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uploaded storyboards with the enrevised ending on them on fromemory kk?

adarexia means emotionless in a psychotic way.... film title cud be "+add"???

Right, rasclaats...

Currently working on the final storyboards, in between my growing mounds of other work... should be up fairly soon.
I reckon we need to think more about location- streets with lampposts, blank rooms, securing the bus station etc; lighting- figuring out where we want lights in each scene and actually securing some; and make-up and costumes. Jon Rose needs YOU!!!

Sound track

How about we use some strange noises overlade over childs laughter, so we could have a cookoo clock go off when things happen... except that might make it seem like there was a clock but you know what I mean, I hope. : )

A thought....

When Tom stabs the young lady, he could bury his head in her shoulder and then slowly look up at the camera, or just upwards, with a rather proud look upon his face, or a creepy smile, just a thought.

I'm trying to work out how the bus scene would work, would be complicated. I can't think of a way around it, and is it nesaccary, is it a important part of the plot??

Just some thoughts for you.

title

look up adarexia in a dictionary... this could be a kl title for our film???

Draft Storyboard

OK, I can't work out the picture system thing, so I've provided a link to my Myspace so people can see my first draft storyboard (6 shots). Comments would be appreciated, as would Rob redrawing them to look. y'know, good.

programmed to thrill

yeh i sed 2 john i think that we cud explain the murder with the bloke being programmed/brain washed to kill... cant remember if u likerd the idea but this is how it cud fit into wht we hav already...

shot of man looking out window, cuts to the drinks closeup of the woman stirring a drink, cut back to the midshot of the man who this time has been distracted because his cell is ringing, he answers it, the codeword 'rosebud' (or whteva) is read to him over the cell, cut to a closeup of the phone falling to the floor and then graphic match (i think) to a closeup of the drink the woman was stirring being put back on the table... man kills woman like discussed before...man is slouched over watching her die, the noise of the cell ringing from offscreeen is heard, it is accentuated that this snaps the man out of his daze, he walks over to the phone and the voice says, now i'm going to count to three... one, two, three, ... and that could be the end of the opening orrrrrr the thing on the bus orrrrrr has any one else had any further thoughts on the idea / ending ?? comment ples!!!!

Boo I had a really cool picture to put in the "Jammies" bit. Great likeness off myself, so I put it here. : )

Storyboards

If anyone can explain to me how to upload stuff on our "Storyboards" link, I hope over half term to put up some rough storyboards for the scenes I've thought out. I'm not our group's best artist, but if they're up one of the others could perhaps redraw them in "proper" style. I'd just like to publish my original interpretation of scenes so we have something concrete to work from.

filming

any ideas for locations for the initial, indoor scenes??? someones house??? rent a hotel room??? when is a good day for everyone when we can film???

Okay what did I miss today, anything important?

Well, things seem to be a little better after last week's apparent plagiarism drama. We've thought about the visual adaptation of some parts of my idea, and we should hopefully move onto storyboarding something soon. Thing is, my idea may well necessarily involve filming at night, which could be tricky. Any suggestions, anyone? Besides "film it in the daytime", I mean.

What the hell??

When I added that bit about the montage I didn't at any point say it was part of Toms original idea, I said that it was mine and could be added at the beginning. And I did it to clarify why the girl was there for the slow people watching. I didn't say it had to be used either it was just a suggestion I havn't really thought about henry's and my since Jon went to mother Russia!

Grr >: (

I'm only away a week, and everything goes tits-up... hahahahaha. Ah well, now you'll have to use mine... or tom and henry's. Don't worry, we can sort this out... I hope.
St Petersburg could well have been an interesting location, now I think about it... if I'd had a video camera I could have spliced in random, unmatching stock footage a la Ed Wood. Too late now though.

the ORIGINAL idea

my original idea involved absolutely nothing with being inside a house or speaking on the telephone or having the female character killed and the credits were probably gonna be roled at the end cos we have a sorta iconic 'closing' shot...+++ The Girl survives goddammit :)

i'm pretty sure youre idea starts in the house and then you go to the forest right??? originally ours is set in an alleyway with a brief flashback to an office, and is in the tone of stylized noire with black/white, tophats, trenchcoats etcetcetc. My influences coming up with the idea are 'Rope' by alfy hitchcock 'Sin City' and 'Oldboy' by Park-Chan Wook. There is the similarity that a package is being exchanged but that is a cliche of the genre??? Our lady character starts off looking to the audience like she is a homeless person who has been unlucky enough to stumble upon some gangster types doing a deal. The gangsters move towards the girl to 'kill' her unknown to one of the gangsters the other gangster uses this as an oppurtunity to kill him and take both the money and the package....there are ten lines of dialogue roughly which are a voiceover of the flashback and the very closing shot. again the female survives lol...

...lol if there are any problems everyone remembers you had youre idea ageees ago before i thought of one so we'll change it no worries
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why did u even add bits to the idea rob there wernt any holes in the plot that needed filling in the first place grrrrr

Fantastic everything just backfired

Great, I just found out that James's and Jakes idea is almost identical to ours. So after all the time we spent and drawings we've done and brainstorming we basically come up with some sort of psychic beam that has pinched their idea, bl**dy excellent. So we're now pretty much back to square one, sorry Tom.

For the record, we didn't actually know about their idea we just managed to do a carbon copy of it.

Ideas knackering peoples brains

OK I have an idea for the final idea. Basically we scrap everyone else's ideas and just go with Toms.

We start with a montage of footage of the protagonist getting ready, but at this point it is uncertain who the protagonist is. For instance we see him picking up his brief case and putting something in it, then we see him on the phone (presumably talking to the contact), then we see him walking out the door. This is overlaid with the credits

We then use Toms idea but just after hes been shot it cuts to him talking about what he is going to do, over the phone. We still assume he is talking to the contact when he says something that makes us realise that he is talking to the hobo girl. Duh duh duh (music).

It then cuts back to a low angled shot looking up over the now dead contact towards the protagonist picking up the money/ brief case. Then does the gun/money bit with jacket before it finishes with him walking towards the camera with him reciting something like "they want whats in the brief case, she wants money and I want revenge. One down two to go." Bit cliché but we can sort that bit out.

Also I will finish the other story boards when everyone returns as this will mean I wont have to keep changing things. : )

Uhh has this worked?

Trying to put the damn storyboard on aaaaaaaaaaargh I hate computers. Oh right yeah it might be something to do with the fact I was really impatient and closed the picture window before it said done... great. But anyways Tom or Henry can you suggest what angles we will use as I don't want to have to do this again. And also show me how to not be such a retard and show me the links editing bit thing...

Storyboard

Ok finished one of the final drawings (of a shot with one person but I was still working out the stlye so sorry) only thing is I have no idea how to put them on the storyboard link... HEEEEELP. I had the idea of setting in a deralict barn or building or something but this can be worked out.