VX Short Film - Ideas anyone?

[nfpgasmask]

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]That would be funny, I can almost guaranty that any thing we do has been done before.

Hmmm, I dunno. I mean, the basic idea yes, but the VX is what will make it different.

Bart

[nfpgasmask]

...I just whipped this shot list up. It would be pretty easy to pull off, and edit together later. Its cheesey and silly, but I think it would be fun.
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1 – Fade in, L/S establishing desolate desert landscape

2 – Medium C/U of a lizard on a rock, insects buzz breaking the silence, but somehow adding to it

3 – Another L/S establishing the landscape, wind blowing in the BG

4 – Low M/S, VX comes up fast, brakes hard sending dust all over the
camera

5 – Low M/S just below the drivers door. Door opens and boots come out, camera booms up and around the back of the driver and stops M/S on the back of his head once he is out of the vehicle

6 – C/U of his face, dust still settles around his head, he looks around slowly and cracks a smile, and then lifts off his mask as the dust settles

7 – L/S profiles the driver and his VX, and then crabs to reveal a line of other VXers waiting for him next to their vehicles, music comes in

8 – Slow crab shot rolling along the line-up, stopping on each driver, freeze frame, titles come in with V.O. revealing the codenames for each driver.

9 – Final M/S revealing the original driver and his codename

10 – L/S of the entire crew, weapons in hand, getting into their VXes, rolling out past the camera, camera then stays static on the dust left behind by the vehicles, and the titles come in ala Mad Max …."VX MADNESS"

The remaining shots can be a montage with music of us racing around in the desert, shooting guns, drinking and partying in general. We can make all that up as we go along. Ending with us all driving off into the distance after about 5-7 minutes.

OK so, its silly, but who is in? More ideas?

Bart

PS - Oh, by the way C/U = close-up, M/S = Medium Shot, LS = Long Shot, V.O. = Voice Over.

[kodiak]

That sounds cool! We need lots of low angle shots and close ups. Watch some car reviews on Top Gear and you will get an idea of what we need. I can do almost anything with the editing except for slow motion. You need a special camera for that.

[CrnCnn]

Im in. Are you planning this while in Elko? Or just around here?

[Knigh7s]

If you guys come a bit closer down here towards Vegas, I'll be interested!

[tom4bren]

Sounds like you've got the plot firmly in your mind but my vote would have been for a comedy.

Film Zeus running of Goonie Bird's foot & then just follow him around to see what happens next. Definitely fodder for LMAO

[tom4bren]

[circmand]

duck toys where there is the mama and then baby ducks on a string. Close up on the kids hand then follow the string down to the ducks. But when you get there it is a VX and then follow the line down to one VX after another then pan out to a row of VX following each other in a line then pan out further to a super imposed Giant pulling the VX's. A good demonstration on boys and their toys from young kid to adulthood. The end could even be one of those cymbal playing monkeys.

[kodiak]

Just be thinking of something cool to say for your last words.

I'll probably end up shooting myself somehow and then you can see the whole thing on Faces of Death 20!

[nfpgasmask]

I'll probably end up shooting myself somehow and then you can see the whole thing on Faces of Death 20!

Justin, have you ever shot a real gun before?

Bart

[nfpgasmask]

Im in. Are you planning this while in Elko? Or just around here?

Yeah, out in Elko, right now we have 6. We need to get your VX fixed up and we will have 7!

w00t!

Bart

[nfpgasmask]

That sounds cool! We need lots of low angle shots and close ups. Watch some car reviews on Top Gear and you will get an idea of what we need. I can do almost anything with the editing except for slow motion. You need a special camera for that.

Yeah, I think I will try to storyboard it up next week. I'll scan the drawings and then post em and we can work on it a little. I know what you mean about low angles. I have a full editing suite as well, and my brother can do the music. It would be for use both to edit it in different ways to see what we come up with.

Bart

[kodiak]

To Cool!

Yeah, I think I will try to storyboard it up next week. I'll scan the drawings and then post em and we can work on it a little. I know what you mean about low angles. I have a full editing suite as well, and my brother can do the music. It would be for use both to edit it in different ways to see what we come up with.

Bart