In my last post I mentioned having done a good deal of pre-production work. I have continued to do so, and have started pre-production on another idea. My original production flow has been yet again reorganized. I was originally intending to drop another gangster/crime film, but instead I have started writing a script for a crime thriller. This is going to be more phycological and cerebral in design. I have just finished laying out the plot and have begun writing the first draft with a friend of mine. So right now there are four projects I have definitively laid out ahead of me: Crime Thriller, Sci-fi/Neo-Noir, and final part of the weekend films. With that being said here is some new pre-production work I've been cooking up.
Brainstorming/Start of First Draft for Crime Thriller
Setting:Present
Morally Ambiguous
More Ambiguous the more Universal
More Specific less Universal
Battle between consciousness and unconsciousness
Theme/Global Issue/Question: What would you do without conscious moral limitations? Individual PERCEPTION VS REALITY, QUEST FOR PURPOSE
Character
Name: anonymous
Characteristics: Loner,
Style:
Social: Has connections, Keeps to himself
Occupation: Detective
White male, depressed, quiet, “head injury” leads to black out periods
Age: early, mid 20s
Wealth: lower class
Main character is depressed and has trouble making decisions for himself. He goes to a bar and meets a man who becomes his best friend. His friend ends up helping him around, but then during one of his blackouts he finds his friend is dead. In the end, the main character discovers that during his blackouts, he goes on violent rages and on one occasion killed his friend.
Dreams during the blackouts. Dream sees a friend shoot another guy and get blood on his pants. Wakes up and sees his friend with blood on his pants. Loses the barrier between dream and reality he kills his friend. Main character is mentally ill and has dreamlike hallucinations. Audience is led to believe that his friend is a killer trying to kill him. At the end it is understood that the main character is delirious and has rationalized with hallucinations killing his friend out of jealousy/fear. Ending gunfight his friend explains (series of flashbacks) that the main character is mentally ill and has delusions. Film ends before it is revealed what is true.
Mentally ill guy investigates his friend in an attempt to uncover the secret of his reality.
PTSD
Character Friend
Name: anonymous (Tyler Durdan)
Characteristics: Street Smart, Serious, Experienced, Depressed
Thief
Age: early, mid 20s
Wealth: lower class
Dialogue idea
Do you ever wonder why the things that are bad for you are cool?
Wha-what do you mean?
I mean smoking, vaping, weed, teenage sex, our society creates these trends right?
Yeah, I guess?
So why can't they control something they created? Because they do. They want us to stay in our place. They don't want us to thrive. They want us to be lazy, overeducated, swimming in debt. At the end of the day all they want is more power. And we give it to them. With each check of the ballot box.
Overview
MC Meets Todd
MC finds out Todd Dies
MC has hallucinations his friend is trying to kill him
MC investigates Tyler’s death
MC finds out he killed Tyler during blackout
Explain WTF is going on (hopefully)
Symbol
Cross Necklace - MC moral code (christian)
Starts out wearing it for its Christian implications ends wearing it out of habit, not knowing anymore
MC - Christ Figure
Introduction
MC (V.O.): Todd saved my life.(sequence of what's being narrated) I was leaving the bar, on my way home when a guy jumped me in the alley.
Mugger: Gimme everything you got and don’t make a scene.
MC (nods in compliance)
Mugger looks down and sees necklace on MC.
Mugger gets punched by Todd while smoking.
Mugger: argh!
Todd: Your Welcome.
MC: Wh-wha? Who-
Todd: (whistle, reaches down) damn thats a big knife
MC: Who are you?
Todd: The names Todd, Todd Smith.
Another one of my sci-fi renders:
Mon - Modelled
Tues - Textured
Wed - Textured
Thurs - Rendered
Fri - Brainstormed
Brainstorming/Start of First Draft for Crime Thriller
Setting:Present
Morally Ambiguous
More Ambiguous the more Universal
More Specific less Universal
Battle between consciousness and unconsciousness
Theme/Global Issue/Question: What would you do without conscious moral limitations? Individual PERCEPTION VS REALITY, QUEST FOR PURPOSE
Character
Name: anonymous
Characteristics: Loner,
Style:
Social: Has connections, Keeps to himself
Occupation: Detective
White male, depressed, quiet, “head injury” leads to black out periods
Age: early, mid 20s
Wealth: lower class
Main character is depressed and has trouble making decisions for himself. He goes to a bar and meets a man who becomes his best friend. His friend ends up helping him around, but then during one of his blackouts he finds his friend is dead. In the end, the main character discovers that during his blackouts, he goes on violent rages and on one occasion killed his friend.
Dreams during the blackouts. Dream sees a friend shoot another guy and get blood on his pants. Wakes up and sees his friend with blood on his pants. Loses the barrier between dream and reality he kills his friend. Main character is mentally ill and has dreamlike hallucinations. Audience is led to believe that his friend is a killer trying to kill him. At the end it is understood that the main character is delirious and has rationalized with hallucinations killing his friend out of jealousy/fear. Ending gunfight his friend explains (series of flashbacks) that the main character is mentally ill and has delusions. Film ends before it is revealed what is true.
Mentally ill guy investigates his friend in an attempt to uncover the secret of his reality.
PTSD
Character Friend
Name: anonymous (Tyler Durdan)
Characteristics: Street Smart, Serious, Experienced, Depressed
Thief
Age: early, mid 20s
Wealth: lower class
Dialogue idea
Do you ever wonder why the things that are bad for you are cool?
Wha-what do you mean?
I mean smoking, vaping, weed, teenage sex, our society creates these trends right?
Yeah, I guess?
So why can't they control something they created? Because they do. They want us to stay in our place. They don't want us to thrive. They want us to be lazy, overeducated, swimming in debt. At the end of the day all they want is more power. And we give it to them. With each check of the ballot box.
Overview
MC Meets Todd
MC finds out Todd Dies
MC has hallucinations his friend is trying to kill him
MC investigates Tyler’s death
MC finds out he killed Tyler during blackout
Explain WTF is going on (hopefully)
Symbol
Cross Necklace - MC moral code (christian)
Starts out wearing it for its Christian implications ends wearing it out of habit, not knowing anymore
MC - Christ Figure
Introduction
MC (V.O.): Todd saved my life.(sequence of what's being narrated) I was leaving the bar, on my way home when a guy jumped me in the alley.
Mugger: Gimme everything you got and don’t make a scene.
MC (nods in compliance)
Mugger looks down and sees necklace on MC.
Mugger: That’s a nice necklace you got there, are you a priest or something?
MC: N-No.
Mugger: So are you religious at all? Or is it just a fuckin gimick? Cause if there’s anything I hate more than a priest it’s a fuckin lying priest.
MC: I’m not a priest! I’m just a Christian, man!
Mugger: well you better start praying to your God boy cause your day of reckoning has come, you hear?
MC (vo): My God had arrived: Todd.
MC: N-No.
Mugger: So are you religious at all? Or is it just a fuckin gimick? Cause if there’s anything I hate more than a priest it’s a fuckin lying priest.
MC: I’m not a priest! I’m just a Christian, man!
Mugger: well you better start praying to your God boy cause your day of reckoning has come, you hear?
MC (vo): My God had arrived: Todd.
Mugger gets punched by Todd while smoking.
Mugger: argh!
Todd: Your Welcome.
MC: Wh-wha? Who-
Todd: (whistle, reaches down) damn thats a big knife
MC: Who are you?
Todd: The names Todd, Todd Smith.
Another one of my sci-fi renders:
Mon - Modelled
Tues - Textured
Wed - Textured
Thurs - Rendered
Fri - Brainstormed
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