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Day 1 Assignments
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Eric Humble’s Concept
Contained elements:
A. Contained Environment: A rental house at the beach
B. Contained Characters: Two couples who have come for vacation
C. Difficult Situation: A stranger who has insisted he also booked it for the weekend turns up
murdered
D. Reason for the Containment: They need to figure out who did this before they can call the
police… or else they’ll be blamed.
HOOK: Unbeknownst to their husbands, the women are each deadly secret agents–one for the U.S., the other for Russia.
HOOK: Unbeknownst to any of them, a rogue laboratory is hidden beneath the house, where a bioweapon has been leaked.
CONCEPT: A disgraced CIA agent must uncover the truth about a stranger who turns up dead at the vacation house she’s renting with her husband and another couple, unaware that a rogue laboratory is hidden beneath the house, where a bioweapon has been leaked.
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Eric Humble’s Guidelines for Silence of the Lambs
What I learned doing this assignment is: This was an eye-opening experience, reviewing the movie, which I always considered a movie that required a big-budget. But after looking at it with an eye to the COVID restrictions, I realized it could work very well as a contained movie with only three locations and a handful of characters. It gave me ideas for how to convey the same themes and even the most gruesome of scenes without explicitly showing anything on-screen, which would result in an equally-powerful but COVID-friendly script.
TITLE: The Silence of the Lambs
AS THEY DID IT:
A. People – Clarice, Hannibal Lecter, Jack Crawford, Buffalo Bill, Dr. Chilton, the Senator, the Senator’s daughter, Ardelia, other mental patients near Lecter’s cell.
B. Stunts – not many; some firearm usage at the climactic confrontation
C. Extras – various background FBI personnel, the family and friends of the victims, local police around one of the victims
D. Wardrobe – Hannibal Lecter’s prison/asylum attire, police uniforms
E. Hair and Make Up – mutilated guards; otherwise, negligible
F. Kids and Animals – Buffalo Bill’s dog
G. Quarantine – lots of extras and a few small roles who would need to quarantine along with the leads
COVID GUIDELINE VERSION:
A. People – Clarice, Hannibal, Crawford, Buffalo Bill, Chilton, Senator’s daughter – cut out Ardelia and possibly even the Senator
B. Stunts – not needed; the film isn’t stunt-heavy to begin with
C. Extras – cut all the FBI Academy locations and extras; everything involving the FBI can take place in Jack Crawford’s office. Cut the interviews Clarice does in-person with the family and friends of the victims – calls can be made over phone, or even cut entirely; she can look through the victim’s personal effects in an evidence locker to discover the clues required by the story.
D. Wardrobe – same as the movie; nothing special needed except Lecter’s prison attire
E. Hair and Make Up – Cut out the most gruesome special makeup effects and imply them or have them occur off-screen
F. Kids and Animals – N/A
G. Quarantine – Locations can be limited to Lecter’s cell, where his interactions with Clarice and even his escape can be put in motion; Crawford’s cell; Buffalo Bill’s house and lair. Only the principle actors and a limited crew would need to be quarantined.
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David Harper’s Guidelines for Out of Sight
What I learned doing this assignment is that the key issue is the story, not the setting or the stunts or any of that. If I can tell a story one way, I can tell it another way. It’s really about the character journey more than anything.
ASSIGNMENT PART 1: Select Your Project
I’ve selected the project I want to use. It’s interesting because the project would be the best fit for the covid guidelines, and it’s also the story idea I like the most.
ASSIGNMENT PART 2: Adjust a Produced Movie to Covid Guidelines
TITLE: Out of Site
AS THEY DID IT:
A. People – A lot of minor characters dropped in from one scene to the next.
B. Stunts – A boxing scene, two boxers, plus a prison fight
C. Extras – Prison yard extras milling about, a huge crowd in the boxing arena
D. Wardrobe – This was pretty simple, no big issues here
E. Hair and Make Up – Not a lot out of the unordinary here
F. Kids and Animals – No kids, maybe a barking dog, but that’s it
G. Quarantine – Way too many extras!
COVID GUIDELINE VERSION:
A. People – Many of the minor characters could be cut, and the scenes written in a different way to allow for the same discoveries to be made
B. Stunts – Eliminate the boxing scene and the prison fights, the story can work without those anyway
C. Extras – Move the planning phases somewhere other than the prison. It can happen anywhere, especially with the twist about how it was set up to begin with
D. Wardrobe – No changes needed
E. Hair and Make Up – No changes needed
F. Kids and Animals – No changes needed
G. Quarantine – Getting rid of the prison yard and the boxing arena would eliminate a lot of extras.
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Cut Throat
A. Contained Environment: A family apartment in La and London
B. Contained Characters: A young girl grows up with a forged identity from taking a trip doing an internship in an another city.
C. Difficult Situation: Forged Identity, cant run, cant hide utterly trapped and locked online.
D. Reason for the containment: She needs to find out who stole her identity, a group that new her faked her death and why she cant question being hacked and hijacked.
Hook: a mysterious group secretly entraps a girl, her identity fakes her death only to not entrapped by underground network who embezzeles money around the world as she pretends to side with them turns against.
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This movie the cast and crew and be contained and Quarantined before shooting. The scenes can be isolated and contained. Not many effects or characters in the story. This movie the same locations that will be used and can be set up prior.
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This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Michele Mahjobi. Reason: forgot the whole assignment
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This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by
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<div>What I learned during this assignment? I learned looking back at this movie that this movie was shot in 27 days and was in a few locations and was shot beautifully, and was a success and can be done in a contained way, did well in the box office and looking at the movie you can shoot anything if done right in a restricted way.</div><div>
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ASSIGNMENT PART 2: Adjust a Produced Movie to Covid Guidelines
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2. Pick a movie that is outside the Covid Guidelines and give us your thoughts on how they could make it in the current production environment.
TITLE: Lost in Translation
AS THEY DID IT:
A. People: Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another estranged American named Charlotte, a young woman and recent college graduate played by Scarlett Johansson.
B. Stunts: not many, this took place in a hotel and a few other locations like streets and some places.
C. Extras: A few in hotel, restaurant and in various locations mainly hotel.
D. Wardrobe: not many outfits, normal clothes in daily routines
E. Hair and Make Up: normal
F. Kids and Animals: N/A
G. Quarantine: The cast and crew
COVID GUIDELINE VERSION:
A. People- Main Characters: Bill Murray as Bob Harriss and Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte. Contained scenes, same location, quarantined first
B. Stunts-none
C. Extras- crew at hotel and streets scene
D. Wardrobe- No big issue here easy to tame.
E. Hair and Make Up- Yes needed but minimally.
F. Kids and Animals-N/A
G. Quarantine- easily done before shooting and testing during shooting
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