Script,dream tour

Dream tour

by Yibiao

Kane was driving, we saw it from the inside of the car, back from the chair. She drived for a long time(like 40 or 60 seconds in the timeline so long to make the audience feel bored). Then she stopped, walking out of the car. We can see the bridge as a background. She kept walking until the edge of the bridge. She was watching the sight in front of her. Then the background was twisting and change to a wasteland(wired background music, and mist spreading). Every where is like in the video game Fallout. The bridge was still there, but it was very crashed form. She didn't know what to do so she just walked. She saw someone then she ask him. She keep walking until she saw a river(the river is dark and full of something strange). Two men came, and put her in a raft. She travelled along the river. Along the river side, there are very strange animal and thing keep bouncing. At last she came to a cliff, the raft fall. She screamed and fall of. Then She waked up

Memento critic

I saw this movie for two time, yet I still don't understand some of the sences. It is kinda bored story if it told story as the way most movies did. But Christopher made it totally different. The story is up-sit-down, so I discovered thing through the time, and got confessed meanwhile because there was to much information. I can tell Teddy was actually helping Lenny, Natalie was using him, but I don't know if Lenny killed his wife or did she died in the accident. It is a really amazing, the movie worth watching a few times.

Script-Naveen

LOST IN TIME

Written by NAVEEN KHAN

INT. CLASSROOM – INSIDE AMBIENCE LIGHT

The film fades visually and with a soft music fade and establishes in the classroom of students all lying on the floor and the professor leaning against the wall. A black & white film is projected on the screen.

There would be establishing shots of the classroom and soon it would zoom into the Protagonist.

The music fades down and her narration would pick up the moment she is in the fixed close-up shot of the camera.

As the narration rolls out the students are shown lying on the floor, Professor etc from the perspective of the Protagonist. There will be cutaways of the Screen showing the black & white film in wide shot, and other shots wandering in the classroom, till the time the narration says I am supposed to be there.

Cut to the Protagonist in mid shot: Zoom into her eyes gradually and then the short dissolves to the sky with the stars. The music mood keeps the same while the scene dissolves to next one.

EXT. BEACH WITH THE PROTAGNIST IN THE HOT TUB, DAY

The Protagonist is in a Hot tub and gradually the Tub starts to move. The background is Ocean tides and the tub eventually gets into the ocean. There would be no music rather the ambience of the ocean tides and the sea birds etc.

The next shot establishes a Dolphin in the vicinity of the Hot tub and vanishes back into the water.

While the tub is floating a giant hump black whale surfaces and starts spraying water on the Protagonists. The act is joined by other whales that seem to be synchronized in joining this act along with the dolphins as well. The ambience sound changes mingles with the audio of the whale spraying water, till it fades out and dissolves to the next scene.

INT. CLASSROOM – INSIDE AMBIENCE LIGHT

The Professor is distributing examination papers to the students in the class.

The music mood changes tense to alarm the audience something unusual is about to happen. The sudden movement awakens the Protagonist and she realizes that she was daydreaming while the Mid term review was being delivered. She starts arguing to the Professor, who keeps cajoling the Protagonist about the test and eventually tries to convince hard, but the argument gets heated up. Finally the Protagonist yells out, all the other students gets distracted and turn their attention towards the sound, causing much embarrassment to the Protagonist.

The film fades to black along with the music.

Dream Script- Lauren

INT: NIGHTCLUB

Hundreds of people packed in the club excited about the act they are watching on the stage. Some are cheering with their hands up, others swaying or jumping. We move through the crowd to the front of the stage to see what it is everyone is watching.

On the stage stands a tall, thin man named MAX. He is alone onstage and has a bicycle by his side. The bike is a beaten up and black. He looks around and into the crowd seemingly confused as to what he is doing there. A spotlight shines in his face making it hard for him to see the full audience.

Max gets on his bike and starts riding around the stage. The scene changes from live action to animation as Max and his bike start flipping around doing tricks.

Max is now back in live form sitting on his bike staring ahead into the light and into the crowd.

V.O.

What are you doing here?

Max hears the muffled voice and turns his head. It's his friend LUCY.

Lucy

What are you doing here? It's terrible.

We're gonna be late for the class. Let's go.

Max is confused why Lucy's voice has been replaced by a man's voice so he closes his eyes.

INT: CLASSROOM- day

Max has his head down on the desk, apparently sleeping. An arm is on his shoulder shoving him to wake up. It's Lucy.

Lucy

Let's go. We're gonna be late for class.

Max slowly comes to then realizing he fell asleep in class, again, snaps his head up. Lucy's voice is back to normal.

Lucy

You might want to start sitting in the back.

And check the drool (gestures to her mouth).

Lucy walks towards the door. Max quickly wipes his mouth and grabs his bag. They head out of the classroom.

INT: HALLWAY- day

Lucy

Let's try to grab some food. I'm starving.

They begin to walk down the hall.

Max

Oh I need to get my bike (looks around).

Lucy

What bike? You don't have a bike, buddy.

We walked to class together.

Max

Yeah...right.

They continue to walk down the hall away getting further and further away. The camera pans over to the left where the beaten, black bike is leaning against the wall.

Script - Natthaphol

INT: HOUSE - EARLY MORNING, DAY

Naveen is talking to his wife about what are they going to do when they have a vacation time.

After a while, they decided to go to Niagara Falls and if they have a spare time left enough, they might go to Taj Mahal.

EXT: CITY - AFTERNOON, DAY

Naveen drives to Travel Company to buy some Tickets.

Unfortunately, He doesn't have enough cash(short about 200$).

Then he risks his luck with 20$ lottery. Luckily, he gets 500$.

EXT: STORMY CLOUDY SKY - ON THE PLANE - EVENING, NIGHT

Naveen and his wife get on the plane right away after bought tickets.

Unfortunately, that air plane is being hijacked.

Every passengers get kicked out of the plane.

EXT: CLEAR SKY - MORNING, DAY

There is somebody flying around with the magic carpet.

Naveen and his wife are falling down but suddenly hit that man.

Then they fortunately take the magic carpet.

EXT: AMAZING GIGANTIC FALLS - MORNING, DAY

Finally Naveen and his wife get to Niagara Falls. They take a moment to be satisfied with the beautiful scenery.

They continue their travel by going to India with magic carpet.

EXT: CLEAR SKY - MORNING, DAY

Alien comes picking Naveen and his wife up because thought they were friend.

Fortunately(again), Alien's secret base is underneath Taj Mahal.

They are pleased viewing Taj Mahal untill the Sun sets.

End.

Script - Max (Yu SUN)

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Treatment, Chuan

Style: based on what I heard from Michael, I will shoot a short film about his dream.

Subject:

Dream of Red Sox.

Plot:

Start with a small group people looking for the tickets of Red Sox game, they are really want to find some cheap tickets. After several search like looking online they decide to go to the Fenway Park to find tickets. A man sell some tickets to them, but it is very expensive almost 200 dollars each ticket. They are very happy, they buy some beers and snacks for the game. However, after they get into the park, they find out those tickets they just bought were fake tickets. Of course they don’t believe at first, so they arguing with the man who should sit it that seat. Unfortunately, the cops come to the park, and they have to leave the game. When they get home the game already done. So they did not see it at all.

Technical

I will divide this short video into three parts. In these three parts I will use different sound effects to present the emotions. And using different types of shoot to present the background.

Memento Review - Max (Yu SUN)

After I saw the movie again during last week's class, I watched it again for the fifth time because I still got some questions I couldn't explain. Every time I saw it, I got more information, or say clues. Some of them helped me understanding what the movie was trying to say, others would give out more question marks. But I have to admit that I love the movie somehow, because it was cut in a very unique way. The two different time lines (the colored reverse order and the B&W normal order) really provide the audiences an opportunity to play a time-line puzzle with the director. We were forced to pay full attention the the movie in order not to miss a single detail. And I realized suddenly after the fifth time watching that I trusted the protagonist (or the direct) so much that I was losing the ability of distinguishing the true from the false. There is a man named Sammy, but he is not the person who killed his wife by injecting over-dozed medicine, it was the protagonist- Lenny, at least I thought about it this way. What made me feel this was that the direct put a few alternative shots about the same scene, this could explain why different audiences gave different clues. It is because that is the canny director's ultimate purpose.
My version of the storyline should be like this: Lenny was some kind of detective, he had a client named Sammy who was suffering the fake Anterograde Amnesia in order to get something. After Lenny's wife was attacked by two criminals, he shot one of them to die but was beaten by the other. His was survived but he had this Anterograde Amnesia. His wife sacrificed her life to test whether Lenny's disorder is true. And Lenny killed his wife by accident. He was so remorseful about what he had done, so he CHOSE to pick some of the fake things (including tell himself Sammy is the guy over-dozed Sammy's wife, his own wife was killed by the two criminals) to remember in order to reduce his pain. So he kept telling himself that he must find the escaped criminal named John G. to revenge. The rest part of the story I think most of us had an agreement on what was happening, and like I said above, it is the part which the director force us to believe the facts that Lenny had written down on his snap-shot pictures. But still, some of the notes Lenny took were true, some of them were Lenny's PICK "Truth".
I love movies that are full of "surprises" like Memento. For example last year, there was a movie named The Time Traveler's wife. I was a little bit confused with the movie's time sequence because the time jumped forward or backward with the protagonist Henry some times and also with his wife's. What makes this movie a good movie is that even though I feel confused some time, I could still get the main story line without losing a single detail, because the director told me the thing that I had to know at what time I had to know. And this is the difference between Memento and The Time Traveler's wife, because the director of Time Traveler's wife does't play time puzzle with the audience, which I prefer.

Treament- Lauren

Style

Slow motion, foggy lens, surreal video in color and black and white.

Theme

Showing how fear manifests itself in the strangest of ways.

Plot

A man is on stage as the main event for a live crazy concert audience. He is to perform tricks on his beaten up black bike except he knows no tricks. The spot lights are so bright in his eyes that he can't see the audience and is confused and sweating. His friend joins him on stage and asks what he's doing. We close up on the friend who asks what he's doing again and it's revealed that they are now in a classroom and the friend is shaking the man out of a daze. They are the last two in the class and they leave. Outside the room, he asks the friend where his bike is since he left it outside before class. She tells him he doesn't have a bike. Fade to black on the man's confused face.

Technical aspects

I'm planning on using stock footage of the concert crowd and manipulating it a bit. I will shoot the rest of the scenes on video using the stage location and classroom and two actors. I'll edit in Final Cut.

Treatment

Title: Please Wake Me Up

Date: October 13

Dream and Voice: Chuan

Producer: Joel Goldenstein

Style

I would try to represent Chuan's dream through a cartoonish style animation

Central Theme

The wacky adventures of Chuan dream

Plot

Chuan sitting in front of his computer when suddenly spiders start appearing all over the machine, Chuan gets very nervous and start hitting them just to realize that he has broken his computer, suddenly he appears in a bus station , he goes into some bus with a unknown destination, however during the trip he starts to see animals along the way, there where monkeys, tigers pigs. Without knowing how, he finds himself in front of the driving wheel of a car, he looks up just to realize that there was a man flying just in front of the car, and after a cordial hello he invited Chuan to fly with him, he very nervous declines the invitation and then after a while he crashes, thank god he is alright, he get out of the car and stat walking to finally arrive to a house.

Technical Considerations

For this dream I will use a cartoon creation software (ex. ToonDoo, Cartoon creator) if none of this help me achieve the look and feel I am looking I will use print screens created with Sketchup and later on exported to imovie or Adobe Premier, I am planning on adding some sounds to support the story probably some sound effects and maybe some background sound.

Dream Treatment from Naveen Khan

Title: Lost in Time

Date:14 October'2010

Erwin's Dream

Style: This presentation would be done through a series of still images, which will be paced alongwith the narration of Erwin.

Central Theme:It would consisit of the point of view of the Protagonist who seems to be lost in every scene, which would be well established in space.There would be shots to establish the Protagonist in the environment/space, and other characters. The focus would keep shifting between the point of view of the Protagonist and with him in the frame.

Plot: While listening to the narration and finalizing my scripts/treatment, I had to remove all the pauses and re-pace the entire narration. It would start with the establishing shots from the Protagonist's perspective by populating the classroom and having close ups etc. As the scenario builds up, there would be a change of environment from realistic to a dream sequence. The details spelled out during the narration would be depicted well with images and as the dream gets over, the environment would come back again to the classroom. The Central theme is based upon wandering and trying to figure out the space, so music would be quite supportive to emphasize the emotion being described.

Technical considerations: I would be using Google Sketch to build the environment apart from other images acquired from the web.Once I have set designed on the sketch, I will extract frames on the Google Sketch and compose them in Final Cut Pro and use Sound track Pro to compose the Background score.

Assignment 4: Treatment -- Yao Xiao

Treatment

Project Title: My ideal life in village

Dream Owner: NATTHAPHOL LIKHITTHAWORN

Dream Maker: Yao Xiao

Date: Oct 13^th, 2010

Style:

Based on the dream I listened, I decided to use several stop motion videos and/ or sets of pictures to produce an animation or comic books in a cartoon style.

Central Theme:

After hearing NAT’s dream, the central theme of his dream expresses his ideal life in a small village far from city and with few villagers, and he is also one of them, like any other villagers, he owned a simple but happy life with his wife and children.

Plot:

In order to emphasize the feeling “simple” and “happy”, I am going to use some symbol to stand for it, such as bright orange warm sunshine, white clouds, vast pasture, farm, etc. For the first scene, I am going to shoot a window with sunshine comes in, then camera zoom in the window and go trough the window to outside, the camera gives a general view from high place, the scene is a green vast pasture, some farmers are in the farm but small like a dot, some moving white dots are sheep, some farmhouses are build on the green pasture, some black dots are moving which stand for villagers. The camera gives a very low angle from the grass and move fast forward till a horse leg comes into the scene, camera tile up and the audiences see a smiled young boy is riding a horse on the green pasture, his Scottish collie is following and running with him, the camera zoom in to the dog, slowly out of focus, the scene becomes white. Zooming out from the white and focusing to the dog, it is running after some white fat fuzzy sheep far away, camera pans to left, the young boy is laying on the grass, some musical notes come out from his mouth, pan from his feet to his head, his hair is moving by wind, then, camera pans from his head to left, some cows are eating the grass. The next scene is the sun is setting, the clouds are colored in orange, camera moves down to the ground and a young boy is walking toward to a farmhouse, camera is following behind him. In a farmhouse, a woman is cooking and children are playing around the dinning table, seeing through the window, that young boy is walking back here.

Technical Considerations:

To complete this dream stop motion animation or comic book, I would like to use some software such as Final Cut Pro for videos, as well iMovie for photos. Also, I will think about to add some soundtrack to the animation, if do so, Soundtrack Pro will be used as well.

Based on the theme of this dream, all scenes will be slower than usual scenes to emphasize the quiet and slow paced life.

Treatment - Michael Canavan

Project Title: The Start of a Relationship
Date: October 13, 2010

Style:
I am making this film about a man's memory about his first date with the woman who was to become his wife.

Central Theme:
"The start of a relationship" is about a man and woman on a first date but they know that it will turn into something more serious.

Plot:
Start with an outside view of a museum in the pouring rain. Next, a shot of man inside the museum from the waist up, looking forward, staring at something far away. We then see what he is looking at (a far away shot of the woman enjoying the art, not noticing him yet). A shot of her looking up, smiling. A faraway view of them hugging. A shot from behind as they walk into the exposition. At exposition, woman's eyes closed, as in a dream state. Shot of her at a museum with her parents when she was a child. Back to woman whispering in man's ear. They leave the museum and walk outside to a sunny day. They walk along a river. They get into a boat (Swan Boat?). Separate shots of them laughing and enjoying themselves. Shot of them together laughing. They walk through a park when woman looks at her watch. She looks up sadly. He looks sad. A far, rear view of couple leaving the park. Couple stopping in front of an office building in the city. They kiss. She smiles and goes inside. He stands there looking at the empty door way. He then smiles and walks away. Ariel shot of man walking down street.

Technical Considerations:
I will use photos, some that I take and some from the internet. I will use photoshop to edit the pictures and then I will use iMovie to make the movie. I might use minimal sound effects (the rain) or a soundtrack with Soundtrack Pro.

Treatment from Natthaphol

Style:
I will use Flash to make a cartoonish-style animation.

Theme:
It's from Naveen' dream. I might add something funny to it.
the theme is going to be sort of colorful adventurous trip. He and his wife will go along the trip together.

Plot:
It's all about the trip. So, the characters will travel around the world map until they reach their destination (Taj Mahal and Niagara falls). Their would be some funny obstacles for example encountering a shark/crocodile while they're traveling in the sea something like that to keep the audience's attention. I will use Zoom in/Zoom out shot when they meet some event. Once they get to their target. i will use some pictures of that place and the characters will do some interaction with it.
I will add a classical music playing along and put some of Naveen speech together

Technical Considerations:
I will mainly use Flash for entire clip and Animation parts as well.
once it finish, i will move on to soundtrack pro to add music and sound FX.
combine it together with Final cut.
and might use After Effect in addition.

Treatment from Yu SUN (Max)

Project Title: A Tour to An Alien Planet
Date: Oct 14, 2010
Story and voice: Nat Paosong
Producer: Yu SUN (Max)

Style:
This little piece of video will be present as a stop-motion animation.

Central Theme:
This is a scene of Nat Paosong’s dream, which could be considered as a scary dream. Something horrible happened when “he” was touring to an alien planet.

Plot:
I am going to set up a scene to give a sense of sitting inside of a huge space shuttle, passengers are sitting next to each other while the PA is broadcasting Jazz music. Gradually zooming out of the window, the overall look of the spaceship fill the whole screen and suddenly it accelerates to the alien planet. After a short period of white scene, the spaceship is performing a low-altitude flying, the camera position should be under the ship so that the audience can watch a totally different view of the savage planet. After landing, the guide says something and the tourists dismiss, I am going to cut a chunk of voiceover from the original sound file and sync it with the guide’s mouth. Now the main perspective is from the protagonist’s sight of view with occasionally panorama shots from the side of the protagonist. Now the BGM should be something light and relaxed. Fast forwarding to the gathering time, the protagonist runs back to the landing point. The music beats are going faster and faster, the whole view becomes unstable, because no one is there expect the main character. The main perspective switches to the protagonist’s view. The overall color turns cold and faded, also the BGM fades out. With a huge sound of explosion, a big, ugly creature stands up in front of the protagonist staring straight to him. Then the protagonist turns around and starts to run, in another word, the main perspective turns around with vibrated view and heavy breath sound as the SFX. The whole screen is turing black when the last scene happens.

Technical Considerations:
I am planning to use pictures that I will take and parts of pictures from others’ works, using Photoshop or other still picture application to post-produce each picture as a individual frame of the videoclip. Because the limitation is around one minutes, so that means there is going to be at least 100 frames. The rate of frames is not permanent, it will change with the plot going up or down. The assembling work which contains locating and speed controlling will be finished in Final Cut Pro, and at the very end, SFX tracks and BGM tracks will be assigned in Soundtrack Pro.