Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Self Critique for Proj #4

Stephanie Black
Project #4
Oral Fixation - March 30, 2011

Someone (Katy) is going through a box of things, apparently random objects, and picks up a lollipop stick. Scene changes to a classroom setting where Katy meets Amanda after getting a lollipop from her that came directly from her mouth. Scene changes to Katy and Amanda sitting down eating lunch. katy drops her fork and Amanda gives her hers to use instead. As they walk off to throw their garbage away Katy pockets the fork while being watched by someone. Scene cuts to Amanda drinking water when Katy walks into the kitchen. Amanda walks away and leaves her glass behind which Katy promptly drinks from until a new roommate walks in. Katy is in her room and hears a door open. Amanda has just left the bathroom and Katy, once she sees that no one is watching, goes into the bathroom behind her. Once in the bathroom Katy more or less molests Amanda's toothbrush while the new roommate approaches the bathroom. She pockets the toothbrush and leaves the bathroom, running to the new roommate on the way. Katy is not back in her room holding a toothbrush. She puts it into the box and closes it before stacking it on top of 2 other similar boxes. She picks them us and walks outside. Katy is about to throw away the boxes until she sees Amanda going through one of the boxes she had left on the ground. Amanda then say 'I never said stop' which leads to a series of flashback of the scenes shown earlier revealing that Amanda knew and if anything encourages Katy's stalker like behavior. The final scene is of when Katy and Amanda first met and you see Amanda watching Katy before she entered the room and then pulling out 6 lollipops, showing that there was really no need for Katy to take the lollipop that came directly from her mouth.


This film is supposed to make you curious as to how the whole situation started and what it will lead up to. There is supposed to be a bit of comedic relief at the fact that the stalker feels as though she's being watched by this new roommate when it is actually her best friend that is watching her and indirectly but purposefully encouraging her to stalk her best friend. Overall the film is about temptation. The temptation of wanting attention for yourself and the temptation of doing something you know is wrong but you still find hard to give up.

I feel as though my main problem areas are probably my sound editing and quite a few os my cuts are rather clumsy looking. I still need to improve on how i pan seeing as how I do like to use it a lot but cannot quite get it right each time.

Oral Fixation (Project #4)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Production Package Thingy

DETAILED SHOT LIST

Opening scene (metz dorm in a bedroom)
EST – Shot of outside of Metz from the back at an angle

CU - of Box with random looking objects in it. Pan across to 2 similar boxes that are closed. Person’s hand reaches for a lollipop stick in one of the boxes.

MS – Person is sitting by all these boxes and is holding a lollipop stick, looking at it and turning it. She then open’s her mouth and is about to put it in her mouth.

Scene Fade to black

Person is sitting at their Desk

WS – of classroom with about 5 people in it (conference room? Studio 1 or 2?)

POV/ Over Shoulder (MS) – Katy is looking at the people in the room

POV/ Over Shoulder (ECU) – Katy is focusing on the mouths of people as they talk

Pan/ Cut to POV/ Over Shoulder (ECU) – Katy is Focusing on someone eating a granola Bar

Pan/ Cut to POV/ Over Shoulder (ECU) – Katy is watching someone drink from a water bottle. Someone walks in front of this scene and sits down in the seat next to her, blocking her view.

MS – Of this new person (Amanda) sitting down next to Katy.


Pan/ Cut to POV/ Over Shoulder (ECU) – Katy watching Amanda’s mouth as she sucks on a lollipop. Amanda then turns to face Katy.

Pan/ Cut to POV/ Over Shoulder (BS) – Hi, morning

MS (from Katy’s of the convo) – A - ‘Morning’.
Katy then looks forward and then a bit later looks back at Amanda. ‘
K - Do you have any more?’ pointing towards the lollipop
A - ‘uh huh’

MS (different angle) - Amanda reaches into pocket and grabs a lollipop and hands it to Katy who makes a face at it.
K – Allergic to (insert fruit type here)

BS – Amanda thinks and then asks
A – How about Grape?

BS – K - Grape’s good

BS – Amanda removes Lollipop from her mouth and…

MS – Hands it to Katy

POV/Over Shoulder – Katy looks at it for a bit before taking it and putting it in her mouth. She looks up and sees Amanda putting the other lollipop in her mouth.

MS – Katy holds out hand
K- Katy
Amanda looks down at hand before smiling and grasping it
A: Amanda, nice to meet you.


Cut to black

WS – Katy and Amanda are talking while eating lunch

MS – Katy Drops her fork while talking. She pauses, looks at it for a second before picking it up and putting it aside.

MS – Amanda just finished putting a stick of gum in her mouth and reaches for her used fork and hands it over.

MS - Katy thanks her, takes the fork and continues eating.

WS – They’ve finished eating and get up to throw garbage away.

Over Shoulder of X (WS) – Person sees Katy putting fork in her pocket

MS – Katy Turns around to see if anyone saw and makes eye contact with someone.

BS-WS – Her eyes widen but she turns around and walks away with Amanda

Cut to Black

WS - Amanda is in a kitchen with a couple of stacked boxes around.

MS – She has a cup of water and begins to drink it as Katy enters the dorm/house

CU – Amanda drinking water

MS- Amanda finishes water, puts cup in sink and walking off.
Katy walks into frame and picks up cup. She looks at it.

MS – Katy Refills cup with water.

CU – Katy drinks from cup and is then startled.

WS – Another roommate just entered the house carrying a box and walks into her room.

MS – Katy drops cup in sink and walks away

Cut to black

WS panning – Katy and Amanda walk towards Camera talking. Katy has a popsicle she just finished and throws away into a garbage on the way. As they pass it the camera follows them. Outside a classroom Katy stops and acts like she forgot something.

MS – K- I’ll be right back, ok?
A – yea, just don’t be late.

WS – Katy walks towards camera.

MS – She Stands in front of the garbage can looking around. She see no one and reaches into the garbage,

POV/Over Shoulder – Person watching Katy going into the Garbage

MS – Katy pulls out a popsicle stick, turns around and sees someone watching her. She is startled and rushes back into the classroom after pocketing the popsicle stick.

Cut to black

CU – Hands holding a plastic bag and fiddling with it.

MS – Katy is on her bed holding a plastic bag . You hear a door close and she stands up and walks to her door

WS – a door in an empty hall way opens and Katy’s head peaks out and looks up and down the hallway. She sees no one and walks into the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

MS – In the bathroom the glass is all fogged up. Katy looks at a toothbrush and picks it up, running her thumb over the bristles.

MSShe puts the brush down and goes into bag she brought with her and pulls out an identical toothbrush in it’s packaging and takes it out and puts it in place of the old toothbrush. She picks up the old toothbrush again, runs her fingers over the bristles one more time before putting it in her pocket.

MS - She turns around and leaves the bathroom. As she exits the bathroom her other roommate is there waiting and enters.

Fade to black

WS - Katy is sitting in her room, surrounded but those few boxes again and holding a toothbrush, fingers running over the bristles.

CU – She reaches for one of the lip balms in a corner of the box

BS – She applies it to her lips and replaces it. She then sighs.

WS – She stands up and puts all the boxes into one stack and then picks them up and walks out her room.

Cut to black

WS - Katy walks towards the garbage with the boxes and puts them down.

MS – Grabbing the top most box she starts to lift the top of the garbage to dump it when she notices someone stooping down beside her looking through one of the boxes.

POV/Over Shoulder – Amanda looks up at camera/Katy and says with a smirk
A – I never said I wanted you to stop

BS – Katy looks down at Amanda, horrified

Cut to black

WS- Amanda is looking through a crack in her bedroom door in a towel. Katy walk in front of her to her bedroom with a toothbrush sticking out of her pocket. Amanda smirks and walks further into her room.

Cut to Black

MS – Amanda is standing right inside a door for a couple of seconds before turning around and looking out the door

Over Shoulder – Amanda sees Katy reaching into the garbage

MS – Amanda walks back into the classroom and takes her seat. Then smiles at Katy as she enters the classroom out of breath.

Cut to black

MS – Amanda is looking at the door until she hears someone start to open it and then starts to drink the cup of water in her hand. She puts the cup in the sink and the walks away.

Over shoulder – Amanda sees Katy drinking from her cup and then continues walking down the hallway to her room.

Cut to black

MS - As Katy looks at the person to her left Amanda looks at the fork in Katy’s back pocket, smiles and then continues walking.

Cut to black

Over shoulder - Amanda watches from the doorway and Katy looks at people in the classroom.

MS – She’s holding about 6 lollipops in her hand. She puts 4 of those 6 in her bag and puts 1 in her hoodie pocket.

BS – She Unwraps the lollipop and puts it in her mouth and then walks into the classroom.

WS – She walks in front of where Katy’s looking and sits beside her.

BS – Amanda smiles as she says hi to Katy, her head tilting to the side as she says it.

Cut to Black
END



Breakdown the Script

The theme is temptation. Katy has been stalking her best friend, Amanda for a couple of months now. She has collected objects that belong to her and stores them all in boxes. Afraid of being found out by one of her roommates she decides to get rid of her collection. She goes through the box for a final time and has multiple flash backs starting from when Katy and Amanda just met to the first time Katy stole Amanda's toothbrush. While down by the garbage disposal Amanda sees Katy and starts going through the boxes. As Katy stands in shock Amanda looks at her and says she never wanted her to stop (meaning stop the stalking) Then you go back through all the flash backs that you had previously seen and see that Amanda knew exactly what was happening and watched while it happened. The last scene is of when Amanda and Katy first met and you see that Amanda somewhat made the relationship happen the way it did.



Logistics

2 main actors (screen time about 4-6 minutes) 6-7 scenes
1 minor actor (screen time about 30 seconds to 1 minute) 5 scenes
4-5 extras (screen time from 5 seconds to 20 seconds) 1-2 scenes each
7 locations used
Six sets of clothing for each actor where used. 'Stalker Box and contents ie. toothbrushes, popsicle sticks, lip balm, lip gloss, etc.


Shooting done on;
Sunday 5pm-12am (midnight)
Tuesday 9pm-2am



Over head maps of used locations







































Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Stalker Script #2

Amanda
Katy
3-4 Extras

Katy is sitting her room on the floor going through some boxes full of miscellaneous objects. These consist of toothbrushes, lip balm, straws, random pieces of cutlery, lollipop sticks, what looks like chewed gum, pictures etc.

She sighs as she picks up one of the lollipop sticks

Scene Change

Katy is sitting at a desk in a classroom looking at the people around her. The people in the classroom and talking to each other, going through notebooks, looking at their laptop screens and doing other random things. She focuses on the people doing something with their mouths. She stares at the mouths of people talking, those chewing gum, those having a late breakfast before class starts. She notices someone sitting down in the seat next to her and turns to face this person (Amanda), has a lollipop in their mouth. Amanda looks at her and makes eye contact.

A: Hi, morning (she says with a smile)

K: Morning (she mumbles)

Katy looks forward and then glances back at Amanda

K: Do you have any more of those? (she points towards the lollipop in her mouth)

A: uh huh

Amanda goes into her hoodie pocket and takes out an apple flavor lollipop and hands it to Katy. Katy looks at it and grimaces a bit. Amanda makes a questioning face.

K: Allergic to apples (she says with a half smile)

Amanda makes a thinking face before talking

A: How about grape?

K: Grape’s good

Amanda takes the lollipop out of her mouth and hands it to Katy. Katy looks at it for a bit before taking it and putting it in her mouth. She holds out her hand to Amanda just as Amanda puts the apple-flavored lollipop in her mouth.

K: Katy

Amanda looks down at the hand and smiles before grasping it.

A: Amanda, nice to meet you.

Scene Change

Amanda and Katy are sitting outside having lunch. They are talking while eating. Katy drops her fork on the ground. Katy sighs before picking it up and putting it to one side. Amanda, who just put a stick of gum in her mouth, reaches for her fork from her finished plate of food and hands it to Katy. Katy accepts it and continues eating. Once they finish and walk off Katy pockets the used fork before they throw away their trash in a nearby garbage bin. As she does this someone that was sitting nearby glances at Katy.

Scene Change

Amanda is standing in a kitchen drinking a cup of water. There are a couple of boxes on the ground with labels like ‘clothes’, ‘school stuff’, ‘winter clothes’ and ‘random shit’ written on the sides and top. Amanda and Katy are moving into a dorm together. Katy walks into the dorm as Amanda finishes the cup of water and puts it in the sink. Katy goes through the cupboards in the kitchen until Amanda walks out of sight. She then reaches for the cups Amanda just used, fills it with water. She looks at it carefully and then drinks from it while looking around. One of the other roommates step out of their room Katy jumps as soon as she sees them. She drops the cup (still half full with water) into the sink and walks away while her roommate looks at her.

Scene Change

Amanda and Katy are walking down a hallway. Amanda just finished a popsicle and throws the stick a garbage as they walk. They walk a bit further down and then Katy pretends that she forgot something.

K: Oh damn! I’ll be right back, okay?

A: Yea, sure. Don’t be late.

Katy walks back down the hallway to the garbage. She looks behind her and sees Amanda’s back disappear through a doorway. She looks around to make sure no one is watching her. She then reaches into the garbage, pulls out the popsicle stick and pockets it. She turns around to go back to the classroom. As she walks back down the hallways she notices someone around a corner looking at the strangely. She looks back at this person and then realizes that they probably saw her. Eyes wide in shock and fright, she rushes back to the classroom.



Scene Change

Katy is in her room looking at a plastic bag in her hands. She waits until she hears a door close outside before peaking outside her room. She looks back and forth down the small hallways outside her bedroom. She then steps out of room with the plastic bag and into the bathroom across the hall, closing the door behind her and locking it. She opens the bag and takes out a brand new toothbrush that she removes from the packaging. This toothbrush is the same as the one in the toothbrush holder beside the sink. She takes the toothbrush out of the holder, sticks it in her pocket and replaces it with the new one. She looks at her reflection in the mirror, it’s slightly covered in fog, and then walks out of the bathroom and back into her room. As she leaves the bathroom her roommate steps into it, closing the door behind her.

Scene Change

Katy is still looking through her collection of objects, she holds up a collection of toothbrushes and then puts them back down. She looks at a bundle of lip balms, picks up one and uses it and then puts it back in its place. Sighing again she closes the box she was going through and stacks it up with 2 other boxes and carries them to the garbage outside the dorm.

Scene Change (outside the dorm by the garbage)

Katy puts down the stack of boxes and grabs the one at the top and opens the top of the garbage to dump it. She notices someone approaching her from behind and stooping down by the 2 remaining boxes. She turns around suddenly, dropping the box in her hands. Beside her, going through the boxes is Amanda. Amanda looks up at Katy while Katy slowly backs away from her until she is against the garbage container.

A: I never said I minded (she says with a smirk)

Katy’s eyes open wide and her breath hitches.

Scene Change

Amanda is standing in her room, a towel wrapped around her body with the door slightly open, she is barely visible when Katy opens the bathroom door and goes into her room, the toothbrush sticking slightly out of her pocket, as her other roommate enters the bathroom she closes her door with a knowing smiling on her face.

Scene Change

Amanda walks into the classroom until she knows she can’t be seen from outside, waits for 2 seconds and then peeks her head out the doorway to see Katy reaching into the garbage container. She stands up straight and walks to her seat, sitting and then smiling when she sees Katy walk into the room.

Scene Change

Amanda waits until she hears the front door opening before finishing the cup of water in her hand and putting it in the sink. She walks off, down the hallway of her dorm before backtracking a bit to see Katy drinking form the cup she had just discarded. Smiling, she walks into her room, closing the door behind her.

Scene Change

As Amanda and Katy walk towards the garbage to throw away their garbage Amanda watches as Katy puts the fork in her pocket ‘discretely’. She stares at it as Katy throws away her garbage as it is sticking out her pocket slightly.

Scene Change

Katy is sitting in the classroom, looking at people’s mouths, and watching someone eat breakfast. Amanda, who is standing in the doorway takes out a lollipop, and puts it in her mouth. She watches Katy for couple of seconds before walking into the classroom and sitting beside her and smiling in her direction as she makes eye contact. Fingering the apple-flavored lollipop in her pocket with one hand as she looks at Katy and says;

A: Hi, morning

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Script for Assignment #4

Main - Katy (Kat)
Best Friend – Ashley Hudson (Ash)

Kat walks into bedroom, locking the door behind her. She looks around the room before putting down her things. She walk up to the window, looks out it as if looking for something and then closes the curtains/blinds. She takes out her phone and quickly sends a text before walking out of the room. She comes back changed into pajamas and then turns off the light and lies in bed.

Pause, Rewind through that scene quickly


-Scene Change-


Shot of a sidewalk and the houses along it. Kat then runs in to the frame, glancing behind her as she does so. She trips and falls and then quickly looks around. She sees no one and takes deep breaths, trying to calm down. She stands back up and proceeds to walk in the direction she was running. She walks out of the frame.

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


Kat is talking on the phone just outside a door using dramatic hand gestures with her one free hand as she does so.

K – Where are you!
-
K – Really sick or you just didn’t finish your homework sick?
(sounds skeptical, puts hand on hip)
-
K – Oh…Well I’m really freaked out right now, I swear someone’s following me!
(hand on hip relaxes and goes straight)
-
K – No I’m not going crazy
-
K - YES! That’s what I’ve been saying, someone’s following me!
-
K – Yea…uh huh…okay…yea I’ll be careful. I’ll send you a text when I get home or something.
-
K – yea, later

Kat puts cell phone in pocket and proceeds to walk away from door

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


In a classroom someone (gender unidentifiable) is rummaging through a bag on a desk. Kat walks into the room head down muttering to herself .

K – Ash is right, I really am such a ditz.

Kat looks up and sees someone going through her bag and screams and backs up against wall. Person going through bag jumps a bit. Quickly they turn their head slightly, but not enough to reveal who they are and then run out the door. Kat puts her hand up to her chest to feel her hear beat. She then runs towards her bag, grabbing it and then running out the door but in the opposite direction from the person.

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


(early morning)
Kat walks over to a bench outside and sits down, taking out a book to read. She sees a shadow on the ground in front of her and turns around to see someone suddenly turning their head and walking away. She looks at the person for a while before turning back to her book.

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


Kat and Ash are sitting down and talking to each other in a classroom.

K – It can’t be just me, even I’m not this bad.

A – I don’t know Kat, this sounds like you’re just leaving your stuff all over the place.

K – But all those umbrellas, pens –

A – which you’ve been leaving around for the past 6 years

K – - pencils -

A – even worse than the pens

K - -NOTE BOOKS-

A – sigh Kat… (Kat tries to continue talking) KAT! you’re just really forgetful, you’ve been like this since I met you.

K – but I feel like someone’s following me, stalking me, I swear! I feel their eyes on my back!

A – Well, this is it; you’ve finally lost it.

K – lost what? A lot of stuff has gone missing over the past few weeks.

A – You’ve finally gone crazy is what!

K – Ashley! I’m serious.

A – Kat, I’m POSITIVE that you’re just imagining things. You’re obviously really stressed by your current workload and you’re tired. Just try and get some more sleep or something, okay?

K – yea, ok… I still think I’m being followed though!

Ashley sighs and grabs her bag and walks out the classroom door

K – Hey, don’t walk away when we-

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


Kat walks into the classroom and sees Ashley already there. She quickly drops her bag on the desk.

K – Morning Ash

A – Morning

Kat then starts looking through bag, trying to find something at the bottom. While Kat does this Ash stares at her. Kat looks up from her bag at Ash.

K – Do you have a pen I could borrow, I think I lost mine.

A – Sure.

Ashley leans down to her bag on the ground and pulls out a pencil that she hands to Kat.

K – Thanks!

Pause, Rewind through scene quickly


-Scene Change-


Kat and Ash are walking back from school and are currently on a sidewalk. Kat seems to be talking to Ash who nods at the appropriate times, occasionally adding in one-word responses. This conversation can’t be clearly heard but it sounds like their talking about school and homework.

Ash pauses in front of a house and turns to Kat.

A – This is me, see you tomorrow.

K – Yea, see you tomorrow.

Ash walks up towards house.


-Scene Change-


Ash walks into her room and puts her bag on her bed. She pulls out some things (including a text book) and outs them on a desk. She opens a draw that’s full of random items, hair clips, hairbrushes, short notes, old jewelry, many pens and pencils, a few small notebooks etc. She picks up the book and puts it in the drawer. While doing this the name on the front of the book is visible and you see ‘Ashley Hudson, History’ written on it in bold letters. When the book is being placed in the drawer there will be a close-up of the drawer and you can see all the notebooks have ‘Ashley’ written on the front and all the notes are the same handwriting.



-Scene Change-

(current time)

A cell phone is visible and a text reading ‘made it –A’ is one the screen.

A shot of Ashley holding the cell phone and then looking upwards.

Shot of Kat from behind as she looks through a window at a sleeping figure in a bed (Kat)




Very badly drawn timeline concept/idea