WORKING TITLE: “BOGART”

(A short story condensed from a 7-page screenplay with multiple scenes)

It’s Eight o’clock on a rainy Saturday night. Mark awkwardly sits beside Kate on the living room couch in his apartment. Smart, elegant, blonde and beautiful; she’s a nine of ten. As they face the television screen in silence, Mark turns to Kate in attempt to speak, but instead, he simply smiles. He looks off to the corner of the room to see his cat clawing away at his tongue on the floor. He double takes and the cat is gone. She forcefully smiles in return and turns back towards the television screen. Suddenly, a voice breaks the silence.

“Getting any action?”.

A large vapor of cigarette smoke is blown towards Mark. He coughs and looks to his left. A mysterious man sharply dressed in suit and tie underneath a large beige colored trench coat has suddenly appeared, sitting next to him on the couch. As the man’s black fedora shades his face, the illumination of a red spark glows each time he inhales his cigarette. The man, sporting a heavy Humphrey Bogart-esque voice, seems to be a figment of Mark’s imagination, as Kate takes no notice of him.

“This was a terrible idea. You said an easy way for me to get to second base was to put on a horror film”, says Mark.

“She’s not scared?”, the man asks.

“What do you think?”

They both turn to see Kate apathetically yawning while sounds of a chainsaw emerge from the television.

“Hey, I never said I could read minds”. The man hands Mark a business card. “You can call my third cousin’s, nephew’s, sister’s, flat mate for that. She’s a pro”.

Mark tears the card in half.

“Besides, having your first date with a broad at this dump…” The man shakes his head. “For Christ sake, what were you thinking?

“You said you were going to help me out”, says Mark.

“Well, you could start by sitting up straight. Arm around shoulder”.

Mark corrects his posture and puts his arm around the man.

“Not my shoulder, idiot. Arm around hers”.

Mark slowly moves his arm around Kate. He looks at her and smiles.

“Now move in for the kill”, says the man.

Mark draws out a sharp kitchen knife from under the couch. The man quickly slaps Mark across the face, causing him to drop it.

“As in kiss her, not commit homicide”.

“What, kiss her right now?”.

“Or I could pencil you in for next week”, offers the man sarcastically while holding out a black diary. “Yes, do it now!”, he demands, as he throws it away.

Mark turns and sees Kate, having left the couch, standing near the front door. She gathers her bag and picks up her coat, preparing to escape.

“Kate, where are you going?”

“Sorry, early start at the office tomorrow”, she says without hesitation.

“Tomorrow’s Sunday”.

“Alright, to be honest this is just weird… I’ve gotta go”.

She opens the door. “Oh and tell your friend, that he’s not invisible. Anyone with a pair of eyes can see him”, she says before briskly shutting the door behind her.

Mark and the man sit in silence.

“You think she was talking about me?”.

 

IM2 Lecture 2 (wk 2)

 

Now this is Wack

seriously.

check it!

This was the third and final weekend, production wise, as I was able to wrap up shooting all 60 clips for Korsakow. Aesthetically speaking, I am overall pleased with most of the shots I was able to capture with my (borrowed) trusty DSLR. Here are some of the “nicer” raw screen grabs. The last one was inspired by Pulp Fiction…

Enjoy!

So this was the second week my group members and I shot footage for our Korsakow film. Quite a productive weekend’s worth of shooting I must say. Here are some stills from some of our nicer raw unedited footage.

Oh, and i’ve also noticed the regular use of hands, seen within majority of the footage… a theme perhaps?

Here are some shots I took for the group K-kilm assignment, over this weekend.

 

This weekend i’ve started to film some test footage for my group Korsakow film assignment.

The theme I’ve been thinking about for the nonlinear film was the distinction/ relationship between night and day, and how light can influence our emotional response from viewing imagery recorded in light or dark environments.  From this we can explore why darkness reflects a more disturbing, suspenseful and or sinister image as opposed to why objects filmed at dusk or during the day in a more sunny setting, looks serene and or happy.

Due to the miserable weather conditions in Doncaster, I was unable to film all the outside shots I wanted, so I’ve decided to use some clips from the video constraint tasks, for my test comparisons. Anyway this is what I’ve got so far…

Greetings, to anyone out there reading my blog (very few people I imagine)

Lately, I’ve been exploring other people’s sites and reading their thousand word essay-like blog posts, so in a way kinda felt obligated to post this. As part of my participation contract, my goal was to post at least one additional blog post per week, which I’ve been doing in these last few weeks.

The additional posts (appropriately entitled quote of the week) consist of me posting quotes from people that inspire me. From filmmakers to storytellers to simply anyone I admire who has influenced me to think, act or work the certain way I have. I guess the point of this post is to vent my thoughts and say that some times through posting other peoples thoughts and quotes, It’s more effective rather than to post my own, as some quotes summarize exactly how I feel in a sentence.

I don’t know, sometimes I find it hard to write down my exact thoughts and feelings just out in the open like that, which is why I enjoy writing and making films to express my emotions and feelings through other interesting characters within some kind of linear narrative structure, which others can watch and interoperate it however they like. As long as people are able to make an understanding for themselves and feel a certain way, whether they express anger, happiness or disgust from the images I make, then I’ll feel like I have done my job.

This is getting way off topic… to conclude this I just want to say sometimes less is more (and more is less) and through these succinct quotes, a large statement can be made whether people understand it or not.

I’m off.