Thursday, 10 March 2011

ideas for short film

  • person going to a job interview, practice talking in the mirror. goes to get the bus, but the bus doesn't come, X go past the other way and your still waiting. cuts to the manager tapping his fingers, looks at his watch then puts a cross through the CV (this is shown as flash forward). Twitching nervously looking at his watch and around. paper boy leaves his bike outside a house to deliver a paper. person then takes his bike and rides off. paper boy looking confused. last shot person riding away frantically. 

  • Protagonist is at his interview being asked numerous questions relating to how much does he want this job, are you reliable ......., for each of the questions there is a flash back to the effort he went to get to the interview. At the end of the interview he is told that he could be a valid member of the team and told to wait outside, hes called back inside all happy expecting to get the job and then gets turned down!  
  •  Protagonist waiting for a bus in casual clothes, waits for a while and the bus doesn't turn up on time, checks the time table and has plenty of time to walk to the next stop which is insight just up the road. he starts walking and the bus passes him (if we can get a shot of two going past then we will film that). gets to the next bus stop and the bus turns up but he cant find his ticket. it pulls off and he finds it in a pocket. looks at it in relief as another bus is coming, the ticket then blows away he chases frantically looks back at the bus stop he's going to and its pulling off. fed up of being unlucky with the buses, he puts his backpack on the floor various shots of the bag and him stripping off shown in quick shots, with at the end of it a panning shot of the protagonist showing, running shoes, pulled up socks, shorts, florescent jacket and running headphones/ glasses. final shot is a long shot of him running off into the distance past other bus stops.  
Both of us will be the director, cinematographer, editing and sound.

Props
  • Smart attire
  •  paper bag
  • paper
  • bike 
  • pen and paper
  • watch
location
  • bus stop
  • outside house's 
  • room

    Friday, 24 September 2010

    Catalogue

    Websites
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/#Writer

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan#Professional_career

    http://movies.about.com/od/thedarkknight/a/darkknight70408.htm

    Books
    Need to do research into books

    DVD
    The Dark Knight - 2008  play.com
    Batman Begins - 2005 play.com
    Inception 2010 - release date December 6th 2010 play.com

    Ideas

    I have decided that the main auteur I am going to study for my film research project is Christopher Nolan. I have recently watched 3 of his major films Inception, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. I have also read through some websites to find out about his past life and projects and his future films. Something that is has already stood out to me about Christopher Nolan is that he likes to use some of the same actors in his films. Christian Bale and Michael Caine are two which he has used in 3 of his films. The main focus film I will be looking at is the 2008 movie The Dark Knight as it is the highest grossing film he has made.