Role and Responsibility

I would rather be a MAP undergrad than a MAP postgrad. Maybe this is wrong coz I am never a undergrad here. I think it more depends on which crowd you are in.

But some of the postgrad are just not that serious or mature in stuff they do. I am pretty upset with my producer. He's not a bad guy but dude, he just don't know what he's suppose to do and doesn't get the job done. I don't need a producer asking me what he should do. Just figure it out. Just like what I did for the last production. Don't vent at me, just suck it up, just do it and find a way.

Producer's job is to take care of business and not stress the director out with little bitsy stuff about operation, how to call people, how to book and schedule things, transporting equipment and etc. Gees man. I was just containing myself talking to him, you don't want an upset and down hearted producer you know. But dude, man up! Don't complain to me. I don't complain as a producer. I didn't bother the director about my responsibility. I didn't vent and complain about the crew. Man up!

I think at times, people just take advantage of nice people. I was kind of pissed. The crew just have to get the job done no matter what. I think it sucks that T has to take all the stuff home and back tomorrow. I think S could have helped or find a way to help and not complain about it. Just tough it out and make solution. Didn't he think about that beforehand? Ridiculous! He's the producer. You are the fixer. Just suck it up. I think L could've just help a bit. I think you can tell when people make excuses, it's an outright "No", not like, "Uhmm, let me think, uhmmm sorry." If people want to help, they find ways to make it work. I didn't see it today. But in the end, T handled it and manned it up.

I suck it up a lot. You don't make excuses. I was kind of mad at T for saying we could've return it now. Make practical sense but that's wrong in principle. You just do it. We don't cut step for convenient. If we do that now, we will do that next time and the next time. It's just gonna be shit eventually. It's also about respect and honor. We honor and respect each actor's time. And we didn't know, we didn't know one would not come and the other was not going to as good as we expected. It was useful to have her on.

I am just sick of cheap people. E needs to grow up a bit. He is so childish at time.

HOrror

A world in the near future, maybe around 2020 where people are living under fear. Maybe it is just at a city where it's basically the beginning of hell on earth. Judgment day? The government is crippled, and humans in this city at least is living under fear from one another, there are also creatures unknown in origin who are like zombies that eat humans.

There are different religious cults that recruit member, each with its own solution and explanation of what is happening but there is only one truth.

Residents of apartment complex 428.

Cruden is a young male in early 20s to late 20s. He's a kid basically and he is one of the people living in 428.

A fat butcher girl, white, shaking while peeing in the man's stall in restroom.

Everybody is in fear except a important and powerful leader. I dark haired man of large frame and 6'2" to 6'3" tall. He's very confident because he believes in something. But everybody dies no matter who you are. Death doesn't discriminate. Cruden is to escort this leader to talk on the street phone. He is tense and he looks the other way for anything. He swings his nunchaku around because he knows the enemy kill silently and not all physical at times and at the same time he was listening to the phone conversation and after finding out he can hear better if sticking his head next to phone box he listens, but the when he turns around, he finds the leader dead, bloody with his head almost decapitated and strangled by the phone line.

He quickly, shaking, white but calmly told other leaders that he is dead. In his surprise, the people were not shocked when the tells them in the restroom.

A religious cult who's not the "same" people as Cruden suggested and decided by playing loud music and drums they could be saved. The music would be a distraction to grab something from another place close of someone else and have the chance of saving them.

However, by playing drums and music indoor, it would let everybody know about where they are and they would lose their security.

Cruden changed his mind along with some of the residents but couldn't stop the "drum people" who went ahead.

mid-semester break, NOT

I am the director of a mini remake of one of the scene in the film, Election, and I came up with this stupid undressing, dressing, half-naked version of it. I don't even know why, it's just suppose to be really awkward. I am being cheap, using shock to entertain and make people weird, but what do you want? It's only 2 minutes and I can't think of anything else. Should I do horror? I don't have time to study horror film and the horror genre. I only got a few days. Yea, so stripping and dressing up awkwardness with voice over. It's going to be awkward.

So let's go.

I also got my CUpid#27 script to finish but strangely I finished my backup plan B script for WRiting for the Screen, that's just weird. Cupid#27 is turning into a feature but I am still trying to finish it by 26th.

Character Crafting

THis evening will be my third Writing For The Screen class in Wk 6. In our last class, I pitched my Cupid #27 to my small group and the reception was pretty good. People thought it is very original and they like the Cupid#27, the character. Ritchie afterward suggested Ben, a DOP, to me. He was being really helpful and we talked a bit about production. He has a whole lot more experience then me and gave me many valuable advice and suggestion.

My discussion group consisted of Megan who told me has been writing screenplay for a long time, almost a decade and uses Final Draft, the industrial standard screenwriting software. I am using the free Celtex. There were also Rowan and Daniel also along with Ritchie who works at the equipment shop (so he knows everyone basically). They want a happy ending for Cupid#27 and it was only over this weekend and then today that I finally came to it.

At the end of the movie, #27 and #6 are sitting together at a cafe table eating lunch as usual. #27 spots a girl and says something. The camera shows #6 is ready with two arrows one for #27, the other for the girl. #6 says, "woah, looks at her eyes." #27 looks into the girl's face, he gets shot and an arrow shoots at the girl, into her chest.

#27 and the girl (and I have Tristen in mind, the actress I worked in for Distance) fall in love. The last shot is a close up of #6 talking to the audience:

Music start playing.

It looks like the movie is ending yet there is one last shot the pull backs to #6.

"And this is how you do it" (or something like that)

Music begins again.

Party atmosphere music.