Plots that kill

I am going to use the punitive plot, style where the character is punished for his wrong doings (except I will do it in a comedic like perspective). One film where I have seen this type of plot structure is called, "Jumper", where a boy is given powers that he uses to jump from place to place and begins to abuse his power and then the government comes after him, with others who can teleport from place to place as well trying to punish the boy for committing crimes. My story will deal with a Boy named sean who gets hit in the head and then is given the ability to transport within a confined space (5ft) anywhere. Basically, I am controlling the distance from which "sean" can transport, instead of the transporting of characters around the world like in the movie. Then I am making the story more comedic with Sean being annoying and messing with kids around the class unlike the movie where the characters are in "life and death" situations. The character Sean in my short film will be dealing with the idea of abusing his power and then being punished in the end. Sean immediately seperates himself from everyone else when he gets his powers, believing he is better than them. This shows the teaching of a moral as well, showing that "with great power comes responsibility" (spiderman #?) Sean goes about, the class room committing acts of being an "A$$ h#$%" like disrupting students work by transporting around the room. Then, knocking people over and preventing others from getting their work done. Then a student gets angry and throws a book at sean while he is zipping back and forth hitting sean's head, making him lose his power. He then gets outcasted by the students of the classroom. The end (This is just a little summary still pretty rough). Yeah....

Treatment revised

There is a man named Sean who realizes that he can transport anywhere, whenever he is happy (use of his face with a really big smile). Sean attains this power by hitting his head on the floor after falling on spilled water. Sean doesn't realize that he can transport in any direction yet, but he realizes when he goes up to a the door for film and smiles. (Voice over of Sean saying," Film is his favorite class"). Sean then transports through the door and then starts to transport all over the class room. Then Sean goes off and begins testing the limit to his power and then starts transporting through doors and walls and around campus finding that whenever he is happy he transports (though, not controlled). Also, hitting on girls and such using his powers to help this one girl catch her books before they fall. Then he realizes that his ability is much worse than he thought transporting whenever he is happy, creating awkward moments inadvertently with people around him (transporting into a bathroom stall someone is using). Transports in on couples making out (awkard) trying to get out of the weird confrontation. The climax happens when Sean realizes that he needs to remain sad to talk with people, not trying to be happy/laugh. (jokes/ dangerous) starts screaming closing his ears). He then tries ways of him losing his powers and then a student throws a book at the moment when Sean loses hope and then it hits Sean in the head. Sean loses his power and then goes back to being a normal kid and appreciates everything that he has now. Such as the people around him and being able to be happy, whenever without transporting.

dramatic moment

Sean is a boy who randomly hits his head falling on the ground and gets the power to transport (5ft) in any direction. Before, Sean feels alone in the classroom as if no one wants to talk to him. You can see this in the way sean keeps himself in the corner of the class and tries to seclude himself from the rest of the class. On the computer screen there is a game where there are certain characters with super powers and you can see drawings of super heros on the paper in front of Sean's computer. This shows sean desiring to escape from his normal self to be something special and stand as the symbol of good. There is a lesson going on in the background, but sean keeps drawing his superheros. Sean is dressed in a black and white shirt signifying him choosing later on in the short film whether or not to use his powers for good/ show off. Someone spills a drink and then sean slips and falls on his head. Then he realizes he has powers and ponders using them to help those around him or not. He chooses to not help those around him seeing people who didn't talk to him as being inferior to him and begins to disrupt the students using his power. Such as annoying them zipping by asking them obvious questions (what are you doing?) repeatedly. The setting in the classroom (mr. bigue) is appropriate for the situation of sean (tj) to portray a disturbed child who hates life. (just kidding). But, having Sean in the corner of the room will be able to portray the idea quite well of isolation and the actors will be able to play their parts fine. Also the contrast of the noisy room in the background of sean who is really mellow, will show isolation.

Italian neo realism

Some of the main characteristics of Italian neo-realism is the "emphasis on real lives [...] an entirely or largely non professional cast, a focus on the collectivity rather than the individual [...] solidarity [..] criticism of the status quo". This is all put together to emphasize the idea of escaping from the fantasy typically seen in the movies during ww2 which conveyed "happy endings" when life was not always so forgiving. Italian neo realism showed the audience the dark side of reality moving away from fantasy to reality.

The history behind Italian Neo-realism was the problematic era of ww2 and Italy was under the strict leadership of Benito Mussolini where the harshness of reality was seen in the streets and the people. In 1935 the anti-Fascist journalist, Leo Longanesi promoted the idea of the filmer going into the streets to document the reality of the situations plagued by the people of Italy.
Thus the development of the Neo realism era commonly taking place in the streets instead of sets.

Some of the cinematic techniques that were used in the Italian Neo Realism era involved the idea of music as a way to express the social problems conveying mood and tone for the films. Also the idea of taking filming to the streets to display realistic lifestyle capturing ruins or slums to show depression under the Italian neo realistic style.

Some contributers to the Italian Neo realism movement involved: Cesare Zavattini who was known as the "godfather" of the Neo realism movement. He wrote a guide on the creation of Neo realistic films playing a major role in the production as well as the influence of other filmers to pursue Neo realistic films. Also another key contributer to the Neo realism era was Leo Longanesi who wrote in an anti fascist journal in 1935 telling film makers to take footage of the reality of life in the quote," go into the streets". signifying support towards the idea of Italian Neo realism and contributing to starting the movement throughout Italy.

Some key movies that influenced the Italian Neo realistic style involved "obssessione" by Visconti which portrayed bleak interior and street shots of 3 protagonists heightening the Neo realistic affect and helped establish long takes to convey mood and tone between the characters. Also another film,"Open City" in 1946 showed the link between the Italian Neo realistic style and the resistance movement going on during ww2. This also signified the resistance against the typical "American" movies by the Neo realistic films which deterred away from the American ideas of happy endings and fantasy contrasting the neo realistic films which centered around realism.

student film finalists

The name of the short piece is "job security which has 2 security guards and one is very dedicated to his job, while the other is more relaxed trying to pass time reading "hustler". The 2 differing personas allow the development of the plot, which involves a treasure chest, that is being stolen from the security guards and the more serious security officer goes after the masked culprit.

Here is the monitering room with the serious, "your an idiot" expression portrayed by the security officer and in the background the moniter has an image of the mysterious chest. This character takes his job much more seriously than the other security guard. The picture below is self explanatory for many reasons.

First of all this security guard is much more relaxed and laid back, as you can see by the earphones and illicit magazine in his hand, he doesn't take his job seriously. Ohh by the way this is the scene where a mysterious assailant walks in, who has some sort of shady back ground (wearing a ski mask) and kills the the security officer while he is, ummmm yeahhh....... doing his thing with that magazine, you get the idea. Anyways the 2 contrasting characters make this story somewhat funny with a little bit of horror, as shown in the picture below.

As you can see the masked antagonist walks out of the security monitering room, after depriving that misfit security officer of any dignity left, while the other security guard goes into the truck to check the chest. This is a magor part in the plot of novel where the security officer is whisked away in the back of the antagonist's car into the vacuous depth of the night. A little overly dramatic, but it works.

Solitude

As you can see the trailer for solitude makes it appear as though it will be a horror film. Either that or a really bad comedy. However, there was an amount of skill used in the creation of certain shots.

This shot faded in one of the character's hands to a close up of the phone bringing curiosity not only towards the hand, but the phones consistent noise of being off the hook connotating emptiness and loneliness, thus the title, "Solitude". Also this is an example of a Rack focus as the hand is gradually focused into the shot with the phone.

Here dramatic irony is conveyed as the highschool/college students realize that they are alone. Since I am the viewer I can either be terrified at the fact that they are going to be killed or laugh hysterically at the thought of the overly anxious students venturing out into the world, but meeting with death and despair,.....just kidding that would be completely cynical and crazy to think like that in my opinion, but a lot of my friends have a strong distaste for movies that are based around the typical "students" being terrorized and picked off one by one by some masked killer who is insane.

Yes, the masked crusader looking even more mysterious through the use of lighting and a little light illuminating the "villians" lucious hair. The dark background really adds on the effect of evil maniac trying to kill students who have realized they can accomplish something in their life by going off to college. This dominating "worm eye" camera position really adds to the, I am going to kill students look that the director was going for. Overall the film doesn't look as bad and would probably be somewhat decent and interesting to see.

Reverie

Wow, the ability of the camera to capture the amount of detail/pixels reminds me of an HD Tv or movie theater quality.

Especially the sweat dripping down from the man's face is really defined and vividly seen in the still image i took. Also the reflection of light in the man's eye is extraordinary considering in my camera a tint of red is always seen. Anyways, no part of the still image looks grainy, even the little pigments on his skin are visible. The detail and definition is amazing, for a video, but even cooler since it is a camera changed.


The ability of the camera to take such clear video in low light is symbolic with the effect of a low f stop, which is much lower for cameras than it is for video cameras. I think the cameras ability to show the light eminating from the building was extremely cool let alone the definition made me feel as if I staring at the building except i am staring at a screen, but the point is the definition is great.

I think this scene is really cool mostly because he is wearing shades and the reflection off of the shades is easily seen giving a mirror effect that adds the surreal mood and environment the character is in. Also the character is wearing shades and it is dark outside proving a point that I displayed in "the Hit" that you should be able to wear shades anytime of the day because they look cool.