Final Project Thoughts
One idea I had was a story about a 17 year old boy who has decided he wants to be a writer. He is somewhat self important and he considers himself slightly above everyone else. He has only two friends but he is frustrated by their constant bickering and thinks they are stupid and boring compared to himself. The main character has a huge crush on a girl in his grade who he has never really spoken to. The conflict comes in when the main character confronts his friends saying that they are slackers and are too content with having very few friends. His friends take these accusations to heart and make an earnest effort to plan for their futures and branch out socially. Meanwhile, the main character realizes that he is not the talented writer that he thought he was, and is rejected by his crush.
Another less fleshed out idea was a film about a school paper. The film would depict the school paper as a fast paced, stressful, dog eat dog environment and the dialogue would sound very adult. It would be a sort of parody on movies like Good Night and Good Luck and Glengarry Glen Ross.
My artistic goal is to be able to make realistic narrative films with natural looking cuts that won't distract from the performances.
My technical goal is to improve my camera and editing skills so that the film can move smoothly from shot to shot and scene to scene.
Comments
i like your first idea....i
i like your first idea....i feel like the school news paper idea has already been done.(MTV) so yea i think the young writer would be best.
Jack, I agree with Jennie,
Jack,
I agree with Jennie, the first one seems the more unique. I wonder if an interesting way to push the story along could be through the school newspaper. The boy writes for the paper, but uses a pseudonym. In this way he never really confronts anyone, his friends OR his crush. EVeryone reads the paper together, so he can see how his friends react. Maybe his crush writes a letter to the paper, or makes fun of his writing right in front of him without knowing she is making fun of him.
I think this is doable, but would need strong pre-production. You would want to have your script flushed out before february break, so that you could do some read-throughs and rehearsals, both technical and artistic.
Other ideas? Or do you want to move ahead with this one?
-JoE
Hi Jack, It's unanimous... I
Hi Jack,
It's unanimous... I like the first idea, too, and think it has a lot of potential. Maybe you could write up a list of potential scenes?
Let me know if you want to talk it through - you can email me at emishki(at)gmail.com
erin
Yo dude, this is Noah from
Yo dude, this is Noah from Thursday class, We met the other day. I like the sounds you posted on your blog. Very cool. If you have not checked out John Zorn already I think you would dig him. Get The Dreamers and The Gift by John Zorn and you will have a head full of fun. Also check out this link to my buds and my site, http://oldmansmoking.org/lookingback/oldmansmoking%20v3.0/wowiesongswinter.html. I think maybe you might like this if your a sound kind of guy.
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