighting fires in the house

ROSE

Babe they're just candles

ROB

They're hazards! You need to stop putting them around the whole goddamn house.

ROSE

I would if you didn't leave the house smelling like shit all the time.

ROB

Its a condition Rose and you know it, stop pricking at me and just put the candles away okay!

ROSE
Can I exercise any of my rights without some kind of critisism!? Its like a freaking prison in here!

                               

Statement of Intent

Statement of Intent
The project is based on morality in the modern day, what people think is right, what they think should be TRUTH with a capital T or as some people would argue, whether or not everyone should live by their own truths.
What would these worlds look like in their extreme opposite poles? One would be strictly religious(Christian) while the other would be a world where everybody is free to do whatever it is they would like.

The skills I would like to develop are shot variation, in terms of when to use what kind of shot, medium, extreme close up etc. and make my shot selection add to the piece
I want to tighten my editing, my transitions, and SOUND! how well it complements the visuals.

Theme
Moral identity

Execution and tone
church look

crack house look

I have two major scenes, the first one is the crackhouse where thetone and mood will be dull, by color correction in the post production.
The church scene will be more lit up and clear.

Goal
The goal of the project is to have people think more critically about their personal and religious beliefs.

Cinema class 2

Dm370! Second cinema class! I want my work to be much better than last semester! Much tighter! Better thought out!

Initial Script outline

Scene 1: Crazy Redneck

The scene will open in a rundown dusty garage. There will be old paintings and boards along the walls. A 42inch TV set will be at the very front. The set will have graffiti on it. The purpose of the graffiti is to explain the rednecks hate of urban art. The backdrop has old paintings showing his appreciation of renaissance art. There will be a seat in front of the TV set, and a coffee table with a beer ontop.

Redneck appears on seat. Remains seated for a while.

Starts to drink and twitch.

Starts cheering and chanting at the TV as if there were a football game going on.

Random girl steps into the garage. She is pale skinned, and she watches the man as he chants.

Man keeps drinking.

Starts getting aggravated and throws down his hat.

He begins to cry and suddenly gets a serious face and stares at the TV.

He gets up, trashes the TV, breaking it apart.

He sits back down, and cheers and claps.

The character cries. He then realizes someone is watching(Not the girl, but the viewer) and turns towards the camera.

End scene1

Scene2: Penis Attack

Scene opens up with paintings with penises and seductive characters. There will be trashed desktops with porn magazines, and cables on the floor.

The character will be in a ballet outfit and sweating, breathing in and out heavily. Ballet is what she does to keep her mind occupied from what’s bothering her.

-She turns and looks at the living room area and leaps into dance.

-She continues to dance and fatigue starts to set in as she breathes in and out more heavily.

-She stops and bends to catch her breath.

-A penis comes in from the side of the frame and touches her cheek. She backs away and bumps into another penis.

-She falls down.

-The penises bombard her.

End scene2

Scene3:Blood bath

Bathroom: Messy walls, writing on mirror, with feces. Toilet full of toilet paper.

-Scene opens up with a tub full of blood.

-A few seconds in, a black male emerges from the pool of blood and sits in the tub.

-He looks around with wide open eyes and sniffs his arms one by one.

-He gets out of the tub, he staggers out to the mirror.

-He wipes his hands over the writings on the mirror, he looks at his hand and breaks down into tears.

-He hits the mirror over and over again in attempt to break it.

-He staggers out of the frame.

End scene3

Scene4:Fishbowl

Modern household. Tidy dining room, well arranged seats and table.

Man and wife stare at fishbowl.

Their children play with their toys on the same table.

End scene4

Scene5:BackYard

The scene opens up at a backyard full of people walking into each other like insects panicking. The people are all in make up. They will look pale and brainless.

They will all make a humming noise.

End scene5

Scene6

The scene opens with a messy kitchen, dirty dishes all over the floor and trash stacking up on trashcan. Food stains on the cooker and overflow of dirty water in the sink.

-Character comes out from room and starts licking dirty dishes to clean them up.

-His hands are tied behind his back.

-He will have make up that shows facial injuries

-He will be anxiously moving about, hoping up and down.

-He will be shouting ‘I need to clean it before she comes back’

The camera pans back to the living room where the ballet dancer will still be dancing.

End scene

Pitch

Elevator line: What it feels like to experience a dream.

Theme: The theme is fear.

This theme attempts to reach into human psychology and display just how extremely bizarre it can get. It is also an attempt to display different people’s ideas of fear.

It will be a montage of different dreams. Each individual will describe his or her dream to us in the full detail and we will remake it and shoot what happened in the dream.

After this we will put them together in an order that will best highlight the theme of fear and bizarreness.

Character: The environments we will use are a strong reflection of what the  different dream’s are about.

Environment1: Messy apartment. Paintings, trashed desktops, cables. The apartment will be untidy and spacious at the same time.

It will be shot indoors with a pale blue tone to it. (cold)

The character will be in a ballet outfit and sweating, breathing in and out heavily.

Environment2: Dusty Garage. The space will have a huge TV set with graffiti on it. There will be a seat and a coffee table with beer on it. A character(redneck) will be seated staring into the tv acting like he is watching a football game.

Indoors, with a warm lighting and heavy contrast.

The character will be dressed up in old worn out clothes.

Environment3:Bathroom: Messy walls, writing on mirror, with feces. Toilet full of toilet paper. African American character laying in bathtub full of blood. He emerges from the bloody tub and walks out.

Indoors with dim white lighting.

The character will be half naked.

Environment4: Backyard. Brainless characters walking around the area, bumping into each other like confused insects.

Environment5: Dining room. Character staring at fishbowl. Morning. He will be fully dressed up in a suit for work.

Environment6: Messy kitchen, dirty dishes all over the floor and trash stacking up on trashcan. Food stains on the cooker and overflow of dirty water in the sink.

Character comes out from room and starts licking dirty dishes to clean them up. His hands are tied behind his back.

He will have make up that shows facial injuries.

Selfcritique

A) Impact and Intent- how did you want to affect your audience?

I wanted them to know that there can be many separate sides to arguments.

I wanted them to leave the film with different ideas as to what the ending was.

1. On a scale of 1-10, what was the story's overall impact? 8

2. What did the story leave you thinking?

It left me thinking that a lot more coverage should have been based on the faces. The acting wasn't fully appreciated.

3. What did it leave you feeling? 

It left me feeling that i CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER now that I got that experience. I wish I could shoot it again and make the proper revisions, and it would be a fully successful film.

4. Discuss the source of the main idea that you started with and its importance to you.

 The source was basically a narrative with a single character struggling with an internal conflict. It was very interesting to deal with how people respond to her and how she handles them. It was also based around a lot of Isolation and I've always wanted to portray emotion through isolated characters.

5.Discuss the Theme or premise of the piece as you discovered it after finishing the film.

The theme transformed into moving on, and it was centered on that more than it was on the conflict that she was having.

B) Clarity of Tension/Main Conflict

1. How clear was the story? Could you see all the scenes equally clearly in my mind's eye, or were some hazy?

The story was definitely not as clear as it should have been because there were some important details that didn't make it to the film due to lack of good enough coverage. So some scenes were hazy, but the main idea of the story was pretty clear.

2. What parts could you easily and pleasurably retell, and what parts are difficult to recall?

I would easilly retell the scenes with the signs and her connection to them and the story.

I would also have her reading a better suited book, and neatly arrange her closet.

Its difficult to recal the whisper scene that we initially wanted in there.

C) Potential

1. Does the story feel complete?

Yes. It stands alright in its own, but there is no doubt that it could have been better with some better footage and directing in acting.

2. On a scale of 1-10, rate each scene. Are they all functioning to full potential?

Scene1: Alarmclock scene: Showing her routine was pretty successful, only that there were some elements in the story that did not match up to her character and therefore felt uncontrolled e.g. untidy closet.

Scene2: Interior: Showing how lonely she was, it worked out pretty well because we had the ring as a device. Problem is that she didn't seem as lonely as she did sad. And the scene with the mother and child was not as effective as we'd hoped.

Scene3: Picketing: Very successful. The scene portrayed all the picketers out in the street with the signs and it read well to the viewers and myself. plus the location was really appropriate.

Scene4: Interior Final: The self realization also read pretty clearly, she is seen making her hair and for the first time having breakfast, changing up her hair. People know there is something different about her, but they are not sure what exactly it is, which is a good thing.

3. Which elements were strong, which were weak?

Strong elements are the locations. Most of the actors. Weak elements are that there are not enough close up shots. and not enough coverage.

D) Feedback-- Discuss “What you want to learn to do better.”

The piece is working in that there is enough in there to make it a successful first whole narrative. It has some good shots in there and the acting is pretty good.

The downside is the coverage was not enough, and the directing was not good enough and neither was the shooting. We could have gotten a whole lot more interesting shots.

All of which I now i can do better in the next film.

Final Edit

It was a good experience to have put everything together. It was time consuming, at first but after getting the hang of it, things flowed a lot better. I look forward to the next shoot mostly because I can get all the coverage I now know I'll need and make a more effective overall piece. Again the experience was amazing and I learned a whole lot from it.

Write up on some Spreadsheet on companies

Running Pony Production Memphis, TN 

Description

Now that I know someone who has done an internship there I feel like it's  the perfect place to start. I can have her take a look at my resume aswell and let me know what they are particular about and what would better my chances for getting accepted there. I have also checked out the site and watched the demo and I feel like they have a wide field of opportunity for digital media. From 2D an 3D animation to video editing.

Paradigm Marketing and Creative(Paradigm Productions, LLC) Memphis, TN

Description

Paradigm Marketing & Creative (formerly Productions Productions) is in the business of creative story telling. We design integrated marketing, branding, presentation, fund raising, project and product development strategies into cohesive solutions while utilizing the latest technologies in 3D animation, motion graphics, interactive, web based and print media

Equipment / Gear / Software

Sony HD Video Camera, dolly track, green screen, lighting rigs, 2 edit suites, 3d render farm

It looks like they have an extensive field of work for digital media students. So they would be a good choice, I would Imagine.

I think its a good idea to start with local companies.