screen 2008

Thanks to Mati for these awesome photos.

This the script I came up with for my individual project. The main character is an assassin who ends up in a sticky situation. Hopefully I can get started on filming it within the next couple of weeks.

ext. street – night

PAUL, an assassin, who has been in the business for two years and is the bosses favourite, is waiting patiently in his car for the right time to do his work.

FADE IN

Paul finally gets his gun out of the glove box and makes his way to the house of his target. He presses himself against the wall outside the front door trying to keep out of sight. He takes out a small piece of metal shaped like a paper clip from his coat to jimmy open the door. With a turn of the metal clip, the door pops open. He sneaks in and darts around looking if anyone has noticed. He hears voices coming from down the hall.

He slowly makes his way towards the voices with the gun in his hand prepared for action. Once he finally makes his way to the door he takes a few seconds to psyche himself up to what he is about to do.

In the background a little boy, Ben, peers through a door from a room at the end of the hallway and watches Paul who is waiting outside the door. Little Ben pops his head back behind the door. Paul doesn’t notice Ben.

After Paul has gathered up enough courage he ‘BURSTS’ through the door. He points his gun to what he expected to be Maria, the booking ring leader and her partner/boyfriend Salvatore, instead, he is staring at a young mother Sophie folding some clothes away in the lounge room with her husband Tom.

Paul

(shocked)

 Oh my God ! what ?!

sophie

      (screams)

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Tom freezes

Paul points his gun back and forth between Sophie and Tom.

From another room Little Ben, comes tearing away through the hallway on a little bike,  he rides at full speed to the door where his parents are, Ben crashes his way through the door (as he always does),with a toy gun in his hand.

Little Ben

      Bang, Bang!!! Bang Bang!!

paul is shocked to see little ben. After a few moments he quickly composes himself and takes control of the situation.

Paul points the gun at sophie.

Paul

(sturnly and with a fierce look in his eyes) You live

Paul points the gun at Tom

Paul

         You live

Paul points gun at little Ben

            Paul

        He lives… (threatening and with certainty)

but if you say a word to the authorities about this, if I hear anything. I’ll come back and finish you.

Sophie

         (frantically)Yes ! Yes ! we promise on my sons life we won’t say anything ! I swear !

Paul begins to back out of the room with gun still pointed at Sophie and Toms direction, and heads out the front door.

The End

My team (Ross, Michelle, Ben and me) are doing a 3 90 second clip project based on being positive titled "Happiness Is A Virtue".

The first episode shows a guy having rotten luck on the day of a job interview, and turning up with a negative attitude.

Second episode has the same scenario but the guy has a positive attitude

Third episode will explain how to stay positive.

We’re in early stages at the moment. 

this was the original script and idea we had for the greenscreen project. A huge difference from this to the final cut.

                                   GRAVE STONE FRIGHT       

It’s very late at night with a Full Moon in the middle of nowhere. Two girls Michelle and Mary are driving down a dirt road after a night of partying

Hear car sputter then stall in the background.

                                               MARY (angrily)

                                               Shit! Stupid car!

Michelle and Mary decide to walk to find some help

                                             MICHELLE (worried)

               I don’t think anyone is going to drive pass at this time of night

Walking pass eerie graveyard

                                               MARY (enthusiastically)

              Hey lets walk through there I think it’s a shortcut to a petrol station

                                              MICHELLE (scared)

                            No way I don’t think that’s a good idea

                                              MARY (coy)

                                    Come On chicken shit!

Michelle and Mary start walking through the graveyard

Scary Eyes appear behind a gravestone
 

                                            CREATURE (softly)

                                    grrrrrrrrrrr

                                           MICHELLE (whispers)

                                  Did you hear that?

                                           MARY (worried)

                                 Yeah what do you think it is?

Michelle and Mary start to pick up speed

Creature runs towards them at fast speed

                                          MICHELLE and MARY (frightened)

                                   AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Michelle and Mary run away from the creature until it finally catches up with them.

This is the storyboard used to make the six dialogue sequence. We first shot a demo during class then we shot the final cut a few weeks later. We kept mostly to the storyboard.

I had a few troubles with the audio for this project during filming and in post production. So this is just a demo for now and hopefully I’ll get the final cut up soon.
Ben was the main greenscreen feature in my clip, and I was planning to use some audio effects to give it more of the atmosphere that I was aiming for.

EDIT: This is the final version of the greenscreen project complete with audio. Still not the best. I guess next time i should use headphones to hear things more clearly when audio editing.

this is the 3 shot montage I did in the first few weeks of the course.

A month ago I went and saw Grindhouse at the Astor on limited release for 10 days only. It was shown in it’s true original form with both films back to back, including the fake trailers in between.

The first film Planet Terror, directed by Robert Rodriguez was an action zombie movie with all the guts and gore to match any horror movie of the last decade. Brilliantly acted with a very hardcore B-Grade feel through out the whole film. Pure class. Robert Rodriguez’s ‘trailers’ were quite entertaining as well. My favourite trailer was ‘Machete" It’s hysterical. ‘Where’s my wife and daughter?!".

Here’s the trailer to Machete 

The second film Death Proof, was directed by Quentin Tarantino. An action car chase movie involving girls. Although it might start off a bit slow with the typical long dialogue sequence that Tarantino is known for, it really kicks some ass when Kurt Russell’s character Stuntman Bob starts to raise some hell against the girls. The Female characters are really likeable and It has one of the best endings of a movie that I’ve seen in a while. Again the b-grade effect is featured all the way through. both films B-grade effects include scratched film, badly edited moments, film jumping, and the cheeky missing reels just when the action starts to get raunchy in both Death Proof and Planet Terror.

This wasn’t just a movie, it was an experience, and to see it at the Astor with it’s original old seats and decor, together with an audience that were wooping, hollering, cheering on the good guys and booing all the bad guys, I’ll never forget it. It’s the best way to see it IMO.

I give it two thumbs up!  

The Astor are repeating the screening of Grindhouse some time in June. Don’t miss it!!! 

I found this on the blogsome forum section on how to embed youtube videos directly onto your blog.

Here’s what blog-user leroydubya’s instructions are to other users questions

Hello, I had the same question as to how to embed video. Here is the answer:

"Go into your Dash, Plugins, and disable WYSI-Wordpress, the last Plugin.

That will disable the WYSIWYG editing interface, allowing you to enter raw HTML code."

That’s what I tried and it worked for me. 

We shot this in 2 hours and edited the next lesson. still a few kinks in it, but its my first one.