Planning the Film Outline

Changes...

Ok so some pretty big changes have occurred since my last blog post. My teammate and I have decided to scratch some of the ideas we had previously made. On my last post I said our idea for the drama was to create an opening about someone who became homeless due to the advancements of technology. I'm not sure if we were feeling very ambitious or it was the excitement in class, but after a few days of sleeping on it we decided to go with just the homeless idea. We wanted to focus on just one thing and make sure that idea was well received and produced.

So now that we have committed to an idea (hopefully for good) we were able to start envisioning how the scene would play out. During one of our meetings in class we can up with a layout for the scene plus some key features we wanted to include.

Scene Outline + Visions

1. Title Scene (yet to be decided)
2. Sound Bride into next shot
3. Shot of man driving anxiously
• Shots mainly of man, no shots of inside of car
• Fast paced editing
• Shaky camera movements
• Credit scene would be placed naturally through this scene
4. Man parks car into vacant parking lot
• Things calm for a moment 
• slower cuts/ still camera shots
• He takes a moment to breathe/ think
5. Man begins to make various phone calls
• He seems extremely stressed
• He is calling people for a place to stay
• Does not want to come across as a burden, makes up excuses to why he needs a place to stay, he does not tell anyone the truth to why he needs to crash
• During this scene, the inside of the car will be shown and it will be evident all his stuff is in there and it has been somewhat lived in (still shots)
6. After not being successful in getting a place to stay he goes out to trunk
• You see more props/ set design that hint he is homeless
7. He takes a step back and looks around him
• Finally you get a better picture to where he drove to
• Empty parking lot (maybe Walmart)
• He is planning to sleep here in his car

Some Possible Thoughts were Going to Sleep On

• Is this long enough for 2 mins or will we need to add more?
• Should the title be at the end, beginning, or even the middle or the scene?
• How do we want to incorporate the credits in the scene? (all we know is that we want it to naturally flow/ blend in with the scene)
• What props do we need?