more on screenwiritng & sotryboards

So, It’s been a while since I’ve been here writing about my adventures around here so this is the fix 🙂

 

It’s been a rather complicated few past days, dealing with bureaucracy and permits, fighting my own procrastination and urges not to get out of the bed, but I’ve survived, made couple drafts of the screenplay (finally!!!!)

and I’m gonna share bits and bobs with you 🙂

 

 

 

so, the biggest obstacle caused itself to be the writer’s block, where I was starring into the screen for bloody days and nothing…..

 

 

What proved itself to be really useful was to sit on a rooftop at midnight, with a head-torch, couple whiskeys in my system and another in my hand, with plenty of tobacco storyboard by my hand and using the good old pen and paper 🙂

 

 

 

(the moon was so amazing, I even managed to take a fairly ok picture of it with a crappy phone camera 🙂

 

so I have 2 major drafts of the sotryboard, one is picture/scene one -depicting the vision of how should it look like on the screen- with minimum technical info or description

 

 

and then there is the technical script- describin position of actors and equipment, angles and movement.

 

 

 

 

so, with the storyboard in front of me, I was ready to start scripting, and here are teasing bits of my ungodly in-readable hand write 🙂

 

 

 

 

which got molded into a properly written one – I’ve been using celtx software.

unfortunately, since I’m a poor student I will have to abandon using it after my trial runs out, but I have to say I kinda fell in love with it 🙂

(unfortunately, they don’t pay me to say such things :D)

 

 

 

 

 

Scripting

So it begun… the art of writing a script in the train (I traveled hell of a lot this week be train: D)

Storyboard

The art of storyboarding in the train 🙂

Mental cramp

I call it a mental cramp …
a state of fucking anxiety, restless soul, the need to scream the fuck out of the bottom of your mind.
being aware of the time slipping through your fingers, while you have a feeling that you just hang out there in the void, an the time is ticking.
being overdue on you own time schedules and the feel of the helplessness…..
when all you actually want to do, is to cuddle up in someone’s (anyone really) arms and silently cry yourself into sleep, and never to give a fuck again…….

Frensham ponds map

Just a quick sketch of nap where I want to locate my set

Final projects presentation pitch

So, for the upcoming final project, we had to come up with two concepts, and later one, pitch for one of them (or both) withing group crits and tutorials.

so, there you go folks 🙂

 

so, this is the refuge concept (as taking refuge in insanity) that I’ve actually decided not to realise ….yet.

 

and this is the one I’ll be trying to pursue in the upcoming few months

Milky Way time-laps, learning time lapsin’ last year

So, I’ve decided to share with you folks an experiment i did last year, when i was learning time-scape.

it’s not the best thing ever done, and through the time, i did some more, and plan to do more, but hey, it’s a beginning…

also, i’m planning to utilise time-scaping in my new project (i’m still…..kinda not even in pre-production :P), so that’s that 🙂

 

 

shot on Nikon D5100 with AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

and with additional fish eye extention

unfortunately, I don’t really remember the exact ISO, but  I’m sure it was high as hell,

about czar Putin and Sochi

*this article is to express personal views and beliefs*

 

so, I Guess I’m joining into all this humbug about Russia and the games, and I have one single thing to ask you for.

Ignore the games. Boycott them, just forgot about their existence.

I’m doing so….

why?

simply because czar putin is fuking evil.

do your research and homework, and have a look about the anti-gay laws passed in the country.

It’s not like I’m expecting every-one literally love gay people, I just think we shouldn’t live in fucking middle-ages…..combined with the unleashed neo-nazi scenery in russia, It all kinda turned into the new witch-hunts.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/81099/this-terrifying-video-proves-why-supporters-of-lgbt-rights-should-boycott-the-sochi-olympics

 

Oh! and do you know that country in the east of europe?

called Ukraine?

the one that is on a verge of breaking into civil war?

who else than russian government and politicians are the most interested into commenting the situation over there and manipulatin public views and opinions.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/us-russia-eu-victoria-nuland

Ukraine didn’t join the EU simply because czar putin dind’t want it to, and for some reasons the chaos and bloodsed in the country is in the interest of the eastern oligarchs.

 

well….enough of me ranting, I just felt as I have to get it out of my system….

 

Place

WARNING EXPLICIT LANGUAGE

LIKE…..A LOT

 

 

 

 

This Project lasted for 3 weeks and…well…..it sucks and i hate it.  but…..read on to understand all….

…the  brief is cool and I really love the concept -> to  find a place distant and deserted from public with it’s own distinctive character and personality, meditate, collect and contemplate in there, and based on that come up with a project/concept to be realised within that space of a place…..

so what could get wrong?

number of things.

after I found a place where i wanted to do my film, i had to finish the concept, which is a combination of Beckett-esque influenced absurd drama, and a psychology (freud-ego-superego-id etc)

and most importantly I wanted an authentic performance, so I expected an improv from my actor/actress…..since originally what I’ve been looking for was an female act

Tuesday I had to meet up with my actress to explain to her my vision rehearse and shoot…but that never happened….

when it came to the shooting day she hadn’t had even the balls to call me, or text me that she’s not coming nor she replied to any attempt to communicate…so..what one does in such a situation?

calls a back-up option actor, who was Joe from the ritual shoot, who was all cool to do it, but when it came to Thursday and the shoot, he had some sort of  personal problems and called in, that he’s not doing it…so I asked James….from the same video as Scale and Ritual….which, I don’t have a problem with working with him as such, but I simply don’t want to over use someone when making films…..burnign them out or our common inspiration…well…when…it could have ended here…but…..

remember this?

https://parquetsinunderground.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/d60035mm-f1-4-test-shoots-adventure-time-january-2014/

so this was partially a set research for this thing…I like the idea of urban exploring and abandoned derelict object…so i was looking for such one, that …I didn’t find around the water reservoirs, but I find my little perfect shed that was just around the corner from where I live, there is and old garden….very…unkept….:)

and there is a very particular shed, here I got some pictures of it

unfortunately these are the only ones I have because of my lucky karma this week.

why? because

a) after the shoot here I’ve realised my files on the card are corrupted and on top of everything I’ve formatted the card before I’ve realised there are some useful files still (DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB!

b) the next day when we wanted to do the shoot again, we simply couldn’t because….it was bloody raining and we need to carry electricity over to the shed…and simply…long story short, I’ve already managed to kick out the electricity in the plugs …so…..we didn’t do that….so…IMPROV

IMPROV IMPROv IMPROV (and makeshift filmmaking….taping the mic to the camera 🙂

 

 

well this is our new space, we had to confine….

it  was a very stressful week for both of us and it fortunately reflected onto the final piece,….with an amazing performance and lots of energy and emotions 🙂

 

 

 

so…yeah….I’ve survived