Highly Entertaining
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Production Design Statement
The aesthetic use of transitions will not only move the story along further but will also create visually pleasing moments. Many of the outdoors shots will mainly consist of pathways or passages which will show progression and the other transitions will be initiated by the opening of a door.
Plot breakdown (for Hamburger)
The plot breakdown is fairly simple, the girl goes into the cabinet, where she meets up with four other characters in different situations, each involving (besides the last) a test of skill and determination. Upon confronting the last character the girl ends up waking up on her kitchen floor and once realizing she did not gain the hamburger that she had sought after she leaves in frustration. But then a hand reaches from the cabinet and puts the hamburger back in it's original place.
Explanation of Theme and Intent
In this film we are main intent is to amuse and entertain our audience with an absurd story that leaves the viewer asking questions about what they have just seen. Then coupling the absurdity with well shot, well edited, experimental sequences to draw in our audience. So in short by experimentation and absurdity we create interest. This is a narrative piece structured in a video game like sequence inspired by the short experimental films by Maya Deren.
Our main themes are obsession and absurdity.
Obsession because of the extreme lengths that the main character will go to just to retrieve a simple hamburger that could easily be replaced.
Absurdity because not only is the situation, the dialogue and the characters absurd but so is the determination to get just a hamburger.
Single Sentence Description
A girl ventures into an alternate dimension, going through a series of battles, in search of her one true desire - COW MEAT!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Actors for "Hamburger (tentative)"
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| Trista Vercher as "Girl" |
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| Ted Kasparek as "The Schizo" |
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| Tiffany Pointer as the understudy for "The Schizo" |
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| Nicholaus Darmstaedter as "The Gentleman" |
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| Nick Brinker as the understudy for "The Gentleman" |
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| Aaron Radney as "The Animal Rights Air Hockey Player" |
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| Austin Williams as the understudy for "The Animal Rights Air Hockey Player" |
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| John Furr as "The Master" |
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| Luke McDowell as the understudy for "The Master" |
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Pitch for HAMBURGER
The scene will open with a woman walking into a kitchen with a McDonalds bag. She takes a hamburger from the bag and places both the bag and the hamburger on the kitchen counter. She goes to the fridge to get a drink and when she closes the fridge door she sees that the hamburger is now gone. She looks around the area looking for the hamburger but can’t find it anywhere. She then notices a light shining from a cupboard under where she left the hamburger. She opens it and looks inside and sees an ally way. She crawls through the cupboard and finds herself crawling out of a box into an alley way.
Looking back and forth down the alley way, she sees someone having a conversation with someone not there. She approaches this person and asks them where they are. The person responds with ‘here, where else would we be?’ Still trying to find out where she is she asks until this mysterious person calls her crazy. Becoming frustrated, she asks one more time. The man then becomes angry, and he then challenges her to a battle! (of rock paper scissors.) She accepts this challenge and wins. Her now defeated opponent falls and screams dramatically before turning into a box. She looks into the box and sees endless darkness. She crawls into the box and then finds herself crawling out of a box that exits into a forest.
Now feeling very confused she looks around. A very posh looking gentleman approaches her and asks her if she needs any help as she looks very lost. She responds with a yes and mentions that she can’t find her hamburger. The gentleman, not knowing what a hamburger is, tells her that maybe the ‘master’ will know. She asks where she might find this master to which the gentleman dramatically responds ‘by defeating me!’ He moves his hand and leaves blow in that direction leading up to a table with chess set up. They start playing chess (very dramatically) and when our main character plays checkmate the gentleman lets out a dramatic cry and crumbles to the ground before turning into a box. She once again crawls through this box, which leads her to a lounge type room.
She calls out hello in this room to see if anyone is there. A man comes from behind a couch (walking like he was walking up stairs) and makes his presence known. She turns around and asks him if he is the master and if he’s seen her hamburger. She begins explaining her reason for her search and when he asks about what a hamburger is she explains that it’s cow meat. He becomes appalled that she would ever eat another animal and challenges her to a battle to which she once again accepts. They start getting ready as if they were going to do a very dramatic war like physical battle, applying war paint to their faces and putting bandages on their arms etc. Then they appear standing in front of an air hockey table and begin playing (very dramatically). The winning shot is made and the woman once again finds herself the victor with the loser having turned into a box. She crawls through the box and then find that she can’t crawl through the back and ends up breaking out the back of it.
She crawls out the other end in the same room and is now very confused. She looks around the room and sees another door, which she walks through. This leads to an abandoned attic type room with a long table in the center. At the end of the table she sees herself taking the last bite of a hamburger. She first questions why this person looks like her and then accuses her of stealing her hamburger. This person responds saying she doesn’t know what she’s talking about and she should just get her own. The copy stands up and then they both approach each other meeting in the middle of the table. Then the woman lifts a sword from behind her back and makes a move to strike her doppelganger in the head but right before it hits everything goes black.
She wakes up back in the kitchen and makes a move to rub her head in pain. She notices that the hand she was rubbing with has an crushed empty hamburger wrapper in it and she curses about ‘her’ having gotten it before her. She stands up and storms out of the kitchen, very upset. As she leaves a hand comes out of the cupboard she had crawled into in the beginning and places a hamburger with one bite taken out of it on the counter where it was previously. We zoom in on the hamburger and as you hear the closing of the cupboard the scene cuts to black.
THE END!
Looking back and forth down the alley way, she sees someone having a conversation with someone not there. She approaches this person and asks them where they are. The person responds with ‘here, where else would we be?’ Still trying to find out where she is she asks until this mysterious person calls her crazy. Becoming frustrated, she asks one more time. The man then becomes angry, and he then challenges her to a battle! (of rock paper scissors.) She accepts this challenge and wins. Her now defeated opponent falls and screams dramatically before turning into a box. She looks into the box and sees endless darkness. She crawls into the box and then finds herself crawling out of a box that exits into a forest.
Now feeling very confused she looks around. A very posh looking gentleman approaches her and asks her if she needs any help as she looks very lost. She responds with a yes and mentions that she can’t find her hamburger. The gentleman, not knowing what a hamburger is, tells her that maybe the ‘master’ will know. She asks where she might find this master to which the gentleman dramatically responds ‘by defeating me!’ He moves his hand and leaves blow in that direction leading up to a table with chess set up. They start playing chess (very dramatically) and when our main character plays checkmate the gentleman lets out a dramatic cry and crumbles to the ground before turning into a box. She once again crawls through this box, which leads her to a lounge type room.
She calls out hello in this room to see if anyone is there. A man comes from behind a couch (walking like he was walking up stairs) and makes his presence known. She turns around and asks him if he is the master and if he’s seen her hamburger. She begins explaining her reason for her search and when he asks about what a hamburger is she explains that it’s cow meat. He becomes appalled that she would ever eat another animal and challenges her to a battle to which she once again accepts. They start getting ready as if they were going to do a very dramatic war like physical battle, applying war paint to their faces and putting bandages on their arms etc. Then they appear standing in front of an air hockey table and begin playing (very dramatically). The winning shot is made and the woman once again finds herself the victor with the loser having turned into a box. She crawls through the box and then find that she can’t crawl through the back and ends up breaking out the back of it.
She crawls out the other end in the same room and is now very confused. She looks around the room and sees another door, which she walks through. This leads to an abandoned attic type room with a long table in the center. At the end of the table she sees herself taking the last bite of a hamburger. She first questions why this person looks like her and then accuses her of stealing her hamburger. This person responds saying she doesn’t know what she’s talking about and she should just get her own. The copy stands up and then they both approach each other meeting in the middle of the table. Then the woman lifts a sword from behind her back and makes a move to strike her doppelganger in the head but right before it hits everything goes black.
She wakes up back in the kitchen and makes a move to rub her head in pain. She notices that the hand she was rubbing with has an crushed empty hamburger wrapper in it and she curses about ‘her’ having gotten it before her. She stands up and storms out of the kitchen, very upset. As she leaves a hand comes out of the cupboard she had crawled into in the beginning and places a hamburger with one bite taken out of it on the counter where it was previously. We zoom in on the hamburger and as you hear the closing of the cupboard the scene cuts to black.
THE END!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Pitch: ColorBlind Documentary
ColorBlind Documentary
Quick summary: This will be a documentary on the beginning and the evolution of the garage band ColorBlind.
Pitch: The film will be a series of interviews of the various band members of ColorBlind, with snippets of the band practicing and joking around throughout. What we want to portray is sense of friendship among the band members, accented by their music. The film will culminate in a performance by the band, followed by the question, "So where do you hope the band will go rom here?"
Motivation: Our main focus on this piece will be three-fold: to illustrate the camaraderie between band members, to show the bands progression, and to bring awareness to the viewer on how a typical garage band functions and gets it's feet on the ground.
Reference:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ColorBlind/182161385127669
Equipment: We will be using the Kodak HD Camera, tripod, standard lighting equipment, and the boom mike with all related sound equipment.
Environment: Will be a mix between indoor shooting with a hint of outdoors footage. The footage indoors will take place in the Toxic Lounge and various living rooms. Some interviews and practices can be held outside in order to add variety to the film.
Pitch: The film will be a series of interviews of the various band members of ColorBlind, with snippets of the band practicing and joking around throughout. What we want to portray is sense of friendship among the band members, accented by their music. The film will culminate in a performance by the band, followed by the question, "So where do you hope the band will go rom here?"
Motivation: Our main focus on this piece will be three-fold: to illustrate the camaraderie between band members, to show the bands progression, and to bring awareness to the viewer on how a typical garage band functions and gets it's feet on the ground.
Reference:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ColorBlind/182161385127669
Equipment: We will be using the Kodak HD Camera, tripod, standard lighting equipment, and the boom mike with all related sound equipment.
Environment: Will be a mix between indoor shooting with a hint of outdoors footage. The footage indoors will take place in the Toxic Lounge and various living rooms. Some interviews and practices can be held outside in order to add variety to the film.
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