Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Script Take # FINAL

So after 2 and a half months of work-shopping this work of genius, its finally finished(?)
And here it is!

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail
Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow with a few silhouettes scattering the snowy landscape
The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a Hunter marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold.
XCS of his chattering teeth
XCS of his blue hands shaking
The warrior begins to look to his left.
To his left he sees a moose scuffing the ground looking for something to eat and obviously doesn’t notice the Hunter
The Hunter grasps his bow loudly and the Moose scampers off startled
The Hunter looks to his right 
Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also sitting in the cold who was also watching the moose run off.
The Hunter stares at the bear in an over the shoulder shot and pushes in
The Camera cuts to a LS of the Hunter and Bear to show their distance and begins to push out.

Act 2:
Close shot on the Hunter’s head as he leans back and begins to day dream
Cut away to an image of the Hunter wearing the bear’s fur as a pelt
Looks back up begins to size up the bear
Cuts to an image of roasting the bear on a spit
Cuts back to hunter pulling out something and drops it in the snow
The Bear looks up to see the Hunter day dreaming and stands up on his hind legs (cuts from a CS to a LS)  
Realizes what’s going on and takes a step back. LS
The Bear’s stomach growls (XCS) reminding him of the hunger he has and gives into it.
The Bear hunkers over and begins to drool.  (The camera pushes in from a LS to a MS)
The Bear in turn begins to day dream.
Camera cuts away to a LS of an image of himself wearing the Hunter’s skin as a pelt with a pile of bones next to him
Hunter snaps out of the day dream (MS) And cuts away to the Bear hunkered over drooling
Camera cuts back to the Hunter’s hungered expression and cracks a smile (CS)   
The Hunter reaches for his bow, and attempts to notch an arrow only to find his quiver is empty (XCS)
Hunter reaches for his hatchet only to find that missing as well.
The warrior immediately begins to fumble through his belongings searching for something (MS)
Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife (XCS on his hand with light coming from his army knife)
Camera cut back to show Hunter confidently fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions (MS)
Pauses on several different tools thinks about it then continues, varying ridiculousness and finally settles on his teddy bear knife
Switches to an over the shoulder shot of the bear, who is still drooling
Switches to MS of the bear who perks up attempts to bulk himself up straightens his back snorts and begins pointing at his paw.
The Bears whips out his paw in the same fashion that the Hunter did (XCS on the Bear paw with light shining from it)
Camera cuts to a MS of the Bear who is now fanning out each claw just as the Hunter did with his knife.  Goes through several different claw types but finally settles on Bear claw, then cocks his paw to reveal all claws.
The Camera cuts back to a MS of the Hunter is now more angry than confident
The Camera switches to a XLS of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.
All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other
The Camera cuts to a XCS on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then cuts to the Bear’s mouth which stops drooling
XCS of the Hunter’s grasp on his Swiss army knife
XCS of the Bear’s eyes that goes from a squint to panic Camera pushes in to reveal a bottle of Bear-B-Q sauce hanging from the Hunter’s belt
Rush Pull out from the XCS to show the bear snaps first and begins running in a panic away from the hunter
The Hunter leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera Pushes out at the start of the jump
Camera Cuts to an over the shoulder view from the warrior as he leaps toward the bear.
The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before
Camera cuts to a LS as the Hunter tackles the Bear sending the Bear tumbling forwards
Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another
Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out
Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the tackle, showing that a silhouette of something massive as if 4 trees are in their path.  Camera pushes in
Switches to a LS as they smash into the object

Act 3:
The blizzard calms again.
The two untangle from their pile and look up as a huge moose.
Camera cuts to an angle looking at the horrified expression on their faces
Camera cuts back to an upwards tilt at the Moose who looks down with its big dumb wall eyes and lets out a snort, begins to chew something and drool on the pair below him.
Camera cuts back to a downwards tilt of the pair.  Hunter looks at the bear, then lifts his arm still holding the teddy bear knife into frame and shrugs at the bear
Bear response by over excitedly nodding yes
Hunter Gentle jabs the moose with his tiny utensil
The mooses’ eyes go from wall eyed to cross eyed as the derpy creature tips over
Camera rush pulls out to a LS of the moose tipping over with the knife embedded in its side
The pair look back at each other and shrug MS
Camera fades to black
The camera fades in from black to a scene of the two characters sitting back to back with moose parts strewn all around them in the snow.
The Hunter now wearing the moose’s’ pelt and savagely chow’ing down on a moose leg, While the Bear uses the Hunter’s knife to carefully cut up his portion.
The warrior leans back and settles into the bear’s back, lets out a burp and begins to fall asleep.
The Bear welcomes the Hunter, yawns and lays his head down over his paws

Camera pulls out from the battle scene back to its original position and fades to white   

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Script Take #7

SOOOOO I back tracked to take #3 which had been work shopped the best.  Iv added a couple modifications to reflect the 2 character's personalities along with a solution to the problem, kept pretty much everything else from the original take #3

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail
Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow with a few silhouettes scattering the snowy landscape
The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a Hunter marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold.
XCS of his chattering teeth
XCS of his blue hands shaking
The warrior begins to look to his left.
To his left he sees a moose scuffing the ground looking for something to eat and obviously doesn’t notice the Hunter
The Hunter grasps his bow loudly and the Moose scampers off startled
The Hunter looks to his right 
Camera follows his view and stops to his right where a bear is also sitting in the cold who was also watching the moose run off.
The Hunter stares at the bear in an over the shoulder shot and pushes in
The Camera cuts to a LS of the Hunter and Bear to show their distance and begins to push out.

Act 2:
Close shot on the Hunter’s head as he leans back and begins to day dream
Cut away to an image of the Hunter wearing the bear’s fur as a pelt and roasting the bear on a spit
The Bear looks up to see the Hunter day dreaming and stands up on his hind legs (cuts from a CS to a LS)  
Realizes what’s going on and takes a step back. LS
The Bear’s stomach growls (XCS) reminding him of the hunger he has and gives into it.
The Bear hunkers over and begins to drool.  (The camera pushes in from a LS to a MS)
The Bear in turn begins to day dream.
Camera cuts away to a LS of an image of himself wearing the Hunter’s skin as a pelt with a pile of bones next to him
Warrior snaps out of the day dream (MS) And cuts away to the Bear hunkered over drooling
Camera cuts back to the Hunter’s hungered expression and cracks a smile (CS)   
The Hunter reaches for his bow, and attempts to notch an arrow only to find his quiver is empty (XCS)
Hunter reaches for his hatchet only to find that missing as well.
The warrior immediately begins to fumble through his belongings searching for something (MS)
Warrior pulls out his Swiss army knife (XCS on his hand with light coming from his army knife)
Camera cut back to show Hunter confidently fanning out each tool to make it clear to the bear of his intentions (MS)
Switches to an over the shoulder shot of the bear, who is still drooling
Switches to MS of the bear who perks up attempts to bulk himself up straightens his back snorts and begins pointing at his paw.
The Bears whips out his paw in the same fashion that the Hunter did (XCS on the Bear paw with light shining from it)
Camera cuts to a MS of the Bear who is now fanning out each claw just as the Hunter did with his knife
The Camera cuts back to a MS of the Hunter is now more angry than confident
The Camera switches to a XLS of both the bear and Warrior staring each other down.
All goes quiet, the storm comes to a halt and the two just sit staring at each other
The Camera cuts to a XCS on the Warriors eyes as they begin to squint, then cuts to the Bear’s mouth which stops drooling
XCS of the Hunter’s grasp on his Swiss army knife
XCS of the Bear’s eyes that goes from a squint to panic
Rush Pull out from the XCS to show the bear snaps first and begins running in a panic away from the hunter
The Hunter leaps from his place of shivering from beneath the tree. Camera Pushes out at the start of the jump
Camera Cuts to an over the shoulder view from the warrior as he leaps toward the bear.
The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before
Camera cuts to a LS as the Hunter tackles the Bear sending the Bear tumbling forwards
Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another
Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out
Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the tackle, showing that a silhouette of something huge is in their path.  Camera pushes in
Switches to a LS as they smash into the object

Act 3:
The blizzard calms again.
 Camera pulls out from a view of a massive pile of fur with a pair of boots sticking out from one side. And begins to surge and move as the two attempt to become untangled
Camera cuts to a XCS from somewhere in the pile showing the hunter’s knife embedded in the fur.
The Hunter begins to laugh maniacally
Camera cuts to somewhere else in the pile showing the bear’s claws embedded in the fur
The Bear begins to hyperventilate and panic.
Camera cuts to a LS of the pile of fur as both characters untangle and move away from it.
The Hunter is covered head to toe in blood while only the bear’s paw appears to be covered
The camera switches to a LS revealing that the object they had slammed into was the same moose from the beginning.
The Bear lets out a sigh of relief seeing that he had not in fact killed the hunter. The bear attempts to wipe the blood of his paw using his fur.
The Hunter wipes the blood from his face to showing an expression of confidence after realizing what just happened and smiles at the bear and points at the object embedded with his knife between them MS
The two’s stomachs growl in unison.
The two nod in agreement
The camera cuts to a scene of the two characters sitting back to back with moose parts strewn all around them in the snow.
The Hunter now wearing the moose’s’ pelt and savagely chow’ing down on a moose leg, While the Bear uses the Hunter’s knife to carefully cut up his portion.
The Hunter leans back and settles into the bear’s back, lets out a burp and begins to fall asleep.
The Bear welcomes the Hunter, yawns and lays his head down over his paws

Camera pulls out from the battle scene back to its original position and fades to white   

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Script Take #6

So, went back to my original Model. Gave a much better stage set up and character build up.  Idea and basic story design are the same, but fixed the main problems and goals of each character.  Honestly I think this is a hell of a lot better than before.  Boards are on their way, should have them up to by monday morning

Act 1:
The Camera places an Establishing shot of a snowy ravine with shear cliffs on either side.

The Camera pushes in from a top view down view of the inside of the ravine to reveal a cart being dragged in the snow.
Camera switches to a MS shot showing a cart full of food being pulled by a lightly armored Warrior.

Camera pushes in on a CS of the Warrior from the Front to reveal the fact that he’s shivering from the cold.
His teeth being to chatter XCS
His hands are blue XCS
Camera pulls out to an MS of his shivering outline
A shocked expression comes over his face CS
The warrior freezes in place Dutch angle MS

Camera switches to a Worm’s eye view LS of a bear walking towards the Warrior in the snow

Act 2:

Camera turns 180* to the exact opposite perspective to give a view of the Warrior’s shocked frozen state.

The bear hunkers down as if threatened. MS
The warrior attempts to bulk up his size and anticipate the bear’s actions MS
Camera switches back to the bear as the bear notices the large sack of food in the wooden cart behind the Warrior. Dutch angle LS Push in to CS of Food peeking out of sack

The Warrior takes a step back realizing the bear has taken notice MS
Bear’s face changes to a rabid expression as if starving CS
XCS of the Bear’s mouth as it licks its chops
MS of the Bear as its stomach begins to growl

The Warrior goes to reach for his sword slung across his back, but is only met with an empty sheath. Blinking animation of the outline of the sword showing it’s missing CS of hand grabbing sword outline
Camera switches back to an MS of the warrior who is now slightly panicked
CS of his hand again as he reaches for his Axe on his belt, but is once again greeted by the horrible feeling of nothingness.  Repeated animation of outline of Axe.
Camera switches back to an MS of the Warrior who is now very panicked
The Warrior begins digging though his light armor for something worth using. CS of warrior’s  clothing
Camera cuts back to the bear as he begins to fall asleep from boredom. The sounds of the Warrior shuffling can be heard MS
Bear rest it’s head on its paw MS
The sound of an “Ah ha!” can be heard, the bear perks up and looks back over at the warrior. MS Pull out then rush pan back to the Warrior
Camera is Close in on the Warrior’s expression as if Triumphant.
Camera rush pulls out to reveal him standing in an epic “ready to’ pose while holding a very tiny Swiss army knife waving and jabbing at the air in front of the bear. MS

Camera cuts back to the Bear who is not happy. MS And begins to growl camera cuts to XCS of Jaws

Camera cuts back to Warrior. Eyes tightening XCS

Camera Cuts back to Bear’s XCS jaws, growl turns into a smile.  Pulls out to an MS of the bear, who begins to stand up on its hind legs revealing how big the Bear really is.

Camera cuts to a LS of the scene as the two now stare at each other One with weapon the other towering and unarmed.
Camera zoom pushes back in to a front shot of the Bear. MS
Bear lifts his paw, grabs it with the other, and cocks his foretoe like a gun, popping all of his claws out at once.

Camera cuts back to a CS of the warriors face who’s expression changes to hate *all or nothing going through his head*
Camera pulls out to an MS of the Warrior as he fearlessly breaks his pose throws his knife to the side and throws himself at the bear with all of his might!
Camera cuts to a running perspective from the warrior’s point of view then back to LS and begins to flash the two perspectives as if coming in closer and closer and closer.

The Warrior finally collides into the bear with all of his might! Camera pulls out to a LS of the two silhouetted upon the back drop.  The warrior simply smacks into the bear as if a wall and falls backwards onto the ground with a very un-dramatic “plop”  LS

Dutch angle looking up at the bear from the Behind the warrior’s shoulder MS

Bear looks down smiles and begins to fall forward MS (over the shoulder of the bear)

Back to the silhouetted view of the 2 characters: Bear falls flat on top of the warrior as if a rag doll and pins him to the ground. LS

MS of the warrior struggling under the bear
The warrior finally pokes his out from under the bear a gasping for air CS
The warrior continues to struggle under the bear MS
All of a sudden the warrior stops moving MS.

Act 3
The bear looks back from his fallen place as if checking to see if the warrior is alive. To his surprise not only is the warrior alive, but smiling and using the bear as a blanket MS to over the shoulder view of the bear looking at the warrior

The warrior struggles and pulls one of his arms out (MS), points at the bar’s gowling stomach (CS) and then back to his cart. Cuts from Warrior to an MS of the cart, CS on the food, then back to a MS of the Warrior
The warrior then points at the Bear’s face (CS from angle of finger) then back to himself using the bear as a blanket. MS

The bear nods as if in agreement CS Then cuts back to a smiling warrior Camera fades to white
Camera fades in from White to a scene of the Warrior under the Bear leaning back against his cart MS
Camera pulls out to reveal the bear very happily chewing an what appears to be a Stag’s leg
The two look at each other for a moment and nod.

Camera pulls out from the scene back to its original starting place at the beginning

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Script and Shot List take #5

Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail
Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow and the sound of a horn being blown
The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold and blowing his horn in the hopes of finding someone nearby.
The Warrior lowers the horn and begins to look to his left and right. MS
The Camera cuts to a MS of a Bear asleep in his cave and he is rudely awoken by the sound of the Warrior’s horn.  The Bear stretches and walks out of the cave to see what’s going on in the hopes of stopping this awful sound.

Act 2:
The Warrior takes a deep breath and attempts to blow into the horn again but is interrupted by a tapping his shoulder. CS
The Warrior turns and jumps in shock of what he sees.  CS
The Camera cuts to reveal a very sleepy grumpy Bear sitting in the snow just feet from him. MS
The Bear brings one of his claws up to his mouth to symbolize being quiet. CS
Camera cuts to a wide MS of both the Warrior and Bear looking at each other
The Warrior backs up against the tree and begins to straighten up.
The Blizzard comes to a stop.
The Warrior, while still straightening up stares at the bear while getting an idea. CS
Camera cuts to an illusion of the Warrior leaned back relaxing with the bear’s pelt on him as a cloak while roasting it on a fire. MS
Cuts back to a CS of the Bear staring back at the warrior as he also gets an idea. CS
Camera pan cuts to the Bear back in his cave, using a stuffed version of the Warrior as a pillow as he sleeps. MS
The Warrior comes back to his senses and begins to pull an object off his back. MS
The Warrior whips out his Weapon of choice; a Medieval Army Knife.  Light begins to radiate off from it.  CS
Warrior jumps to his feet and begins to fan out each weapon. MS
Camera cuts back to the Bear who begins to smile. CS
The Bear Points at his paw. MS
Bear whips out his paw and light begins to radiate from it. XCS
Camera cuts to the Bear fanning out each claw as the Warrior did.  MS
Camera cuts back to the Warrior who is now outraged by the Bear’s threat. CS
The Warrior throws his weapon to the ground. MS
And begins to sprint towards the Bear. MS
Camera cuts back to the Bear as a look of surprise comes across its face. CS
The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before.
The Warrior Tackles the Bear sending the Bear Backwards.  LS
Dutch Angle shot as the camera begins to reveal the next image. MS
Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another all the way down
Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out
Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the Tackle, showing that a huge tree is in their path.  Camera pushes in
Camera cuts to the two as they crash into the tree. LS
The Bear tips over on top of the warrior LS
The Blizzard stops once again

Act 3:
Camera switches to a LS of the two just sitting where they landed, panting for breath. LS
(music begins) The start to move and adjust positions. MS
As they move around, it clicks; they both have exactly what they wanted.  The two nod in agreement LS
The Camera cuts to the Warrior using the Bear as a blanket and the Bear using the Warrior as a pillow LS
The two nod in agreement once more and begin to sleep LS ( Camera pushes out)
The Camera begins to push out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning.
Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.  

Script and Shot List take #4

Did some major changes to have it make more sense. Long story short, the Warrior Wakes up a sleeping Bear who isn't too happy


Act 1:

Setting: blizzard snow covered twisted mountain trail
Camera pushes in on a mountain ravine covered in snow on a shadow of a character in the snow and the sound of a horn being blown
The Camera pushes in closer to reveal a warrior marooned in the snow under a tree pulling his clothing tighter around himself, all the while shivering from the cold and blowing his horn in the hopes of finding someone nearby.
The Warrior lowers the horn and begins to look to his left and right. MS
The Camera cuts to a MS of a Bear asleep in his cave and he is rudely awoken by the sound of the Warrior’s horn.  The Bear stretches and walks out of the cave to see what’s going on in the hopes of stopping this awful sound.

Act 2:
The Warrior takes a deep breath and attempts to blow into the horn again but is interrupted by a tapping his shoulder. CS
The Warrior turns and jumps in shock of what he sees.  CS
The Camera cuts to reveal a very sleepy grumpy Bear sitting in the snow just feet from him. MS
Camera cuts to a wide MS of both the Warrior and Bear looking at each other
The Warrior backs up against the tree and begins to straighten up.
The Bear brings one of his claws up to his mouth to symbolize being quiet.
The Blizzard comes to a stop.
The Warrior, while still straightening up stares at the bear while getting an idea. CS
Camera cuts to an illusion of the Warrior leaned back relaxing with the bear’s pelt on him as a cloak while roasting it on a fire. MS
Cuts back to a CS of the Bear staring back at the warrior as he also gets an idea. CS
Camera pan cuts to the Bear back in his cave, using a stuffed version of the Warrior as a pillow as he sleeps. MS
The Warrior comes back to his senses and begins to pull an object off his back. MS
The Warrior whips out his Weapon of choice; a Medieval Army Knife.  Light begins to radiate off from it.  CS
Warrior jumps to his feet and begins to fan out each weapon. MS
Camera cuts back to the Bear who begins to smile. CS
Bear whips out his paw and light begins to radiate from it. XCS
Camera cuts to the Bear fanning out each claw as the Warrior did.  MS
Camera cuts back to the Warrior who is now outraged by the Bear’s threat. CS
The Warrior throws his weapon to the ground. MS
And begins to sprint towards the Bear. MS
Camera cuts back to the Bear as a look of surprise comes across its face. CS
The Blizzard starts up again more intense than before.
The Warrior Tackles the Bear sending the Bear Backwards.  LS
Camera cuts to a XLS to reveal that the two were on a steep hill as the both the Warrior and Bear begin to roll down the side in a tackle, rolling over one another all the way down
Camera cuts to a worm’s eye view of the two coming at the camera as it Pushes out
Camera cuts to a camera angle as if riding the Tackle, showing that a huge tree is in their path.  Camera pushes in
Camera cuts to the two as they crash into the tree.  The Bear lands on top of the warrior LS
The Blizzard stops once again

Act 3:
Camera switches to a LS of the two just sitting where they landed, panting for breath. Birds eye view shot. (music begins) The start to move and adjust positions.
As they move around, it clicks; they both have exactly what they wanted.  The two nod in agreement
The Camera cuts to the Warrior using the Bear as a blanket and the Bear using the Warrior as a pillow
The two nod in agreement once more and begin to sleep LS ( Camera pushes out)
The Camera begins to push out and reverse to where it was originally at the beginning.
Both made a new friend and were Warmer for it.