Thursday, 19 February 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Frameforge
Ive been cracking on with frame forge over the last couple of days, and have actually quite enjoyed it. It feel it has given me a better understanding of my shots, and how i am going to get them to work. It has also helped me, get a better understanding of my sets. Here are a couple of screen shots. I'll get the finished version up asap
Monday, 16 February 2009
Carter Burwell
I have chosen music by Carter Burwell to be in my production. I really enjoyed the music he produced in the film In Brugges. In particular the song "principles"
Which can be found 4.55 through this you tube clip. I really enjoy the Piano loop throughout the piece, and think it's a really dramatic piece of music, which will fit well with my film.
Which can be found 4.55 through this you tube clip. I really enjoy the Piano loop throughout the piece, and think it's a really dramatic piece of music, which will fit well with my film.
Thursday, 12 February 2009
2nd Script
Characters:
Simon
Tom
Scene 1
The two boys are in the living room of their house. Both boys are sat on opposite sofas. The camera switches between the two as they converse. Tom is on the sofa against the wall, while Simon is on the sofa closer to the door.
Simon - How are you feeling?
Tom - Yea alright, feeling a bit weird and I’ve got a horrible taste in the back of my throat.
Simon - Tell me about it, you might have to go get us both a drink soon.
Tom - I will do, it’s pretty quiet in here mate, you should stick some music on or something.
Tom pauses
Tom - Probably for the best Will didn’t come out ay?
Simon - Mmm, probably.....
Simon thinks for a moment
Simon - anyway I’ll put some music on, it is pretty quiet. I beg you go and get that drink though
Tom - Yea sort that out, I just wanna skin up first.
Scene 2
Simon is now knelt on the floor picking music from his ipod, Tom is on the sofa trying to look for the necessary items to roll a joint with. He is clearly finding this more and more difficult, as he is struggling to remember where he has put the objects.
Tom - Where are the skins mate?
Simon - Didn’t you already have them? look in my coat pocket next to you, I think I have some in there.
As Tom looks up towards Simons jacket, his eyes go up the wall toward the corner of the ceiling. And stares for a while with his mouth open.
Tom - What’s up with your walls, I swear they’re not completely straight.....what are you doing with that music anyway, I thought you were going to put something on?
Simon - Yea Yea just setting up a play list.
Simon gets up, with a slight stumble back
Simon - Woah, what the hells going on?
Simon puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him.
Tom pauses what he’s doing, but continues to look at it for a few seconds. He then looks up at Simon who is still aimlessly staring at him and with a small smile on his face says,
Tom - “Wait, what are you on about?”
Simon - “Nah nothing, what was I doing again?”
Tom - “I have no idea what your going on about”
Tom picks up his tobacco pouch to continue what he was doing, then stops mid way and says:
Tom - Oh yeah a drink
Simon begins having a look around and the sofa catches his eye
Simon - Yeah about time you sorted that out, the taste of this stuff has nearly made me throw up in the back of my throat several times.
Tom, who is struggling to comprehend anything looks up toward the door in confussion.
Tom - Yeh I suppose I should get on that.
Both boys look at each other in a paused state, before Tom begins to get up and heads toward the door.
Scene 3.
Simon is sat on the sofa with his head resting on his hands, slightly swaying. As Tom is about leave the room.....
Simon - “I don’t really know what to do with myself”
Tom begins to aimlessly look around the room, and with a puzzled look on his face says
Tom - Yeah I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to do, what was I doing again?
Tom looks at the wall in the confusion for 3-4 seconds. The audience can almost see the cogs turning inside Toms head.
Tom - Oh yeah, I was going to get a drink
Tom walks toward the door, and as he leaves the room he stops and turns to face Simon with a confused face. Simon notices Tom has stopped by the door and looks up at him in just as much confusion. Tom begins to shake his head in disbelief at this state. He then leaves the room.
Scene 4.
The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.
Tom enters the hall way and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.
As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
While squinting he says:
Tom - “What the fuck?”
A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.
As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.
Scene 5
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps,
Simon looks both confused and scared, and shouts
Simon - “Tom?”
The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.
Scene 6
The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Both boys look at each other for a moment, when Tom breaks the silence,
Tom - “wwwhat the hell was that all about? That was rediculous?”
Simon - “I was in here on my own the whole time, I didn’t know what to do with myself”
Tom “mate, we were both by ourselves”
Simon - “yeh maybe next time we should all try and stay together ”
Tom pauses for a moment
Tom - “yeh definatly”
Camera switches to Simon, as a questioning look grows on his face
Simon - What are you doing?
Camera switches back to Tom who is grabbing a cd case. Long shot
And then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body.
The camera will then switch outside and reveal Wills face laughing in a bush.
Simon
Tom
Scene 1
The two boys are in the living room of their house. Both boys are sat on opposite sofas. The camera switches between the two as they converse. Tom is on the sofa against the wall, while Simon is on the sofa closer to the door.
Simon - How are you feeling?
Tom - Yea alright, feeling a bit weird and I’ve got a horrible taste in the back of my throat.
Simon - Tell me about it, you might have to go get us both a drink soon.
Tom - I will do, it’s pretty quiet in here mate, you should stick some music on or something.
Tom pauses
Tom - Probably for the best Will didn’t come out ay?
Simon - Mmm, probably.....
Simon thinks for a moment
Simon - anyway I’ll put some music on, it is pretty quiet. I beg you go and get that drink though
Tom - Yea sort that out, I just wanna skin up first.
Scene 2
Simon is now knelt on the floor picking music from his ipod, Tom is on the sofa trying to look for the necessary items to roll a joint with. He is clearly finding this more and more difficult, as he is struggling to remember where he has put the objects.
Tom - Where are the skins mate?
Simon - Didn’t you already have them? look in my coat pocket next to you, I think I have some in there.
As Tom looks up towards Simons jacket, his eyes go up the wall toward the corner of the ceiling. And stares for a while with his mouth open.
Tom - What’s up with your walls, I swear they’re not completely straight.....what are you doing with that music anyway, I thought you were going to put something on?
Simon - Yea Yea just setting up a play list.
Simon gets up, with a slight stumble back
Simon - Woah, what the hells going on?
Simon puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him.
Tom pauses what he’s doing, but continues to look at it for a few seconds. He then looks up at Simon who is still aimlessly staring at him and with a small smile on his face says,
Tom - “Wait, what are you on about?”
Simon - “Nah nothing, what was I doing again?”
Tom - “I have no idea what your going on about”
Tom picks up his tobacco pouch to continue what he was doing, then stops mid way and says:
Tom - Oh yeah a drink
Simon begins having a look around and the sofa catches his eye
Simon - Yeah about time you sorted that out, the taste of this stuff has nearly made me throw up in the back of my throat several times.
Tom, who is struggling to comprehend anything looks up toward the door in confussion.
Tom - Yeh I suppose I should get on that.
Both boys look at each other in a paused state, before Tom begins to get up and heads toward the door.
Scene 3.
Simon is sat on the sofa with his head resting on his hands, slightly swaying. As Tom is about leave the room.....
Simon - “I don’t really know what to do with myself”
Tom begins to aimlessly look around the room, and with a puzzled look on his face says
Tom - Yeah I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to do, what was I doing again?
Tom looks at the wall in the confusion for 3-4 seconds. The audience can almost see the cogs turning inside Toms head.
Tom - Oh yeah, I was going to get a drink
Tom walks toward the door, and as he leaves the room he stops and turns to face Simon with a confused face. Simon notices Tom has stopped by the door and looks up at him in just as much confusion. Tom begins to shake his head in disbelief at this state. He then leaves the room.
Scene 4.
The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.
Tom enters the hall way and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.
As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
While squinting he says:
Tom - “What the fuck?”
A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.
As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.
Scene 5
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps,
Simon looks both confused and scared, and shouts
Simon - “Tom?”
The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.
Scene 6
The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Both boys look at each other for a moment, when Tom breaks the silence,
Tom - “wwwhat the hell was that all about? That was rediculous?”
Simon - “I was in here on my own the whole time, I didn’t know what to do with myself”
Tom “mate, we were both by ourselves”
Simon - “yeh maybe next time we should all try and stay together ”
Tom pauses for a moment
Tom - “yeh definatly”
Camera switches to Simon, as a questioning look grows on his face
Simon - What are you doing?
Camera switches back to Tom who is grabbing a cd case. Long shot
And then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body.
The camera will then switch outside and reveal Wills face laughing in a bush.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Script
After speaking with some peers, i have decided to re-do my script. I am going to exclude the third character of my film, Will. I have chosen to do this so that i can focus more on the relationship between the other two characters. I will also be able to go more in depth with both of them individually. Will get the script up asap.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Frameforge
Been having a few issues trying to get frameforge working on my laptop. probably because its older than the queen, but never the less i'm still going to try and get another couple of versions and hopefully that will work. if not, off to waverley computer room it is.....
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Belly Opening scene
when we were giving the task to identify a scene from a film where we feel the music plays an important role. I immediatly thought of this scene from the film "Belly". I like the way they have used an acapella, and dubbed out the other sounds from an obviously loud environment. I feel this is a really good effect and adds makes what would usually be quite an intense opening scene into something quite opposite. The use of sound like this makes the viewer wonder what the characters are doing in the scene, up untill the first gun shot is fired, which is when other sounds start being brought in. Once the acapella has finished at the beat comes in, is when the narative begins, and the story starts to unfold. This is once of my most memorable scenes from all films, and i definatly feel the use of sound and music is the reason why.
Seminar Work
This is the Mayan Temple is Guatamala, i liked the location of this temple as it is in the middle of the rain forest. The temple also has relevance to the nostradamus prophecies.
This is the biggest Cathedral in the world and is based in Sevilla
This is the Roman Catholic Cathedral In liverpool. I chose this because it is the most modern church in the UK, which would represent the futuristic idea of our film.
This is the Saint Remt de provence in france, i chose this location because this is where Nostradamus was born and it relates to the iodea of our story.
This is St.John Latral church in Rome. This is the worlds oldest Cathedral, and where the pope lives. Which is why i chose this location.
This is the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in barcelona. i chose this because it is the first religious spot that came to my mind. It is a very gothic church, and very charasmatic and I feel this would be a good location for our film we were discussing in our seminar.
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