I thought I would post a copy of the outline script I created for our film. I made it under the presumption the group would use a little from it, or maybe not at all, who knows. But I found it hard to come up with lots of little plots like we agreed, so I made this. What's ended up happening is that we are going to use it in its entirety for our film, which I am pretty chuffed about. Here's how it is now, we've organized a meeting on thursday to change the plot how we like.
The film begins with a man standing alone in a lift, apparently waiting to arrive at his floor. Shortly before the lift arrives at the next level, he begins to suddenly pick up a conversation on his mobile to portray himself as a popular fun-loving student.
"Yeah, all the boys there: Higgins, Boz, Daz..." His conversation begins to trail off as the doors open and no-one enters the lift.
(Internal dialogue, added in post-production) "You know, if she knew that you've been in this lift for a little over half an hour waiting for her to get on just in the very slight hope you may get the courage to talk to her, she might think you were cute in an odd way." He begins another conversation on his phone.
"Put it this way right, bozzer and gaz were both out, and you know what those..." Once again his conversation trails off as he finds the girl is not at the floor.
(ID) "Yeah, either that or a psychopath. It's a hit or miss thing I guess. For now, though, I'll keep it quiet. We'll talk about it in a few years time when we're comfortable in our relationship. Hopefully then she can explain why she hasn't accepted my facebook request for the last four weeks."
"Get this, right, Boz, Gaz, Bombhead, all the..." His conversation trails once again as he sees no-one arrive, however at the last moment the girl leaps inside the lift, placing a heavy bag on the floor, during which Will tries to regain his composure and continue the conversation he was pretending to have.
"Yeah all the gang, going mad as always." During the conversation he tuts and points at his phone, whilst casting the girl a knowing look. "So wild it was, was pretty much the ladies night for us." "(ID) That COULD have sounded gay." "So, ah, yeah, I'd better go...Daz...Yeah got-" Suddenly the phone blasts out his ringtone, completely destroying the facade of a conversation,the girl looks lazily over in non-surprise.
The next part of the dialogue is pretty hard to write down, as it's a very awkward few moments, and how I visual it playing out is hard to describe. Perhaps this is something I need to work on. Well, definitely.
"ahhh........text message....just need to-"
"Isn't that a ringtone-"
(cutting in) "Ah?"
"Isn't that a ringtone."
"(nervously, stuttering and shaking his head whilst looking down at phone) ...nah...Just.....ah....what was I...sheesh....uh"
Pause.
"Still on the phone then?"
".....(starts nodding)....y-yep...yeah....just *brings phone to ear* Hello? Ah....gone."
There is an extremely awkward silence for the rest of the journey, after which the girl exits. There follows a long pause, and Will slowly turns to the wall, and sinks down all the way to the floor, falling out of shot. This remains for a while, until the next stop, at which the girl re-enters the lift to reclaim the bag she had left there before. She stops as she realizes Will is on the floor.
"Sarah, would you like to go for a drink?"
"Sure. Tuesday?"
"Tuesday is good."
The girl exits for the final time. "What the F-" Will's sentence is here cut off as the titles cut in.
Throughout the film, we decided it would be really great to have lift music playing to make it easier for the audience to instantly recognise this as a lift, and not a guy maybe just standing around in a big cupboard. Uri has some ideas for tracks already which I know are great, and I have a few as well. Napoleon dynamite is a film I greatly admire, and the soundtrack to that is absolutely wonderful; I think it will work great.
This is the piece I like. It's also a great video, I found it whilst looking for the music. Great stuff. With regards to editing, I would like to think we keep it very simple, as it is a very simple story, really. A fade in; a cut to credits; that's about all I figure we need, but I'm open to any other ideas from the group. I would really like to make this film as interesting as we can.
Casting wise we have landed that I will play the role of the guy. I don't really know how we came to that decision, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. We are yet to find a girl, since all the guys in our group are socially inept hermits, but we will find one soon.
Very interesting lecture with Chris, (actually typed 'christ' there.) we learned about the camera we will be using: A sony Z1, on which we will be shooting in DV mode. I'm just going to make a list here of the notes I took for the lesson so I can throw this mangled paper away.
Outdoor light > 5000 kelvin, known as 'daylight'
Indoor light > 3000 kelvin, known as 'tungsten'
To book cameras, contact John Hallem (I hope I spelled that correctly) artniastore@NTU.ac.uk
To book decks for editing, contact Owen Baxter. Didn't get an email there.
On the camera mini-display, the top-left is the battery, below that should be "DVCAM" to indicate what we are shooting in. Bottom left indicates if steady-cam is on, the number in the middle of the screen was the iris setting (we had ours at F1.6) and right of that is the gain (Which Chris - I just typed christ again - insists we keep at 0db)
To check white balance, stand upon the area you wish to film, and hold something white. Have the camera zoom right in on it and make it blurred, then hold the white balance button in, situated on the bottom left hand side of the left hand side of the camera.
Before replacing the camera, check the battery is out, the charger is away and that the lense is clear by opening it, and closing it once finished. With regards to the tripod, simply make sure it is properly sealed and then secured away putting the legs in the closed end.
Here is what I hope we have sorted for friday, or the day we choose to film:
- Story
- Kit list
- Location
- When can I have kit
- When are we all free
- What costume & props we need
- Cast list
- Tape
- Audio: Music & FX
Anyway, that's that.
The film begins with a man standing alone in a lift, apparently waiting to arrive at his floor. Shortly before the lift arrives at the next level, he begins to suddenly pick up a conversation on his mobile to portray himself as a popular fun-loving student.
"Yeah, all the boys there: Higgins, Boz, Daz..." His conversation begins to trail off as the doors open and no-one enters the lift.
(Internal dialogue, added in post-production) "You know, if she knew that you've been in this lift for a little over half an hour waiting for her to get on just in the very slight hope you may get the courage to talk to her, she might think you were cute in an odd way." He begins another conversation on his phone.
"Put it this way right, bozzer and gaz were both out, and you know what those..." Once again his conversation trails off as he finds the girl is not at the floor.
(ID) "Yeah, either that or a psychopath. It's a hit or miss thing I guess. For now, though, I'll keep it quiet. We'll talk about it in a few years time when we're comfortable in our relationship. Hopefully then she can explain why she hasn't accepted my facebook request for the last four weeks."
"Get this, right, Boz, Gaz, Bombhead, all the..." His conversation trails once again as he sees no-one arrive, however at the last moment the girl leaps inside the lift, placing a heavy bag on the floor, during which Will tries to regain his composure and continue the conversation he was pretending to have.
"Yeah all the gang, going mad as always." During the conversation he tuts and points at his phone, whilst casting the girl a knowing look. "So wild it was, was pretty much the ladies night for us." "(ID) That COULD have sounded gay." "So, ah, yeah, I'd better go...Daz...Yeah got-" Suddenly the phone blasts out his ringtone, completely destroying the facade of a conversation,the girl looks lazily over in non-surprise.
The next part of the dialogue is pretty hard to write down, as it's a very awkward few moments, and how I visual it playing out is hard to describe. Perhaps this is something I need to work on. Well, definitely.
"ahhh........text message....just need to-"
"Isn't that a ringtone-"
(cutting in) "Ah?"
"Isn't that a ringtone."
"(nervously, stuttering and shaking his head whilst looking down at phone) ...nah...Just.....ah....what was I...sheesh....uh"
Pause.
"Still on the phone then?"
".....(starts nodding)....y-yep...yeah....just *brings phone to ear* Hello? Ah....gone."
There is an extremely awkward silence for the rest of the journey, after which the girl exits. There follows a long pause, and Will slowly turns to the wall, and sinks down all the way to the floor, falling out of shot. This remains for a while, until the next stop, at which the girl re-enters the lift to reclaim the bag she had left there before. She stops as she realizes Will is on the floor.
"Sarah, would you like to go for a drink?"
"Sure. Tuesday?"
"Tuesday is good."
The girl exits for the final time. "What the F-" Will's sentence is here cut off as the titles cut in.
Throughout the film, we decided it would be really great to have lift music playing to make it easier for the audience to instantly recognise this as a lift, and not a guy maybe just standing around in a big cupboard. Uri has some ideas for tracks already which I know are great, and I have a few as well. Napoleon dynamite is a film I greatly admire, and the soundtrack to that is absolutely wonderful; I think it will work great.
This is the piece I like. It's also a great video, I found it whilst looking for the music. Great stuff. With regards to editing, I would like to think we keep it very simple, as it is a very simple story, really. A fade in; a cut to credits; that's about all I figure we need, but I'm open to any other ideas from the group. I would really like to make this film as interesting as we can.
Casting wise we have landed that I will play the role of the guy. I don't really know how we came to that decision, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. We are yet to find a girl, since all the guys in our group are socially inept hermits, but we will find one soon.
Very interesting lecture with Chris, (actually typed 'christ' there.) we learned about the camera we will be using: A sony Z1, on which we will be shooting in DV mode. I'm just going to make a list here of the notes I took for the lesson so I can throw this mangled paper away.
Outdoor light > 5000 kelvin, known as 'daylight'
Indoor light > 3000 kelvin, known as 'tungsten'
To book cameras, contact John Hallem (I hope I spelled that correctly) artniastore@NTU.ac.uk
To book decks for editing, contact Owen Baxter. Didn't get an email there.
On the camera mini-display, the top-left is the battery, below that should be "DVCAM" to indicate what we are shooting in. Bottom left indicates if steady-cam is on, the number in the middle of the screen was the iris setting (we had ours at F1.6) and right of that is the gain (Which Chris - I just typed christ again - insists we keep at 0db)
To check white balance, stand upon the area you wish to film, and hold something white. Have the camera zoom right in on it and make it blurred, then hold the white balance button in, situated on the bottom left hand side of the left hand side of the camera.
Before replacing the camera, check the battery is out, the charger is away and that the lense is clear by opening it, and closing it once finished. With regards to the tripod, simply make sure it is properly sealed and then secured away putting the legs in the closed end.
Here is what I hope we have sorted for friday, or the day we choose to film:
- Story
- Kit list
- Location
- When can I have kit
- When are we all free
- What costume & props we need
- Cast list
- Tape
- Audio: Music & FX
Anyway, that's that.
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