1. Script -- girl draws jack-o-lantern designs in her room, she carves a pumpkin the takes a shower, pumpkin becomes possesed and attack girl in the shower, the girl fights back and tears the pumpkin to shreads. girl then goes to bed and pumpkin's glove-hands creep under the door with a knife.
a. Actor(s): One 19 yr old female, one pumpkin
b. Scenes: Opening bedroom scene, pumpkin carving scene, posessesed pumpkin scene,
shower/attack scene, final scene in bedroom
c. Location: Dormitory: bedroom, kitchen, hallway, shower
d. Stunts/special effects: fake blood and wound
e. Special Costumes and Makeup: fake blood, real pumpkin guts, yellow dish-washing gloves, casual wear outfit
f. Props: gloves, knives, pumpkin, spoon, towel, garbage bag
3. Location Scout: sound quality is good, power and light sources are good
4. Confirm Locations – same as last shooting
6.Days to shoot: 1-2 days (friday, saturday)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Genre, Logline, and Synopsis
The genre of this film is Comical Horror because the situation the character faces is horrific, yet comical to the audience.
Logline: A possessed and revengeful jack-o-lantern avenges a student, preventing her to fulfill her simple intentions.
Synopsis: October 31, 2009, in a cold, dark, quiet dormitory, one college student is unaware of the resentment the most popular Halloween icon holds against her.
In the spirit of the holiday, as the artist she is, the student sketches out jack-o-lantern designs one after another in her bedroom, as the hatred of the carved pumpkin in the kitchen intensifies. Tired of sketching, the student leaves her cozy bedroom to satisfy her hunger in the kitchen, where the resentful jack-o-lantern prepares to take its revenge.
When the pumpkin catches the student off guard in the kitchen, it casts its magical wrath upon her, preventing her to fulfill her simple intention to eat. Driven by the fear of this revengeful pumpkin's powers, the victimized student flees for safety. During her attempt to escape, the student is wounded at the hand of her avenger.
Once she gets away from the jack-o-lantern's terror, the terrified student believes to have found safety in her warm, cozy bedroom even though she is unaware of the pumpkin's evil wrath that crawls beneath her bedroom door.
Logline: A possessed and revengeful jack-o-lantern avenges a student, preventing her to fulfill her simple intentions.
Synopsis: October 31, 2009, in a cold, dark, quiet dormitory, one college student is unaware of the resentment the most popular Halloween icon holds against her.
In the spirit of the holiday, as the artist she is, the student sketches out jack-o-lantern designs one after another in her bedroom, as the hatred of the carved pumpkin in the kitchen intensifies. Tired of sketching, the student leaves her cozy bedroom to satisfy her hunger in the kitchen, where the resentful jack-o-lantern prepares to take its revenge.
When the pumpkin catches the student off guard in the kitchen, it casts its magical wrath upon her, preventing her to fulfill her simple intention to eat. Driven by the fear of this revengeful pumpkin's powers, the victimized student flees for safety. During her attempt to escape, the student is wounded at the hand of her avenger.
Once she gets away from the jack-o-lantern's terror, the terrified student believes to have found safety in her warm, cozy bedroom even though she is unaware of the pumpkin's evil wrath that crawls beneath her bedroom door.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Dealer's Choice: Script Breakdown
A girl is shown drawing jack-o-lantern designs in her bedroom.
The girl then leaves her cozy bedroom for the dark hallways towards the kitchen to make a sandwich.
A carved pumpkin is shown on the kitchen counter with gloves and carving tools beside it.
While the girl's back is turned, the gloves begin to move and the pumpkin turns and faces her.
Before the girl turns around, the objects stop moving and the girl becomes puzzled, but doesn't seem to worry too much.
The girl then takes her sandwich the the living room and she sits on the sofa.
Before she grabs the remote, she gets up to get her self a drink in the kitchen.
When she returns to the living room, she sees that the remote has been moved to the other side of the sofa.
As she goes to grab the remote, the T.V. turns on itself without the girl even touching the remote or the television.
The girl tries to scan through the channels, but they are all fuzzy.
She then goes over to the T.V. to check the cable connection, which is loosened. As she fixes the connection to the cable, the carved pumpkin turns and stares at the girl without her noticing.
The girl sits down to eat and watch T.V.
As she is enjoying a meal and entertainment, she catches the pumpkin's movement out of the corner of her eye, turns and is started to see the pumpkin staring at her and crawling gloves.
The whole kitchen begins to break out into paranormal activity, with every appliance going crazy.
The girl throws her sandwich and dashes for her bedroom out of fear and closes and locks the her door behind her.
As she runs to her bedroom, the girl trips on the creeping gloves on the floor and cuts her faces with one of the carving tools randomly placed on the floor.
The girl now finds herself feeling safe in her bedroom, not knowing that the creepy gloves are crawling under her door.
The girl then leaves her cozy bedroom for the dark hallways towards the kitchen to make a sandwich.
A carved pumpkin is shown on the kitchen counter with gloves and carving tools beside it.
While the girl's back is turned, the gloves begin to move and the pumpkin turns and faces her.
Before the girl turns around, the objects stop moving and the girl becomes puzzled, but doesn't seem to worry too much.
The girl then takes her sandwich the the living room and she sits on the sofa.
Before she grabs the remote, she gets up to get her self a drink in the kitchen.
When she returns to the living room, she sees that the remote has been moved to the other side of the sofa.
As she goes to grab the remote, the T.V. turns on itself without the girl even touching the remote or the television.
The girl tries to scan through the channels, but they are all fuzzy.
She then goes over to the T.V. to check the cable connection, which is loosened. As she fixes the connection to the cable, the carved pumpkin turns and stares at the girl without her noticing.
The girl sits down to eat and watch T.V.
As she is enjoying a meal and entertainment, she catches the pumpkin's movement out of the corner of her eye, turns and is started to see the pumpkin staring at her and crawling gloves.
The whole kitchen begins to break out into paranormal activity, with every appliance going crazy.
The girl throws her sandwich and dashes for her bedroom out of fear and closes and locks the her door behind her.
As she runs to her bedroom, the girl trips on the creeping gloves on the floor and cuts her faces with one of the carving tools randomly placed on the floor.
The girl now finds herself feeling safe in her bedroom, not knowing that the creepy gloves are crawling under her door.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dealer's Choice Project: 3 Act Structure:
Act I (Setup)
Exposition- Main character is introduced as a female and artist, and is shown drawing jack-o-lantern designs in her sketchbook. She is alone in her bedroom of her dorm at night.Main Character- Her objective is to simply make a sandwich and watch T.V.
Dramatic Premise- The story is about a girl who is frightened by unseen forces causing paranormal activity as she prepares her sandwich and attempts to watch T.V.
Dramatic Situation- As the main character goes on with her business, paranormal activity
begins to occur.
Inciting Incident- Paranormal activity commences when a jack-o-lantern begins to stare at the main character without her knowing.
Plot Point#1- The main character is first confronted with the paranormal activity when she finds her remote control mysteriously moved across the room. The T.V. flips through channels on its own and the remote functions without a person activating it.
Act II (Confrontation)
Obstacles- The T.V. and remote continue to act up, preventing the main character to eat or be entertained.
First Culmination- When she finally manages to have the T.V. set and remote in control, all of the kitchen utilities begin to function on their own as well as the strange activity begins to intensify as the T.V. and remote start acting up again.
Midpoint- Unable to watch T.V. or eat her sandwich, the main character get flustered and scared as she wonders why all the chaos is happening.
Act III (Resolution)
Climax- As the main character looks around the vast, dark room wondering what the hell is going in, for the first time she confronts the jack-o-lantern alive, staring right into her eyes and a pair of gloves beside it begin to crawl in her direction. The paranormal activity starts to increase. Overwhelmed by the paranormal activity, the main character throws her uneaten sandwich and makes a dash for her room.
Denouement- Finally the character finds herself safe in her bedroom, believing that she is she had escaped the terrible events even though she does not notice the creeping gloves crawling under her door.
Dealer's Choice: CHARACTER
This character thinks that she is pretty artistic and that the pumpkin she carved is pretty bad-ass. Even though she is drawing and getting into her sketches of jack-o-lanterns she wants to take a break to eat and chill.
This character wants to eat and watch T.V. She wants to do this because she is hungry and wants to be entertained while she eats. She thinks she wants to eat because she is hungry. She wants food because she is hungry and she wants to watch T.V. because she will be bored eating in the quiet, not watching T.V. She does not want to be harmed. This character wants to enjoy her sandwich and television safely and contently. She just wants to chill and take a break from drawing.
This character wants to know if something really is after her because she does not want to be harmed. She think she wants no harm because she wants to live.
This character wants to be safe.
This character believes that something unseen is after/watching her. She thinks that what she believes may just all be in her head. She believes that things such as ghosts and monsters could be real but she is unsure. In the dark, she believes anything can happen to her.
This character's truth is that she is scared to be alone in the dark. Her real truth is, she believes something is after her and she is scared to death.
This character needs food. She thinks she needs food because she is hungry.
The actions this character takes are going to the kitchen to make a sandwich and sit down and watch T.V.
Her hunger drives her to make a sandwich. Her boredom drives her to watch T.V. Her superstitions make her afraid. She runs to her room scared to death because she fears something is after her.
She is very afraid.
This character finds it urgent to seek safety. It is important for her to be safe because she does not want to be harmed.
This character does what she does because she is hungry, then bored, then afraid. She reacts to paranormal activity and suspicion with fear. She runs away from what she fears. She fears what is unseen and act cautiously upon that emotion.
This character is female. She has a larger build than the average woman but not ugly. She is artistic. She is cautious.
The character's flaw is her failure to confront her fears.
Story-Plot Dealer's Choice
The intentions of the main character, a young woman, are to just leave the comfort and safety of her bedroom to go out in to the dark and cold common area of her room to make a sandwich and watch some T.V. While drawing jack-o-lanterns in a sketchbook, the girl gets up and leaves her room heading for the kitchen. Already feeling uneasy and a bit spooked in her lonesomeness in a drafty, dark dorm, she makes her way to the fridge. Emphasis is put on the jack-o-lantern, tools, and gloves set on the counter. She has the feeling that something unseen is right behind her back as she makes a sandwich. At first without her knowing, strange activity begins to happen such as the carved pumpkin and inanimate objects moving on their own then stopping as she looks in their direction. This sense of weird activity happening behind her back makes the character more nervous. After her sandwich is made, character sits down and is about to turn on the television then she goes back to the fridge for a drink. When she sits back down in her previous seat and finds the remote to have moved across the room. Flustered and confused, she gets up to grab the remote. Before she even touches the device it turns on the T.V. itself to a fuzzy channel. The girl is spooked by this and sits back down to continue eating. As she eats, the channels keep turning themselves. Puzzled, she looks around a vast dark, room trying to figure out what is going on. Once again, paranormal activity occurs behinds her back, yet this time she catches it in action. Appliances in the kitchen start to go off by them selves and a jack-o-lantern on the counter stares off at her, while a pair of gloves near the pumpkin begin to crawl near her. Frightened to death, she throws are sandwich down, and makes a run for it while the paranormal activity intensifies and climaxes. She then makes it to her room, feeling that she is now safe, she decides to go to bed, not knowing that the gloves are creeping under her door. As she is sleeping, she suddenly feels something on her face and tries to flick it away a few times. Finally, she quickly turns to find the jack-o-lantern sitting on her pillow and crawling gloves upon her face and the scene ends.
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