This assignment is fairly self-explanatory. I'd already had my finished script before the semester started but I had a friend go through my first draft and edit it just this past Thursday. Nothing major changed. He just got rid of a lot of excess direction and awkward wording so now the script will hopefully read more smoothly.
I think it's quite amusing that it's going to be twelve pages long no matter what I do to it. It was twelve pages long when I first wrote it, then when I added more stuff it was twelve pages long, and now that it's edited it's still twelve pages long. Hopefully it won't be twelve minutes long because that's way too long for this movie and since I have a montage that's two pages long, it should probably only be about nine to ten minutes long. Or so I'm hoping.
And I just found a new song that I'm crazy about, and I can't use it because it's copyrighted. Let's hope I can find something similar I can alter later on, 'cause it's a damn good song.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Puzzle to My Heart, Described
So I mentioned yesterday that I would probably do a post that described the script's scenes in a general fashion. Well this would be the post for that. Be warned, it might be long, and there is a spoiler.
"Puzzle to My Heart" -- After the opening credits roll over a montage of Rubik's cubes and other such fun puzzles, we meet our hero and heroine, Simon and Cassandra, respectively (whose names are subject to change). After Simon sends Cassandra off to fulfill a patron request, we meet Nick, Simon's closest male friend who lays down the first clue to solving the code creator's identity (not that it will be terribly difficult to figure out anyway). Later on, Simon discovers the first book with the first code written inside and presents it to Cassandra to solve. This leads Cassandra on the hunt to discover the next clues in the next series of books which leads her to the final book which can't be found as it has been taken out. Cassandra talks to a coworker about finding the person but due to library policy the name cannot be revealed. So Cassandra waits for the opportune moment to discover the person's name who took the book out and this leads her to find that the identity of (SPOILER) the creator of the code is actually Simon (I did mention it wouldn't be terribly difficult to figure out, didn't I?). After a short fight between the two, Cassandra quits her job. The next day, Nick gives Simon a letter from Cassandra and leaves before Cassandra appears and apologizes. She explains the reason why she quit and he forgives her (the ending is hopefully as funny out loud as it sounds in my head). The end. Ending credits have yet to be decided, but will likely mimic the opening credits.
"Puzzle to My Heart" -- After the opening credits roll over a montage of Rubik's cubes and other such fun puzzles, we meet our hero and heroine, Simon and Cassandra, respectively (whose names are subject to change). After Simon sends Cassandra off to fulfill a patron request, we meet Nick, Simon's closest male friend who lays down the first clue to solving the code creator's identity (not that it will be terribly difficult to figure out anyway). Later on, Simon discovers the first book with the first code written inside and presents it to Cassandra to solve. This leads Cassandra on the hunt to discover the next clues in the next series of books which leads her to the final book which can't be found as it has been taken out. Cassandra talks to a coworker about finding the person but due to library policy the name cannot be revealed. So Cassandra waits for the opportune moment to discover the person's name who took the book out and this leads her to find that the identity of (SPOILER) the creator of the code is actually Simon (I did mention it wouldn't be terribly difficult to figure out, didn't I?). After a short fight between the two, Cassandra quits her job. The next day, Nick gives Simon a letter from Cassandra and leaves before Cassandra appears and apologizes. She explains the reason why she quit and he forgives her (the ending is hopefully as funny out loud as it sounds in my head). The end. Ending credits have yet to be decided, but will likely mimic the opening credits.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Script Complete
Although the finished script isn't due until next week, I finished all the editing I had to do to it and am now ready to print off copies to be read in class so I can work on draft two. Hopefully my classmates won't ask me to write any more clues in because I think the four that I have are too much as it is, and although they reveal just enough, I don't want to go overboard and have a whole bunch of silly clues that really don't do anything.
I also finished going through all the books and finding the words to make the coded messages. I cheated a bit and used Google's search engine with the title of the book to find some of the words I needed. Thank you, Google, for shaving off days of skimming I would have spent holed up in my room with a stack of books, swearing profusely at a page containing words similar to what I was looking for. Which actually happened in The Shining. I couldn't find all the words I needed through Google so I'll either cheat again and, with the camera, focus on the "know" part of "knowing" or find "know" in another book and hope the audience can't tell the difference between the fonts. Of course you'll know because I revealed it, but that's beside the point.
I also won't be posting the script here for safety purposes and for the consideration of length. I can give general descriptions of the scenes and then explain how I altered them later, but we'll see. It's a bit of a tricky subject.
I also finished going through all the books and finding the words to make the coded messages. I cheated a bit and used Google's search engine with the title of the book to find some of the words I needed. Thank you, Google, for shaving off days of skimming I would have spent holed up in my room with a stack of books, swearing profusely at a page containing words similar to what I was looking for. Which actually happened in The Shining. I couldn't find all the words I needed through Google so I'll either cheat again and, with the camera, focus on the "know" part of "knowing" or find "know" in another book and hope the audience can't tell the difference between the fonts. Of course you'll know because I revealed it, but that's beside the point.
I also won't be posting the script here for safety purposes and for the consideration of length. I can give general descriptions of the scenes and then explain how I altered them later, but we'll see. It's a bit of a tricky subject.
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