COLOUR SCRIPT // Plot - Panel Set Up - IN PROGRESS

PANEL LAYOUT

1.     OPEN SHOT: dark stage, outline of oak tree (dawn)

2.     INTRO SHOT (Codaville): spotlight on oak tree

3.     spotlight pours into Oakley's room, onto Oak's bed covered by quilt

4.     metronome (1)

5.     INTRO SHOT (Young Oakley): sitting up in bed putting on red socks, soak in red

6.     metronome (2)

7.     INTRO SHOT (Teen Oakley): putting on red shirt, soak in red

8.     metronome (1)

9.     INTRO SHOT (Present Oakley): pulling suspender over shoulder, soak in red

10.   TITLE CARD: Oak's shirt (very faint pinstripe), suspender in place, buttons - "OFF THE TRACK"   

11.   Oak at bottom of oak tree

12.   Oak walking through town / instruments warming up

13.   INTRO SHOT (Ela): peaking out of curtain at edge of town, soak in red

14.   INTRO SHOT (Outside curtain): peak through to light greens and browns

15.   Oak pulls Ela back to Codaville/red

16.   Musical Town number (1), soak in red

17.   Musical Town number (2), soak in red

18.   Oak and Ela (bring back blue) peak through curtain again

19.   INTRO SHOT (Marco + Polo): dumbstruck faces

20.   Sneaking Marco into Codaville as stagehand

21.   Town against Oak / Marco breaking metronome

22.   Town reaction (shock)

23.   Town reaction (anger)

24.   INTRO SHOT (Forest, lost): Trio wandering

25.   INTRO SHOT (NiceTown): general

26.   INTRO SHOT (Mimi): through a cloud of pink

27.   INTRO SHOT (Musos, background): Chorus + Mimi musical number

28.   Something goes wrong, angry NiceTown

29.   INTRO SHOT (Forest, escape) Group escaping

30.   INTRO SHOT (Factory) Ext. doors, slightly ajar

31.   INTRO SHOT (Old Factory Man) w/ metronome

32.   INTRO SHOT (Car) group, happy, colours

33.   INTRO SHOT (RealTown) Music shop

34.   Marco and Oak w/ jukebox, muted colours

35.   Marco and Oak w/ record player, much more muted colours

36.   Marco and Oak fall out, hardly any colours

37.   GROUP SPLIT: Marco still in REALTOWN (watching old house from afar)

38.   INTRO SHOT (Sports Camp) Oak sees (sports) players singing, saturated colours, metronome?

39.   Ela and Mimi (doing something) 

40.   Oak: (another sports) players singing more so, saturated, metronome?

41.   Marco: walking away from house, muted

42.   GROUP REUNITE (where?) 

43.   INTRO SHOT (Acapella Mansion) Car breaks down, dark

44.   INTRO SHOT (Chorus Members, background) Group inside mansion, Ela in front

45.   INTRO SHOT (Antki): hand shoots out from under stairs w/ eyes

46.   INTRO SHOT (Proshka): w/ instruments to go

47.   INTRO SHOT (The Orchestra Pit): Outside, group, bright, metronome

48.   Huge ass organ, inception-like faces

49.   Group finds metronomes, picks one 

50.   FOREST: group heads back

51.   CODAVILLE

52.   Oak: kick ass musical number

53.   Realisation, Oak leaves town

54.   Group reunites, Oak pulls off red socks

55.   Group hug?

56.   Still loosely connected, look through forest trees and paths, grinning

57.   (BIRDS EYE) showing pathways and trees making the shape of a huge oak tree

58.   CLOSING SHOT: dark, faint outline of oak tree paths

RESEARCH // George Nelson

THINGS AND STORY IDEAS // Quotes and Town 6

Found the perfect quote for Oakley and his story I think

"If you don’t like where you are, move on. You are not a tree"

- Jim Rohn

creepy

Also

Town 6 

Haunted Acapella Mansion

like: Rocky Horror (house set up, broken down car) Haunted Mansion (ride at Disneyworld)

why acapella? : it should be good to use just before the orchestra town (7) - usingonlyvoices/usingnotvoices = nice contrast

town set up: for forgotten chorus members with no leading characters to react to, they creepily occupy an abandoned mansion waiting for some one to sing with them

why is this town important? : Paige's past chorus members now reside here as well, including the two musos who just want to play their instruments god damn it, but it's not allowed with the acapella, so they leave with the group.

Also, this is after the group has reunited so visiting a house gives out little "family" vibes which is nice.

STORY IDEAS // Aims and Arcs

THEMES

"Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you"

Freedom to search for where you belong

Families of choice

Ignoring tradition

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a large metronome to replace the one broken in Codaville

ARCS

Oakley

WANTS to fit in, make parents proud, be "leading man" of the town

GETS free from town and parents, confidence/backbone, acceptance from new friends

Marco

WANTS to travel/explore, learn more about world, forget past (being kicked out)

GETS discovery of musical towns, acceptance from new friends, sense of clarity from past (?)

Ela

WANTS to leave Codaville, step out of Oak's shadow/not be an Understudy

GETS be independent of Oak, acceptance from new friends

(...)

QUICK SKETCH // Scene - End

Possible end scene look

STORY IDEAS // Towns

Not completely finished or finalised but it's a start 

More Detail

STORY PLANS // Sports

Possible idea

Pictures to work from

STORY // Short and Long

TITLE

Off The Track

(SHORT) SUMMARY

After failing to be a great leading man that he was expected to be in his living musical, Oakley Colton ventures out of his small town to find a different beat to sing and dance to.

Interesting Character Questions

CHARACTER QUESTIONS (POSSIBILITIES) 

Story Ideas - The Musical - Pondering (messy again)

Main - Musical guy, MG
LI - Non musical guy, NMG?

-MG outcasted from small town, seen as a bit off and awkward

-meets NMG outside of small town

-NMG, quiet, also outcasted? belongs no where?

-weirded out by MG but eventually warms up to

-MG warmed up straight away


-allowed (?) back to old town

-both go back

-MG more confident and ready to move back

-town doesnt allow NMG cause he's non musical, ew

-MG eventually gives up town (which kinda treated him like crap) to go elsewhere

-MG and NMG go off to find a town of their own

(Understudy, US,  should be there too, wherever MG is, loves him like a brother but wants more in life than being a shadow basically)


-- set in musical town, out of musical town, back in musical town, then lovely new non bias town --

Story Idea - The Musical - Pondering (messy)

The Musical is the worst title in the world, but I have nothing else right now.

Just random notes, this still hasn't been fleshed out, erg.

Story Idea - The Ring - Pondering

Jotting down before I go to bed so I don't forget this as a possibility...

- Thinking of combining the vintage design dealer with the ring idea

-main character vintage searching finds (?) videos
-knows vaguely of legend behind it but doesn't truly believe it, slightly believes it (?)
-finds other videos, and uploads them up to computer, ends up seeing "ring" video through that
-has a movie screening with (large number) of friends
-"ring" video accidently is played on projector
(meaning she's safe then cause she's technically passed the video on, should figure this out later?)

-people would be called...on phones?

-mc freaks out a little, friends promise to come back with mc in 7 days


- in 7 days, same spot, samara stuff starts to happen (water dripping, flashing on and off)
-mc and a couple of others (?) escapes with laptop (and wifi stick i guess??)
-figures out to pass along
-comes up with plan to overload samara with people
-uploads as torrent film under a popular film title

-starts being downloaded and watched

annnnnnd something something something, goes viral etc.

i'm not sure, to be continued possibly.



(what would be lovely is if the films had actual guidelines how this damn video works...)

Story Idea (maybe...)

Not sure what I'd do with this but I was doodling and thought i'd pop it here, see if it comes in handy or something

So yeah, centaur and mermaids.

Story Ideas (More)

These are a couple one line story ideas that aren't really developed but they're still floating around I guess.

- Antique design dealers -

basically those who find antique bits and bobs and furniture to use for (crazy rich) clients who want home decors, or window dressings etc.

Possibly in one of their scouting trips finds something really important or strange from the paaaaast and something something.

What I like about this idea is the potential "location" and "costume" concept art I think could look pretty amazing, and the whole "look" of the film could be a style that mixed vintage and contemporary together.

- Muscial society -

bascially that all the characters are in a musical, and they know it. Possibly it'd just be a town, not ...the whole world, but it's part of their everyday lives and couldn't think of any other way to express themselves then belting through songs.

I think they'd be a newcomer who couldn't/doesn't want to sing and throws things into a tizzy, and using this divide as story about differences and intolerance...maybe  

Story Idea

I still havent thought of much for story ideas yet but I know I like the idea of playing around with an existing story. Whether it be putting a new spin on a old fairytale or making a sequel to an existing series and playing around with the rules of it's universe...

I was thinking I could possibly do this with "The Ring" series. I never really liked horror films but this one always felt more like a thriller to me and I thought the concept was really interesting. What I think I would do is to update aspects of it  the video tape, characters etc. and see how far this concept can be stretched

If someone was to upload the ring video and make it a file that could easily be passed around and torrented then it could reach millions of people very quickly.



Of course I'd need to research more of the backstory to see whether it would be possibly for that many people to be targeted by Samara (the ring girl) and I know she comes out of the tv, but if possible could she come out of any screen? computers, mobiles etc.?

I've had a bit of a look around, and there's rumours of a second sequel but there's little talk of the story (and none of it talks about torrents or anything similar to mine, which is good...) apart from wanting to aim at a younger audience/teenagers, which would work easily with the focus on new technology possibly?

Problems with this idea, possibly, that my art style doesnt really fit with horror? and that i don't really like horror films? hm...
Also from what I heard in class, some people are thinking of doing futuristic sci-fi settings, and while mine wouldnt be futuristic it would still be present-day modern with a focus on technology which may look too similar to theirs??

So in summary:

first idea, The Ring 3, updated for present day, torrented files, new characters would be made too