3 actors required: girl, mother and father
Girl: 17 scenes; about 8.5 minutes
Mom and dad: 5 scenes; about 3 minutes
about 5 locations: house (exterior, kitchen, bedroom, living room, sunroom, dining room), apartment, beach, church, car (city and country both shot from car)
special effects: green screen for mirror scene
"special costumes": church attire, casual attire, beach attire
props: mirror, luggage, birds, dog
Location: photos posted below of church and house. I do not have a map of the church, but below is posted the map of the house as well as it's lighting sources. The beach and car scenes will be sunlit.
Days of shoot: approx. 5 (not including pickups)
Saturday 3/12: apartment, car/ driving sequence, and kitchen; early morning, afternoon, sunset, and night - Actor: girl
Sunday 3/13: parent's house - kitchen and sunroom flashback scenes; afternoon, kitchen sound effect of mother's voice during dinnertime; Actors: Mom and Dad
Monday 3/14: living room, dining room (if birds need to be reshot), bedroom; afternoon and night; Actor: girl
Tuesday 3/15: beach; early morning; Actors: girl, Mom and Dad
Wednesday 3/16: church; afternoon (2-3 pm); Actors: Mom, Dad, and girl
Thursday 3/17: pickups in house, or reshoots; all day; Actors: Mom, Dad and girl
Saturday 3/19: pickups in car and apartment or reshoots; all day; Actor: girl
Contact:
Church: 843-884-4612
Breakdown of Script:
Apartment scene: establishes the main character, her habits and where she lives, and that she is going on a trip
Car scene: establishes how far she is going and a change in mood from a crowded city to more open spaces and a more historic community
Parent's house scene: contrasts her apartment with lots of open spaces and emptiness as well as the past with the present. Her parents are not there to greet her like they did before, and she is on her own
Kitchen scene: shows how she must take care of herself now, and how the "warmth" of her parent's presence is gone. She feels out of place coming home now.
Dining room scene: she finds the birds that are her responsibility and the reason she came to take care of the house. Like the birds, she was trapped in her apartment and must reconcile with these open, empty spaces that are no longer like her home.
Bedroom scene: she is still a traveler with her bags, and her childhood bedroom is no longer a place of comfort but more like a place to look at neatly placed relics. Sitting on the bed, which used to be comfortable, draws her back to the church.
Church scene: again she returns to a place she used to frequent in the past with her parents. She remembers them there through a home video and how she used to belong. She is alone there now and it is just an old empty space, but she has to figure out what has changed since it was the same as she remembered it. She goes through the front doors like one does in a dream, opening to a bright light and appearing into a new scene.
Beach scene: another place that she would frequent with her parents, the beach is a place to enjoy, but now it has become a place for her to contemplate. She sees her parents again in a home video memory, this time walking ahead of her. There is a sense of distance now. She sits alone and thinks.
Living room scene: she sits on the burgundy couch "looking into her past" so to speak as she imagines another home video while staring into the sunroom (facing the living room where she is sitting).
Sunroom: a home video of her parents, her father playing and the loud dog contrasting with her mother's quiet demeanor. This is how she remembers each of them. It is brightly lit, but shot like a home video so it is both real and dream-like.
Dining room: she feels now she is able to confront these birds after reconciling that it is actually herself that has become different. She tests the bird, it comes out and flies away like she did by moving away, but then returns to it's cage by instinct.
Bedroom: she now comes into the bedroom, but unable to sleep in the cleanly made bed, she approaches the mirror and truly confronts herself. It becomes a kind of out-of-body experience where she is truly able to see herself from the outside, but she also finds that she has been in control this whole time, both actor and observer. With this realization, change becomes possible.
Her parent's serve not only as a memory but also childhood comfort.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
the church!
Finally I was able to find a church willing to let me film in there! It's almost exactly how I pictured it!
Monday, March 7, 2011
edited script
This is what I've changed so far. If anyone happens to read this before Wednesday, please give me an opinion! I'm going to keep working on it, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Girl - in her twenties, wearing a light jacket and sweatpants with hair pulled back.
INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM- EARLY MORNING
A light comes on in the bedroom
We see her packing and picking up her luggage
CUT TO:
EXT. IN THE CAR - SUNRISE
We see the girl driving and the changing scenery
She travels from city to country, from tight to more open space
FADE TO:
EXT. CITY - EARLY EVENING
We see the sunset as she drives through the town, historic and spacious
CUT TO:
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET
She pulls up to her parent's large, white house
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - FLASHBACK
Her parent's greet her.
CUT TO:
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - PRESENT DAY
She gets out of the car alone and stands for a second, regarding the empty house.
CUT TO:
INT. PARENT'S HOUSE - EVENING - FLASHBACK
She goes into the kitchen, hearing her mother's voice indistinctly
FADE TO:
INT. KITCHEN - EVENING - PRESENT DAY
We see her walking into the kitchen alone. She sets her bags down and turns some lights on. She goes up to the fridge and sees a note. She picks it up:
CUT TO CU OF NOTE:
Have all the food you want, don't forget to take the birds out.
Much love,
Mom and Dad
CUT TO MS:
She sets it on the counter and looks in the fridge. She pulls out a container of leftovers, smells it, sighs, then sets it back.
CUT TO:
INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
We see her walking into the room and hear birds chirping. Cut to her regarding the birds. She looks at the birds and opens one of the cages. The bird bites her. She closes it quickly.
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She looks around the room, holding her luggage. She sets her luggage down and sits on the bed. She sits with her arms and legs tight together, looking around the room. CU: We see her eyes shifting in thought.
FADE TO:
INT. CHURCH - DAY
GIRL- Now wearing off-white dress
We hear her parents talking indistinctly while watching her sitting calmly.
CUT TO MS:
INT. CHURCH - DAY - FLASHBACK
Parents and girl in church attire
We see her parents sitting in a white pew in the church, we hear the girl laughing softly as her parents talk quietly.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her wandering through the church looking at the stained glass windows. She stares at an imposing image of Jesus in one of the windows, then backs up. She opens the front doors of the church to bright sunlight.
FADE TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY
We see her walking along the beach, watching the seagulls, she folds her arms and looks at the sand as she walks.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We see her parents walking ahead of her talking indistinctly. We see a shaky camera shot running up the the parents. They smile into the camera and continue walking.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her walking alone again. She sits on the sand watching the waves.
CUT TO:
INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY
GIRL- in casual attire
She walks into the living room and sits on the burgundy couch. She sits upright, then leans a little forward with arms folded on her knees while looking into the sunroom.
CUT TO:
INT. SUNROOM - DAY - FLASHBACK
Her dad plays with the dog on the floor, laughing while her mom sits calmly by a window flooded with light. The dog tries to play with the camera and we hear the girl laugh.
CUT TO:
INT. DINING ROOM - EVENING
She enters the dining room and looks at the birds. She opens the cage hesitantly. The bird comes out calmly, then flies away. She watches, unsure, then the bird comes and lands on top of it's cage, watching her.
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She walks towards the mirror slowly, looking around the room at her old things. She goes up to the mirror slowly. As she moves closer, we see her eyes shift, almost in fright. We see in the mirror a reflection of herself holding a videocamera. Cut to black.
Girl - in her twenties, wearing a light jacket and sweatpants with hair pulled back.
INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM- EARLY MORNING
A light comes on in the bedroom
We see her packing and picking up her luggage
CUT TO:
EXT. IN THE CAR - SUNRISE
We see the girl driving and the changing scenery
She travels from city to country, from tight to more open space
FADE TO:
EXT. CITY - EARLY EVENING
We see the sunset as she drives through the town, historic and spacious
CUT TO:
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET
She pulls up to her parent's large, white house
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - FLASHBACK
Her parent's greet her.
CUT TO:
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - PRESENT DAY
She gets out of the car alone and stands for a second, regarding the empty house.
CUT TO:
INT. PARENT'S HOUSE - EVENING - FLASHBACK
She goes into the kitchen, hearing her mother's voice indistinctly
FADE TO:
INT. KITCHEN - EVENING - PRESENT DAY
We see her walking into the kitchen alone. She sets her bags down and turns some lights on. She goes up to the fridge and sees a note. She picks it up:
CUT TO CU OF NOTE:
Have all the food you want, don't forget to take the birds out.
Much love,
Mom and Dad
CUT TO MS:
She sets it on the counter and looks in the fridge. She pulls out a container of leftovers, smells it, sighs, then sets it back.
CUT TO:
INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
We see her walking into the room and hear birds chirping. Cut to her regarding the birds. She looks at the birds and opens one of the cages. The bird bites her. She closes it quickly.
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She looks around the room, holding her luggage. She sets her luggage down and sits on the bed. She sits with her arms and legs tight together, looking around the room. CU: We see her eyes shifting in thought.
FADE TO:
INT. CHURCH - DAY
GIRL- Now wearing off-white dress
We hear her parents talking indistinctly while watching her sitting calmly.
CUT TO MS:
INT. CHURCH - DAY - FLASHBACK
Parents and girl in church attire
We see her parents sitting in a white pew in the church, we hear the girl laughing softly as her parents talk quietly.
CUT TO:
INT. CHURCH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her wandering through the church looking at the stained glass windows. She stares at an imposing image of Jesus in one of the windows, then backs up. She opens the front doors of the church to bright sunlight.
FADE TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY
We see her walking along the beach, watching the seagulls, she folds her arms and looks at the sand as she walks.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We see her parents walking ahead of her talking indistinctly. We see a shaky camera shot running up the the parents. They smile into the camera and continue walking.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her walking alone again. She sits on the sand watching the waves.
CUT TO:
INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY
GIRL- in casual attire
She walks into the living room and sits on the burgundy couch. She sits upright, then leans a little forward with arms folded on her knees while looking into the sunroom.
CUT TO:
INT. SUNROOM - DAY - FLASHBACK
Her dad plays with the dog on the floor, laughing while her mom sits calmly by a window flooded with light. The dog tries to play with the camera and we hear the girl laugh.
CUT TO:
INT. DINING ROOM - EVENING
She enters the dining room and looks at the birds. She opens the cage hesitantly. The bird comes out calmly, then flies away. She watches, unsure, then the bird comes and lands on top of it's cage, watching her.
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She walks towards the mirror slowly, looking around the room at her old things. She goes up to the mirror slowly. As she moves closer, we see her eyes shift, almost in fright. We see in the mirror a reflection of herself holding a videocamera. Cut to black.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
beach pictures
Here's the beach I hope to use for my midterm project, it's called Folly Beach. I'm hoping to get there early so there won't be a lot of people around, mostly to avoid legal issues if I get someone random in the shot. Since there's the time change, I'll try and get there by 6 or 7, I'll have to see what time the sun rises, but I do want it to be bright enough, so maybe just after sunrise.
Crit-on-crit
Midterm project
I unfortunately didn't get as much feedback as I'd hoped because we were short on time, but I really appreciated Jill's advice. There were a lot of things that I was unclear about and I also felt like my story would be flat since there isn't any real conversation or conflict, except an internal one which doesn't really become clear until the end. If I can shoot this right, hopefully I can evoke some type of feel into the viewer, since this whole piece is like a self-reflection. If I can get my old video camera to work, I could definitely have two obviously different styles with the flashbacks/ home videos and the "reality" or present-day. Either way, my dad also has a video camera I could use to get two different feels. I really hope that I'll be able to use one of the old-school churches where my parents live, but if not then I can always try and fake it by filming my parents in a pew then using my friend's church out here in Memphis for all of my scenes. Jill's right that it'll be hard to film myself, but I've been doing this for past projects as well as the ones for this class, and my dad is also good with video cameras, so I'm sure with his help this will turn out well.
I'm looking forward to it!
I unfortunately didn't get as much feedback as I'd hoped because we were short on time, but I really appreciated Jill's advice. There were a lot of things that I was unclear about and I also felt like my story would be flat since there isn't any real conversation or conflict, except an internal one which doesn't really become clear until the end. If I can shoot this right, hopefully I can evoke some type of feel into the viewer, since this whole piece is like a self-reflection. If I can get my old video camera to work, I could definitely have two obviously different styles with the flashbacks/ home videos and the "reality" or present-day. Either way, my dad also has a video camera I could use to get two different feels. I really hope that I'll be able to use one of the old-school churches where my parents live, but if not then I can always try and fake it by filming my parents in a pew then using my friend's church out here in Memphis for all of my scenes. Jill's right that it'll be hard to film myself, but I've been doing this for past projects as well as the ones for this class, and my dad is also good with video cameras, so I'm sure with his help this will turn out well.
I'm looking forward to it!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Script
Girl
INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM- EARLY MORNING
A light comes on in the bedroom
We see her packing and picking up her luggage
EXT. IN THE CAR - SUNRISE
We see the girl driving and the changing scenery
She travels from city to country
EXT. CITY - EARLY EVENING
We see the sunset as she drives through the city
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - FLASHBACK
She pulls up to her parents house and her parents greet her
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - PRESENT DAY
She gets out of the car alone
INT. PARENT'S HOUSE - EVENING
She goes into the kitchen, hearing her mother's voice indistinctly
INT. KITCHEN - EVENING
We see her in the kitchen alone. She goes up to the fridge and sees a note. She picks it up:
Have all the food you want, don't forget to take the birds out.
Much love,
Mom and Dad
INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
She looks at the birds and opens the cage. The bird bites her. She closes it quickly.
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She sets her luggage down and sits on the bed. We see her eyes shifting in thought.
INT. CHURCH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We hear her parents talking indistinctly while watching her sitting calmly. We then see her sitting with her parents in the church
INT. CHURCH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her wandering through the church looking at the stained glass windows. She opens the front doors of the church to bright sunlight
EXT. BEACH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We see her walking along the beach, watching the seagulls, her parents walking ahead of her talking indistinctly. We see her walking alone again. She sits on the sand watching the waves.
INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY
She walks into the living room and sits on the burgundy couch looking into the sunroom.
INT. SUNROOM - DAY - FLASHBACK
Her dad plays with the dog on the floor, laughing while her mom sits calmly by a window flooded with light.
INT. DINING ROOM - DAY
She enters the dining room and looks at the birds. She opens the cage hesitantly. The bird comes out calmly, then flies away. She watches, unsure, then the bird comes and lands on top of it's cage, watching her.
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
She walks towards the mirror slowly, looking around the room at her old things. She goes up to the mirror. As she moves closer, we see her eyes shift, almost in fright. We see in the mirror a reflection of herself holding a videocamera. The sound of the camera rolling grows louder, then cuts to black.
INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM- EARLY MORNING
A light comes on in the bedroom
We see her packing and picking up her luggage
EXT. IN THE CAR - SUNRISE
We see the girl driving and the changing scenery
She travels from city to country
EXT. CITY - EARLY EVENING
We see the sunset as she drives through the city
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - FLASHBACK
She pulls up to her parents house and her parents greet her
EXT. PARENT'S HOUSE - SUNSET - PRESENT DAY
She gets out of the car alone
INT. PARENT'S HOUSE - EVENING
She goes into the kitchen, hearing her mother's voice indistinctly
INT. KITCHEN - EVENING
We see her in the kitchen alone. She goes up to the fridge and sees a note. She picks it up:
Have all the food you want, don't forget to take the birds out.
Much love,
Mom and Dad
INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
She looks at the birds and opens the cage. The bird bites her. She closes it quickly.
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
She sets her luggage down and sits on the bed. We see her eyes shifting in thought.
INT. CHURCH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We hear her parents talking indistinctly while watching her sitting calmly. We then see her sitting with her parents in the church
INT. CHURCH - DAY - PRESENT DAY
We see her wandering through the church looking at the stained glass windows. She opens the front doors of the church to bright sunlight
EXT. BEACH - DAY - FLASHBACK
We see her walking along the beach, watching the seagulls, her parents walking ahead of her talking indistinctly. We see her walking alone again. She sits on the sand watching the waves.
INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY
She walks into the living room and sits on the burgundy couch looking into the sunroom.
INT. SUNROOM - DAY - FLASHBACK
Her dad plays with the dog on the floor, laughing while her mom sits calmly by a window flooded with light.
INT. DINING ROOM - DAY
She enters the dining room and looks at the birds. She opens the cage hesitantly. The bird comes out calmly, then flies away. She watches, unsure, then the bird comes and lands on top of it's cage, watching her.
INT. BEDROOM - DAY
She walks towards the mirror slowly, looking around the room at her old things. She goes up to the mirror. As she moves closer, we see her eyes shift, almost in fright. We see in the mirror a reflection of herself holding a videocamera. The sound of the camera rolling grows louder, then cuts to black.
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