Saturday, February 25, 2006

SHOT NOTES--WORKSHOP SPINNER SEQUENCES

FIRST UNIT MASTERS =============================

MAKE sure security camera is set up

DAY 1
DARK GREY SHIRT
FULL LIGHT
Ben comes in. Anticipation as he looks to the spinner right away. Stares at it for a while in satisfaction. Does his ritual--writes down in his notebook.

DAY 2
DARK PURPLE SHIRT
HALF LIGHT
2. Ben comes in. He assumes it's working. Gives it a cursory check. Looks over/tightens the components a bit. Does his ritual--writes down in his notebook.

DAY 3
ORANGE SHIRT
SMOKING FULL LIGHT
3. Ben's already there. Smoking. Writing something in his notebook. Maybe doing some other business

DAY 4
LOTS OF SMOKE IN THE ROOM
JACKET
Night--wearing jacket. Stand and bow shot. Then move closer and stand.

DAY 5
GREEN SHIRT
Ben comes in. Does a ritual. cursory check--woah. what's that" Microscope.
Micrsoscope shots

DAY 6
RED SHIRT!
Tight on Ben as he comes in. he's in the been there done that mood. Then he notices. Push in to see... the spinner not working!

Checks it. Double checks it.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Aha! Let's look in the camera.


FIRST UNIT--COVERAGE=============================

Day 6--red shirt--Tight on Ben as he comes in the room. He looks to the spinner. It's stopped!

Day 6--red shirt--Dollly in



Day 5--green shirt--CUs of Ben looking through his camera

Day 5--green shirt--DOLLY IN TO Ben LOOKING THROUGH CAMERA

Day 5--green shirt--DOLLY IN TO Ben LOOKING THROUGH CAMERA. Then ben looks up





DAY--AMBIGUOUS---Various med shots, etc. of Ben doing stuff like tweaking spinner, setting it up. Looking at bottles

DAY--AMBIGUOUS---CU: The moment of truth: Ben in GOGGLES sets the spinner spinning.Tight. Rack focus

DAY--AMBIGUOUS---MED SHOT--SAME AS ABOVE BUT MED

DAY--AMBIGUOUS---Various CUs of Ben putting together the machine: books, materials, Ben putting the gadget together, Ben turning it on-seeing it light up. A wide shot.



Home clothes---Stop motion shot of Ben sleeping as time goes by



2ND UNIT/ CUTAWAYS=============================

top view spinner slow push in

Top view. Spinner is stopped. Lights turn off.




Shadow shots with spinner falling--who did it? Who/what is the perpetrator?

No one in room--projector projects clouds in garage

Close ups of the machinery, gadgets. Ben's book's (don't forget physics books)


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