Talent and Crew

Crew: I shall be in charge of filming, lighing and sound, and so I am the one and only crew member.
Talent: My mother has kindly agreed to being in my film, along with school friend Zac Neill.


Master List:
  • Myself - Tom O'Brien
    • Unseen character of "Tom", Filming, lighting & sound
  • Wendy O'Brien
    • Mother of "Tom"
    • One line of dialogue
  • Zac Neill
    • Friend of "Tom"
    • One line of dialogue
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Treatment


It starts with a shot of a bed, slowly coming into focus, followed by a HUD (heads up display) appearing in shot. A pair of hands rise from the bottom of the screen, and begin moving in a manner similar to that of a FPS (First Person Shooter), unnaturally from side to side. He then turns toward the wardrobe, opening it and being faced with multiple choices for clothing. After making his decision, he turns, leaving the room, and approaches the kitchen door, which causes an option to “Press X to enter” to appear on his screen. This X glows momentarily with the screen fading to a black loading screen. Once the kitchen has “loaded”, he approaches the cupboard and examines his choices for breakfast, i.e. Sultana Bran, etc. He chooses, and with the cupboard closing behind him, he leaves the kitchen heading for the hallway. After another short loading screen, he walks down the hall, approaching his mother who is standing by the door. The shot goes to a close up on her face and she begins to tell him that he should hurry up or he’ll be late for school. He approaches the door and a “fast travel” dialogue appears, and upon selecting Burnside High School as his destination, the screen fades to a final load screen. He arrives at school and walks through school before meeting his friend, Zac, waiting for him. Zac proceeds to say “Oh Tom, are you late too?” where a MISSION FAILED dialogue appears on the screen. The camera tilts upward toward the sky, where the title “The Life and Times of a First Person Shooter” hangs in the sky.
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Concept:

 My idea is of a boy who is so addicted to video games that he has begun to see his life as though it is one. Seemingly mundane, everyday tasks are now seen as though they are elements of his favourite video games. It has a lot of social commentary on the severity of the obsession the youth of today has with video games. All shots will be First-Person, point-of-view shots to simulate the well-known First Person Shooter style
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Miss Kazimi is abandoning us.

HEARTBREAK  
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Filming and Editing - August 11

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Treatment

Two people lying on hospital beds wake up and remove the various medical equipment attatched to them. They look around, and leave the building. The streets are deserted, with cars abandoned. In the distance, there is someone dancing, a very peculiar dance. Shuffling. They begin to approach him, speaking out to him "Hey man, where all da people at?", when they are tackled out of the way behind a car. The man gives them the "low-down" of the situation, a zombie apocalypse has occured and one of the characteristics of them are they shuffle. Music starts blaring from nowhere, and the stranger forces them headphones to block the music, and weapons.
The two step up from their hiding place, and shuffle their way into the middle of the crowd, where they stop moving, and in slow motion reveal their masses of weapons, and start attacking all of them.
A montage ensues of the following action, showing them going overboard with the zombie killing, attacking innocent people, garbage cans, and even the stranger that helped them. Upon attacking the stranger, the two stand over his body, he asks "Who are you?" in his dying breath. They pull out their guns, and say "Blu Foo and Sky Red bitch" and fire, where it immediately cuts to black.
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Onions

"A moon wrapped in brown paper”
-Nisrene Kazimi on the topic of onions
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