Possible talent

Part 2

Tales from the Hood

Tales from the Hood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUOhiyhYxR4

Concept pictures

Imposition

Imposition

RahLeeCoh J. Ishakarah

Act I:

Exposition - Character is introduced with detective hat and trench coat. The scene is set at the edge of an alley. He looks up at a ledge above him and visualizes the amount of time that it will take for the water to accumulate and get heavy enough to fall. He also contemplates the rate at which it will fall and the distance that the water will disperse across the concrete.

Main Character – Perry Fin (subject to change) is a bi-polar, yet intelligent 40-year-old man that has been in an asylum.

Dramatic Premise – Fin is going through a psychological event, in which his objective is to solve a case. An ominous character has challenged Fin to a game in which Fin has to stop him from making it to the top of a building that has a whole office full of people. The character gives Fin a time limit to stop him from blowing the whole floor up.

Dramatic Situation – Fin is actually connected to a machine within the psych ward. The machine is designed to seek out psychological problems in people’s brains and eliminate them; unfortunately, the machine has been a failure ninety-nine times before. The patients used for the experiments did not survive.

Act II

Obstacles – Fin has to play the criminals games. Fin cannot tell the police about his situation because; the character has threatened Fin’s family.

First Culmination – We flash to the real world and there is a problem with the machine. Fin awakes and breaks free from his braces.

Midpoint – Fin runs around the psyche ward and stumbles into a room full of files on his cases as well as other patients’ cases. He is rumbling through his files and he see’s that he is labeled number one hundred. The story begins to unravel. Someone begins chasing him and he runs frantically through the stark white halls. He turns to see someone chasing him and he flashes back into the dream state.

Fin can see glimpse of the scientist and audio seeps into his ears. Faintly he can hear them say that there is no hope for him and to send him back to his room to be to await his erasure. He had learned too much.

Act III

Climax: Fin is in pursuit of the ominous character and the character is very quick and seems to disappear into shadows. Just before the character reaches the top floor of the building, Fin confronts him. The character rises from the shadows and to his surprise; it is Fin’s alternate personality.

In the real world, Fin is struggling for air. He is choking himself in the real world and the alternate reality. The scientist walks into Fin’s room and make sure that he is ok. Fin appears to be sane as he is probed. The scientists are relieved to know that Fin had completed the procedure without the aid of the machine.

My Video for Digital Media

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Self-Critique on Bartender Short Film

1. Bartender (undecided)

2. The main idea that we started with was based on people being apart of their everyday work areas. We often wear masks at work to please the people that we serve. We each shared our thoughts on the reactions that people have of other people who are being trying. I was interested in the idea of self worth.

Our ideas began to center around the convenience of a location. Angee told us that she had a possible location, which was a bar. Scenes and events often define a part of our personalities. We decided that a bartender would be the main focus while three other customers tried her patience.

3. The source of the idea was a collaborative thought that was built off of Angee’s experience as a bartender. She expressed her frustration with people that want to pure their entire life unto a stranger.

The idea resonates with me because; in my oral communication class there has been a focus on the personalities of people in certain situations. After class, my friends and I discussed what we thought about the impact of situations and events on the personality traits perceived by others.

4. The bartender is supposed to be frustrated with the people that she has to serve that night. These particular customers all have exaggerated stories that describe a phase in their life and through the expressions made by the bartender the audience is meant to see the humor in her facial expressions to describe her apathy in the customer’s problems.

5. On a routine day at the job the bartender serves three customers who all carry heavy baggage and they tell their stories to the exhausted bartender. With each customer’s complaints, she becomes more fed up with each customer as she compares their struggles with her own.

6. At first I imagined more subtle messages from the bartender’s expressions, but as we film I could tell that it was more exciting to watch her exaggerate her expressions just as much as the customer’s stories. Originally I was hoping for the main character to appear more complex just through facial expressions but I soon realized that she would just be viewed as an angry apathetic bartender. This was not a major concern to me by the end of the film because it helped the film as a satire. This was obviously just an ordinary person on another day at work that runs into crazy people all the time. This time she just can’t really deal with it.

7. The strengths of the film persist in our actors as well as the crew. Everyone clicked very soon and we understood the task at hand and went fourth in the most productive fashion as possible. Strengths also was that each crew member was able to contribute an equal amount of energy and mental awareness. The scripts were pretty strong and the actors were able to make improvements to the script in all the right places.

8. The main area that I am concerned with is how the audience with perceived the bartender. Will they be empathetic with her having to serve such crazy people or will they dismiss her struggles and automatically label her before the end of the film.

As everyone in my group I am also afraid of the cuts that will have to be made. The scene when the glasses are being passed back and forth will be a challenge.

9. Even though I was unable to operate the camera because of my absence on instruction, I was still happy with what I learned about. I was able to deal audio and understand how it works in relation to the actors/ actresses and the camera. I was appreciative that everyone showed up at a decent time and that we all worked together.