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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Ginko on January 14, 2004, 06:02:02 PM
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I need some suggestions for making a 4 minute film.
Our access to lighting equipment is very limited so I\'m trying to avoid it. Something outside would be ideal...I was thinking about something like Blair Witch, perhaps a spoof.
We are using a mini dv camera to film it, might have access to an 8mm but I\'m not counting on it.
I need to have a treatment, shot list, and schedule by this coming Monday!!
Just start throwing out some ideas...HELP!!
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a riot
two people walking down the road stumble onto a dead body
a porn
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just thought of this..you can start off with your typical american family eating at the table. make sure the husband job is like a doctor or laywer,..and have everybody at the table make good comments on the food..have them say like "wow mike this steak is great so fresh juicy etc..fade..next show him at the gym working out flirting with women..have him walk out with them laughing & talikn ..fade..show him waliking in the door with a bag taking it to the freezer. have him say "i have more steak" and let it be known that he likes to by his meat straight from the slaughter house..as time goes on you can kep showin him at the gym flirting with women waking out with them.etc etc.
then have him come one day as usual with bag of meat and have him go to the freezer to put the meat up. have the wife follow him (she\'s wants to ask him a question whatever) then cut & slowly have the camera creep up slowly behind him as he\'s putting the meat into the freezer..have it kinda dark for creepness effect and show him putting arms legs torso in the freezer ..have wife stare in amazement fade or have her her scream fade..i know you could probabaly see the plot a mile away but that\'s what i came with off the top of my head ;)
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A tree falls on a hunter and he has to chew his torso off to free himself
Get a bigfoot costume and a group of 4 hunters, bigfoot captures them one by one. Last hunter manages to outsmart bigfoot, but it surprises the hell out of everyone when bigfoot captures him too. Bigfoot takes him back to his cave where the other 3 hunters are currently being pets for lil bigfoot. Or make your own spin here.
Dumb streetrace flick about egos and acceptance
these are the easiest I could think of with a handful of buddies and being outside.
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Just remember everything is better with a monkey.
Also a few catch phrases like. I weep now knowing I will never get to manhandle my own stink folds betwined with my own scrotum bundle.
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Clips:
So he has a wife, cheats on her multiple times with other women from the gym, almost nightly, then hacks them up into pieces and keeps whole body parts in his freezer without her knowing at all? She must be the most oblivious person in the world. No offense Clips, but don\'t give up your day job. ;)
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The idea about two people finding a dead body is pretty good. I actually recommend losing any and all speaking parts and sticking to the ambient sounds and a subtle soundtrack if at all possible.
Open up with two guys walking down the street, one bouncing a basketball in an oversized sweatshirt and the other drinking a near finished slurpee so you get the ripple sound effect when they try to drink the last bits of it. Have them turn down some alley with a heap of boxes and trash next to one of those 2-yard long dumpsters. Place the camera behind the kid on the left, the one who\'s bouncing the basketball, and walk with him so the kid on the right is presumably with him, but we see it from his vantage point and slightly to the left. Have the kid continue walking for a bit, bouncing his ball, then suddenly comes to a halt and stops bouncing his basketball. At this point, pan the camera around the front of the kid as he turns around 180 degrees staying on his left shoulder to see his friend standing in front of the heap of trash about 15 steps away with his slurpee in front of his mouth, but not drinking. Then show a close up of the kid with the basketball looking puzzled at his friend and then approaches him slowly.
When the kid gets to his friend, he continues to look at his face and his unblinking eyes and waves his hand in front of his face. The kid staring at the heap grabs his friend by the arm and turns him towards the heap -- do this whole shot from the vantage point of the heap of trash slightly lower to the ground, but not below the two kids waists looking up at them. As the kid turns, have his facial expression change from a look of curiosity to shock.
Next shot, change the angle to one between the two kids\' heads and behind them but slightly above them as well looking at this heap of trash with a dead body lying in it riddled with three bullet holes trailing across the chest and stomach and blood already spread throughout the white dress shirt he\'s wearing. The guy should be of medium build with a tie and a sports jacket with matching slacks. His shoes should be black and his body should be lying in a pool of his own blood so it looks like it\'s been there for some time, but not long enough to start getting maggots and flies.
The kids kneel down and start examing the body closely. From here, the camera is pretty much good anywhere so long as we get the look of the dead body as the guys see them, or of the expression on their faces. Kind of stare at this for a few seconds and keep the camera still, let the audience take this discovery in. To make it more interesting, put one of those pocket badges on the dead guys body with a bullet hole through it and blood splattering on it. Have the kid with the slurpee poke the guy with his finger and watch the dead guy\'s leg move slightly and then back to where it was. Have the kid with the basketball ricochet the basketball of the guy\'s head, into the wall behind him, and back into his hands. When the kid catches the ball, have the camera angle focused on the kid as he catches it from the vantage point of the dead body showing the ball recieved a bit of blood splatter from hitting the guy\'s head, but the kid doesn\'t see it from the way he caught it.
I, or you, can take it a number of directions from here, but before I even bother continuing, you should review what is here so far. If it\'s uninteresting, there\'s no point in me adding to this. Anyways, hope you like the start.
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Do one of those reality shows.
You could be sitting on your ass doing nothing, (Have a slow beat in the back ground getting faster and faster while zooming in slowly) till you get to the highlight of the piece, you lifting one ass cheek and farting.
Call it..... "Noise" ;)
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Originally posted by Ryu
Clips:
So he has a wife, cheats on her multiple times with other women from the gym, almost nightly, then hacks them up into pieces and keeps whole body parts in his freezer without her knowing at all? She must be the most oblivious person in the world. No offense Clips, but don\'t give up your day job. ;)
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The idea about two people finding a dead body is pretty good. I actually recommend losing any and all speaking parts and sticking to the ambient sounds and a subtle soundtrack if at all possible.
Open up with two guys walking down the street, one bouncing a basketball in an oversized sweatshirt and the other drinking a near finished slurpee so you get the ripple sound effect when they try to drink the last bits of it. Have them turn down some alley with a heap of boxes and trash next to one of those 2-yard long dumpsters. Place the camera behind the kid on the left, the one who\'s bouncing the basketball, and walk with him so the kid on the right is presumably with him, but we see it from his vantage point and slightly to the left. Have the kid continue walking for a bit, bouncing his ball, then suddenly comes to a halt and stops bouncing his basketball. At this point, pan the camera around the front of the kid as he turns around 180 degrees staying on his left shoulder to see his friend standing in front of the heap of trash about 15 steps away with his slurpee in front of his mouth, but not drinking. Then show a close up of the kid with the basketball looking puzzled at his friend and then approaches him slowly.
When the kid gets to his friend, he continues to look at his face and his unblinking eyes and waves his hand in front of his face. The kid staring at the heap grabs his friend by the arm and turns him towards the heap -- do this whole shot from the vantage point of the heap of trash slightly lower to the ground, but not below the two kids waists looking up at them. As the kid turns, have his facial expression change from a look of curiosity to shock.
Next shot, change the angle to one between the two kids\' heads and behind them but slightly above them as well looking at this heap of trash with a dead body lying in it riddled with three bullet holes trailing across the chest and stomach and blood already spread throughout the white dress shirt he\'s wearing. The guy should be of medium build with a tie and a sports jacket with matching slacks. His shoes should be black and his body should be lying in a pool of his own blood so it looks like it\'s been there for some time, but not long enough to start getting maggots and flies.
The kids kneel down and start examing the body closely. From here, the camera is pretty much good anywhere so long as we get the look of the dead body as the guys see them, or of the expression on their faces. Kind of stare at this for a few seconds and keep the camera still, let the audience take this discovery in. To make it more interesting, put one of those pocket badges on the dead guys body with a bullet hole through it and blood splattering on it. Have the kid with the slurpee poke the guy with his finger and watch the dead guy\'s leg move slightly and then back to where it was. Have the kid with the basketball ricochet the basketball of the guy\'s head, into the wall behind him, and back into his hands. When the kid catches the ball, have the camera angle focused on the kid as he catches it from the vantage point of the dead body showing the ball recieved a bit of blood splatter from hitting the guy\'s head, but the kid doesn\'t see it from the way he caught it.
I, or you, can take it a number of directions from here, but before I even bother continuing, you should review what is here so far. If it\'s uninteresting, there\'s no point in me adding to this. Anyways, hope you like the start.
damn you ryu! i know my story has more holes than a donut but accept it for face value! :p .i liked your story... leaves you thinking...when you stated to have him bounce the ball off the guys head i thought that shot was giving the audience a hint that he had something to do with this guys death..nontheless good story. :)
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Surviour spoof.
Is it for school? Are you graduating? We did a Surviour spoof on how we \'Survied Highschool\'.
It was really funny...
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Did you do a \'naked wrestling\' spoof too?
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why just stick with wrestling?
we made some very amature looking locker room pornos with one of the young male sub teachers...
man, he was to die for OMG>
:rolleyes:
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Eeew Racer.
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Thanks guys!!
I like Ryu\'s idea quite a bit so let\'s explore that some more. I\'m trying to avoid using any dialouge, and rely more on sound effects and ambient sounds like you said. We have sound forge studio to use if we need to...
We are using Adobe Aftereffects and Premier to finish the film.
To answer someone\'s question, it\'s for a class that I\'m required to take.
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I have an idea, it doesn\'t feature any speaking parts (just moaning and uttering "oh yeah, ride me hard"). You wouldn\'t have to worry about the wardrobe... PM me for details. ;)
But seriously, I like Ryu\'s idea. :p
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I\'m still taking Ryu\'s idea in to thought, but I\'ve also come up with something else...
How does a "making of a 4 minute film" sound? We could record the process of an overbearing director, clashing cinematographer, lazy gaffer, horrible actresses, an angry line producer, etc.
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Those are hard as hell to make dood, they usually end up dumb when in the hands of even an amateur team. The few exceptions like Singing in the Rain had a boatload of characters you could identify with and a clever script. To be honest no one cares about the making of a student film, but a Hollywood flick with big budget actors is a different story. Good luck if you go that route.
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It\'s only going to be viewed by the class, then graded by the instructor. Not looking to win any awards here, just making a grade.
I was toying around with the idea of the production assistant making his own behind the scenes movie, catching fights between the cinematographer and director, randomly interviewing people, etc. all behind the director\'s back. Just to show how hard it actually is to make a movie...
Figured I could finish it up with still shots of "The director never finished his debut film, rumor has it he is now a gas station attendent" <--- something like that.
^Still messing around with that idea, the trick is to get something entertaining with some sort of resolution in 4 minutes time.
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Sure try it out, just I\'ve seen it done before and they are almost stale. As bright as you are you just may make it work.
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Ryu, my sweetheart and the screenwriter. Great idea. :x
That idea of "The making of a 4 minute film" probably takes longer than 4 minutes, wouldn\'t it?
Anyways...here are some of my ideas (albeit, not as creative as Ryu\'s):
-Trailer of a movie based on your favorite book.
-A little girl having a tea party with her stuffed animals by herself. In her "conversation" with her dolls, she reveals her intention and plan to kill someone. Then end it with a shot of her asking Mr. Bear if he\'d like more sugar. Blackout. Blood-curtling scream. Roll credits. You can play with the protagonist and background.
-Use legos or action figures as your actors for flexibility.
-a kid looking through his parents\' important documents, trying to find something for some application (birth certificate for passport, etc.) finds out that he was adopted. Cut, next scene, searches for birth parents. Cut, next scene, his father killed his mother (or vice versa). Run with that...
-Kid crashes car, movie about how parents react.
-spoof of those cooking shows (baked goods are probably the easiest to cut down to four minutes). Can end with "chef" messing up and buying stuff from the supermarket out of frustration.
-spoof of informercials. "sell" something. Host picks up call, thinking he\'s going to sell the product. Person on the other line is the real inventor and is sueing for copyright infringement.
-movie about table etiquette. :P
-If you have a very large CD and DVD collection, you can make a movie about entering a CD/DVD castle competition (like a documentary).
-Three women getting their nails or hair done, gossiping. The gossip topic can be the story.
That\'s all I am willing to come with (since it\'s not my project :P)
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-A little girl having a tea party with her stuffed animals by herself. In her "conversation" with her dolls, she reveals her intention and plan to kill someone. Then end it with a shot of her asking Mr. Bear if he\'d like more sugar. Blackout. Blood-curtling scream. Roll credits. You can play with the protagonist and background.
The ideas for that one are absolutely, forgive the pun, to die for. Brilliant.