Cinema class ideas

[cutie6190]

ok guys i need your help. i need to make a 1-3 min video for my midterm and a ten min one for my final. i need help ideas. i was thinkin about a club but i dont know any other ideas ??

j =)

[rudeboyyouth]

For the three minute video:

Start off by focussing in on a guy who looks like he's in turmoil (judging by his facial expression). Focus in on only his face so the audience can see pain and agony. Make the individual look like he's crying, as if he's in dire need of some form of remedy. Do this for three minutes, and at the end of the video, pan away and reveal to the audience that it's nothing more than a guy trying to take a shit.

[Xpander]

Do a music video. Make it a nice visual mind trip.

[cutie6190]

That was actually pretty good lol. for a three min video. i just dont know what the teacher would say but hey its worth a try any other ideas. ...and hey i need people to work with me in this lol wanna help ? lol

[cutie6190]

more more more lol for three min ones and ten min one.

[Xpander]

The trick is to synchronize the elements of the video with the track. If you're filming in the city, it'd be mush easier to work off of a downtempo/ambient track more than anything else. You can't just slap a random three minute film to musica accompaniement and call it a video, it has to have a little more depth.

[sh4un4]

Originally posted by cutie6190

more more more lol for three min ones and ten min one.

I took a video production class in college -- well 2 actually (Comm. Arts major)

And I made a Clinique commercial - it was a minute long i think . . .

I had a talk show -- which was 10 mins

I did a dating game -- also 10 mins

(the dating game was hilarioussss)

I can't think of wut u could do for a 3 min seg at the moment ~ but gimme a few, and I'll think of sumthin.

[dialectics]

hint #1: don't make your film about an ex. mine was a 15 minute disaster of someone playing me moping because we broke up. very twisted stuff if you knew me, very dull otherwise.

hint #2: humor works best in student films. if you take yourself too seriously people will laugh at you instead of with you.

(i haven't shot film in 3 years, so if anyone has any updates that would be great).

that being said, shooting in a club is DIFFICULT. if you shoot video instead of film, you can have the space to experiment with different lighting/speed conditions, but unless you are in control of the club you will not be able to get good quality in speech, even with a shotgun mic (since the DJ will be playin). if you shoot film, you will need extremely high-speed film (my personal fave is kodak vision 800T - you get softer tones with the 250, but you need minimal lighting rigs). You'll need to run some tests under different lighting conditions (with CLEAR markings before each test indicating what the apeture/light setup was), print it and then get your cast/crew only after you've picked the best one. if you're sadistic you can overdub the voices later, but getting the sync right will be a problem. if you choose to record the music afterwards, make sure you fuck with the reverb for each different camera angle, so you get a sense of space in the club. the best thing for this is if you have a space that you can turn into a club for the night (so you can tell the "dj" to stop the music when you want to shoot)

that being said, i bet you could do some great things MOS (without [sync] sound) since everyone is always gesturing heavily. for a 3 min short its best to have a single focus - instead of trying to capture the essense of club life, get a piece of drama, like two people competing over the same guy/girl, or people out of place (i remember being on the coatcheck line at exit explaining the basics of the fast fourier transform to my friend... until we realized that nobody else was talking).

for the 10 min piece you can be a lot more flexible. you can build an arc of character, have substories, etc. a cliche'd approach would be: four friends wait on line to go to the club, each with different issues to work out. over the course of the night stuff happens. they all pass out in their clothes at noon. fade to black. make it more interesting - get to know your characters, get to know the man behind the decks - what goes through his mind as that needle drops? or the bouncer or the club kid for life.

recently went to a terrible film short screening - it was worse then student films... these people were actually PAID for their work. but the highlights were the funny ones:

- men waiting on line to use a public bathroom are doing the "i have to pee" hop, and people start thwowing them change.

- animation of "skittles" as the ghetto m+m's

etc... etc...

toilet humor can be funny, but keep it good natured (the public enema 8000 short was NOT funny).

peaz,

rob

[danamdkny]

YOU could do a club documentary-

entitled ___ Evolution of the EVE

and you could begin with meetup plans on CP and go form there to the after party funk

[dialectics]

how about you re-enact a piece of literature, only taking place at a rave in 2002. ie like jane austin's emma and 'clueless'

[cutie6190]

those are some really good ideas. hmm at least i have some ideas now ..i can use more if anyone has any more

thanks so much.

j =)

[chc214]

Film a retarded guy counting to 180.

Do a porno film. A hot chick discovers that her TV is broke so she calls a repairman. While she waits she starts stabbing her cooch with a veiny dildo. She says stuff like, "Uh, that feels wonderful. I sure wish it was real."

She looks up and sees the repairman. He says, "I came here to fix your problem, tell me what's broke." And she replies, "My pussy is leaking. It's alll wet. I need a hard cock to plug it up." Then they go at it for the last two minutes. Guaranteed "A." Good luck.