Wednesday 11 February 2009

Compromised - The Story line

November 2008, Alex Kane sits in the corner of his cell. Unsure if its night or day, not knowing what time it is. She enters holding a syringe “Mr Kane, ready to confess?” “I’ve told you- I don’t remember anything.”
Weak from hunger - Alex tries to bat the syringe away but it feeble in his attempt to do so. The needle stabs into arm, his skin as white as the clothes he is wearing. The last thing he sees before he passes out is the Doctor’s face. He is still conscious – he can feel his head spinning, he comes too – in his old bedroom where he used to live. The phone rings “the file of your next target, it’s on your desk…” the phone cuts off. Looking down, opening the file, a series of mug shots of the same man, a list of his habits, where he tends to eat, and what train he gets on for work. He stares at the calendar on one of his bare walls. December 2006.

A man sits on the station platform waiting for a train little does he know that a .75 Caliber sniper rifle is being trained on him.
Standing on a bridge along the railway track the gunner, ( insert name- Alex Kane?) too far away for the victim to be seen takes his shot. A shot rings out, police sirens wail. The gunner runs.

He sits down on the station platform bench, cold, waiting and knowing that what will happen next is something that is inevitable. He speaks into the mouthpiece hidden in his jacket button “Target in sight.” Noise emits from his earpiece. “Confirmed, Target tracking, about to take shot”. More chatter from the radio. He stands up, shaking but not from the cold, yet showing a calm stance. He hears the gunshot, and feels the cool, sharp, metal drill through the side of his head, knocking him to the ground. His cheek against the frosted concrete he can see the gunner running, then, nothing.

Snow Day video and Course Work film notes

Well there I was a week with no school ( pretty much) and so the first day my cousin, my brother, dog and me went off to do some sledging on the golf course. I made it in Windows Movie Maker probably the most useless video editing program ever created and littered with bugs i had to navigate around. But i just simply woke up with the urge to capture probably one of the rare occasions which happen in life which are snow days. So here is the finished product - in all its ugly cutting glory and terrific sound quality!

The Song is "World at Large" by Modest Mouse




The video I'm filming with Jerome and Bobbi is going really well and some great ideas and ways to translate the story from imagination to film is good. But you never get what you imagined - as you don't have a large film company backing you up. We've had to tweak things here and there - the main tweak is shifting one scene to a canal where it was going to be on a bridge. However i turned out that it looked a lot better than using the station.

What I will do is in my next post is paste in the story of it.