(Shot 3) "oh, get that f--king camera out of my face!"
(Shot 4) the person that is me/Logan: 'Now, I can't help but notice a mild agitation. talk ahh, talk me through it.'
Mum: "Let me answer that through a story from my life. Before you have children it seems like a great idea. Then you have them, they grow up and the novelty wears off. Moral of the story, save up and move to an exotic location. Buy a nice boat. Be like Madonna and adopt a child at 50 when you are past it anyway and sit around waiting for the benefits to roll in.'
(Shot 5) Me: 'Now you are the oldest and only son, correct? Right, from your perspective here, how was the holiday for you?'
Eden: "I'm not even sure what is real anymore, to be honest... No cellphone coverage because my parents are too stingy to buy me a new phoen and I havn't been on Facebook in 3 days. THREE DAYS."
Me: ..White man 21st century issues indeed.
(Shot 6) Our cheap fleet of last minute brandless, trade me bought cameras captured every moment. What were the reasons that stopped this from being a holiday that is looked back on in the photo albums in 20 years, but made it a holiday that will stop the family from looking eachother in the eye for 30.
(Shot 13.) Get out of bed! The alarm didn't go off and we have to be there in 20 minutes. *Shouted down hall* Joe, where the hell are the passports??
(Shot 14.) Thank God, here they are..
(Shot 15.) Me: So, you are of course the Mother in this family. What were the reasons behind this trip?
Mum: Family bonding. Every family at some stage needs a week together in close confinement. Really let that inner love everyone knows is there somewhere flow out and touch everyone.
(Shot 16.) Me: What are you looking forward to doing?
Oriana:
Monday, 11 July 2011
Treatment
The film opens with an establishing shot of Brisbane. This will be taken from a moderate height up a building looking out over central Brisbane incorporating a view of the river and buildings. The shot will pan across to the right and will involve minimal dense sound. Small levels of sound effects imitating the beautiful sounds of life will be included eg. Bird noises to contrast to the following scene of ugliness.
Shot 2 will show the family all seated in the lounge of their motel room. The shot will have a window in the background with low amounts of obtrusive unnecessary furniture consuming the rest of the field. This will make sure that attention is directed towards the characters and not the foreground. The mother will have an angry look on her face as this shot will be seen to have presumably have been taken relatively shortly after a fight between family members. The other characters will have looks of being totally over the trip altogether and basically just wanting to go home. This could be displayed through a sigh by the character sitting directly to the mothers left.
(3) The camera will zoom into a mid shot of the mother and will be greeted with a vile upwards stare and speech directed at the cameraman.
(Shot 4) will be the first of the scenes with an opinion 1-to-1 with the camera type deal as seen in The Office. This will show the mother as aggressive to make her seem completely unreasonable. She will lean forwards into the camera so that her whole look is aggressive, not just her words. This and any similar proceeding shots of this nature will be shot with the character sitting on a basic looking chair against a white wall with no other objects in shot. Again this is so full attention is paid to the characters movements and words.
(Shot 5) The purpose of this shot is to act as the counterweight to the style of holiday that the mother is trying to enforce and will probably be acted out by my brother. This is the same styled one-to-one audience directed shot as the former.
(Shots 6-..) Tentatively this will involve a brief clip of me walking along looking important talking which will then morph into a montage of various holiday clips with me narrating not what is happening in those montaged clips, but the basis of what the film is and why it is at all. The montage will include serious looking clips of an angry mother finger pointing towards the recipient of a complete ear full and a lighter clip of an ice-cream being licked on a hot winter's day. There shots along with the music accompaniment will climax and then the title will fade in.
-Blankness-
(Shot 13ish) Dark room, brother in bed. Mum throws the door open basically forcing it off its hinges. She as she appears to be in every shot less than impressed with anything or anyone. Time is short and nothing is properly organised. The character will roll around and make some groaning sounds in dissatisfaction at having to get up. This will be in POV with him facing the door to see his mother burst in. The scene will begin as dialogue only as he hears his mother before he opens his eyes. Some attempt at funky eye opening techniques and what is shown on screen from POV will be attempted, along with fuzzyness slowly coming down in harshness.
(Shot 14) Brother enters the kitchen with Mum finding the passports. This is the only time where we see the mother with a mildly happy look on her face. Dad is just sort of standing there trying to look helpful, in a daze from being thrown into everything so soon after having gotten up.
(Shot 15) 121 shot. Mother
(Shot 16) 121 shot. Father.
Shot 2 will show the family all seated in the lounge of their motel room. The shot will have a window in the background with low amounts of obtrusive unnecessary furniture consuming the rest of the field. This will make sure that attention is directed towards the characters and not the foreground. The mother will have an angry look on her face as this shot will be seen to have presumably have been taken relatively shortly after a fight between family members. The other characters will have looks of being totally over the trip altogether and basically just wanting to go home. This could be displayed through a sigh by the character sitting directly to the mothers left.
(3) The camera will zoom into a mid shot of the mother and will be greeted with a vile upwards stare and speech directed at the cameraman.
(Shot 4) will be the first of the scenes with an opinion 1-to-1 with the camera type deal as seen in The Office. This will show the mother as aggressive to make her seem completely unreasonable. She will lean forwards into the camera so that her whole look is aggressive, not just her words. This and any similar proceeding shots of this nature will be shot with the character sitting on a basic looking chair against a white wall with no other objects in shot. Again this is so full attention is paid to the characters movements and words.
(Shot 5) The purpose of this shot is to act as the counterweight to the style of holiday that the mother is trying to enforce and will probably be acted out by my brother. This is the same styled one-to-one audience directed shot as the former.
(Shots 6-..) Tentatively this will involve a brief clip of me walking along looking important talking which will then morph into a montage of various holiday clips with me narrating not what is happening in those montaged clips, but the basis of what the film is and why it is at all. The montage will include serious looking clips of an angry mother finger pointing towards the recipient of a complete ear full and a lighter clip of an ice-cream being licked on a hot winter's day. There shots along with the music accompaniment will climax and then the title will fade in.
-Blankness-
(Shot 13ish) Dark room, brother in bed. Mum throws the door open basically forcing it off its hinges. She as she appears to be in every shot less than impressed with anything or anyone. Time is short and nothing is properly organised. The character will roll around and make some groaning sounds in dissatisfaction at having to get up. This will be in POV with him facing the door to see his mother burst in. The scene will begin as dialogue only as he hears his mother before he opens his eyes. Some attempt at funky eye opening techniques and what is shown on screen from POV will be attempted, along with fuzzyness slowly coming down in harshness.
(Shot 14) Brother enters the kitchen with Mum finding the passports. This is the only time where we see the mother with a mildly happy look on her face. Dad is just sort of standing there trying to look helpful, in a daze from being thrown into everything so soon after having gotten up.
(Shot 15) 121 shot. Mother
(Shot 16) 121 shot. Father.
Friday, 1 July 2011
Concept Task 1
My film opening will be of the mockumentary variety. It will revolve around an international family holiday.
I'm thinking of borrowing a few ideas from The Office and also The Hangover. The main ideas that I want to explore are the straining of family dynamics when we must spend an elongated amount of time together. Along with the added stress levels of planning such a trip, and everything coming together at the end... or falling apart at the last minute.
I wish to evoke emotions in the audience towards each of the characters. I want to portray a couple as the ones that are causing all of the drama and a couple that are simply trying to enjoy the holiday but are being cut down by the dramatic characters. The audience should have positive/negative connotations to each character accordingly. This should help the humour come out through their interactions and the word choices that each person uses.
I would like the audience to come out of it seeing that the opening was an exaggerated reality. There is always stress in travel however you get over it rather quickly. But with characters that hold onto the negative and don't let the stress float past them can bring down everyone around them.
So, basically, the film will start with an Australian establishing shot going into another shot with my whanau sitting in our hotel room looking rather disgusted with the whole ordeal. There will be some kind of incident here and then there will be a backwards montage into a title screen possibly with the instrumental ending of Prince's 'When Doves Cry' as I have imagined it being that way in my head. But realistically it would not fit in very well. Then there will be a scene with the morning we are to leave to Australia from New Zealand. This should be relatively brief.
I'm thinking of borrowing a few ideas from The Office and also The Hangover. The main ideas that I want to explore are the straining of family dynamics when we must spend an elongated amount of time together. Along with the added stress levels of planning such a trip, and everything coming together at the end... or falling apart at the last minute.
I wish to evoke emotions in the audience towards each of the characters. I want to portray a couple as the ones that are causing all of the drama and a couple that are simply trying to enjoy the holiday but are being cut down by the dramatic characters. The audience should have positive/negative connotations to each character accordingly. This should help the humour come out through their interactions and the word choices that each person uses.
I would like the audience to come out of it seeing that the opening was an exaggerated reality. There is always stress in travel however you get over it rather quickly. But with characters that hold onto the negative and don't let the stress float past them can bring down everyone around them.
So, basically, the film will start with an Australian establishing shot going into another shot with my whanau sitting in our hotel room looking rather disgusted with the whole ordeal. There will be some kind of incident here and then there will be a backwards montage into a title screen possibly with the instrumental ending of Prince's 'When Doves Cry' as I have imagined it being that way in my head. But realistically it would not fit in very well. Then there will be a scene with the morning we are to leave to Australia from New Zealand. This should be relatively brief.
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