This film is a narrative about 5 workers and the roles they are forced into by the power of the boss man. The boss manipulates and entraps his workers by controlling their much needed food and water. They are forced to do monotonous work, for reasons, which they do not know. Although they are laboring in a vast, desolate landscape, their dependence on the boss for nourishment confines them within the location. The repetitive labor puts the workers in a trance-like state as if hypnotized or transformed into mere machines. The boss pushes the workers’ limits to the point of exhaustion and dehydration and even death. This constant, unbearable abuse causes one of the workers to realize their situation and fate, which he struggles to reveal to the other workers. Eventually they all come to their senses and plan a revolt to overthrow the boss in power. They are successful with their attack on the boss and they flip the roles, making the boss work for food and water, while taunting him, as they become consumed by the power high themselves. Eventually one of the workers realizes that they have become just as oppressive as the boss was to them. He attempts to stop the taunting workers and get them to help the boss. After consideration all but one worker decide to join together and help the boss. After the group leaves the jobsite with the former boss, the remaining worker, still consumed by power, continues to play the role of the boss although there are no workers for him to control. The last scene shows the jobsite with no one there. There is no power if there is no one to control.
My crew size will only require the characters in the movie for the largest portion of the movie. There will be 5 workers, 1 boss, 1 Person that comes to watch the workers like a spectacle, and for one scene I will need as many people as possible for the pile of dead bodies. After the first worker dies in the movie, he will be able to help if I need assistance.
I will only need a tripod as far as equipment goes, I decided to use my own digital camera for stop motion and video because the images are a little bigger and I think it will make it easier to mix the two.
My budget consists of the funds to buy beer to keep my crew happy, costumes, wooden stakes, wire, dog collars, and ramen noodles, and whatever ingredients I need to make the bodies look dead. I will not have to buy hammers because we managed to round up five of them.
It looks like you have it all together. From the test footage last semester I have a good feel of what your going for and I like the way your going in pixelated movements. Now I might have missed it but are you going to use sound? If you need some makeup tips on making people look dead I can help you out on that. Although you can get campy with makeup and make people look like stereotypical zombies or go for sad jewish concentration camp victims. Where is this all going to take place? Is it going to be in the same general spot you did test footage?
ReplyDeleteEverything is clear and broken down to the smallest detail. I understand what the story is about, which is good. I think that the use of the mindsets and the small detail showing whose in authority really works well. You didn't really talk about the crew outside of the actors. Do you have a crew to help you with setting up. Such as Lighting, audio and so forth. I also think the we may need a small visual to help us understand the look and feel of your story. Otherwise I think this should turn out fine.
ReplyDeleteThats a pretty comprehensive outline and well thought out. I enjoy the fact that there is room for contemplation and what you are commenting on about labor laws and how absolute power corrupts absolutely, etc. I assume you intend to film outside somewhere with fences that matches the description of your setting-have you thought about lighting and what time of day and all that? And what do you mean when you say that the boss and the workers are sliding around the fence?
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